Evening everyone! Well it looks like we are heading into another drought year here! For this time of spring it is really dry. Stuff in the garden isn't sprouting,its just to dry. My irs have been poor bloomers this year. Lots of buds didn't have enough moisture to open up and most that did only last for one day. I mowed today and it hadn't grown much,usually I'm mowing twice a week this time of year.
I put my baby goslin down on the ground with some of the chicks she has grown up with. She abandoned them is following the big Icelandic roo around! When he clucks for his hens she comes running! He looks at her like " what are you doing here!" . Its really funny to watch.
Had a new batch of g.pigs born this week,I'll add a pic of them. They are the prettiest batch I've had I believe. Also saw a neat pic of a Komodor that I thought those of you who have them might enjoy.
Out of it's vent or belly? If it's out the vent I vote with whoever it was that said cull, sounds like bad genetics.
I'd either bring them in or put a heat lamp out with them
Wow. lots of posts. I'm in the middle of water changes on the big Oscar tanks. I'd slacked off for awhile but a month ago started doing them once a week again like I always had.
Christina, for the farm tax-do you have to pay in what you've saved at the end of the year? There's got to be a catch (after all it's the IRS).
I got 14 eggs in the mail today! All LF Cochin eggs, 1/2 Gold Laced and 1/2 Silver Laced. I saved the picture of the some of the adults they have and will post it. All I know is I love how their lacing is. The birds look nice and big, too.
Robin, didn't you have some Silver or Gold Laced Cochin eggs? How did that hatch turn out?
I've come to the conclusion that some roosters are just harder on their hens than others. Out of my 2 Slash Cochins, the one I kept had a few bald women and he had 12 hens to chose from. The one Rebecca took had been living with just 2 hens and they didn't have a hair out of place. Same with my big blue/black Cochin. His ladies are pristine with not a single torn feather, the Modern boy never ruffles a feather on his hen yet the big Faverolles boy must like em' bald because that's how his hens are looking. I don't *like the hens to be missing their head feathersSo are some roos just too rough on the girls? Or do they have a favorite? Maybe the bald ones are just slower and get grabbed 1st?
Anyway, here's the picture of a couple of the breeding stock where my eggs came from, the boys look different from the girls but I love their colors. I don't have a flipping clue about "type", I just know what I like. I've wanted more Cochins hatchings so bad, but was scared to hatch any because my Cochins are the ones I get overly attached to. I'll have to work on that.
Okay. I just wasn't standing on my head long enough. Here's the new momma and her twins.
First picture is of Charlie pulling the skin off of Bears face.
Here we have Bear explaining to him he dont need no more skin pulled off.
Finally he said to heck with it, I will just eat Charlie.
M from now on they are really on the ball there I got a call the other evening letting me know about the change to the start time that makes twice they've called to relay info that's great customer service not every business will go to those lengths, I haven't decided if I'm going yet or not I haven't anything to sell and shouldn't spend any money at this point but then again it is a poultry sale... I see myself making a statement in my future something like, "Hi, I'm Elwood and I'm a Chicken-Sale-A-Holic"Pretty sure this is a Jasmine if it's a vine, if it's more like a bush or shrub I have had something like it before but seemed to me to draw flies to the flowers more than butterflies or bees, I have an evergreen that I kinda accidentally transplanted to my place here when I was given some Crape Myrtle and Lilac it has flowers kinda like that also but isn't blooming yet, I like growing flowering vines of different types I haven't started any honeysuckle here but it can real invasive same with morning glory I planted some years ago and haven't been able to kill it off yet LOL I want to grow some different Clementis and more climbing roses if anyone has or will part with seed or starts,There is a beautiful, sweet smelling tree/shrub that is blooming on the property line of mine and my neighbor's house. I used to know what it's called, but can't, for the life of me remember right now. It's in bloom now and has butterflies all over it. By all over it, I mean HUNDREDS of butterflies. Today I captured photos of just a few.
Wonder if it kills Dallas grass....I'm sure you've heard of where Ortho makes a product called "Weed-B-Gone".That stuff ain't allowed anywhere near my garden. I don't like to use chemicals, BUT... They also make "Grass-B-Gone". It will kill anything in the grass family without harming the broad leafed plants. It's really great getting rid of bermuda growing in the cactus bed too.
Seeds would be nice...I must be a bird....
Sorry to hear about the grden amage..good thing you planned ahead.
Loved the pictures!No dogs were actually ate in the filming of the above clips.
I have a climbing rose named 7 sisters that only blooms in the spring but has climbing skills like Jac's bean stalk...it will grown over anything....If yu want some starts I'll bring some to POOPS. Would love tot get a start of the cane.
