INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Akrnaf2]

Benny, in case I don't show back up for a while, here's a post I made on the Texas thread. (I can dig out the recipe for Garrett juice if you want, but compost tea, molasses and orange oil works just fine and is less work.) @Akrnaf2

What is this said natural way of getting rid of fire ants??? You must share!

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I got it out of Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening (by Howard Garrett & Malcolm Beck). If you have the ability to buy Garrett Juice where you are, the easiest is to mix 1 part orange oil and 2 parts Garrett Juice concentrate, and use at anywhere from 2-6 oz per gallon (make it up fresh each time). I use a lower dose (1 oz orange oil/2 oz Garrett juice per gallon) if it's near my plants or in a pot (in case you might burn roots), and full strength (2 oz orange oil/4 oz Garrett juice per gallon) for mounds in the yard/not around my plants. The book says to use as a spray, but I use it as a mound drench.  Works better than anything I've ever used, totally knocks out really established big mounds. AND it helps the plants. I just repotted several citrus trees, including a sweet kumquat tree that had had its pot badly invaded. I had soaked that pot with the lower dose of anti-ant stuff about 2 weeks ago. Repotting yesterday, the roots were the healthiest of all the repotted trees, and that's the only thing different about that tree's care.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]If you don't have access to Garrett juice (or can't make some - there's a recipe in the book, in involves compost tea, molasses, garlic, and some other stuff), you can also use 1 part compost tea, 1 part molasses, and 1 part citrus oil (again, using this mix at 2-6 oz per gallon). They hate compost tea, but I have found that compost/compost tea alone is only partially effective (in my yard).  I think it used to be marketed premixed as "Anti-fuego", but I'm not sure it's still available. [/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]I don't try to eradicate them everywhere, just where they are specifically where I don't want them (e.g., invading growing space). As I understand it, fire ants in your yard help keep out/away fleas (can't remember if it's ticks as well). YMMV.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]The book is amazing with all sorts of other natural pest control ideas, as well as a great veggie book. I used it so much that my first copy actually fell apart and I had to get another one. Another great book is the Texas Bug Book...[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]- Ant Farm[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]Edit: I see you're in Round Rock. I'm in the San Antonio area. You shouldn't have trouble finding Garrett Juice and orange oil. Try your local nurseries or Lowes..."[/COLOR]

Thanks FAF! I surly take it in consideration!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Never saw anyone use a thermometer on bread before Lol! At least you knew it was done! Beautiful! I love a good hearty crusty bread. Mother-in-law complains, thinks her husband works his sour rye too much, 'makes it tough'...That's what I love!! about it! I don't like soft bread. When I bring sandwiches to work, any sandwich, always toasted, have had people at work notice and ask if that's all I eat is toasted bread sandwiches.... DW only buys cheap white bread...only way I can eat it...mush bread...

I can't remember the last time I bought plain white bread but I bet it has been close to 30 years. We don't use much bread of any kind any more. I usually have a few sandwiched per week. All this talk about homemade bread had me drooling but I'm thinking about cutting out bread completely until I lose a little weight.

I am so sorry! The thermometer for incubation needs to be sensitive to temperature fluctuations and be accurate in the lowest plus or minus range possible. If the thermometer does not read in tenths, you do not want to use it! It other words, you want it to be able to read 99.5, not 98, 99, or 100. I doubt that the fluke thermometer would work. the Brinsea spot check was made to do one thing, tell temps for incubation. I am sorry about the bad hatch! Unless your humidity was below 25 or above 60, It was not the cause. I clean my incubators with Lysol all purpose cleaner.

I use Lysol too. I'm going to look into something for fumigation though.

Nervous. Freaking. Wreck. Some may remember my hen Pipsqueak hatched a beautiful chick last Monday....due to an accidental stagger she had another developing embryo that we had to pop in a makeshift incubator last Wednesday. Today is day 18 and when candled before lock down I had a clear internal pip. Around 4:00pm the egg was bopping around and tweeting. Then it stopped. I have heard it a few more times and it wiggles every now and again but no external pip yet. I know it's still early and this little guy has the odds stacked against him as this is my first time and I thought the hen was gonna do the work. I have given him the best environment with the limited resources and experience I have. Is it normal to be this nervous???

Were you able to get humidity up in your makeshift incubator?

I can't eat Eagles cos of religion rules, and you cant eat bald eagle because it is illegal in the US even have a feather of it! So how you know the tast?

I think he was joking.

You ain't gonna believe it! Mower took a dump again last night Ignition switch kaput again Should be an easy fix..That's what I thought last time. I put the chicks out yesterday evening....past time; only 6-8 weeks old

Bummer about the mower. My life would have been better if it weren't for mower problems. My chicks ranging from 15 to 28 days old have been out in the coop without heat for a week. I had 3 chicks hatch yesterday, right on time but no pips in the last 2 eggs. I guess I'll pull the chicks out today.

Bummer about the mower. I understand bummers. Hay was cut yesterday morning, and the 30% chance of rain turned into a huge long rain last night. Oh well, it was hay it or brush hog it. Good morning everyone. (Whites, Chaos18, motorcyclechick, Banti, and anyone else who I missed).

Hopefully you didn't rake it yet and it can dry out.

In the refrigerator, there is a mug of chicken broth. I was going to try to drink coffee this morning, and rather than committing coffee abuse, I was going to drink the stuff in the fridge. It gets worse than you think. I was going to make iced coffee. With creamer and sugar. Now you know where this is going?

