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[Arielle]

The Pita Pintas are 5 weeks old now. The Golden one is an EO Marraduna Basque Cockerel.

Oh Ron, these are lovely!!! I always wanted a pinto horse-- but these are much more affordable!!

 

[cknnewbie]

The Pita Pintas are 5 weeks old now. The Golden one is an EO Marraduna Basque Cockerel.

Nice looking group! Thanks for the update as I am curious how these will turn out for you.

 

[chickensnewtome]

tell him they dont count when:

Cockerals - they are food not chickens
Chicks - they are research and development

Also

Seramas lay about 75-120 eggs a year and you need 4-5 serama eggs to equal an Leghorn egg. The leghorn will lay 320+ eggs a year. SO based on egg production, the serama is 1/3 x 1/4 or 1/12 of a real chicken.

If using weight, then a Serama is 1/8th the size of a Brahma or Orpington hen.

So...

Using conservative chicken math, there are 8 seramas to a large fowl, of which cockerals dont count. Thats 16 Seramas for every one that your husband counts.

And if that does not work, cut him off for a month. lol That will.

 

[chickensnewtome]

The Pita Pintas are 5 weeks old now. The Golden one is an EO Marraduna Basque Cockerel.

THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL! I really like the colors and patterns.

 

[Arielle]

In case anyone is interested in this--- 5 foods to avoid

http://www.unleashyourthin.com/p/ma...ng-foods-X-colored-belly-orange-purple-X-7491

I have always been a little suspicious of the agave necter if only because it was a sugar, natural or not, sugar is on my no-no list.

Canola oil-- the amt of processing stunned me. Olive oil and butter are my preferred oils anyway. I stopped buying margarine oh, some 20+ years ago. ( BOy the years march on, lol)

THen the grains and corn ---no matter whole grain or not, it is all ground and that is the problem. ( Good to know when weigh gain is the goal.) We as a society are grain a holics.

and last . . .

xeno-estrogens= basically chemicals on and in our foods and the effects on our bodies. THis was scary and less specific than I wanted. Finding organic meats that is affordable is not easy-- maybe that is why I eat so many eggs from my own girls ( and eat the cckls)

I don't know anything more about this doctor than is listed= my disclaimer. For me it confirmed my thinking about a few foods and fit in with other informatoin I have read.


WHo's garden is producing now??

 

[ronott1]

The Pita Pintas are one of those Breeds that looks good as they grow and change. There will be a bunch of changes as they grow. They will become mostly black with white mottling for this color pattern. There is another that is more white.

Maybe I will get a couple of those!

I will take pictures each week to show how they change.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

WHo's garden is producing now??

Cucumbers. Massive amounts of cucumbers over here. I had my first red grape tomato a few days ago, but nothing else looks close to being ready in the garden. Our wild blackberries are coming in, too. And it's blueberry season. I got the 6 blueberries off my bush the other day, usually I don't beat the birds to it. I was going to go picking today but it's apparently monsoon season again here.

I want to get into my hive, also and see if I have any honey. Probably next weekend, if the weather is good.

And Oz is the new Lysistrata.

Oh, and I went over to my neighbors yesterday to help her move her chicken "tractor" (more like a coop) because her husband is sick, and I pointed out her rat-holes to her. She was horrified. I think my comment was "I told you not to leave food out on the ground all night."

I haven't seen one rat on my property today, and I've been looking, and waiting.

 

[ozexpat]

Cucumbers. Massive amounts of cucumbers over here. I had my first red grape tomato a few days ago, but nothing else looks close to being ready in the garden. Our wild blackberries are coming in, too. And it's blueberry season. I got the 6 blueberries off my bush the other day, usually I don't beat the birds to it. I was going to go picking today but it's apparently monsoon season again here.

I want to get into my hive, also and see if I have any honey. Probably next weekend, if the weather is good.

And Oz is the new Lysistrata.

Oh, and I went over to my neighbors yesterday to help her move her chicken "tractor" (more like a coop) because her husband is sick, and I pointed out her rat-holes to her. She was horrified. I think my comment was "I told you not to leave food out on the ground all night."

I haven't seen one rat on my property today, and I've been looking, and waiting.

I am not trying to end the Peloppenesian war - just help a lady with her chooks.

 

[Cynthia12]

Cucumbers. Massive amounts of cucumbers over here. I had my first red grape tomato a few days ago, but nothing else looks close to being ready in the garden. Our wild blackberries are coming in, too. And it's blueberry season. I got the 6 blueberries off my bush the other day, usually I don't beat the birds to it. I was going to go picking today but it's apparently monsoon season again here.

I want to get into my hive, also and see if I have any honey. Probably next weekend, if the weather is good.

And Oz is the new Lysistrata.

Oh, and I went over to my neighbors yesterday to help her move her chicken "tractor" (more like a coop) because her husband is sick, and I pointed out her rat-holes to her. She was horrified. I think my comment was "I told you not to leave food out on the ground all night."

I haven't seen one rat on my property today, and I've been looking, and waiting.

Sounds like they all went to the neighbors, and she can't blame you for sending them over..she invited them.

 

[chickensnewtome]

In case anyone is interested in this--- 5 foods to avoid

http://www.unleashyourthin.com/p/ma...ng-foods-X-colored-belly-orange-purple-X-7491

I have always been a little suspicious of the agave necter if only because it was a sugar, natural or not, sugar is on my no-no list.

Canola oil-- the amt of processing stunned me. Olive oil and butter are my preferred oils anyway. I stopped buying margarine oh, some 20+ years ago. ( BOy the years march on, lol)

THen the grains and corn ---no matter whole grain or not, it is all ground and that is the problem. ( Good to know when weigh gain is the goal.) We as a society are grain a holics.

and last . . .

xeno-estrogens= basically chemicals on and in our foods and the effects on our bodies. THis was scary and less specific than I wanted. Finding organic meats that is affordable is not easy-- maybe that is why I eat so many eggs from my own girls ( and eat the cckls)

I don't know anything more about this doctor than is listed= my disclaimer. For me it confirmed my thinking about a few foods and fit in with other informatoin I have read.


WHo's garden is producing now??

AWESOME READ!!! I am guilty on the whole grains. I love them.


My garden is producing I will show you my harvest from today! And while I am at it I might as well show off my chickens to. The Bantams are usually free roaming but, We have a wild cat that has shown up and ate one yesterday and ate some quail. So until that problem is gone we can not let them free roam. And we have a family of foxes so my big chickens can't roam either till we fix that problem. Luckily their cage and coop are Fox proof. This is the little guy we found in our garage. Luckily he wasnt hurt

This is our produce from this morning. we will pick more tonight.

This is one of the two quail I have left.

This is my garden. Corn is fixing to make.

This is our peaches. Almost ready

My watermelon plant!

My chickens. They are not very happy.

my rooster.

My ducks, you can see my little hurt ying back there.

My bantams. I know they are not happy but that will change soon.

here they are again.

My blackberry bush. We have picked two gallons so far.

I think it is time to pick again. LOL!

Ok enough with the picture overload.