The Old Folks Home

[Highcotton]

That's why we sit back and enjoy the peace and quiet of the Old Folks Home....

That's why we sit back and enjoy the peace and quiet of the Old Folks Home....

Right, I enjoy the Old Folks home.

 

[chickadoodles]

Have the ever laid large eggs?

Yes they were till about a month ago. Now I don't know what is going on.

 

[Highcotton]

there was drama there yesterday--even a thread raid attempt!   It cracked me up though.

I love it. There is nothing like Old Folks.

 

[chickadoodles]

I love it. There is nothing like Old Folks.

The OFH makes me laugh every day!

 

[Arielle]

Hey guys I wasn't sure what thread to post this on. I need some opinions. Seen this somewhere and wondering what the heck it is its in my state (arkansas) so I'm curious.

Quote: THis is a totally new creature for me-- thought I knew most of the mammals of north america-- guess I missed this one. Looks much like a coatimundi, but not quite.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yes, having space to play on is good...I bet your family farm would have made a GREAT sanctuary. I try not to dwell on what coulda been and strive forward and make the best of what we are able. Choices made are the best ones for that moment in time. Onwards and upwards!

When it went up for sale, my job was 10.5 hours a day, 6 days a week. I couldn't afford it and another place to live which I would have needed since the farm was 100 miles from my job, much too far to commute, so I had to let it go.
It was 100 acres, about half pasture and half forest. It had a year round stream through it, several 3 season streams, several springs and a 3 acre pond stocked with a big variety of fish.

I figure a wood splitter is an investment in ourselves and keeping ourselves nice and toasty warm in an economical sense. Furnace oil would probably technically be cheaper if we counted our time and effort putting by firewood but oil furnaces are a whole different kind of heat feeling from the blowing warmed air. In a more populated area, I am thinking wood burning would not be welcomed as a severe kind of nasty pollution. Out here in the wilds, it is still an accepted practise and the wood we harvest is always dead standing, wind blown down, or in this birch case, pipeline right a way; downed and left to rot. I cannot fathom harvesting timber that has an ongoing opportunity to live and grow for something like firewood. Makes me laugh, having been raised on a father's faller's salary...I am over sensitive to the value a living tree has over being harvested...balance between being a renewable resource and killing something that is alive. Same dilemma we have over extra males you put in the pot. But given how too many males joust and make things miserable, it is a sweet/sour decision we never quite feel perfectly happy about.

I've had to take out some trees that were too close to the house. I have so many trees here, I had to be creative finding enough space with enough sun for fruits and vegetable.

What made me insulted was our former premier here said that every Albertan would have high speed in their homes...

That's quite a campaign promise.

On another note, is it just me or has anyone else noticed it's almost impossible to participate on other threads??

seems like the bickering and fighting and being overly sensitive to others beliefs is out of control.

I subscribe to the belief of if I don't agree or believe in what you do I keep scrolling....Sure wish others subscribed to that as well....

Some people are so opinionated, they can't stand a differing opinion.

Others that bug me are the people that start threads seeking advice and when you respond with the answer that doesn't agree with what they want to hear, they start calling you mean.

Go to your profile, and where it shows you latest activity, hover your mouse over the thread in question. Under the title, "subscriptions (and the title of the thread)" will appear, along with a red x. Click on the x, and a window appears asking if you want to unsubscribe. Click OK.

I'm not subscribed to any threads.
I use the "I've Posted" link under the "Forums" tab. Can anyone tell me how to eliminate the threads that show up on the list that I'm no longer interested in seeing?

Very good guess...the basket would be the same but it is not a picker truck.

Never EVER fell a tree here...very concerned to let trees live, planted a TON when we moved here in 1998. White spruce, bushes like lilac, caragana, dogwood...wanted more greenery. Getting on because I look at the wisps of bushes I planted and they are taller than I am now. Laughed at Rick...bugger...the push was on to get as many plants planted in the first year here...

