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[galgo98]

Blarney..i am soo jealous!!! Is that Longwood again??!! **sigh**....okay, It is so beautiful!! Great pictures, take as many as your little heart desires!!

I'm still trying to figure out how I can grow a Longwood water platter in my backyard year-round.... *sigh*

 

[SilkieSensation]

Hey all:

Looking for a couple of turkeys and maybe a goose for the holiday...want really large!, and if its still walking thats ok too (though I may be dispatching it for the ride home....if none alive and you have one already dressed out...that might be doable too....

PS willing to drive to get....

Thanks!

I still have 3 geese available. PM me if interested.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

 
Blarney..i am soo jealous!!! Is that Longwood again??!!  **sigh**....okay, It is so beautiful!! Great pictures, take as many as your little heart desires!!

  I'm still trying to figure out how I can grow a Longwood water platter in my backyard year-round....  *sigh*

Have you mastered growing them in the summer months? For winter growth I recommend plastic.

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

LMP, if I knew my chooks had round worms, I would use Wazine

thank you Blarney. That is what I am doing...will repeat in 10 days. I just don't understand why...oh well, there are A LOT of wild critters around so maybe there in lies the issue...IDK..either way, they are getting dosed.

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

I'm still trying to figure out how I can grow a Longwood water platter in my backyard year-round.... *sigh*

At the risk of sounding completely uneducated...what is a "water-platter"?...I have a few ideas in my head , but need to know now....hope you and your feathered friends are coping with the winter weather well!

I can not even imagine having to care for ducks/geese in this type of cold & such...they have to have water all the time , right?...man-oh-man..not the birds for me, that I DO know!!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

[COLOR=0000FF]LMP, if I knew my chooks had round worms, I would use Wazine[/COLOR]

thank you Blarney. That is what I am doing...will repeat in 10 days. I just don't understand why...oh well, there are A LOT of wild critters around so maybe there in lies the issue...IDK..either way, they are getting dosed. 

LMP, if I knew I had round worms, I would use Wazine

Yes, it's odd...I would think this amazingly cold weather would kill any eggs in poo....I thought this was the trade off for not getting the awesome weather that the people in the south get. A water platter is a ginormous water Lily, I'm sure I've got a picture somewhere.

 

[LadyBehir]

water lily: http://longwoodgardens.org/gardens/waterlily-display

 

[Blarneyeggs]

There are few sounds as satisfying in this world as the 'ping' of Ball jars when making jelly.

 

[BullChick]

There are few sounds as satisfying in this world as the 'ping' of Ball jars when making jelly.

True

 

[galgo98]

Have you mastered growing them in the summer months? For winter growth I recommend plastic.

Nope! Need to figure out how to install a huge heated, pond in the sun that the ducks and geese cannot get into that wouldn't look like fort knox! I was thinking a conservatory (similar to the one in the pic below) would be awesome!!!

At the risk of sounding completely uneducated...what is a "water-platter"?...I have a few ideas in my head , but need to know now....hope you and your feathered friends are coping with the winter weather well!

I can not even imagine having to care for ducks/geese in this type of cold & such...they have to have water all the time , right?...man-oh-man..not the birds for me, that I DO know!!

These are water platters, And see, I'm even personally pointing them out to you! (I hate when DH has the camera, I am included in every pic "for scale") Ducks, geese and I are doing well! There really isn't anymore work to caring for them now vs. summer, except breaking ice first (and my hand sticking to their metal kennel). I break and fill their free-range rubber tubs in the morning, and break and fill their kennel tubs when they go to bed. They can pretty much keep a hole drilled in the ice as long as it doesn't get too cold. They also eat snow, which is helpful!!