Nevadans?

[Penturner]

oops, the above should read $6.00 per lb. not just $6.

 

[NevadaRon]

Not having good computer karma today. We'll try again...

The future coop area



Backyard

VERY nice!

Look how GREEN it all is! Wow, congratulations! And I'm a huge cooking snob, too. Love the kitchen!

That's the advantage of a 30 year old place - mature landscaping! Which is exactly what I thought when she first mentioned it was that old - it's not necessarily a bad thing!

Hello all, it has been a while. I actually do stop by and see what folks are up to from time to time. I just don't have time to post much.
I have spent the last year keeping bees. The chickens not so much any more. They cost far to much to justify keeping them here in town.

Anyway I wanted to let you all know that after a year our first honey is coming in. Pure local honey is hard to find. And we do nto have a lot of it or do we expect to get a lot of it. maybe a couple hundred lbs this year from 3 maybe 4 hives. Iwanted to give the folks I know fist shot at getting some as well as give you the chance to tell any of your honey eating friends about it. We pricve it at $6.00 (going rate right now is $8) no matter the volume. We have 1 lb bottles that we added the cost of the jar to for $7. We will also fill a jar you supply and charge just the weight of the honey.

I also was wondering what ever happened with the farmers market idea from last year. I was thinking I could throw in some bottles of honey with that effort if it ever got off the ground.

Anyway nice to see you all. a lot of new faces in this thread. Welcome to everyone.

Wow Daniel 200 lbs.!

Very nice! I'm looking forward to my first harvest this year.

Whatever happened with your tobacco crop?

 

[Flowers of Abba]

oops, the above should read $6.00 per lb. not just $6.

Count me in! Were in Tahoe but we go to carson once a week and can always plan a mall trip to reno... My kids keep forgetting what they are.

 

[vegaschick]

Hey guys! Very exciting news. DH & I went on a vacation and got a BIG souvenir. We're in the throes of escrow now on and you can be sure I checked and double-checked if chickens are allowed. (They are!) Coop would go out by the veggie garden. It's got a mega well, so lots of irrigation for the orchard and small vineyard and lawns. We're rather stoked because this was one of those "in your dreams" homes that I lusted after on-line (an actual cookbook chef/philanthropist had built it and its monster kitchen) that was priced waaaaay out of reach...but the present-day elderly owners bought a house in CA closer to their kids/grandkids and didn't want to continue paying mortgage/gardener/staging fees. They had dropped the price drastically (still in the uncomfortable zone) and we bid a ways under what the next major price reduction would've been. It was accepted. Wow!

It's a bit of an older home (30 years), but all the bells and whistles and move-in ready....not like some of those "Yep, we've got projects!" houses we had toured that would've needed renovation or didn't quite fit.

Guess who's going to become a major hatchaholic now? AND an actual garden.... Ahhhh...... At last.

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Congrats Peep! I'm so happy for you! It looks like a dream come true. Who can blame you for wanting to get out of Las Vegas, especially in the summer! We will miss your wit and wisdom, though!

 

[Peep_Show]

It's going to take a year or so for the transition, so I'm still around (between starting there in NM and ending there in CA at Mom's I am racking up the miles). And I will always be a lurker and contributor. Don't count me out yet!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Wow, congrats Dee! I'm jealous!

Daniel id love some honey when you get going on that



Also I'd like to try to put out the call one more time. We lost a very dear bird and now have no more green eggs for our customers. I'd like to buy an EE, OE, Am, and maybe one Marans also. We cannot do chicks. Please let me know

 

[eggxelent]

So I just brought my girls inside (they were afraid of the storm lol) and Gretel is acting a little wierd. She is panting, and relaxing her wings so that she looks like a football player with gigantic shoulders. When I was holding her she pooped on me and it was white and not very much poo. Here's a pic of the shoulder thing:
What might this be? Is she sick? is this normal for 4 month old pullets?

 

[2seth2]

So I just brought my girls inside (they were afraid of the storm lol) and Gretel is acting a little wierd. She is panting, and relaxing her wings so that she looks like a football player with gigantic shoulders. When I was holding her she pooped on me and it was white and not very much poo. Here's a pic of the shoulder thing:
What might this be? Is she sick? is this normal for 4 month old pullets?

I think you mean she is squatting so your first egg is in the not to distant future.

How are our friends in Lincoln county with the hail storm and in redrock with the fire(not sure if it is still burning)?
Anyone up for getting chicks or hatcing eggs this late in the year?

 

[aubreynoramarie]

She's hot. Chickens hold their wings away from their bodies to help release some of the heat. Panting and standing like that are coming signs of a chicken cooling themselves off. Looks like she's enjoying your AC Lol

 

[eggxelent]

I think you mean she is squatting so your first egg is in the not to distant future.

How are our friends in Lincoln county with the hail storm and in redrock with the fire(not sure if it is still burning)?
Anyone up for getting chicks or hatcing eggs this late in the year?

Oh, thanks. I was a bit worried. I set up a temporary nesting box for her while she's indoors and put an Easter egg in it also filled it with straw because I have been suspecting her of starting to lay since I posted about her egg song and her vent was a little moist. One question: if she is laying and the others are not, what do I feed them?