Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[cheeka]

Clarabelle is precious. what a lovely Mama... her babies are perfect. I love a good broody... as for the spider... you're right. <shiver>... but in its way, it's still a great picture - the details... you can see every hair on each of it's

8 legs.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Been thinking of what could fill your empty nest. Let's see, what don't you have?

Bunnies?

Maybe you'll just have to wait for grandbabies!
I've always loved watching the kids reach new milestones, and never pined for the younger years, but when they leave home for good, I imagine that will be quite a lurch for me.
Hope the rain gives you a little time for yourself. Take care!

thanks. Seeing the last one grown and gone, turning the big "5 0" next week has had me a lil bummed.
I really need to reduce! Thinning out the flock for winter, sold around 60 guinea already! Quite a few turkey poults too. After adding the 3 lil piggies, All I want now is cows.
Hopefully should have piglets, lots of piggies by late summer next year. And a few more goats by fall!
A bunch of us on the indiana thread are going in together on a porters heritage turkey order. We will get the poults early spring. My main focus is going to be bourbon reds, they are just sweet birds. May do holland whites too, they are a huge breed. Adding the mini whites next year also, have had a lot of friends and neighbors ask about them. Sticking with my australorps and orps and getting away from the GLWs.
OEGB eggs are no bigger than quail eggs! OH MY!! I used my quail rails in the incubator to set them! My girls have laid 6 so far. The sebright Fergie shocked me, her egg is as big as the guinea eggs. Hers are showing fertile from the very first one, so far no veins on any of the oeg's. I have some silver laced polish I am really pleased with, beards & muffs, waiting for them to lay too. Super sweet friendly birds, really enjoy them.

Quote: UGH! EWWW spider!!!! MASH IT!!!

Loved the first 2 pics, beautiful!
Yup, as soon as you brag, someone texts ant tells them its all good!
Eat all the eggs on the counter! its ok, the human will forgive you!!!

I got pictures of Clarabelle and the babies a little bit ago!




Definately a little cockerel!







All 4 bantam buff cochins.



The waterer is a quart jar! This shows how small Clarabelle really is!

precious!

 

[cheeka]

I've been presented with a challenge... my Dad wants to know what this yellow and red item is in his salad. he must have asked his server, because he's offering a prize to my brothers and me if we can figure it out... it almost looks like a slice of lemon, colored with strawberry vinegar... but it looks like a flower... so before I answer, I figured I'd cheat and ask y'all for help. his prizes are usually silly, like a super bouncy ball or some such that can be purchased from the little vending machines at the market...if "we" win... I'll send anyone who helps identify this a bag of mealworms...

 

[showbarnmom]

Raddish?

 

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Finally: American Chickens Will No Longer Be Fed Arsenic

Following years of criticism from food safety groups, the FDA has banned nearly all uses of arsenic additives in animal feed.

October 2, 2013

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Arsenic-free. Well, mostly. (Photo: Vicky Kasala Productions/Getty)
Four years. That’s how long it took the Food and Drug Administration to pay attention to an ever-growing chorus of Americans concerned that chickens, hogs and turkeys are given feed laced with the poison arsenic. As much as 70 percent of meat birds raised in the United States are given arsenic as an addative to help the chickens put on more weight with less feed. Chickens, turkeys and hogs are also fed the carcinogen because it happens to impart a healthier pinkish color to the meat.
On Monday, the FDA announced that the licenses for 98 of 101 arsenic-based animal drugs will be withdrawn. The announcement came four years after the Center for Food Safety submitted a petition to the FDA to end the dangerous practice and filed a lawsuit along with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and seven other food safety, agriculture, public health, and environmental groups.
“The withdrawal of these harmful feed additives is a major victory for consumers and the health of our food system," said Paige Tomaselli, senior attorney with CFS, in a statement. "It is unfortunate that legal pressure from outside groups was necessary to spur action by FDA, yet in the end, we are pleased that FDA listened to our scientific objections and is now working to rid arsenic from our meat supply.”
Maryland Decides Chickens Shouldn’t Eat Poison Anymore
The announcement calls for the immediate withdrawal of licenses for the drugs roxarsone, carbarsone and arsanilic acid, commonly added to the feed of food animals. The FDA acknowledged that several recent studies about the arsenic compounds in animal feed raised new safety concerns in a letter Monday. The FDA denied the petitioners’ request to revoke a fourth drug license, for nitarsone, saying more research is needed. In January, Maryland became the first state to banning the use of arsenic in chicken feed.
The extent of the poison's presence in feed may not be apparent to most farmers, Martha Noble, Senior Policy Associate at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, told TakePart in January. That’s because many farmers are contractually obligated to use chickens and feed provided by the industrial processors they work with.
“[Farmers] don’t have a choice about what feeds they use,” Noble said. “And even if they did have a choice, they don’t know what’s in it, because there are no labeling requirements in a lot of states. I don’t think a lot of these farmers would use the feed if they knew. But they don’t even know.”
CFS reports that arsenic-containing compounds were first approved as animal feed additives in the 1940s, and remained legal for use in U.S. chicken, turkey and swine production for years despite the European Union, Japan and many other countries determining the drugs were unsafe. With all but three arsenic-containing compounds now illegal in the U.S., Americans’ can feel better about what they’re putting in their bodies—even if the assurance comes decades too late.
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[cheeka]

well, that didn't copy out well, but the important stuff is there... finally, a great move by the FDA.

SBMom, maybe a radish... I'm so curious

 

[lindz8504]

Cheeka ask if it was kohlrabi. Or it maybe a watermelon radish.

EDITED:
Cheeka it is definately a watermelon radish!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/littleorangekitchen/4531114954/

 

[showbarnmom]

Woohoo! Go me lol

 

[cheeka]

well darned if it isn't a watermelon radish!! smart ladies! PM me your addy's I'll send you both a bag of mealies!

 

[lindz8504]

well darned if it isn't a watermelon radish!!  smart ladies!  PM me your addy's I'll send you both a bag of mealies!

Yay!!!!!!