Stella's Social Club

[lawatt]

Ditto Mary! Take it Easy today.

We are further North than you are in Oklahoma and the low light levels are causing the hens to slow down.

And of course some of us have a compulsion to toss all fertile eggs into the incubator....Laura asked for Isbar Hatching eggs too.

we're actually almost the same latitude, Ron -- SF is 38°N, Sacramento is 38.5°, and OKC is 35.5°...

but yay hatching!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

While making cheddar I found out that Ricotta just means "recooked" in Italian, as it is made from leftover whey - so I made some up when making cheddar batch # 2 last week.

Going to try Mozzarella soon! Now if I could just get hold of a buffalo I could make Buffalo Mozzarella

I hear sheep milk makes some awesome cheese. Could be a bunch of hype to get you to buy them though. (I don't like lamb meat, so they have no use for me) My DH's family used to raise them, and they not so lovingly call them "grass maggots".

 

[ronott1]

we're actually almost the same latitude, Ron -- SF is 38°N, Sacramento is 38.5°, and OKC is 35.5°...

but yay hatching!!

Hi Laura,

Check the day light charts--The distance to the south makes a big difference in the light curves. They will have eggs a month or so longer than we will each year.

I had the same conversation last year with Cheryl Cohen--Chickens in Cabo were laying fine but chickens in the Bay area were not--in Novmeber. Nothing was wrong with the chickens.

 

[lawatt]

Hi Laura,

Check the day light charts--The distance to the south makes a big difference in the light curves. They will have eggs a month or so longer than we will each year.

I had the same conversation last year with Cheryl Cohen--Chickens in Cabo were laying fine but chickens in the Bay area were not--in Novmeber. Nothing was wrong with the chickens.

oh sure, the latitude difference between here and Cabo (23°) is huge -- just saying OKC isn't much farther south, only 2.5-3°, so their days are longer still but not hugely so.

 

[lawatt]

oh sure, the latitude difference between here and Cabo (23°) is huge -- just saying OKC isn't much farther south, only 2.5-3°, so their days are longer still but not hugely so.

and out of curiosity, i looked up the difference: the length from sunrise to sunset for OKC today is 11 hrs 35 min, for SF its 11 hrs 32 min.
website that calculates it is here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=184

 

[ronott1]

oh sure, the latitude difference between here and Cabo (23°) is huge -- just saying OKC isn't much farther south, only 2.5-3°, so their days are longer still but not hugely so.

It really does make a difference for egg laying, especially for light sensitive breeds. They will be where we are in two or tree weeks and they do not get as short of days as us. We have a fairly sharp drop in day light hour. We drop off in late Sept. to October--In Tulsa they will not drop off until October to mid October. We will start up again about the first of January. They will start up a couple of weeks sooner.

 

[drumstick diva]

Lonnyandrinda what a beautiful pup

 

[speckledhen]

Mary, I hope you don't mind, but we put your blog as one of our favorite links on our links page of Blue Roo.

 

[kathyinmo]

Lonnyandrinda what a beautiful pup

Oh yea! I forgot to say that! Ditto!

 

[kathyinmo]

Mary, I hope you don't mind, but we put your blog as one of our favorite links on our links page of Blue Roo.

I tried to sign up on your blog yesterday and could not complete the process.
I tried today, and I can't even find where to "register."

update:
OK - I found it!

My account is now "pending approval."