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[RUNuts]

So, instead of referring to this past year as 2020.... we should all just call it The Year of Many Storms!

Literally and figuratively.

I'm ready for them to blow out already.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Is anyone looking for some English Orpingtons? I have Blue, Black, Splash, Silver-laced, and Recessive White chicks available.

 

[PRchick]

I would like to hatch some buff laced Polish chicks. I just lost my little girl. Also, it would be good to know places that I can get good quality hatching eggs of different breeds.

 

[ValerieLovesChickens]

I would like to hatch some buff laced Polish chicks. I just lost my little girl. Also, it would be good to know places that I can get good quality hatching eggs of different breeds.

My egg laying girls are all pullets, until March/April/May. I don't recommend hatching pullet eggs from everything I've researched. But in the spring I would gladly have fertile eggs for anyone who wants them. I have 1 Blue Production, 2 Welsummer, 6 Black Sexlinks. I have lots of rooster/cockerels at the moment to choose from! (Help! LoL) 1 Gold Laced Wyandotte, 1 Welsummer, 1 Blue Production, 6 Easter Eggers.

 

[AllenK RGV]

@RUNuts wifey decided to settle on a sickle from scythe supply.com, maybe next hurricane season she wants a scythe. Until then it is a sharpening stone for the near term. She still found a broody with it, but no injuries required medical attendance it was just a minor nick.

 

[RUNuts]

@RUNuts wifey decided to settle on a sickle from scythe supply.com, maybe next hurricane season she wants a scythe. Until then it is a sharpening stone for the near term. She still found a broody with it, but no injuries required medical attendance it was just a minor nick.

How does the sickle work on the cacti? Or is she just trimming grass? I looked at the sickles and couldn't figure out their use. Looked like a back pain waiting to happen.

The scythe worked great on the blackberry thicket. And then I found the wasps. Or should I say, the wasps found me. The cold weather sent them to hibernation and the blackberry was flattened the rest of the way.

 

[Matejka]

My gal has a cute drunken chicken walk! Cute still counts but rounding them up fast at night does too! Don't approach a chicken like you are sober is all I can say. You will never catch one that way. Spread your legs wide and wobbling helps alot. I know our neighbors think or know we are loons, but we get the chicken in.

Does anyone else do the sober drunk chicken walk most nights?(might be a silkie thing)

Si ce I have arthritis in my knees, all walk is a sober drunk chicken walk. Maybe that's why I have no trouble getting the girls in the coop at night.

 

[AllenK RGV]

With the sickle you just grab the bit you want gone and pull towards you at its base with the sickle. This one was made in Austria, no idea where this invasive Guinnea(Papau New Guinnea?) grass comes from but it will get 6 foot high in no time with 4 inches of rain. If using a sickle in Texas get some good dang gloves as you are reaching into the dark undisturbed places.

I am now understanding why the longer term residents of this area just scalp their lawns. The invasive grass makes short work of the thickest line my weedeater supports.

Unwanted cacti you just dig out and toss out to the property line where you want a defensive barrier. They will compost too but given access to sunlight and a wee bit of moisture take a good long while to break down vs thrive. Probably the easiest thing is to toss those into the burn pit.

 

[AllenK RGV]

How does the sickle work on the cacti? Or is she just trimming grass? I looked at the sickles and couldn't figure out their use. Looked like a back pain waiting to happen.

The scythe worked great on the blackberry thicket. And then I found the wasps. Or should I say, the wasps found me. The cold weather sent them to hibernation and the blackberry was flattened the rest of the way.

Don't even remind me of the yellowjacket nest I need to spray soon. I don't understand how the population of those things can be so high so fast. We have tons of orb weaver spiders here. In San Antonio "Sally" the Golden Orb Weaver spider provided so much kitchen window tv time wrecking those nests.

 

[electrycmonk]

Don't even remind me of the yellowjacket nest I need to spray soon. I don't understand how the population of those things can be so high so fast. We have tons of orb weaver spiders here. In San Antonio "Sally" the Golden Orb Weaver spider provided so much kitchen window tv time wrecking those nests.

Future request: next season, would love to see "sally's or her offspring" making similar TV action on hornets in pics for here pretty please.

I found two orb weaver egg sacks over the last week or so in our back yard. I would so enjoy, moving them to a couple strategic sites for them to come out of in the spring. Any suggestions on how to protect them from the wind primarily/elements to give them a great chance to survive our wierd forecasted winter?

I was thinking or setting two small bricks side by side and putting the sack inside the bricks hole - as the 2nd brick would act as the back wall for a cave idea. And this would be near the garden.