Texas

[RUNuts]

Man I'm hoping you didn't waste the effort on plantains.

Man, they turn yellow FAST! Read an article online (while looking up plantains) that you should prop the stalks up and let them ripen slowly for bestest flavor. If you cut them off the stalk, they all yellow at once.

Well, the internet was right. Boom! Yellow. Still green tasting. Sweet, not starchy. The flavor will only get sweeter. Still tastes like a store bought green banana. AND, guess who bought bananas today because someone wanted one. Such is my luck. Now I can do a taste test when they all get ripe.

 

[Kiki]

In a couple to a few days I am going to be receiving 11 Sumatra hatching eggs from Stewarts Longtails, they have so many beautiful longtail breeds they are worth searching the forums. I don't know if she unsubscribed or quit us her BYC name was @onagadori they are located near Tyler, TX.

I do want to add in 6 Malay next month as well, you think 1 acre down here will support 4 Sumatra +1 Bantam OEGB, 16 Silkies, 8+ Sumatra, +6 Malay? So 35 Chicken in total with supplemental feed of Scratch plus 24% Starter Grower?

No scratch.
Stop buying that crap.

 

[AllenK RGV]

What I am calling Scratch is the Generic Wild Bird Food from TSC 35#/$9.99. I go through 3 bags in a month. It analysis comes in at 9.6% for protein or just 9%. The big girls only pick out the wheat bits and leave the sorghum alone, right now the Silkies are mainly after the cracked corn bits. Feral OEGB is after wheat and BOSS.

The majority gets cleaned up by the grackles, Inca doves, common ground doves and ring necked doves. Occasionally the Curve bill thrashers go after some too. Then come the sparrow rats of the avian world to clean up everything. I bought TSC scratch once, 10% cracked corn and 90% milo(sorghum) never again.

Oh i need to correct one of my previous posts, I said I have 5 in lay, that should read three. Of those 3 one is laying happily, and the other two keep trying to go broody on me. Over a 7 day period those terrible two have needed my quick break method a total of 5 times. Yesterday my wife broke down the cat carrier which was the favorite layer box here on the porch, granted there are 4 other layer boxes on the porch but the chicken are quite mouthy about it.

 

[Kiki]

What I am calling Scratch is the Generic Wild Bird Food from TSC 35#/$9.99. I go through 3 bags in a month. It analysis comes in at 9.6% for protein or just 9%. The big girls only pick out the wheat bits and leave the sorghum alone, right now the Silkies are mainly after the cracked corn bits. Feral OEGB is after wheat and BOSS.

The majority gets cleaned up by the grackles, Inca doves, common ground doves and ring necked doves. Occasionally the Curve bill thrashers go after some too. Then come the sparrow rats of the avian world to clean up everything. I bought TSC scratch once, 10% cracked corn and 90% milo(sorghum) never again.

Oh i need to correct one of my previous posts, I said I have 5 in lay, that should read three. Of those 3 one is laying happily, and the other two keep trying to go broody on me. Over a 7 day period those terrible two have needed my quick break method a total of 5 times. Yesterday my wife broke down the cat carrier which was the favorite layer box here on the porch, granted there are 4 other layer boxes on the porch but the chicken are quite mouthy about it.

If you plan on keeping the silkies healthy I would feed them a pelleted or crumble complete feed.
Having the choice to pick with seed/grain they want is going to lead to them having issues sooner rather than later.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Yall get me all wrong here those Silkies aren't mine I just incubated em. I wholeheartedly maintain they belong to bleeding heart. I want real chicken like Sumatra and Malay. The kinda chicken that don't depend on feed handouts and such.

 

[jkcproject]

East Texas... comin' at ya next week!

 

[Cheryl W]

Nice. Have a safe trip.

 

[Kiki]

East Texas... comin' at ya next week!

Bring your shorts!

 

[AllenK RGV]

I dunno we got like a 24 hour cold front coming through, for east Texas I'd bring ski gear for the next day or so. SPI needs a light jacket and jeans tonight. We went from hot and sweaty to tolerable and 2 inches of rain in the last hour.

Wow 2 inches of rain plus from this hours worth of a storm that scared the dogs. The dogs assure me it was biblical. The local guages are reporting 2+ at https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KTXSANBE2 the lightning reminds one of a good north Texas spring time storm.

 

[Kiki]

I dunno we got like a 24 hour cold front coming through, for east Texas I'd bring ski gear for the next day or so. SPI needs a light jacket and jeans tonight. We went from hot and sweaty to tolerable and 2 inches of rain in the last hour.

Wow 2 inches of rain plus from this hours worth of a storm that scared the dogs. The dogs assure me it was biblical. The local guages are reporting 2+ at https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KTXSANBE2 the lightning reminds one of a good north Texas spring time storm.

It made it to Houston early this afternoon.
It's almost freezing here.