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[Alaskan]

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WOW! That must have been bad!!!!

How long did it last (the horrid stench), a month....more?

 

[ronott1]

WOW! That must have been bad!!!!

How long did it last (the horrid stench), a month....more?

It seemed like forever!

We stayed somewhere else for several days and then had to live with for a while after that.

 

[Alaskan]

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Well, that is one way to make the lines disappear when you go into town.

 

[chickadoodles]

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Well, that is one way to make the lines disappear when you go into town.

When our dogs penned a skunk in our shed they kept it in the shed for a week! The dogs got sprayed daily! I would not go outside. DH can not smell so it did not bother him.
I could not smell it in the house thank goodness.

 

[tnspursfan09]

I have cooked dove. It is delicious. Dove hunting season is coming up soon. We have 4 seasons. Dove, turkey, deer, and deer

You forgot turkey.

 

[Wisher1000]

And football!

 

[tnspursfan09]

And football!

 

[tnspursfan09]

Maddy got her bandages off today and finally got to wash her hair tonight! Happy girl.

 

[Bunnylady]

And football!

I don't reckon one of those would taste very good.

As Andy says, " . . . .they couldn't of eat it because they kicked it the whole evening, and it never busted."

 

[ChickenCanoe]

So sorry to hear this. Earlier this year I lost a good friend to suicide. She got me in to chicken keeping and had the biggest heart I've ever seen. She'd give you the shirt right off her back if she thought you needed it.
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That describes my friend exactly. Whenever I needed a hand with anything, she'd be right there.

CC I'm so sorry to hear this and I apologize for not commenting sooner. I saw the first line, then must have gotten distracted and skipped the rest. I only realized what you said when SCG commented on it.

Prayers for you and your Coop Fairy Friend. I hope she pulls through and that you will one day tell us why you call her your Coop Fairy.

Remember when Alaskan said he needed a coop fairy to clean his coops? She had just come out the day before that and cleaned 2 of my coops.
My coop fairy, another lady and myself are organizers of a local chicken group with 700 members. Aside from coop tours and other chicken related get togethers, we often mobilize the group when someone is having a city council problem. These people packed city hall for me every 2 weeks for 5 months and we won.
She has an interesting history. She went to boarding school in Greece, ran a hospital nursing staff in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by the time she was 20. She went to vet school at Colorado State and got a degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Washington University. She has other degrees and attended several other prestigious universities. She speaks about 6 languages including Arabic and Modern Greek. She had been all over Africa, Asia and Europe by her mid 20s. She has a very successful animal behavior business and a Canada Goose management company. She's done rescue work for a long time and is very well respected in that field, including the area Humane Society. They give our group free classroom time in respect for her. There's not an animal she can't train. She even trained an African porcupine and recently did a guinea pig behavior seminar. Who would pay someone to train their guinea pig? You name it, people will pay to have it trained.
It isn't all one way. On several occasions I've helped her with animal problems. I help her out in goose nesting season. There was a crippled goose at an office complex no one could catch. I successfully netted it for her to take to the rehab center. The whole event was filmed and aired on a local TV station. The two of us are quite the celebrities. She even brought one of her chickens to my city council meeting, also aired on local news.

Guy I missed the post. I haven't been on a lot lately.
Please let me know If I can help with anything.

I rehomed all my Empordanesa to a local that way I can get more once I have more space.
now I can focus more on my crele and black Penedesenca. Plus my trio of partridge


on another note very large wildfire up the road about 8-10 miles
took this from the lake up the road 2 miles from me

Chicken Canoe I have seen those videos before and watched yours too _ I just didn't know his name was Matt. I love those videos I always end up crying because they are so beautiful and as you say "inspiring." Why can't the world be like that? Most of the people don't even understand English and look at how well they perform together. If 'EVIL' wasn't stirring people up - we all could get along with each other. I can't dance but, sure would try if he came out here.

I wish you would tell me about the Coop Fairy I really understand .PM me anytime.

