So happy!! I am playing front row right side hitter on JV!!
I'm the only freshman on JV too!!
Cause I'm JV it also means that on the first day of school, Monday, I get to leave at noon to go to Center to play in a JV and V tournament
Grats..
Surviving Minnesota!
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Grats..
I got one batch through the canner, but gave up on getting a second through.
I have a bowl of cut up chicken in the frig for morning. I bought peaches to can too, so if it must be rainy tomorrow, then I know what I will do to keep busy.
I am thinking I might not make it to the swap in New Ulm. With all the rain today and what we are expected to get tomorrow, I know I can't get them all ready to go. I do have someone coming to get at least some of the bantams, and those are the ones I wanted to get out of here the most. However, I have a bunch of NHs being total a*****es now. They aren't quite as plump as the Buckeyes were that I would want to tackle those too. Plus, they are some fine looking birds, so they get a pass. I am just pulling the ones getting beat on and letting them with the EE flock in the main pasture.
It it time to get shower and rest my tired body.
TTFN
I have a bowl of cut up chicken in the frig for morning. I bought peaches to can too, so if it must be rainy tomorrow, then I know what I will do to keep busy.
I am thinking I might not make it to the swap in New Ulm. With all the rain today and what we are expected to get tomorrow, I know I can't get them all ready to go. I do have someone coming to get at least some of the bantams, and those are the ones I wanted to get out of here the most. However, I have a bunch of NHs being total a*****es now. They aren't quite as plump as the Buckeyes were that I would want to tackle those too. Plus, they are some fine looking birds, so they get a pass. I am just pulling the ones getting beat on and letting them with the EE flock in the main pasture.
It it time to get shower and rest my tired body.
TTFN
Ralphie, the Cuckoo Marans are barred, but I suspect you knew that?
Holm, the photos are very good. As Ralphie said you were very near me when you were at Fish Lake. I hope the fishing was good for you although we are in the mid summer doldrums period.
Minnie, the processed chickens look good. Buckeyes are a great breed combining good looks, docile temperament, productive egg laying and good size for the excess cockerels.
I would like to go to the state fair to view the poultry and other livestock but likely will not. I would not go on the weekend as the crowds and traffic are not to my liking, and during the week the wife is working and unable to take days off unless it rains. Her crew has been off due to rain days more this summer than ever before, and she is hoping to get all the jobs done yet. I can tell you first hand that cutting pavers and blocks with a wet saw is not fun in November. She once roped me into that on a project up at Pequawm Lake.
Ralphie, it is good you can tell the App Spitz from the Polocks. It will be more evident as they mature as the chicken is like the person of same lineage (very stubborn and opinionated).
Holm, the photos are very good. As Ralphie said you were very near me when you were at Fish Lake. I hope the fishing was good for you although we are in the mid summer doldrums period.
Minnie, the processed chickens look good. Buckeyes are a great breed combining good looks, docile temperament, productive egg laying and good size for the excess cockerels.
I would like to go to the state fair to view the poultry and other livestock but likely will not. I would not go on the weekend as the crowds and traffic are not to my liking, and during the week the wife is working and unable to take days off unless it rains. Her crew has been off due to rain days more this summer than ever before, and she is hoping to get all the jobs done yet. I can tell you first hand that cutting pavers and blocks with a wet saw is not fun in November. She once roped me into that on a project up at Pequawm Lake.
Ralphie, it is good you can tell the App Spitz from the Polocks. It will be more evident as they mature as the chicken is like the person of same lineage (very stubborn and opinionated).
lvie
Songster
So happy!! I am playing front row right side hitter on JV!!
I'm the only freshman on JV too!!
Cause I'm JV it also means that on the first day of school, Monday, I get to leave at noon to go to Center to play in a JV and V tournament
Congrats. Very cool.
lvie
Songster
Well Good Morning to you Chickeners.
BC - How are you doing? You have been on my mind often.
Someone is having a baby. Was that you MNChick? I am sorry, I don't remember who it is exactly right at this moment.
When one grandma was alive she and I would spend time together and she taught me how to make Kringla - however that would be correctly spelt. It was a Norwegian sweet bread baked in a figure 8. As soon as it came out of the oven it was dipped in sugar water. I wish I could spend time with you Minnie and can chicken. Besides bonding a little you would be teaching me new stuff. It reminds of me of some younger days. Then Grandpa taught me how to make Klube - potato dumpling. Its been a long time. I would like to can chicken and have Klube in the pan cooking. Sweet!
Ralphie, on the way home I got a migrane. No pain, just could not see the speedometer. More water I guess. Looked up receipes for coleslaw and going to make some this morning. Still need to make my lasagna.
Glad its gloomy outside but am ready for SUNSHINE!!!! Autumn days are a coming and then the 'get ready for winter' work will start in earnest.
Well, just rambling so I am moving on. Hope everyone is doing fine in chicken land.
