Leghorns -19 weeks to first eggs

[AllenK RGV]

We don't buy store bought eggs. We really are mostly vegan I just cheat and buy fajitas and breakfast tacos from around the corner. I can cook but don't enjoy it vs having someone throwing my warm food into a bag then asking me what kind of salsa I want with it. How hard is that for another man to understand? I have thought of taking my own eggs to the corner store and have em whip me up something. I just haven't yet and I can't even come close to their tortilla browning skills those ladies are masters at making tortillas just come out right.

Oh I do have 5 Ideal hatchery Sumatras coming at some point in the future my Feed store is just a bit conservative with that yankee Texan weather. Heck I don't consider Austin area as even central Texas. It is the Northern boundry of South Texas.Central to me starts at West, TX on I-35, goes down to Troy, then Fredricksburg and the Llano Estacio on the western border to Mehia/Huntsville for an Eastern Border.

 

[RUNuts]

I enjoy cooking but understand having it served.

Ah, the smell of browning tortillas! I still don't know how to replicate those things. But, oh, how I enjoy them. Working on the salsa. First grow a big batch of maters. And jalapenos. Cilantro and lime.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Found another egg stash today, after a 3:2:1 laying cycle it was time to go hunt easter eggs again. Found 6 in a spot we weedeated the other day. The old spot they had been using went dry. The dog box and that crummy corner in the back of the coop were the only productive locations for the last few days.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Funny story gave away about 60 pounds of stale flock feeder feed to my neighbor for his pig. He asked my why I am not mowing my lawn when I have a nice new lawn mower that was next to the food can that needed carried over to his property for his pig. I told him my chicken asked me not to mow and they like my grass like this. I sit out with them in the grass and they find so many bugs and that is why they don't like the chicken feed I am offering him for his pig.

Obviously, there is a bit of a cultural disconnect, I don't understand why the hispanic folks scalp their grass to the ground. And they don't understand why this North Texan likes his grass 8 inches tall for drought tolerance. I think they feel they are battling rats and snakes on some level scalping their lawns. Me I just keep a Raticidal and mammalcidal cat around.


EDIT--and yes I have taken my cat off a copperhead at midnight in my skivvies with a golf club I destroyed.

 

[RUNuts]

Did you feed the copperhead to the chickens??? I bet they enjoyed it.

The HOA believes that my lawn also needs to be orderly. I like it better full of flowers gently bobbing in the breezes. We have the little white wild onion thingies at the moment. White clover and the little purple stuff. The burr clover needs to be weeded again. I am battling the burr clover because I don't like the little sticker burrs they produce. I'd like to think I'm making progress, but I need to week more often.

Cheers and enjoy the wild yard

 

[AllenK RGV]

I'd bet your little white "onion thingies" are native Texas Rain lillies. And quite collectable and very rare. We have Day or rain lillies down here in pink. But you live in the swamp so they could just be onions too. Who knows.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Did you feed the copperhead to the chickens??? I bet they enjoyed it.

The HOA believes that my lawn also needs to be orderly. I like it better full of flowers gently bobbing in the breezes. We have the little white wild onion thingies at the moment. White clover and the little purple stuff. The burr clover needs to be weeded again. I am battling the burr clover because I don't like the little sticker burrs they produce. I'd like to think I'm making progress, but I need to week more often.

Cheers and enjoy the wild yard

The cat was on a Copperhead in Wise County Texas I didn't have chicken back then, and the golf club destroyed belonged to my step father in this story. He is still my stepfather and I still love him, just I apparently do not live in the same nation as he does Since I am south of the original 1836 border between Texas and Mexico. Man just retelling this story has me thinking I can drive to my tacorio in 23 minutes and burn all the sin outta my mouth with a good dose of hot sauce on a breakfast taco!

 

[AllenK RGV]

So been a while since I updated your post, I lost my first chicken Friday evening to a neighbors dog. Loved his idiotic "Not my fault" comment, because it got me worked up after the fact. Lets look at the facts...dog was free running the streets as usual....this is Texas and your animal killed livestock....sure not his personal fault but still your legal liability! Sorry but them's the facts.

Basically his dog is now considered a Coyote according to Vernons Texas Health and Safety Codes by Chapters 822 and 826. I don't know if I want to report him yet for the 5 Class C misdemeanors on his property for being an antivaxer yet. Nor have I decided if I want animal control to take possession of his dog. I'd prefer to let animal control just educate him without a fine, my preference is just documentation that his dog is not allowed outside of a penned in area as it is classified as a coyote. The attack was witnessed by 3 people and checks all the boxes. Additionally we have photographic evidence as of tonight that he learned notta as he is still allowing this same dog to "roam at large".

Bet you can tell I'm a little upset, right?

https://www.animallaw.info/statute/tx-dog-consolidated-dog-laws#s822_012
or
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/HS/htm/HS.822.htm in longer form.

was hard to decide which agency to report this to my thinking is animal control, as my deputies are dullards and hit or miss, and the game wardens well I don't think they would care.Why choose Animal Control? Well this is a basic test question for their Certification and recertification process.

 

[RUNuts]

I'd bet your little white "onion thingies" are native Texas Rain lillies. And quite collectable and very rare. We have Day or rain lillies down here in pink. But you live in the swamp so they could just be onions too. Who knows.

Good Evening Allen! How many chicks do you have now? Did "she who must be obeyed" get her alpaca?

Crow's Poison flowers next to some wild onion I planted and the onions took off over the last decade. Smells like onions when mown. I now know why the chickens are NOT eating the little white flower onion thingies and it's not because they don't like onions. The grass in the run is chicken short with these flowers in bunches all around. Looked strange but I didn't consider them poisonous. They tasted like grass to me. Thank you for making me look this up. Been wondering.

From Foraging Texas, onion entry:
There is a minimally toxic mimic of wild onion, which is called Crow's Poison (Nothoscordum bivalve). This plant look almost identical to a small wild onion but it lacks the onion/garlic smell when. Crushed Crow's Poison smell like grass whereas the wild onion smells like onion when crushed. The toxins in Crow's Poison are very weak and in a very low amount. You would have to eat a pound of the plant just to get a bad stomach. When dug up, Crow's Poison will have a cluster of attached bulbs underground.

 

[RUNuts]

On another note, Crazy Lady's new project. Anyone want a puppy?