The Front Porch Swing

[bruceha2000]

Finland is the biggest per capita milk consumer in the world. Coffee too, which is strange. Finns usually like absolutely horrible light roasted coffee.

A visiting colleague from France a couple of decades ago described the same stuff at the cafeteria as:
DIZGOOSDING (best I can phonetically spell it)

What size do you expect them to lay when they are more mature?
I'm hoping for 45+ grams.

OK, so definitely USDA small. A recipe that called for 2 Large eggs would need three of those.

Yeah, the thought is to keep to safe plants. My biggest concern though, is how much of the nutrients would be lost by drying the leaves? Do you have any thoughts on that? And thank you once again for a very detailed and thought out reply.

When it comes to toxic plants, we are pretty lucky though. There are very few of those around. One things I regret missing out on, was the nettle season. There are still some left, but they would have been a lot better earlier in the summer. Loads of nutrients in those. Both for animals and people.

Felix, you are formally invited to my house to gather as much stinging nettle as you want!!!

 

[LindaB220]

What a beauty!

Here in the west we grow sugar beets.....acres and acres of them, and we have a Western Sugar plant where the beets are processed into sugar. The farmers take truckloads of beet pulp away from the factory to feed livestock.. Kenny (our son) has worked at Western Sugar for the last 5 years. He works the sugar beet campaign from about September until February, until the plant shuts down for the season. Then he works the summer as watchman. This year it got all messed up because of a terrible accident there. I won't go into it but if you Google Western Sugar accident at the plant in Lovell Wyoming you'll find out about it. Because the EPA, OSHA and several other federal agencies were involved the investigation and subsequent fines, they juggled the few guys they keep on all year 'round and gave the summer jobs to the guys who were involved in the clean-up. So Kenny ended up going to Denver and trying to find work. He came home after a month. He got a job there, but he said that's no place to raise two little girls. I was so relieved, even though he left that job, because the thought of losing my girls was killing me. But the Good Lord works in mysterious ways. Less than a week after he got back the factory called - he's back to watchman for the summer until the campaign kicks off again. There's still a question about whether the factory will shut down after this beet season, but the farmers here all grow beets for Western Sugar and the contracts for the 2014/2015 campaign had been completed long before the accident.

Where was the butterfly net idea when we were trying to catch Speckles? <sigh>

I, however, was so smart that I bought a big fishing net big enough to land a 70 lb marlin. They see the bright metal blue and run like he// I do manage to catch most of them.

 

[wyoDreamer]

I think we'll try this on a small scale, it would be nice to be able to provide some of the nutrients they will be missing in the winter. Don't worry, we'll be sure to double check the suitability as food for poultry of whatever we gather before throwing it in the mix.

Do they normally eat those leaves during the summer?

You may be better off dehydrating something else, like grow spinach in a window box or something like that. Birch leaves just don't seem very nutritious to me. I will have to Google it later. I now a handful of people who use dried leaves as litter for the coop floor, but never heard of it used as feed.

 

[MistyMountain]

Hey hey everyone

Remember me? 3 weeks, 5,400 some miles and 9 states later, I'm baaaack! No way I can possibly catch up so I will start new right here. I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer!!!

 

[LindaB220]

Hey hey everyone

Remember me? 3 weeks, 5,400 some miles and 9 states later, I'm baaaack! No way I can possibly catch up so I will start new right here. I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer!!!

Misty, great to have you back. It's hot here in NW La. We're all good.

 

[MistyMountain]

Misty, great to have you back. It's hot here in NW La. We're all good.

It is cool here in VA, breezy and all of the windows are open. Feels refreshing after our crazy road trip! We ran into more problems this trip… and it has not quit now that we are home. Our well pump went out some time between 9:30pm and when we rolled up in the driveway at midnight on Saturday. No water for us! So thankful for wonderful neighbors. DH (AKA Mr. Fix-it) is on the job, though, and it may just require new wire. Hopefully he can get it sorted out today!!

In the last 3 weeks I have been in the desert with 105+ temps, on a mountain while it was snowing and everything in-between. Another amazing trip but so happy to be home. Now we just have two weeks before school starts already!! Where did summer go?

 

[vehve]

Quote: I might just take you up on that.

The reason I think it's a double yolker, is that it's 30% larger than usual.

 

[vehve]

Quote: Their supposed to be high in vitamin C at least.

 

[LindaB220]

Their supposed to be high in vitamin C at least.

Dried mulberry leaves are wonderful. Used year round. I'm going to be saving the leaves and crush up dried ones and put in the ff. Lots of nutrients. Overseas they use it as most of the feed ration. Amazing. Google for nutrients. 20% protein.

 

[LindaB220]

@Oldmomma Hey girl, hope you're doing fine and are keeping safe. I didn't' realize until this morning that you can receive these messages on your email. We love you and miss you. It is a good thread and we are totally enjoying the friendship with each other. I'd love it if you would keep in touch just a little.