BC - How are you doing? You have been on my mind often.
Someone is having a baby. Was that you MNChick? I am sorry, I don't remember who it is exactly right at this moment.
When one grandma was alive she and I would spend time together and she taught me how to make Kringla - however that would be correctly spelt. It was a Norwegian sweet bread baked in a figure 8. As soon as it came out of the oven it was dipped in sugar water. I wish I could spend time with you Minnie and can chicken. Besides bonding a little you would be teaching me new stuff. It reminds of me of some younger days. Then Grandpa taught me how to make Klube - potato dumpling. Its been a long time. I would like to can chicken and have Klube in the pan cooking. Sweet!
Ralphie, on the way home I got a migrane. No pain, just could not see the speedometer. More water I guess. Looked up receipes for coleslaw and going to make some this morning. Still need to make my lasagna.
Glad its gloomy outside but am ready for SUNSHINE!!!! Autumn days are a coming and then the 'get ready for winter' work will start in earnest.
Well, just rambling so I am moving on. Hope everyone is doing fine in chicken land.
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Really gloomy outside today... Hopefully it clears up so I can ride after practice today..
I realized that I've accidentally left my 2 ducks outside at night for the last 3 days
they don't seem to mind though!
I realized that I've accidentally left my 2 ducks outside at night for the last 3 days
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Good morning ivie, Ed and Minnie, Ralphie, layers, holm Nathan, mnchickmom, Jerry .
The sun is out the antibiotics are working, the temps are warm and we still live in a free country so I ran down to the coop in my underwear and got my chicken chores done without so much as a viewing from any neighbor... Maybe a head shake from DH as he drove out the driveway. Temps are going to be a high of 60 this weekend. Underwear runs to the coop will be getting scarce again.
I feel SO much better ivie thank you! I think MinnesotaNice is getting ready to pop any time or she has already. I bet you she's drinking her MOJITOS right now...
The sun is out the antibiotics are working, the temps are warm and we still live in a free country so I ran down to the coop in my underwear and got my chicken chores done without so much as a viewing from any neighbor... Maybe a head shake from DH as he drove out the driveway. Temps are going to be a high of 60 this weekend. Underwear runs to the coop will be getting scarce again.
I feel SO much better ivie thank you! I think MinnesotaNice is getting ready to pop any time or she has already. I bet you she's drinking her MOJITOS right now...
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Ralphie good info on the long beans . I have never grown them but have tasted them at the Chinese buffet . I think they are a pole version of the southern peas like black eyed . So you could maybe use them as shell outs . I have grown the southern peas . Not a fan but that is just me . On rabbits I caught one by hand yesterday evening . Came down the hill out of the woods on my tractor and scared one . She went into the empty chicken pen . So I naturally had to catch her . Got into stinging nettle weed in my effort . Looked her over and showed her to the beagles . Then let her go . The beagles have been tracking her all summer when I let them out . So she is a training aid . Got about a inch of rain during the night . Wish I had scattered my food plot seeds before the rain .
I need to can tomatoes again . Need to measure the roof . Going to replace it with metal roof . Menards has a 11% off sale . Not sure if I have to order or if it is in stock . Might even go to the sale barn tonight . Have not been in awhile . Might be some produce like pears or green beans . Rabbits got mine also . My fault as I did not get the fence up . Got too busy too fast this year .
I need to can tomatoes again . Need to measure the roof . Going to replace it with metal roof . Menards has a 11% off sale . Not sure if I have to order or if it is in stock . Might even go to the sale barn tonight . Have not been in awhile . Might be some produce like pears or green beans . Rabbits got mine also . My fault as I did not get the fence up . Got too busy too fast this year .
The chicken looks good Minnie. I just think it is wrong of them to have the swap tomorrow when I need at least another weeks time.
EJB I did not know for sure, but was taking an educated guess on the CM's being barred. I have so much to learn on these birds and so little time to learn it. I would like to go to the fair and see Holm do his thing and the other birds too, but I am a crowdophobe. Judy has been pushing to go she is off for a couple weeks so who knows.
Ivie those things sound great. I remember when I was a kid, which was WAY long ago, eating those things. Stella Skoog use to make all those things. They lived across the river and up in the land the Feds stole to make the refuge out of. She was about 75 then and cooked and baked all that Scandinavian foodstuff. I have searched my entire life to find lefsa as good as hers was. I have never found it. ( I would guess with a name like Stella Skoog, and recalling her accent she was pure Norwegian.)
I lost a tree branch last night, A huge one. I got so lucky. It just missed my Van, my old Lawn mower/tractor and the deck. It also just missed my layer coop.
I actually looked for marks on the van and did not see any. I guess I need to move a tree now.
