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[SallyinIndiana]

@Leahs Mom Thanks for the links. We ended up getting an injection kind last night at TSC. I'll try the herbals when the injections run out so long as the vet is ok with it. She is very local and I guess this year has been bad for worms in goats. She told us that she has even lost a few to worms. That got me overly worried I'm sure but I had to treat the goats LAST NIGHT so that I could sleep well. They were showing very very slight signs of worms and I know I would have tossed and turned just wondering about the goats.

Molly's website is full of info. I keep going back there. Still I tend to learn more every time.

 

[PeacefulWalls]

Yeah. There are so many people I met! My friend and I have been saying how much we miss everybody and how we can't wait to go back!

Sounds familiar -- Chloe & a couple of her friends were fair board apprentices this year so they had a lot of assignments together and pretty much spent most all of their time together during the fair, starting every morning at 7am fair board meetings until we finally left about 11:30 pm every night. Benji hung out with them a lot, too. He's going to be an apprentice next year. So now they are all complaining that a 10-day fair isn't long enough and they miss being together all the time. To make matters worse, Chloe & Benji started school today & now they can't text back & forth with each other all day long until school's over for the day!! Ah, the life of a teenager

 

[PeacefulWalls]

ChickCrazed ~ I just happened to notice that on this link: Organic Weed Controls ~ Vinegar as an Herbicide -
under "Research Data" it mentions that it works on Thistle!

You know, sometimes I believe things are not just coincidences. I had just got done checking out the website and reviews for Avenger organic weed killer right before I caught up reading these posts! I decided before I would put out the big bucks I would go the vinegar route first. Apparently Avenger is not a systemic killer so the weeds will come back (it's citrus oil based). I found a youtube video someone had done with the vinegar method showing how it worked, but then some of the grass, etc came back also, so the vinegar is probably not a systemic killer as well. I'm going to try a number of repeated applications to see if that may eventually make it a more permanent solution. I also found a recipe that includes salt, which could make the soil itself more inhospitable to anything growing there (including plants you do not want to kill.) That would go along with a pinterest post I saw that said to sprinkle baking soda twice a year in sidewalk cracks to eliminate weeds. I'm wondering if you would actually soak the ground with a vinegar/salt mixture if that would inhibit anything growing. I'm thinking of doing so in an area like our tractor lane, which is recycled asphalt, but weeds are closing in on the sides and down the center strip. We need to do something before the whole thing is taken over by weeds. I'm also thinking about a weed torcher to use on it, but it's a long lane & that could take a while!

Anyhow, I did my first trial spray this morning. I used 1 gallon vinegar, 2 big squirts organic dishsoap (helps to make the spray stick to the plant and not run off immediately) & a generous 1/2 cup salt. I used a new pump sprayer I bought for this purpose last year but never got around to doing it. Here are the pics I took. I'll try to keep taking pics for the next day or so and then after about a week to see what happens. The first pic of each spot was right after I sprayed it around 11:30am. The second pic was around 2:00pm.




You can see especially on the left some of the grass has dried up, but not so much on the tall grass. I'm not sure I sprayed a lot here and all the way up the grass since there was a bit of wind and I didn't want it to blow on my roses right beside it.



This is the same section of path, just taken from opposite ends. I only sprayed half of the path to see if there was a difference. The right side of the path was sprayed & is the darker color. The clover & other stuff was shriveling up. Again, I didn't spray the edge too closely because of the plants growing right next to it.


This is a closer pic of that area (sprayed side on the right)



You can definitely tell a difference here.














And I tried it on 2 thistles. Definitely shriveling them up, although I have a feeling they will grow back. Gotta watch the progress on these.

I used the entire gallon of vinegar just for these spots I showed, but for $2 a gallon I can afford to buy gallons of it!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I used the entire gallon of vinegar just for these spots I showed, but for $2 a gallon I can afford to buy gallons of it!

Sams sells a double pack of vinegar for $3.68 if you are going to be buying lots of it the 25 cents savings might add up.
Vinegar also happens to be on sale at RK right now for $1.79 for an evenly slightly better deal.

 

[irtehun]

I made a group on FB for NE Indiana poultry Buy/Sell/Trade. I thought it would be helpful for us in NE Indiana to locate available poultry.

https://facebook.com/groups/512745952205086?view=pinned&ref=bookmark

 

[Leahs Mom]

Thanks for the documentation! I'll be watching to see how it comes along

I tried it (with the salt added) along 160' of fence along the road frontage on part of the property as a trial. I think I need to get one of the regular "pump up" sprayers that are made for herbicides as I was using a hand pump spray bottle so it took forever

Seems to have worked pretty well but I think I'll need to reapply about every 2 weeks until it really kills down the roots. Going to try it on the poison ivy too but it hasn't worked as well there since it's in the shade. I think the sun hastens things along.


So...
DOES ANYONE RECOMMEND A PARTICULAR BRAND OF BACKPACK TYPE SPRAYER? I'd like one that will set upright when I sit it down so I could tote it on a wagon or use from the backpack.

 

[atrueb00]

excuse the messy countertop. ..it's a norm around here!! But this is the harvested Ambrosia. .mmm mmm good!

That looks so good!!! Congrats on your crop this year!

 

[atrueb00]

I love those They are on next years wish list...

DH just dont know it yet... lol

My cousin lives 15 minutes away from Terre Haute, so if you want some just let me know! He got the parents from Murray McMurray Hatchery-these were the best two out of the bunch he uses to breed.

 

[atrueb00]

Is Elvis THIS GUY? He looks just like this picture! I found it somewhere--probably on this website--and have kept it as a computer desktop background because it makes me smile.

 

[atrueb00]

Anyone else have a molting flock already? My girls are losing feathers left and right and are moody as all get out as a result! I'm having to break up squabbles all over the place! Luckily, for the most part, they're just looking scruffy. My Fayoumi, Marama, is about bare, though. I'm just glad she's doing this now instead of later on!



Since I'm here, here's some of the rest of the flock.

Betty looking scruffy:




Debra Jo with her evil eye:




Poggy, my Speckled Sussex. She and her sister are so loud when they're in the nest!




Red sexlink, Skua. She always looks so surprised when I take her picture.

Exchequer Leghorn, Roha! She's not doing anything suspicious!




My Dorking twins, Kit-Kit and Elda!

They're waiting for cuddles.




Violet the Bielefelder. This is probably as close as I've gotten to capturing her colors in a picture. She's so pretty!




Louise the dainty Black Copper Marans and her pretty eyes

Welsummer Mabel standing in the new pop door. I now have a more permanent chick yard that's against the fence for the big girl yard, and this pop door leads from the little yard into the coop via the addition we built last year.




Here's the new pop door from the outside. Avert your eyes if you don't like messy painting.

And the other project mom and I got done in the past few weeks, the new nests!

Next project is the duck coop.

Speaking of, I don't know if I mentioned it here or not, but I've got 5 quitters and only one viable embryo out of my 18 call duck eggs.

Looks like I'll be shopping for more ducks in the future.

These are all so gorgeous! Love Louise's eyes! They look like they are black with green flecks. So pretty. I think this is exactly why a mixed flock is so appealing to me, there is so much beauty in these different kinds of chickens. Is Fayoumi a Japanese breed? Is this the same chicken in your avatar? If so, she has lost a lot of feathers poor dear.