I haven't had coffee in about a year and a half. I wasn't feeling very well yesterday morning after a late night. Tea didn't taste good. I found a bottle of Zing Zang bloody mary mix in the fridge. I had a big glass of it. It really hit the spot.

I've got a large black ant here. Gave them some poison that was supposed to do the same thing only in granules. They carried it back out and tossed it in their dump. Wasn't too worried about them but they've been expanding their territory lately. Good luck on yours

Those big black ants have been increasing in numbers here the last few years. This year they attacked my bee hives and completely destroyed one of them.

I anderstud it , finally,! But from my point of view, if you eat squirrel or a raccoons way not a bald eagle?

 

[casportpony]

I anderstud it , finally,!
But from my point of view, if you eat squirrel or a raccoons way not a bald eagle?

Do people in Israel eat the Hoopoe or Canaan Dogs?

-Kathy

 

[h2oratt]

I need a good friend local that can bake me fresh sourdough bread, that would solve the sourdough bread issues   or find someone to bake it with me   I may need hand held. I build them a goat pen they make me bread

did you build that all by yourself? Did you use pallets?

 

[Akrnaf2]

 
Good Afternoon @MotorcycleChick


Please forgive me

 

Weeds?! You give me weeds?!?! Hah! I am insulted!

weed? Ok

 

[chickendreams24]

Kids made flock blocks today, this is only a bit of them, they mixed 2.5 gallons of it. The flocks devoured their first taste of them too. we added equal amounts of crack corn BOSS scratch Layer Pellets Oatmeal Wild Bird Seed and added about 2 dozen crushed eggshells 8 eggs and shells crushed and hot water until it made a thick mix and then baked it 300 in oven until hard and starting to brown.

These are awesome! But what is boss? Also I bet these don't keep very well do they?

@ChickenCanoeSorry is such a small word.

Sending hugs and prayers your way it's so hard losing them I hope you figure it out and can rebuild your flock.

@casportpony @Gloryjasmine Kat any ideas for Glory? found these on my profile page, remember in opposite order, Thank you so much! Gloryjasmine wrote - Yesterday at 1:41 pm Btw,the five others are separate from the sick one. And all six are separate from the entire flock. I'm looking forward to any advice. Lovage doll! Gloryjasmine's Profile | Message | Delete Gloryjasmine wrote - Yesterday at 1:40 pm Write something to Sally Sunshine...oh also,she is quite lathargic. I'm wondering if she's too far gone and if I should cull her or is treatment worth a try. Again,I'm naive to this particular issue so please bare with me! Gloryjasmine's Profile | Message | Delete Gloryjasmine wrote - Yesterday at 1:34 pm Hey honey,Glory here. My new chicken came home with green yucky smelly crap on her rear. I immediately separated her and the five others who were sold with her. How do I help? Should I continue to isolate the five others who seem fine? I've never dealt with this so I'm very clueless! Thank you for any advice. God bless.

@Gloryjasmine Oh Hunny sending love and prayers your way. I've no ideas but I hope you figure it out quickly. Send me pics and I can post them for you if you can't.

 

[5Sons Coop]

 

[runt325]

that is what they should teach in school

 

[Akrnaf2]

Crud just another reason to get rid of them. These seem to like grains from weeds. Not interested in bugs at all. But I've not seen them in action near bees

I witnessed the big ants dragging bee larvae out of the hive.

I'm only busier because I'm retired...and i honestly have no idea how i got anything done before...

I'm in the same boat. I sometimes worked 7/12s and still got stuff done. When I only worked 50 hours a week I got a lot done. Seems like more than I do now.

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This is a logistics nightmare though....as it involves us leaving town a few days.....so i will have to purchase a cradle for my brinsea....

I bet you're good with logistics nightmares.

On a serious note.....my wife just came back from the store....her good friend killed herself last night.

She had serious drug and alcohol problems.....depression....etc

I know there are others out there like myself who deal with this stuff every day....there is help.....

That's terrible.
My friend that had the hip surgery is back home and seems to be avoiding alcohol for the time being.

yeah it sucks but i cannot let it beat me up....it's just sad she never got help....she was very intelligent and knew what she needed to do. I guess the pain was too much.

I will add this.....treat your kids good....it makes a lifetime of differences.....different choices.....different outcomes

My wife is s recovering severe alcoholic....hopely this doesn't hurt that effort....she has been doing fantastic

I hope it doesn't beat her up too bad.

I have update on the four eggs that I had left the power outage had killed them I started to get a smell coming from incubator so I pulled the plug after opening them to see how far they were they had made it to day 19 when I had power failure but that was it I cleaned up incubator and got 12 new ones in it now

Good luck with your new ones.

 
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I have well water though


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Well then you don't have to be concerned about the chemical properties of chloramine.

Sorry ti hear that my freind! Are you sure it is a predators problem?

 

[Akrnaf2]

 
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But from my point of view, if you eat squirrel or a raccoons way not a bald eagle?

Do people in Israel eat the Hoopoe or [COLOR=252525]Canaan Dogs?[/COLOR]

[COLOR=252525]-Kathy[/COLOR]

I understand your point, but it wasn't me that said that peafowl tast like bold eagle.
I want to understand a point, if it wasn't your national symbol, it was OK to eat it? Do people eat outer eagle species in the us?