Nevadans?

[NevadaRon]

Sorry Ron, I figured it out last night and it's Swan Lake which is in Lemmon Valley. Stillwater looks like a great place to check out as well.

http://www.nevadaaudubon.org/birdingguide/birdingareas/swanlake.html

Wow, I didn't even know that was there, thanks Sheryl! There's another really good place to bird watch (and hunt, if you're into it

) out by Fallon, south of town, called Carson Lake and Pasture. It's huge, a really interesting place!

 

[NevadaRon]

BTW.... I love, love, LOVE "Shark Week" on Discovery Channel. My favorite shows of all time. Of course, the chance that I'll have to use my new-found skills of being able to identify the five most deadliest sharks on sight don't have much use down here in the desert. "Card Shark" and "Loan Shark" are more like it and don't count.....

Then the question is: Can you identify them on sight?

 

[NevadaRon]

ACV is good for everything! I keep it stocked and always have. Matter of fact last week my oldest daughter, who manages a grocery (major chain) called because she had a customer with questions about it. When I finished answering I heard her say, "See I told you she could help. We grew up with bottles of that stuff around." Funny how they didn't want to learn everything, but they know where to go when they need to find something out about it.

I once told my mom "It's funny how the older I get the smarter you get!" She got a good laugh out of that!

 

[NevadaRon]

I was in the grocery store and I cruised by the eggs... Ok, I want to make sure I'm right on assuming this. If eggs are from a chicken fed a 100% vegetarian diet, that means they don't get any bugs or worms, right? And the only way to make sure they have a 100% vegetarian diet is to keep them inside so they don't have access to bugs?

As Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating!" I never thought of that but you know, there is no such thing as a bug-free environment, even indoors. So they must eat bugs, too. I guess it's only the human-provided food that is counted as "vegetarian"!

 

[americanvalkyrie]

As Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating!" I never thought of that but you know, there is no such thing as a bug-free environment, even indoors. So they must eat bugs, too. I guess it's only the human-provided food that is counted as "vegetarian"!

I've been looking all over the internet trying to find the answer. Everyone who sells "pastured" eggs uses this argument, that a chicken fed a "vegetarian diet" isn't allowed to go outside. Otherwise, how would you keep them from eating small animals and bugs? The ones who sell the "vegetarian diet" eggs really have no comment. They may also say "cage free," but we all know what that means.

 

[sherylreno]

I'm not a bird watcher per se but I love to watch nature and all of it's glory except for raccoons, to me they should not be here like they are. I know they were here before us but because of us they are more like feral animals that got big and huge from eating our gardens, garbage and livestock. I'm sure they would be more in check if this wasn't the case.

I've never heard of vegetarian eggs and yes bugs and small animals are protein and much in the meat area of things in life so I don't get it really.

 

[SagebrushMama]

is it too late to join this thread??? im in stagecoach just southeast of reno and am looking to add chickens to my yard this spring

littlekatzz

 

[SagebrushMama]

My daughter wants peafowl. My husband wants a couple of turkeys. I was considering the turkeys for a few weeks, just letting them strut around the yard until time to butcher them. But a friend told me how destructive they are to gardens, and I have some planter boxes in the yard that I'm planning to fence off from the chickens. So I decided that we'd buy a Thanksgiving turkey from someone else so I could grow my greens. It's easier to find organic turkey than a wide variety of organic greens.

If I got a turkey I'd want a royal palm, but they're so pretty I wouldn't want to butcher them. A broad-breasted wouldn't fly out of the yard, though. They couldn't make it over the fence! When my mom raised them, the largest white tom was 50lbs DRESSED OUT. We had to saw it in half to even fit it in the oven.

My dad tried peafowl once on 3.5 acres of land. The noise wasn't a problem, because they're all country people and that's the least of their issues. But he kept getting calls from confused neighbors wondering why there were peacocks on their roofs.

I know I'm jumping in late here but my mom's neighbor found a bronze breasted turkey hen wondering around near Mexican Dam road in Carson City. none of the other neighbors claimed it so it was strangely dumped (I mean why dump a grown hen when you can eat her?) It was sitting right by the road and when she stopped and opened the car door it jumped right in.

 

[sherylreno]

I found your answer Missy! Vegetarian eggs are un-fertilized eggs. For some unknown reason there are people out there who think fertilized eggs are actually eating chicks and therefore they are eating meat!

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I found your answer Missy! Vegetarian eggs are un-fertilized eggs. For some unknown reason there are people out there who think fertilized eggs are actually eating chicks and therefore they are eating meat!

What about the ones that say, "Feed 100% vegetarian diet"? Most of the non-conventional eggs on the shelf said that. I like the argument that our eggs are better because they not only get to go outside, but have access to a natural diet.