Isa's Homestead Happenings and Hangout

[sdm111]

Almost peed my pants doing this View attachment 3433652

See!

 

[Isadora]

Stop ️

 

[Isadora]

Almost peed my pants doing this View attachment 3433652

Where did you feed this guy?

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

Where did you feed this guy?

Girl, actually! Her name is Octavia. And I used to work at a zoo

 

[troyer]

I'll have to check the two i have when i get home. i want to say one was 85 days and the other was like 100-115?

Heres the one i was wanting to order. View attachment 3433482

I saw different amounts of distance too for how far you need corn to be seperated to maintain purity, some places said 250 feet of distance, and some were saying over 1000.

By 110 days the 85 day is done pollinating and can be stripped of the tassles. That way you know for sure that the 85 day won't cross with the 110 day. We have a lot of seed corn growers in our area, it's one of the main cash crops. As long as I don't have more than .25 acre of my own corn they are not concerned about cross pollination. My garden is right beside one of the commercial seed corn growers fields and that's what they tell us.
However, what I have done, is to grow beans when they grow corn and when they grow beans I grow corn. I am more concerned with cross pollination than they are.
If you are concerned about maintaining absolute purity I would keep the distance at 1000 feet. Otherwise 250 feet is fine or just stagger the planting time enough to offset cross pollination.
You could harvest all the unpollinated ears and the late developing plants from the 85 day variety before the 110 day variety pollinates. That would be another way to help ensure no cross pollinating.
Horse and cattle love green corn stalks, just dont give them more than 3-4 stalks at a time.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Oh my! Look what I just found for sale!! View attachment 3433631View attachment 3433632View attachment 3433633

 

[sdm111]

mid 90s I had emus. They were the coolest animals after you got past the
It's gonna kill me phase. Very very curious to the point of taking a pack of cigarettes out my pocket. You don't really have to worry about thier peckers but they do have a menacing middle toe nail that's used to slice and tear open it opponents via a forward kick. I got a call from the sheriff's department one day while I was on duty at the fire department. Chief came into the living quarters and was like "sheriff's office is out there for you " (at that time I was kinda a partier oh and also happened to be on probation for a driving offense anyway) I was like for what? I don't know go see he said. I went outside and they wanted me to go catch an escaped emu they got a call about cause they knew I knew how to catch them. They had to bring me cause I didn't have a vehicle there cause of said probation with no drivers license. We get there and it was all up in the woods. I managed to get it to the edge of a thicket and when it tried to go past me I grabbed one of the Itty bitty wings on the right side and as it passed swung around and grabbed the left wing and walked it back next door to its pen. You can't manhandle one you gotta grab the wings from behind and you can then guide it wherever you want. Don't ever ever buck up to an emu head to head it'll kill you

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Me neither. Have you ever saw the peckers on those things!?!?

When you say pecker....

 

[Chookwagn]

When you say pecker....

Exactly!

 

[sdm111]

Also had Java green peacocks. F them things. Mine were straight up vicious. Had India blues and whites too they were fine aside from the screaming