The Old Folks Home

[Pozees]

Are the beets cooked on the grill? I might have to try this sometime, it looks really good!

 

[ozexpat]

No. They are part of the "salad" cool and crisp components

 

[apteryx]

Thats a New Zealand burger

An Aussie burger with the works has

Beef
Grilled Onions
Lettuce
Tomato
Sliced canned beets
Cheese
Grilled pineapple
Fried egg
Bacon
Ketchup
Sesame Bun

You can get them in any pub or "milk bar"

The New Zealand burgers that I grew up with also had beets (beetroot) on them. You could even get a "kiwiburger" from the place with the golden arches. Not even close to what you could get from a local fish and chip shop. I love them with grilled pineapple and a thicker slice of tomato that has also been grilled.

The chips/fries look too thin to be from a good burger place.....

Great, now I have a hankering for good chinese, burgers, fish and chips and a steak pie....

 

[IAFarmGirl]

DH shared these pictures of Johnston, SC. He said roads cleared up this afternoon but will most likely refreeze tonight. He lost electricity and ended up going in town (Aiken) to stay. Loads of down wires and trees in Aiken. SC. Orchestrated a rescue of someone who got her car in a ditch trying to circumvent tree branches in the road. The bad news is we have been incubating eggs at his work and they lost electric last night and we do not know for how long and we had wheaton and blue wheaton ameraucanas............. They have been in there for close to a week and we lost them.

Will we ever own a blue egg layer....this is our second attempt at hatching ameraucanas. I am on the hunt for chicks now.

Now as far as our chickens, they did not go out yesterday during the brunt of the storm....they are not dumb. Today they went out in their pen for awhile but no free ranging.




Above is 2013 tomato crop. There was so much rain, alot of them became chicken treats. Now this mess. One good thing is that this should have culled some of the plant eating bugs but then again that does not make for happy chickens. He did check the beehive and they are fine.

I am not sure about the culling of plant eating bugs. We still have them here in Iowa. It seems like some bugs nothing will kill the darn things.

 

[pickitfarm]

arrived yesterday from ideal. All healthy after traveling 290 miles overnight. 15 barnevelders and 10 wyandottes.

Love the chicks!

 

[pickitfarm]

That's not necessarily true. It's really cold here until June/July and our growing season is about 90 days. I was having fires in the wood stove in July. We generally have to plant short season crops and/or hybrids that are more vigorous although every year I do attempt something stupid like watermelons.

Just finished two hours of snowblowing and shoveling while BF plowed the driveway. It's not pretty, but it's done and the birds and goats are now able to leave their prison walls. And... it's snowing again. It was supposed to taper off and stop by 11 but it doesn't appear to be doing that right now.

Our 10 day forecast has 5 days of snow.

I am so excited. I can't wait to see more snow and to shovel it. Maybe if I act excited about it it won't come.

The positive.....if you keep getting snow, you have to shovel which is alot of exercise.....no need for the treadmill.

 

[chickadoodles]

Wow, NPIP testing would be the only time I would like different birds than I have. There's no way I can catch one of my birds during the day in most of the pens. I can catch the roosters in one of the buildings. A stranger wouldn't get within 50 feet of one. Nets, leg hooks, nonsense. All my coops are built with access doors along the roosts so I can collect them at night but I don't have enough cages so I'm trying to figure something out for NPIP.
The only plan I have so far is to go in the night before test day and put long tethers on each of the birds legs so I can grab them as they come out.
I'm open for other ideas.

I understand with a NPIP flock not wanting to get non NPIP birds. But as far as quarantine and bringing disease in. An NPIP bird is just as likely to bring in disease as any other since NPIP only guarantees against pullorum and avian influenza.



You're getting me motivated despite the fact that everything outside is white.

I need to start some flats in the cellar today.

I don't know how big your run is, but I have a peice of wire that I keep attached to one side of the run about 10' from the coop so that I can open it up and stretch it across the run to close off the small section to keep the birds in a small area to be able to manage them and with the coop closed off we just corner one at a time then put them thru the wire into the large part of the run till they are all done. The two guys went out there to do my birds by themselves and my birds don't know them so they would have tried to keep away from them. Or you could keep them in the coop and catch them one at a time the same way. Idk maybe make some cages out of some cheap wire or go to some auctions to get some.You are right about not buying NPIP birds though. I really do not want to have to quarantine my pen for that is a sad state of affairs. lol The wind has nearly blown it over. haha ha

When I got those grown roosters that gave me heck trying to catch them I used some netting that my DH has in the shed it is a large net abt. 6'x6' and I had to throw it over the roosters to get my hands on them. They were wild I guess no one had handled them before. I handle all my birds from the day I bring them home so that I can manage them if I need to but also because they are so fun and I love them...

I want spring to come so I can plant and grow a few things! I still have some broccli and cabbage planted from fall that has froze over and over again. lol


SCG I am so sorry that you and everyone up north is getting blasted so badly, hopefully the weather pattern will shift and give some relif!

 

[drumstick diva]

OZ I think what you need to do is open an 'AUSSIE BURGERS," stand - who knows it could be a big hit in the Phillipines once they get used to it. Boy, it sounds delicious.

Bet it would be a big hit in USA also.

 

[chickadoodles]

Thats a New Zealand burger

An Aussie burger with the works has

Beef
Grilled Onions
Lettuce
Tomato
Sliced canned beets
Cheese
Grilled pineapple
Fried egg
Bacon
Ketchup
Sesame Bun

You can get them in any pub or "milk bar"

That looks delish Oz

 

[gryeyes]

Too much stuff to comment about since my last "visit" here, although I really do care about situations and conditions others are experiencing. As a breast cancer survivor, I have a special affinity for those dealing with it, especially family members of patients fearing the worst. August 2014 is my 11th anniversary of surgery but 10th year post-treatment. Weather? Geeze, it's just too odd and horrible for so many. Stupidly mild here.... I came down with another GAWD-awful [expletive deleted] flu episode day before yesterday, hence the lack of BYC access. Miserable enough to wish somebody would put me out of my misery. The chills, fevers and puking have abated enough for me to enjoy some flat diet 7UP and saltines. To keep y'all in touch with the "Linda-sphere" house chicken stuff, I have learned something I wish to share. Most folks espouse the belief that many animals - and especially poultry - are not capable of affection towards people, that they are really just hoping for food. Sparkle the House Silkie, raising two chicks in the house, has definitely been teaching them I am the Food Lady. Punkin is equally as food-centric. However, there is evidence they like to be around me even when and where no food has ever been offered to them. I have spent more than 24 hours in my bed (except for sudden stumbles to the bathroom). Sparkle brought the chicks into the bedroom and up onto the foot of my bed to settle down at night, and at various "nap times" throughout the day. They normally roost on the back of the sofa on a special towel.... (Punkin has also spent some time on the bed during the afternoons, but I do kinda think she may be checking out there ISN'T any food being given to the other chickens.) I swam to consciousness sometimes to discover everybody was hanging out with me in or on the bed: Lizbeth the cat ON, Zorro and Dooley the dogs IN, Sparkle and two chicks and Punkin ON. Right now, I am ensconced in my Enchanted Recliner with both dogs in my lap, the two chicks and Sparkle roosting on my outstretched legs, Punkin in her usual roosting spot on the TV set audio bar directly opposite and as close to the footrest of the recliner as she can get, and Lizbeth curled up on the back of the sofa behind my head. I am well protected. Or is that encumbered? Saltine crackers are boring, but they're staying down....