Bees are also on my to do list. There is a woman not far from me that does bees and she will "rent" a space on your property to place her bees and in return you get honey. I think we may do that this year and next year get our own bees.
I don't know what part of NH you are in, but we have very active clubs all around. Make sure you check out the NH Beekeepers website and find an area club to join. Take one of the courses offered. It has been a tough winter for bees here - too cold for them to break cluster to find food right next to themselves, so they starve. Beekeeping is very rewarding, but the learning curve is high. I am a fellow beekeeper.
Last night I wiggle check egg B. and it DID WIGGLE !!!! SO, now I have 2 emu's alive in their shell. Lets just hope and pray the third guy makes it as well. that would be amazing 100% fertility!
We don't have a maple syrup evaporation pan we use regular large pots so Im not sure what the time difference would be to do it "correctly". But for us using the largest pots we have in the house it takes roughly 7 hours to boil down 6gallons of sap that is from start to finish, including bottling the syrup and clean up. 6 gallons of sap gives us roughly 20oz of syrup give or take a few oz.
We are very new at syrup making, we have only done 2 batches so far. This weekend will be batch 3.
Now my news!!! Snoodle laid me an egg!!!!!
(pics on my thread)
Also, I got some Cochin chicks today!
I'm hoping for at least one smooth cockerel (to put with Snoodle) and I'm hoping for a breeding pair to be able to give to DS. =D
(pics of these on my thread too) My DH is the absolute best ever!!!!!
Ok strange question I know, but does anyone know what kind of grass grows best on clay soil? We have been working for years to try to get grass to grow in our yard. Oh, also, it is mostly shadded in the summer. Sorry but I am just totally frustrated with no grass and all mud!
Okay, I'm in since Easter is late enough that the chicks may have bare ground by the time they're able to go outside......
......I just hope some of the girls will decide that going broody is a good idea of an April Fool's joke so I can move eggs from the 'bator and let them do the tough part of it!
Not changing the avatar.......but here is a pic.......BYC shirt and cutest granddaughter in the whole world......
Hello everyone, I'm new here but am *IN* on the Hatch-a-long... Sounds like the most fun and my incubators are due to hatch next week so will be right on time for the set date..
I have bees. I'm still learning, but at least I kept them alive this year. (Lost my hive last year) This will be our first year with them pollinating our fruit trees, and hopefully our first year of getting some honey. Not much ability to do maple syrup in CA.
Hello everyone, I'm new here but am *IN* on the Hatch-a-long... Sounds like the most fun and my incubators are due to hatch next week so will be right on time for the set date..
AND TO OUR GROUP, YOU ARE RIGHT, IT IS FUN, AND INFORMATIVE FOR SURE. THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS THAT KNOW THEIR STUFF ON HERE WHEN IT COMES TO HATCHING.
This cheese was a raw cow's milk cheddar (aged 2 months) I made at a workshop my goat club hosted. Can't wait til my does kid in a few weeks so I can try it again with our own fresh goats milk! Hope I remember the steps. Lol
You know to be careful mating them, right?
Mating frizzle over frizzle will give you a frazzle; to get more frizzles, you need frizzle over smooth or smooth over frizzle.
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