Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[wingstone]

That's a good idea "wing", I never thought of growing sunflowers in my garden for the chickens.

I plant them in the area of the viney stuff like pumpkin, seems to work well and i get double out of the same ground

 

[barbiegirl]

Puppies

I am not looking forward to the Artic air we are supposed to get this week. I had some frozen eggs as it is now. My dogs enjoyed them so they didn't go to waste.

My son is a huge Eagles fan. He hated that picture.

Welcome to all the new people.

 

[fisherlady]

Sally, don't know if you have any mesh type bags like the ones oranges or onions come in??? If so you can make 'chicken pancakes'... an invention of DH's in return for a joke I made about spoiling birds. Anyway, what he came up with was pancake batter (he did add extra eggs to increase protein content)... he added chopped up dried cranberries (left over from baking banana bread), raisins, rinsed canned corn and a cup or so of wild bird seed (which has hulled sunflower seeds and nuts in it). He cooked it on the skillet just like regular pancakes. And they looked like grainy pancakes. We gave them to the birds still slightly warm and they loved it. The pancake batter just made a convenient way to hold it together. You can feed them direct to the birds or rip them up a bit and stuff them into the orange bags to hang above their heads like a tether ball.

Suet blocks also can be entertaining.

Alternative or extra ingredients I have planned for future pancakes... mealworms, slightly crushed peanuts, sunflower seeds, oats or wheat grains, fine chopped apples pears or peaches, chopped hardboiled eggs, and any melon I had on hand (cantaloupe, honeydo, etc.)

 

[kalbach8]

I plant them in the area of the viney stuff like pumpkin, seems to work well and i get double out of the same ground

For some reason we have trouble growing viney items like pumpkins, watermelon, and the like. Our soil must be lacking something. We have no trouble with the rest of our stuff like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, onions, and etc.

 

[fisherlady]

I hung up a pine cone with peanut butter and seeds, raisins, and crack corn for them to peck at.......... after their initial fear, again.......they enjoyed it.

It seems if the pine cone is hung in a new location the whole fear and avoidance thing is all new again...........they don't seem to realize its just like the yummy one they
played with in the past!

If you don't have any decent size pine cones to do this with you can do similar by finding a short piece of log with thick, rough bark (raid the hubbie's firewood

), just coat it with the good stuff and toss it in the coop with them.

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Yep, I got third out of my age group, and my sibling got first.

congrats!

 

[chickenboy100]

congrats!

Thank you!!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I wish I could grown them in the woods lol I have no open land its all woods in the mnt, yea just a tad of a trip, not the day for it either, I saw one truck go up the mnt, SALT truck lol havent seen or heard one for hours now either.

Quote: Thank you, we are eastern PA they dont want it to drop until late afternoon here from what the weather just suggested so if there wasnt to be any raid I would let them out to run about for a tad. It rained almost all day here too so I didnt let them out again, since heck what day did it start the cold again? thurs eve they have been locked in. ?? What stinks is I have breeding pens and they dont have a whole lot of room in there as they all have huge runs. not ment to be cooped up LOL they will manage fine, they are at least alive from the last blast!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: great idea, on the fridge is the note "PEANUT BUTTER, MILK BREAD DISH SOAP" LOL we made PBballs and used all the PB hubs was complaining he didnt have PB for his mouse traps LOL We dont have a single conifer here for pine cones either! I will def be getting some along the road when I see them again! great idea, kids did that for the wild birds years ago.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Puppies

I am not looking forward to the Artic air we are supposed to get this week. I had some frozen eggs as it is now. My dogs enjoyed them so they didn't go to waste.

My son is a huge Eagles fan. He hated that picture.

Welcome to all the new people.

You know I am lovin those babes!