Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[TeaChick]

I think it needs one of those big trailers meant to haul a dump truck.

Huge flatbed, huh?

Has anyone ever made homemade donuts?

We've tried making cake donuts, but it didn't go so well...

Wow! hard to imagine that worked!

picture time!

Picture time!!!

Are those Blue-Laced Red Wyandottes?

 

[TeaChick]

Yes!

I have made yeast raised donuts--sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. We made twists instead of round with a hole in it.

I have made pretzels too.

Hard or soft?

 

[TeaChick]

Just to stay on topic: I had a caramel mocha this morning. =D

Now on to the important stuff.

What kind of ice cream float do you like?
I like Coke with mint chip ice cream.

 

[chickisoup]

I'm an old fashioned really high quality mind you, rootbeer float kind of gal.

 

[Alaskan]

Just to stay on topic: I had a caramel mocha this morning. =D

Now on to the important stuff.
What kind of ice cream float do you like?
I like Coke with mint chip ice cream.

My carbonation loving child says "Sioux root beer with mint chocolate chip ice cream"

Me, no carbonation please, make it a vanilla malt.

 

[Alaskan]

Protein helps feather growth; ou probably know that there are special feeds for replenishing feathers after molt.
My Leghorn and Golden Comets all look awful too; they're 17 months old and they've been molting all summer (and that starts in April here).  I got rid of all the extra roosters over a month ago (when I did all that butchering); they're feathers are just beginning to grow back a little bit.  One of them (the one that ALL the roosters liked) is just barely beginning to get a few pin feathers on her back, but it's still really bare.
IOW, I feel your pain!

Yep, that is one of the reasons I put them all on chick starter...higher protein.

But here, well, you can only sometimes get chick starter, sometimes get pullet grower, sometimes get broiler grower, and usually get layer. Point being, the pickings are slim. Not many choices. They never have baby duck food. I have to feed them chick starter with added nutritional yeast.


Reminds me of the saying "Alaska, where the odds are good, but the goods are odd"

Anyway, I also just gave them a halibut carcass last week, as well as some maggots on Monday.

So yep, I am trying to up the protein.

Wow!  20 ducklings!

for Toffee's first hatch!

Thanks

Fall in the air; your air is far, far away from here.  We're in the dog days of summer.  The only indication of "fall" is that the sun is coming up at 7 instead of at 6:30 or earlier. 

That hot huh? Are getting the torrents of rain too? Or, are you with Ron and the drought?

Sigh about your chicks to square footage ratio.

Huh?  We try to eat them when they start crowing; although, there were extenuating circumstances this year such that we didn't eat them until a couple of months afterward.  Even so they were good after a good brine.

i need to calculate what their square footage is per bird right now... It is just in the winter I REALLY prefer close to 10 square feet per bird, at least 8, and I know I am not gonna have that. They do have 320 square feet of covered shelter.

Oh, and the reason to not eat the cockerels yet, is because I want to breed some quality birds in the spring......and they (breeders) keep saying that I really can't pick out which will be the best until they are older.

Morning.  COFFEE!!!  I NEED COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF COFFEE!  I'M FREEZING!!!

I don't believe it.  Another year with no month without frost.   Got up to everything a nice "crispy" white.  Looks like we'll be having fried green tomatoes for supper if I can find any that didn't freeze.  
Oh well, don't have to worry about doing any of that horrible canning this year unless I go to the big farmer market to our south on Saturday and buy tomatoes.

I complain about my weather all of the time.....but that would kill me.

Oh, lost two quail again.


Quail are way too blasted small!!!



Also, I finally got a quote as to how much it would cost to bring up a coop (i have a coop 10 miles away that I want to move to my house). Wow!


Around 2K!!!!! i was hoping 300. what do I know. It is insulated, and big, I think 10x16.

Sorry about your quails (I couldn't not put the s.)
The coop sounds good.  Is there a way you could build one yourself?

Materials alone would cost lots more than that. Everything up here is very expensive. Insulating the inside of my 8x8 coop last year, just one roll of cheaper insulation and some plywood cost me almost 500, and that was only the cost of supplies. One 50 pound bag of chicken feed is over 20.

OH! I forgot to say, pictures YES the bantams are blue laced red Wyandottes, and I also had several of my rose comb Dark Brown Leghorns. There was one d'uccle picture and the first was of my Muscovy ducklings.

Thanks about the lacing comment. I am pleased. A few turned out very nicely!

 

[ronott1]

Hard or soft?

soft pretzels.

They are very good too.

 

[JW12]

I'm an old fashioned really high quality mind you, rootbeer float kind of gal.

X's 2.... Um minus the gal part

 

[vehve]

Ice cream floats sound like instant diabetes... Aren't they horribly sweet?

 

[Alaskan]

Ice cream floats sound like instant diabetes... Aren't they horribly sweet?

they don't have to be. They can be made in many different ways.