Not everyone leaves a note. It is impossible for the average person to understand the anguish that compels someone to take their own life. Some say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. But it isn't a temporary problem to them- it may have been percolating since their childhood when family/ friends dismissed them as sullen, or moody or lazy. I hope your friend is still with us.

She kind of left a note. She wrote a huge check to me and left it on her laptop just before she walked off to die. She didn't owe me any money.

This happened a week ago tomorrow. I'm not happy with the woman she was living with. She called me 18 hours after my friend went missing. She asked if I knew where she was. She told me her car was there, her dog was there, her birds were there, her computer was there and her purse was there. I said, "then she's there". What woman leaves home without their purse? I said, "Have you checked the barn and your woods?" She said, "I was in the barn last night and didn't see her." Then she told me about the check. I said, "that tells me she committed suicide." I told her to take her dog outside and it would find her. She found her in the woods about a half hour later, unconscious. When medics came, she was breathing 9 times a minute. It was in the 40s during the night.

A couple other friends visited yesterday and she was off the ventilator and had her eyes open but isn't real responsive and didn't know anyone.

Her mother is flying in on Thursday from the Northwest.

What? Making sandwiches? I was simply suggesting Sylviaanne make her DH a sandwich, to put him in a forgiving state of mind.

If there's one thing I have learned, it that men LOVE sandwiches. If you can make a great sandwich, you can get just about anything you want, well, a woman can. Most men prefer a woman make his sandwich.

Of course, when you are married, you must be sure to mix it up on a regular basis. Men don't like the same old sandwich, every time, day in and day out. You have to surprise them with something exotic from time to time. PB&J is fine if you are in a hurry in the morning before work or tired out from working hard all day. But now and then you have to come up with something that really curls his toes. Something hot and juicy that he was not expecting.

Yep, sandwiches are very powerful, if used correctly.

Have to mix it up.
Before we were married, I did all the cooking. I didn't realize until we were married that my wife was a great cook. She made a great brown bag lunch for me every day for about 10 years. I guess she got lazy after that.

a neat trick for grilled chese sandwiches: spread mayo on the outside of both slices of bread. Then grill. I know it sounds awful but it makes for a nice crispy, toasty crust

I'll have to remember that.

I bet bama has other uses for mayo too...

But I might need to try this mayo thing though. And if anyone else is going to try it, remember that there is no such thing as light mayonnaise. If it isn't 80% oil, it isn't mayo. The light surrogate stuff will just burn.

IMHO, anything that says lite, lo cal, fat free, etc.. is not good for you. Read the ingredients.
My wife buys lite pancake syrup. What's the point, I won't eat it. Real maple syrup or nothing.

I hope so too Ron.
I hear ya. I am still waiting on my Chanties to start laying and they are 7 months old now.

Sometimes those getting to POL after summer solstice take a long time.

Maybe I took that pic in your house........mwuhahahah!

TOMATO TIME!!

This is the biggest one I have so far. It's huge!

There is actually another one almost as large behind it.

think the variety is 'Park's Whopper' but I'm not positive.

More Whoppers.

Notice that these are different and the vines are about spent? I think these are 'Early Girl' and I planted them late (mid June.) These are just starting to turn red, but they are the ones I fried green and they were delicious,

Here is that biggest one with a regulation size baseball tucked in above it for comparison.

Nice.
My early girls are about done but all the rest have just really kicked in. I guess that's the only advantage of getting them in late. All but one of the others are heirloom varieties.

I am not opposed to using Sevin if I have to, but I have not had to use any this season. I think the bugs and those dreaded tomato worms have not found them yet.

I planted these against the house on the North side in a place where they do not get all day, direct sun. They are getting really leggy but boy are they producing. My Dad was the Tomato King and he taught me that if a tomato plant is stressed a little while the fruit is forming, they taste better when ripe. I am anxious to see how these taste. I like a very acidic tomato.

