The Old Folks Home

[sourland]

did any of you catch the flower supermoon? this was what it looked like here
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Yes, yes I did.

 

[microchick]

Morning everyone.

We have a frost warning for tonight with temps dipping down to 32-34 degrees. Very unusual for this time of the year. Our last frost is usually the end of April so I will be busy covering everything up today then uncovering tomorrow. Needless to say, I'm not happy but the weather is the weather and not much we can do to influence it.

 

[getaclue]

Inside chicks' brooder cleaned out. I have to cool down a minute, then off to the coop to unearth the waterers out in the coop with the chick. I took out the buckets, so the baby wouldn't hop in, and drown. The adult birds think it's their job to bury the waterers.

 

[ronott1]

I make mine clip their own grass.


Nope. There was a story on NPR a few days ago about a potato farmer. BIG farm I gather. Problem is he packs in 50# boxes and 200# sacks for big consumers, can't get people to buy those at the grocery store. BUT!!!!!! I see no reason the stores can't put those potatoes out loose. There are always a variety of potatoes sold loose.


I used to until the RATS! got bad this spring. I got 4 of them with a trap before they got wise. I MIGHT have a handle on the rest. Got some Ramik Green, been putting the pellets out at night where the rats have holes in the barn (carefully placed so the chickens can't find them in the morning). Some pellets remained yesterday so I've filled in the holes and will see if they are opened back up.

The hens destroyed the little bit of lawn I had here LOL!

There is an article today about a meat plane in the Central Bally here at the town of Hanford that has 138 positive cases of covid-19 out of 900 employees. The managers claim that they were following CDC rules

 

[ronott1]

Morning everyone.

We have a frost warning for tonight with temps dipping down to 32-34 degrees. Very unusual for this time of the year. Our last frost is usually the end of April so I will be busy covering everything up today then uncovering tomorrow. Needless to say, I'm not happy but the weather is the weather and not much we can do to influence it.

This is a very late frost!

I hope you are able to get some produce this year

 

[bruceha2000]

did any of you catch the flower supermoon? this was what it looked like here
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Very pretty.
It rained here last night.

 

[ronott1]

Inside chicks' brooder cleaned out. I have to cool down a minute, then off to the coop to unearth the waterers out in the coop with the chick. I took out the buckets, so the baby wouldn't hop in, and drown. The adult birds think it's their job to bury the waterers.

Are you going to get a different type of water fountains?

 

[ronott1]

OH I WOULD LOVE THAT! I'll try to get pics of mine when they bloom. One is a powder blue that was a start from a dear elder neighbor back in IL. He loved to garden as do I and we would often stand and talk over the fence about flowers and gardens. When he died his wife didn't take care of the iris and his other flowers. It broke my heart. One day I finally urged her to dig up the iris if she didn't want them and give them away as they were full of weeds. She thought that was a good idea and asked me to dig them for her as she didn't even know how to mow lawn. For digging them, she gave me starts. The blue followed me to my new home in Central Illinois, then to Western IL when I met DH and then to Missouri when we retired.

If you would like a start when I break these down we can swap! Probably won't be for a few years as they have only established from being moved from Western IL.

We hauled 3 loads of oak from the pasture today. DH figured that the main trunk, which is what we are working on now, estimated at 24" (I think it's a bit more but that is a nice round number) and 19 feet long and 9700 pounds of firewood. Poor tree, it was so gorgeous until it was hit with oak wilt last year after losing a big limb in a storm. We have one more big dead tree to drop that also died last summer.

You had a very busy day!

 

[getaclue]

The only thing that would be a problem is ground meats. The cooking process would kill the germs on whole, cuts, cubes, chunks, strips, etc.

 

[getaclue]

Are you going to get a different type of water fountains?

No, I don't think so at this time. The little one is growing, and it doesn't take that long before it too, will be able to drink from a bucket. I like the bucket system. I have the rubber ones, not plastic. At least every other day, if not every day, they get dumped, sprayed down good, and filled. They get thoroughly washed on a regular basis. I know their water is almost always clean, and fresh. While a more automated system might need less daily tending, they too need to be broken down on a regular basis for cleaning. The more complex, the harder to break down, and thoroughly clean.