My old white dog is in her last year I think. She is throwing up several times a day. We can not find anything soft enough for her to eat and keep down. We are cooking her rice in chicken broth but even that comes back up. I am so going to miss her and am so worried. We have decided to not take her to a Vet. She is 11 years old and that is the oldest Lab we have ever had. It just does not make sense to spend thousands of dollars on her when the inevitable is so close at hand for her. She is the first dog we can actually call ours. The dogs before her were "Kid Picked" and not ours. All the dogs before her even thought of themselves as the kids best friend. I still think of her as my pup even as she ages.
Besides the tree, I have canning on the table for today, I am going to make some chunk pickles out of the large cukes, I have not decided if I want to dill or sweet pickle them. I also have some peppers to deal with. I have no idea what I will do with them. The hot ones I will pickle in vinegar, the "other ones" Judy likes stuffed. I cannot even stand the smell of a baking stuffed pepper. I am wondering if I can freezer them until they are hard then vacuum pack them so she can stuff them during the winter. Do peppers need to be blanched before freezing?
Jerry, I think it is funny the people on the EE thread telling you how Ameraucanas were developed and what breeds went into them. I especially like the people that insist EE were created from Ameraucanas.
MNchick I hope your "shingle chicken killing" party goes well tomorrow. Are you going to shingle even in the rain, if it rains?
On the chicken front, I need to find another Show Rooster in my Mob of boys, Andy is still perfect but his crest as became so small or his hackles so full that it is almost non-existent. The proposed SOPs say no crest is a disqualifying defect. also his comb has gotten so large it no longer makes him look balanced and his waddles are getting "wrinkles". I still plan to use him for breeding. If I use only well endowed hens it should balance itself. (fingers crossed) I will try to get some pictures one of these days. Also the huge comb is no longer as smooth as I like it to be. I am going to enter him in the BYC comb contest this fall, if they have one.
EJB I did not know for sure, but was taking an educated guess on the CM's being barred. I have so much to learn on these birds and so little time to learn it. I would like to go to the fair and see Holm do his thing and the other birds too, but I am a crowdophobe. Judy has been pushing to go she is off for a couple weeks so who knows.
Ivie those things sound great. I remember when I was a kid, which was WAY long ago, eating those things. Stella Skoog use to make all those things. They lived across the river and up in the land the Feds stole to make the refuge out of. She was about 75 then and cooked and baked all that Scandinavian foodstuff. I have searched my entire life to find lefsa as good as hers was. I have never found it. ( I would guess with a name like Stella Skoog, and recalling her accent she was pure Norwegian.)
I lost a tree branch last night, A huge one. I got so lucky. It just missed my Van, my old Lawn mower/tractor and the deck. It also just missed my layer coop.
I actually looked for marks on the van and did not see any. I guess I need to move a tree now.
My old white dog is in her last year I think. She is throwing up several times a day. We can not find anything soft enough for her to eat and keep down. We are cooking her rice in chicken broth but even that comes back up. I am so going to miss her and am so worried. We have decided to not take her to a Vet. She is 11 years old and that is the oldest Lab we have ever had. It just does not make sense to spend thousands of dollars on her when the inevitable is so close at hand for her. She is the first dog we can actually call ours. The dogs before her were "Kid Picked" and not ours. All the dogs before her even thought of themselves as the kids best friend. I still think of her as my pup even as she ages.
Besides the tree, I have canning on the table for today, I am going to make some chunk pickles out of the large cukes, I have not decided if I want to dill or sweet pickle them. I also have some peppers to deal with. I have no idea what I will do with them. The hot ones I will pickle in vinegar, the "other ones" Judy likes stuffed. I cannot even stand the smell of a baking stuffed pepper. I am wondering if I can freezer them until they are hard then vacuum pack them so she can stuff them during the winter. Do peppers need to be blanched before freezing?
Jerry, I think it is funny the people on the EE thread telling you how Ameraucanas were developed and what breeds went into them. I especially like the people that insist EE were created from Ameraucanas.
MNchick I hope your "shingle chicken killing" party goes well tomorrow. Are you going to shingle even in the rain, if it rains?
On the chicken front, I need to find another Show Rooster in my Mob of boys, Andy is still perfect but his crest as became so small or his hackles so full that it is almost non-existent. The proposed SOPs say no crest is a disqualifying defect. also his comb has gotten so large it no longer makes him look balanced and his waddles are getting "wrinkles". I still plan to use him for breeding. If I use only well endowed hens it should balance itself. (fingers crossed) I will try to get some pictures one of these days. Also the huge comb is no longer as smooth as I like it to be. I am going to enter him in the BYC comb contest this fall, if they have one.
lvie
Songster
Glad to hear you are feeling well enough to make underwear run!
Minnesota Nice - there you are! Waiting on that baby!
My DH has been thirsty for Mojitos so I made up a jar of it and stuck it in the freezer so he can have one when he wants. Just add the sprig of mint, a lime, and club soda. They are good in moderation for me.
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