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I can usually pick the tomato hornworms off but they're so darn hard to see - exactly the same color as the stem.

It is really important to move your tomato beds every year. I can have a good crop in a location one year and next year they will do poorly. I have already scouted out the next location and started the compost pile that I will feed it with (not the one with the volunteer tomatoes in it.)
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I rotate everything. Heavy feeders, then medium feeders and then light feeders. I usually get 2 crops in each bed each year. Losing my apprentice really put a damper on my garden. I haven't been able to keep the weeds out of the asparagus and strawberries.
I have about 90 plants of about 12 tomato varieties along with some tomatillos.

The back yard needs weed-eater-ing badly. My DS#3 usually does it for me but lately he has had his mind on birddogging a volleyball player.

Mine too, usually most of the place is eaten down quite nicely by the chickens but a dozen can't keep up.
Once I have enough adult birds it will be winter.

I'm the kind of person who usually has the quickest exit rout in his head subconsciously. Always good to have a exit strategy. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

When I was young, we went to a nightclub that the mob hung out at. We always stayed close to the exit.
About 30 years ago there was a nightclub development on the riverfront in KC, MO. There were a few bombings with mob disputes over control. They even had an advertisement for the district that said, "Lets go down to the landing and get bombed."

He's so proud of it, he puts his name on it.

I've been wanting to make my own mayonnaise. I'll have to label it CC Mayo.

I would catch the cat in a live trap, scare the willies out of it (in hopes that it vows never to return,) then sweetly return it, in the cage, to it's owner. Once.

The last sentence is key.

Wow I need to get on more often 4758 new posts since I was last on lol!...

That's cause you're not old.

Should I worry about molting? We are having an unusually chilly fall in Arkansas. Anything I should do this winter for them?

My Jaerhons molted in January. Being from Norway, they probably said, "You call this winter?"

actually I used to have three roos for twenty five hens. One roo was dominant so he didnt allow the other roos at "his" hens. but what the other roos did was keep him on his toes watching them.... of course they would get a lick in every once and a while then there would be a bloood curtleing scream and youd see the offender run across the yard with the dominant roo in full persuit.... The third party would be do de doing around the yard till he was close enough to get a lick in himself.....

My hens didn't seem the worse for wear. LOL.

deb

Seems most flocks have individual dynamics. Some flocks with multiple roosters will have lower egg fertility because the roosters spend all their time trying to keep each other from mating. I rarely keep more than one with each flock and each rooster seems to have a favorite hen cause there's always one that's barebacked. It helps pedigreeing with one per flock.

no i am about 6 miles as a crow flies south of it. so we are safe. Our community has taken a hit though. we had another big one 8 miles south of here a few months back.
can not wait for the rain ( hopefully we get some soon)

I guess you're too far north for the hurricane to be any relief?



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I wanted to mention something about increasing protein for molting or other purposes. Some things that seem to be high in protein really aren't.
Layer feed is usually 16 or 17% protein. To up the overall protein intake, treats and added feedstuffs have to be higher than that.
The following things, though nutritious, aren't going to boost protein.
Eggs are only 13% protein.
A cup of plain Dannon yogurt is 225 grams and 8 grams of protein, that's only 3.5% protein. Some yogurts are as high as 6%. Greek can be around 10% or so.
Wheat berries are only about 12% protein.
Sunflower seed ranges from 14-20%. Soybean meal is high in protein at 28-42% protein. It is very high in vitamins too.
Most nuts are about 20% protein.
Low fat cheeses can be quite high in protein, ranging from 18% for cottage cheese to 32% for parmesan.
Most legumes are fairly high but are missing some essential amino acids.
Complete amino acids will mostly be gotten from animal sources like meat and fish.
Cheap canned cat foods aren't often higher than chicken feed. If going that route, check the protein % on the label before you buy.

Back to the wheat thing, someone mentioned wheat seed. Make sure it is feed wheat. Wheat for seed is treated with antifungals and probably poisonous.