Michigan

[Totalcolour]

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SwapMducks!

 

[gladahmae]

Northwoods Feed in Cadillac has organic chicken feed on their sign. Phone # 231-779-9883.

Hey! Thanks neighbor!

Brocccoli doesn't really bolt does it ? My experience has been thet once the first , hopefully , large head is cut or lacking dilligent care, flowers, smaller side shoots form small bunches of whatever they are called, not heads? Those are harvestable up to frost and sometimes later.
They are not as pretty, 'but they eat good.

I don't know if it technically 'bolts' or whatever, I'm just worried about it flowering. DH seems a bit.....skeptical.....that it will still taste good once it gets to that point. I have read about cutting the main crown and then harvesting the side-shoots later though. Should be interesting to see how it all ends up! If all goes well I will definately be buying a LOT more broccoli next spring to plant.

Took the kids to the beach with DH. Lake MI was warmer than the 10in deep creek that flows from a small inland lake to the big lake! Now I get to go work tonight. I'm SURE we'll be absolutely dead at the restaurant. Yay me. I love working holidays! Or. Um. Maybe I don't.

 

[RBahmer]

SwapMducks!

Guess I can't spell lol. SWAMPDUCKS

 

[jrsckn]

I did broccoli for a few years and harvested well into October. The reason I stopped is all the little green worms that were stuck in all the flowerettes. It was so time consuming trying to get them all out and I'd still find them once they were cooked. I have no idea how many I actually ate

After all my time invested, I figured it'd be easier to just buy it.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Doing a bit better today, been real sick from the heat. Almost had to go in yesterday evening, but on "bed rest" today until it cools down some. So far all is well with the birds, they been digging down into the cool dirt under the camper.

Hope all of you stay safe with the heat and the fireworks!

 

[NovaAman]

I lost 7 five week old meaties by noon today.  Checked them at 11 am and they were ok, at noon 4 were dead and lost 3 more within a half hour but I was able to bring back 3 that were pretty bad off so I'm down to 19 

Man, that really sucks. I went out early in the afternoon, put frozen 20 oz bottles in all the waterers, hosed down the pens, misted the crap out of everything for a while, trees, coops, hidey holes... Everyone ran like hell, but then they all settlled in under the bushes, coop... All are good.

 

[NovaAman]

Doing a bit better today, been real sick from the heat.  Almost had to go in yesterday evening, but on "bed rest" today until it cools down some.    So far all is well with the birds, they been digging down into the cool dirt under the camper.   

Hope all of you stay safe with the heat and the fireworks!  

You seriously need some Gatorade! And a pool.. Yesterday I was yucky all day. I went and jumped in for a few hours, and felt right as rain, which we still have not had here. I haven't mowed in 3 weeks!

 

[NovaAman]

Oh! And out of 13 laying birds... 3 eggs today. THREE! Yesterday was 6. I sold all my eggs the other day, and only just now have a dozen eggs. This heat is monster on the laying!

 

[Olive Hill]

I've had broccoli bolt before. I no longer even try to grow it in the spring, it recent years it seems like it gets too hot too soon and the harvest is never worthwhile. Fall broccoli is a different story.

I think I like SwapMDucks. It has a ring to it. LOL!

I cannot find where Olive got the idea that raccoons, or any other animal can be an actual "carrier" of rabies. According to everything I have been able to find, an animal must have rabies in order to be able to give it to another animal. If that is the criteria to be a carrier, then every animal is a carrier for every disease they are susecptable to. Which makes the term meaningless.

I've seen the old logic train go down some pretty rickety tracks, but it appears this one has completely derailed.

The medical definition of "carrier" is (paraphrasing) one who harbors the infectious agent of a disease without manifest symptoms. The incubation period for rabies can be as much as 8 weeks long, during that time (as much as a couple of weeks prior to symptoms being present) the animal is capable of transmitting the disease, and is therefore, by definition, a "carrier". In fact, that incubation period is an important aspect of rabies management in domestic animals and humans as the disease is virtually 100% fatal once symptoms appear. It's during the incubation period that treatment can be effective and the reason treatment is encouraged after even suspected exposure in humans.

This, of course, says nothing of the disease transmission they can and do accomplish after symptoms appear, but before they succumb to the disease.

 

[uchytil]

I lost 7 five week old meaties by noon today. Checked them at 11 am and they were ok, at noon 4 were dead and lost 3 more within a half hour but I was able to bring back 3 that were pretty bad off so I'm down to 19

Tough raising meaties this time of year. Last year I started around easter and lost one. This year I started earlier and had no losses. Fall meaties can also be a challenge. CX grow so fast their metabolism causes body heat way beyond normal DPs (not that your's are CX). Good luck and watch the heat index the next few days. A fan moving air some mist for evaporative cooling go a long way. John