The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

Hey! You forgot about me! I used to be a queen! My 15 minutes of fame - GONE.

Great Queen em was on sabbatical for a while so

Great Queen Wisher1000 stepped in. Wisher1000 did a good job; well enough to not be placed onto moat cleaning duty.

Veheve is the Kingdoms baker now but has been slacking. We only have been served one batch of Brownies....

This is from: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...h-warning-hi-jacked-by-em/26090#post_14531206

 

[vehve]

Ron, I shall bake today, need a bday cake for tomorrow...

 

[vehve]

Anyone have any good magazine suggestions? Karin would like to subscribe to something about keeping farm animals in a small scale, maybe some gardening stuff thrown in there as well.

 

[Amberjem]

Anyone have any good magazine suggestions? Karin would like to subscribe to something about keeping farm animals in a small scale, maybe some gardening stuff thrown in there as well.

library??

 

[vehve]

Jem, I'm looking for a monthly subscription to some sort of magazine, not a book. Although, at the moment Karin is reading a book called "Pigs, poultry and poop" and judging by her giggling, it's pretty good.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Anyone have any good magazine suggestions? Karin would like to subscribe to something about keeping farm animals in a small scale, maybe some gardening stuff thrown in there as well.

I've subscribed to all of these at one time or another in the past. I put them in order of which I liked best.

Backyard Poultry
Practical Poultry (UK)
Countryside and Small Stock Journal
Mother Earth News


I was the highest bidder on the last set of eggs. I have milk cap ready to go on my desk, and a water wiggler on its way from amazon.

 

[vehve]

SCG, you wouldn't happen to have some copies left that you could snap a picture of the TOC's and pm them to me? That would give a good picture of what kind of stories they publish. I'm willing to give you a virtual pat on the back for you efforts, and you can also have a cup of coffee on you for your troubles

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I only kept 1 back issue and it was the poultry butchering guide from Backyard Poultry.

You can see what they have for current issue at their website:

http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/
http://www.practicalpoultry.com/
http://www.countrysidemag.com/
http://www.motherearthnews.com/

I stopped subscribing to the poultry magazines because I didn't need to see yet another breed highlighted and most of the articles were either familiar to me in topic or not pertinent to what I wanted/needed to know. I did enjoy reading them, but not enough to continue to subscribe. Of them, Practical Poultry was the nicest with actual glossy pages and color photos. Countryside and small stock was interesting, and certainly more about stuff that I didn't know and that was interesting, but at this point in my life again not that pertinent. I want to say it's by the same company that does Backyard Poultry, for it is (was?) B&W except the cover. I found MEN to be way too "compost your underwear!" for my liking.

I don't drink coffee, but I am having a nice cup of HRH tea with some honey from my bees.

 

[vehve]

SCG, thanks, I'll check out their webpages. From your description though it sounds like they're maybe a bit too poultry specific (we're not interested in breeding, at least not in the pure breed development sense). I think I'd like something more focused on urban homesteading, gardening and animal husbandry. Something written by mellow San Fransisco pothead hippies, but printed in full color on non recycled glossy paper to contradict itself completely. Or whatever the British version of a SF hippy is, that would work too. Composting underwear isn't really my thing either, although I do like both things separately.

And tea and homemade honey sounds nice too. I usually don't add honey to my tea, but it's nice sometimes. Karin takes her's with honey, so I often grab a spoonful while preparing her a cup. We have a couple different honeys from around Southern Finland. Is your's the hard kind or do you work it to be smooth? I prefer the hard, more crystallized kind myself.

 

[Wisher1000]

Veheve is the Kingdoms baker now but has been slacking. We only have been served one batch of Brownies....

When I was Queen, I baked for parties......