Interesting, if a bit repetitive. That plant grows as a weed all over my garden, so if I want to try it, I won't be short of material!
That's the Virginia Farmer I was talking about - well done!
Pouncing is also a means of marking for quilting or embroidery by putting powdered chalk into a cloth bag and tapping it lightly over a stencil of the desired lines.
I'd guess that it describes a means of applying powdered material lightly and evenly through the use of a similar cloth bag.
Lacto fermenting you put the grains in a bucket about half full of them then add water ti fill the bucket, stir it when your going to feed and add more when you take out, initial takes 3 days befor eready to start feeding them, the longer it goes you start seeing some sprouts in there but it makes more nutrion avalable to them too. in the summer I will put canned whole corn in ice cube trays with liquid then put a few in the watering containers too to hellp keep the water cooler for them. they love that along with de-seeded watermelon for treats when it's really hot, and keeps em occupied.
so may of the seeds can be toxic to chickens, did you know some poisons are made from certain seeds?slordaz I will set up some of the fermented and see how the older birds like it.
I have a corn intolerant breed incubating and a couple breeds known to sometimes have corn issues... so working on running down feed options. I decided the whole flock will be transitioning off of corn regardless of breed... so big experiment in progress... based on what is locally available so far I will be mixing my own feed.
I think I finally found a paddy rice source, will confirm tomorrow with phone calls. I would prefer the whole paddy rice over processed rice... better nutrition for the birds is the whole unprocessed rice. Adventures in bird keeping...
I do like the frozen corn idea so will think on what other veggie or cooked grain would work.
Watermelon is something my girls love... why do you remove the seeds?
