Texas

[Aggiedusty]

I too not a big fan of mesquite scrub but it helps the quail to nest up. It grows only about 3’ up here due to lack of moisture but also altitude. We are at ~4,000 ft and climbing every step to the NM mountains. Nice thing is cool nights, and we can plant pines, blue spruces, piñon pines, Arizona cypresses and the like and with a little attention bring the flora of the mountains here. Columbine, Penstemons, and Red hot Pokers (Tritoma) and salvias and agastaches all luring In hummingbirds.

 

[Aggiedusty]

Oh yes and second week in a row we get to melt all this. It’s beautiful and leaves great moisture for the pastures and a calf crop that I’m very excited about this year. Top pic very old mature apricot tree, and far right expanded you’ll see a snow covered 30ft+ blue spruce. 2nd pic background is very mature pecans planted 60s? And I have 14 of these beauties and planted 9 more this year.?. 3rd pic wind break of Arizona Cypress trees and their beautiful peeling bark that’s of course covered in snow. Also a view that doesn’t stop. We can have trees! But must plant and water them. It’s not all bad up here, just quite different. Yes actually it’s a different world almost all together.

 

[Kiki]

I have done well with Dumor products. They produce a large variety of poultry feed products both crumbles and pellets. I normally have 4 stacks of different types of their feed depending on who’s needs are what. I’ll always have Chick starter (20%), Layer crumbles (16%), Scratch 5 grains, and then if fattening roosters or growing 6-8 week olds on up, will have their Grower crumble but chick starter is fine to continue with I’ve found if one more feed is too much to keep up with for me.

I think I was saying that 16% protein isn't good enough for chicks...I don't remember if we were talking about chicken chicks or quail chicks. That post was days ago and I've forgot.

 

[Kiki]

Nasty!

 

[AllenK RGV]

Howdy from East Texas- I am in Athens and have urban chickens- have been on BYC for awhile, learning, reading, posting. Love the Texas site.

welcome to the Texas thread hey I just heard about Athens today as well when I was at the DMV renewing my driver's license dorks apparently didn't keep the original birth certificate on file from when I got my learner's permit in 1984. so I have the option of a passport or birth certificate and I gave them two or three months of driving on an expired license before I finally was in town and had a chance to take care of it.

Oh and thing about Athens on a little number counting heads up display thing in the office there they said the hamburger was invented in 1880 there. Must be so proud!

 

[AllenK RGV]

First of all , I’m an Aggie and secondly NEW! Profile where? FB? Help me just a little in the right direction.

@Kiki has a great welcome to BYC and how to on that she hasn't already posted it I haven't gotten to the end of this thread yet. But really easy I just click under the account button and it's right there on your details or location. In my case I've also edited in my USDA hardiness zone because there are some active gardening farming what have youbsights here as well nbyc and I'm ever hopeful I'll figure out how to grow vegetables tomatoes and melons in this zone with my salted up soil.

 

[AllenK RGV]

First of all , I’m an Aggie and secondly NEW! Profile where? FB? Help me just a little in the right direction.

I'm no Aggie but been to Kyle Field for some midnight yell practice in my day. Someone in Austin past this shirt to me so I had it modified a little bit.

 

[Aggiedusty]

I think I was saying that 16% protein isn't good enough for chicks...I don't remember if we were talking about chicken chicks or quail chicks. That post was days ago and I've forgot.

And I should have said absolutely upfront that I agree with you and the chick starter of Dumor is a 20% protein and not as pricy as Purina. Purina makes a great feed also but when I’m feeding 200 chicks, I have started to look for ways to continue high quality feed and save several dollars a bag. Kiki I wasn’t contradicting you , but I left out a whole bunch of info there that could have made everything more clear. Sorry for the confusion I Caused. My bad. I’m one of those guys that says something, thinking everybody knows what I know ( not very much), what Im thinking and where I’m going with it and then I’m puzzled when no one gets it. . I have to laugh at myself all the time.

 

[oldhen2345]

welcome to the Texas thread hey I just heard about Athens today as well when I was at the DMV renewing my driver's license dorks apparently didn't keep the original birth certificate on file from when I got my learner's permit in 1984. so I have the option of a passport or birth certificate and I gave them two or three months of driving on an expired license before I finally was in town and had a chance to take care of it.

Oh and thing about Athens on a little number counting heads up display thing in the office there they said the hamburger was invented in 1880 there. Must be so proud!

Yes we are proud. We are also the Black Eye Pea capitol of the world -and we know how eating those got started. It was cow feed. During the civil war, Sherman's troops burned the fields, but left the black eye peas fields because they didn't think they were worth anything. It was lucky they didn't and that is why they are considered lucky.

 

[Aggiedusty]

welcome to the Texas thread hey I just heard about Athens today as well when I was at the DMV renewing my driver's license dorks apparently didn't keep the original birth certificate on file from when I got my learner's permit in 1984. so I have the option of a passport or birth certificate and I gave them two or three months of driving on an expired license before I finally was in town and had a chance to take care of it.

Oh and thing about Athens on a little number counting heads up display thing in the office there they said the hamburger was invented in 1880 there. Must be so proud!

Don’t know, but someone had to do it, or a lot of us would have starved in high school!