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[Kimbroe1981]

Years ago my MIL had a few of the Dexters and the beef they produced was top-notch and they were butchered as grass calves so the meat had a wonderful flavor to it. To me when they are finished on grain it just takes all of the flavor out of them. Butchered as grass calves you have very lean meat too with not as much fat in it. Usually not enough fat to fry them in like the grain fed does, Teva just kept a glass of water handy when she would fry hamburgers on the stove.

That's what I (by I, I mean my hubby, I'm still reading up on chickens), read. They have USDA Top Choice grade beef. I can't wait. I think we're gonna check with the breeder and see if they have one that's ready to butcher. Our freezer is AWFULLY lonely right now with nothing in it except popsicles.

 

[Kimbroe1981]

Oh, good grief!! Moved a bunch of boxes from our rented container unit to our new 10x16 shed. I think I'm gonna get off here. It's like my Facebook for chickens!

I will be back tomorrow! Night ALL!!!

 

[Kassaundra]

I'm multi tasking, reading everyone's posts while looking through crochet magazines for potential patterns to see if I want to join a block exchange.

 

[nnbreeder]

That's what I (by I, I mean my hubby, I'm still reading up on chickens), read. They have USDA Top Choice grade beef. I can't wait. I think we're gonna check with the breeder and see if they have one that's ready to butcher. Our freezer is AWFULLY lonely right now with nothing in it except popsicles.

mmmmmmmm, Popsicles

Wanted to get some the other day but they would melt before I got home with them.

 

[nnbreeder]

I'm multi tasking, reading everyone's posts while looking through crochet magazines for potential patterns to see if I want to join a block exchange.

I used to have many patterns for tatting but when the barn roof left back in '99 they all got wet and were ruined. They were old patterns too that grandma had clipped from newspapers and magazines. She passed in '64 so you know they were old. Some of them came from papers out of Chicago and Kansas City. It would have been neat to find out where she got them from.

 

[Kassaundra]

I used to have many patterns for tatting but when the barn roof left back in '99 they all got wet and were ruined. They were old patterns too that grandma had clipped from newspapers and magazines. She passed in '64 so you know they were old. Some of them came from papers out of Chicago and Kansas City. It would have been neat to find out where she got them from.

When I was a teen an elderly lady tried to teach me to tat, I never could get the hang of it. It is a real dying art, not many tatters left.

 

[NanaKat]

Oh and Kat most smaller pullet eggs doesn't have yolks, just candle them before setting to make sure.

Thanks Les...I can do that. Any problem with the chicks hatching? like not enough air space or limited size?'

We'll keep an eye out for hay. We're only getting 1 right now, but who knows when we'll get a bull.

A normal cow will eat 5 bales of hay(4 x 5) over a winter. A small breed could get by on 3 - 4 bale.

Quote: Agree, a bull is expensive to keep if there are only a few girls to breed. You can take them to be bred or AI for much less money than keeping a bull.

 

[Oakieridge]

To make their prices look better they leave out little things like the cost of mounting and balancing or the fact that the tires have a lower speed or ply rating as the competators tires do.

When we had the tire machine at work a set of four mounted and balanced was only 30 minutes and it only took that long because I would wash down the rims really good to get a good balance.


If the weights are coming off then they are using the wrong type of weights, there are different ones for aluminum rims and steel rims, if using the stick-ons they are not cleaning the rims enough. I throw a weight on the one ton every now and then but it is usually in frame deep mud while getting pulled around. LOL

I talked to a lady today that had "new" tires put on her boat trailer at one of the lakes after she blew one of hers out. I have to check the dates tomorrow but one is weatherchecked on the sidewall and that is not usually seen until a tire is older, much older.


There is a DOT number on the tire and on one side of the tire that number will have a series of numbers (4 sets of 2 numbers) after it, the last two numbers denote the year that the tire was made, the set before that will denote which week of the year that the tire was made. This has been standard on ALL tires since 2000. So if the last series of numbers were say 01 08 that tire was made in the first week of 2008.

Before this many manufacturers used a code of their own for the manufacture date and most of the time only the dealers knew the code, it could get confusing at times.

And that is ya'lls worthless fact for this evening!!!!

Thanks! I have had trouble with wheel weights coming off this car like no other so hubby said "tell them to duct tape them on" I remember they had to do that once with our Suburban. Of course the attitude I got at the tire place was a woman who doesn't know what she is talking about. I will be taking the car somewhere else this week I hope to get the new tires put on the front like I asked. I don't like older tires being on the front.(my older ones are not quiet two years old yet). If I am going to have a blow out I want it on the back of the car not the front. Plus I will have to find somewhere to get air in the tires because when I got home last night I realized they all looked low, they are all 10# low on air, grrrr.

 

[Cjarvis]

I have 19 chickens according to the egg collection today....three were pullet eggs from the CW pen.

Anybody know whether it is okay to use pullet eggs in the incubator or is it better to wait until the eggs are a little bigger? One of the pullets is the Blue Columbian that has been bred back to her daddy Beau.

I would wait at least two weeks on the pullets, it oftn takes them a little time to get a rythym with the rooster and will allow the eggs to gain a little size.
If the pullet eggs are real small there may not be a yolk in them but if they are just smaller then they are fine, the chicks will hatch a bit smaller but will catch upo quickly.

 

[Elbert Garrett]

As promised here are my new NNs!

Cute Cute!

Good morning friends and neighbors! The heat is back.....100° today!

Have a great day!