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[mamapoppybee]

Here's a good medical link to poke weed http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002874.htm it will do more than clean you out...

Scorpions in the house do stink...but you should leave them outside the house...used to kill every one I saw...then found out they eat brown recluse spiders as a main diet. Out of the two beast, I'll take a scorpion any day.

mom has trold me that you have to eat poke young other wise it can be toxic. It is one of the milk type plants and most of those are a bad thing. I have never tried it for fear of some thing going wrong. I have loads of lambs quarter that grows. Lambs quarter taste great with bacon garlic and onion.

 

[Poco Pollo]

Kass - I see veins in all 8 NN eggs. 6 have active wigglers, but I don't see wigglers in the last two. I think they are just shy, so all of the eggs have passed inspection for day 10

Joe - Two of the five had blood rings. The other three have mighty big wigglers and really nice veins. I only took out four or the "extras" from Saturday. The rest have nice veining and active wigglers

 

[Kassaundra]

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Awesome. Joe the ones of mine she is talking about are those I got from you too.

 

[mamapoppybee]

Kass - I see veins in all 8 NN eggs. 6 have active wigglers, but I don't see wigglers in the last two. I think they are just shy, so all of the eggs have passed inspection for day 10

Joe - Two of the five had blood rings. The other three have mighty big wigglers and really nice veins. I only took out four or the "extras" from Saturday. The rest have nice veining and active wigglers

sounds like a good hatch on the way. We must have set some eggs around the same date. Now to wait and see what we get. I got to show my daughter savanna who is 7 a wiggler. She thinks its so cool how you can look in the egg and see the chick growing. Man this is a great for them. they are learning so much from hatching.

 

[banjoejoe4783]

Awesome. Joe the ones of mine she is talking about are those I got from you too.

sounds great the roo is one i just put in withe the girls to work on getting more scaless birds all of the chicks should be carryers " this will be easy to tell they will be missing a row of scals on there legs and have larger patches of missing feathers " they will all be homozigous for NN geen witch means you can breed them to any ANY feathered neck bird and 100% of the chicks will hatch NN "heterozigous" ther is also a chance that 25% may hatch scaless "naked"

Kass - I see veins in all 8 NN eggs. 6 have active wigglers, but I don't see wigglers in the last two. I think they are just shy, so all of the eggs have passed inspection for day 10

Joe - Two of the five had blood rings. The other three have mighty big wigglers and really nice veins. I only took out four or the "extras" from Saturday. The rest have nice veining and active wigglers

sounds like a verry good report thanks i was worryd about the because it was so hot that there would be more blood rings but it sounds like all is looking good


momapopybee- i will be looking forward to updates

 

[Poco Pollo]

sounds like a good hatch on the way. We must have set some eggs around the same date. Now to wait and see what we get. I got to show my daughter savanna who is 7 a wiggler. She thinks its so cool how you can look in the egg and see the chick growing. Man this is a great for them. they are learning so much from hatching.

Every time I set a hatch I feel like I'm starting on a new adventure. I love watching the little guys grow. My only real baby chicks right now are Hoodia from Joe and Wellsummers and BCM I got at N.E.O.C.S. from one of the Four Chicks: Sorry I can't remember which of you I got the babies from

Please let me know so that I can put that info on my group chart. I try to keep track of where everybody came from. The Wellies, Hoodia, and BCM are in a big kiddie pool on the side porch with screened sides. That's the coolest place outside. DH doesn't want them in the house, and the garage and barn are like big ovens, so the side porch is my new Big Brooder House : )

I made four quart jars of yogurt in a Styrofoam cooler yesterday. I used a heating pad to incubate the culture. The heating pad is too new, though, and has the safety feature that shuts off the pad every 60 minutes. I had to restart my heat source eight times to get the batch through incubation. I put the jars into the fridge about an hour ago and will sample the yogurt at lunchtime today. I hope it turned out okay. It seemed really solid when I moved the jars. I was worried it might be runny.

Kass - Do you add powdered milk to yours? I didn't which is why I thought it might not thicken well. I found an azalea pot in the barn, but I didn't remember to get any 40 watt bulbs the last time I was at the store. Maybe next time. Post your process and recipe. I think a lot of people on the thread will be interested : )

 

[Oceanseve]

One note about the Poke, the berries are supposedly poison.

according to bfrancis's link the berries are the least poisonous part of the plant.... go figure!

 

[mamapoppybee]

morning is going ok so far. could be better but ok. I was able to get the run started for my other chicken coop. Smashed my thumb trying to attach the fence to coop with those darn poultry nails. Ugh not like working on the coop by my self has been hard enough but then i have to go smashing my self with the hammer gerrr. So got that attached and started to run the roll round my Tpost and guess what i found on the last wall. No more wire to finish it. Now im wishing for that self replenishing roll of chicken wire. Just kills me being so close but so far.

 

[mjgigax]

Here is anna with question time. At what age do millie flures lay eggs?

Do you mean Mille Fleur cochins or Mille fleur D'unccle?
Bantam Cochins lay at about 5 or 6 mo.

 

[nnbreeder]

Don't eat the poke at that stage! Best thing to do is pull it out. It will still probably come back next year anyway. Some people eat the shoots when they are young but I've never tried it.

I'm not enjoying this heat for sure. Still waiting on word of my husband's job. It just stinks to have to worry and wait for answers. We were just getting back on our feet after two years with no job. Something has to give with this economy. We had just started a savings account to put money aside for buying some land in two years but once again that's on hold. At this rate we're going to be too old to do anything with land once we can buy it. Still just worried about being able to keep my animals. It's hard to even go out and look at them knowing that I might have to give them all up. Especially my turkeys ... we've wanted to have a turkey farm for heritage breeds for a loooooooong time, since before we got married 19 years ago and we finally were able to start a breeding trio this year and now ...

Might be time to look into a little cross-training to soften the blow of a stale economy. When the boom went bust back in '80 with the collapse of the Penn State Bank I learned real fast that to survive you have to use any and all skills, whether you have them or not. LOL I broadened my skills to include mechanic in both diesel and gas and of that I specialize in electrical problems. I can read wiring diagrams like most read a novel. Welder/fabricator is on my list and if all else fails I fall back on my CDL and can drive for a living. I grew up doing carpentry work with dad and grandpa and have tools for that as well.

As for what kind of money can be pulled in an entry level mechanic can easily pull in 50K a year if the work is there. A code welder can do around 75K but the best is the truck driver, long haul is 100K + but there is the away time as the draw back. Local drivers if paid by the mile will bring in around 200-300 dollars a day based on a 650 mile day.

When I do extra work my usual fee is 40 an hour + travel time except when I am welding then it's 70 dollars an hour because I have a machine to keep up and supplies to buy.

Might be something to think about