Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

I just read an article on making the lye. Pretty neat. Better than the Youtube video I watched a while back on it. It's still a process though in itself.

 

[duluthralphie]

Did you get to the part where it said to have Judy test it by sticking her finger in the stuff to see how strong it is??

 

[scandiafowl]

At what age would you start giving chicks treats?
The Jersey Giant chicks are very skittish and I want to use food to tame them a bit.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

LOL. Better be careful Ralphie. Judy will throw you in that Rain barrel and saponify you!

Yee--ouch.


I had a lye crystal on my clothes or something once. And it tumbled onto my pinky finger while I was relaxing outside afterward watching chicken TV. I felt this itch and burn on my finger. Got in the house to rinse and it had burned a hole in my skin already took a while to heal too. That stuff is nasty nasty.

Jerryse made one of last week's top posts with his Bird sexing photo. Good job Jerry...even though it is totally unreliable way to sex birds in my humble opinion.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I think I read just make ONE small hole for draining in the barrel. But first let it set for 2-3 days (it gets more concentrated) and then heat your water before you put it onto the ashes to leach...thats another trick to get the NaOH out of the ashes more efficiently. Then I think it said uncork let it trickle out--may take several hours to get it out. Yeah! You have the way of doing it down. Rain, Softened or Distilled water is better than well water....did you see that tip?

That will be a project I'll try after the kids have moved out of the house i think. I'm racking up the empty nest projects. Should write them down really.

 

[duluthralphie]

I think I read just make ONE small hole for draining in the barrel. But first let it set for 2-3 days (it gets more concentrated) and then heat your water before you put it onto the ashes to leach...thats another trick to get the NaOH out of the ashes more efficiently. Then I think it said uncork let it trickle out--may take several hours to get it out. Yeah! You have the way of doing it down. Rain, Softened or Distilled water is better than well water....did you see that tip?

That will be a project I'll try after the kids have moved out of the house i think. I'm racking up the empty nest projects. Should write them down really.

I did see that, I am thinking lake water.

Jerry Good job on the post! A helpful post like that is appreciated by us all. Sexing can be so hard to do.

I tried that long feather short feather yesterday on some 2 days old. There is a difference. I should have marked them to see if it works.

 

[ejb3810]

Ralphie, I thought of you this morning, and your efforts to keep the Cornish X alive and healthy. There was a segment on RFD TV this morning. I think it was the "Samuelson Says" portion of "This Week In Agribusiness". In any case it stated the Whole Food Markets are moving away from selling rapid growth Chickens and will in the near future not sell that type of chicken at all. It also stated that there are 600 poultry farms in the U.S. that have moved away from producing that type of chicken and that there would be many more switching in the future.
The segment mentioned the physical problems with the rapid growth birds, such as not being able to fly, roost and in some cases even walk.

It would be of interest to know what type of commercial chicken these operators are switching to, but they did not identify that.

For your information, I am not 100 yet. Only 98 I think, but at my age it is hard to remember and no one cares anyway. As long as I can still run Grandmas Marathon I will not worry about my age.

 

[KlopKlop]

Ralphie, I thought of you this morning, and your efforts to keep the Cornish X alive and healthy. There was a segment on RFD TV this morning. I think it was the "Samuelson Says" portion of "This Week In Agribusiness". In any case it stated the Whole Food Markets are moving away from selling rapid growth Chickens and will in the near future not sell that type of chicken at all. It also stated that there are 600 poultry farms in the U.S. that have moved away from producing that type of chicken and that there would be many more switching in the future.
The segment mentioned the physical problems with the rapid growth birds, such as not being able to fly, roost and in some cases even walk.

It would be of interest to know what type of commercial chicken these operators are switching to, but they did not identify that.

For your information, I am not 100 yet. Only 98 I think, but at my age it is hard to remember and no one cares anyway. As long as I can still run Grandmas Marathon I will not worry about my age.

I wonder if they are switching over to Red Ranger type hybrids instead? I dont see that going fully mainstream, only the foodie types. The average American likes their breast meat and likes it cheap.

 

[KlopKlop]

Good morning all! I think we have the makings for a decent day here today!

TOok the poochies out for a walk and on the way back saw that part of my flock had made it over to the neighbors yard across the road. i dont know what the attraction is!

Ralphie, if you need me to fix your bobcat bring it on down. I will fix the leaks then make sure to test it thoroughly so that I know that it works before you pick it up! I think that you should find my labor rates quite reasonable compared to what you get for your seminars!

 

[jerryse]

Jerryse made one of last week's top posts with his Bird sexing photo. Good job Jerry...even though it is totally unreliable way to sex birds in my humble opinion.

Jerry Good job on the post! A helpful post like that is appreciated by us all. Sexing can be so hard to do.




Thank you . It made me smile when I first saw it . My computer skills are growing . I figured out how to get things copied off other sites .