I had to take out a few big old elms that the electric company had butchered so badly they were horrible.
I've planted redbud, dogwood, fruit trees, white pine, scotch pine, tree holly, Hetz juniper, Canadian hemlock and Douglas fir.
I have to take out mulberries all the time because they keep coming up all over the property, I leave them on the perimeter but have to thin those too. Most of the other native trees are shumard oak, hackberry, elms, maples, sweetgum, ash, and red cedar, plus 1 persimmon
Getting ready to plant some witch-hazel, winter hazel and thuja green giant.

Since I've lived here, I've been in a battle with invasive Japanese honeysuckle which grows everywhere around here and smothers out all other plants.

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So we rented a man lift...

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Nice lift, it looks like a genie boom.

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A little unnerving and the man lift on a windy day (which it was not...we chose a weekend of calm weather, enough can go wrong topping big trees without stacking the odds against success!) would be horrible, but it was OK for me.

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Ton more photos but enough I say. That man lift did give us a bird's eye view of the property. So other peoples here, if you ever have access to a lift, be it a man lift or bucket truck...go for it. Lots of cool views you simply cannot capture day to day.

I needed the bucket truck to get onto my roof. The parapet walls of the flat roofed house are over 30 feet high. Terrifying on a ladder.
I used it a lot on trees but not nearly enough before I sold it.
Once I used it to recapture a swarm of my bees that had gathered on a branch about 25 feet over a chicken pen. Couldn't have done it with a ladder.

Now let's all head on over to the Oz thread....y'all hear?!! ------------------------------>>>

We could do a denial of service attack.

Hey guys I wasn't sure what thread to post this on. I need some opinions. Seen this somewhere and wondering what the heck it is its in my state (arkansas) so I'm curious.

Chupacabra?
Doesn't look like anything native to Arkansas.

i know a couple of topics I will never bring up again

did you know?

As much as two-thirds of a well-fed sloth's body weight consists of the contents of its stomach, and the digestive process can take a month or more to complete.

is that off topic or what?

Perfectly on topic. I've been lucky enough to see both two-toed and three-toed in the wild. The Hoffman two-toed was in a tree near the Pacific but the Brown throated three-toed was on the ground near a Caribbean beach. A rare sight indeed but even more rare, this one was on the move (albeit slowly). I filmed it for about 20 minutes. I was only a few feet from it the whole time till I left him in peace. They are one of the strangest looking creatures. Until you see it, you can't believe how slowly they move. The three-toed is the slowest animal on earth.
The weight thing you mentioned makes perfect sense. Being so slow and vulnerable to jaguars, ocelots, etc., they only come out of a tree once a week to defecate on the forest floor and right back up into a tree they go. Which is why it was so unusual to see one actually traveling.

I've never seen a pigmy three-toed. There's supposedly only 80 left on a Panamanian island.

 

[Highcotton]

The OFH makes me laugh every day! 

Yes, even the drama is funny. We also have some very helpful and experienced chicken raisers when we have problems. Thanks!

 

[Arielle]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring-tailed_Cat

Your ring tail is way out side his normal territory-- some mention of this animal easily becoming a pet. Maybe someone let it go??

 

[ChickenCanoe]

No silly "old man"!! It's the "Topic of the Minute"!!

Topic of the second!

Yes they were till about a month ago. Now I don't know what is going on.

It could be either protein or salt deficiency. Anything that affects the size of the yolk and amount of albumen added before the shell gland will do it.
Aflatoxicosis will do it too but rare. It's from mold in litter or grain.

 

[ronott1]

Topic: eggs too small


Topic of the second!

It could be either protein or salt deficiency. Anything that affects the size of the yolk and amount of albumen added before the shell gland will do it.
Aflatoxicosis will do it too but rare. It's from mold in litter or grain.

The best place to start would be to give them some Calf Mana. I would give them some mixes with the feed for several days and then give it to them once or twice a week. It will boot protein and give them good supplements.