The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

How funny! I love seafood but not live seafood. I like dead tuna in the can too! ahaha

I have a friend who is married to a Sea Captain. When they met he was running a Day trip boat out of San Diego here. Taking business men or whom ever out fishing for the day or over a weekend. We have a lot of Skip Jack and tuna off the coast here. And sometimes they brought in a big haul.

One time her husband brought home a smallish Tuna probably around a 100 pounder. when she asked what they were going to do with it he said.... "can it" OMG... they put up probably thirty or more mason jars full of Tuna.... Hed put in hot peppers or garlic or dill or lemon slices or variations and pack in fresh chunks of tuna then top the whole thing off with a drizzle of olive oil. I dont know what amounts of salt were used but probably minimal if any.

I Thought I had tasted canned tuna..... I was wrong. It ruined me for any kind of commercial canned tuna. Except the stuff that comes packed in olive oil... Hard to find these days.

So when I learn how to pressure Can Probably the first things I am going to try are some Tuna, maybe some salmon too. I bet that is Yummy as well.

deb

 

[Amberjem]

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Best way to hatch in a styro bator....

Oh now you tell me! It's a wee bit late for that advice.

Still the same 10 chicks in incubator #1 and 4 unhatched and unpipped eggs. BF dragged the brooder upstairs last night but after a long day at work and a long night of class... I decided to wait until this evening after work to remove the chicks and put them in the brooder. Still just a few pips in incubator #2 but I expect some later this afternoon.

Weired

I'll be happy to supply you and the wife with an Unromantic Maine Farm B&B. I'll supply the eggs and the bed, you clean the coops. Please note at significantly sub-freezing temperatures, feces freezes. I'll also supply the chisel with the shovel. Oh and if you get here in the next 24 hours there's a large storm brewing and you can run the plow, snowblower and shovel for no extra cost.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I need suspenders, my britches keep falling down.

same here

She bakes a lot with her mom and she's always my little soux chef when I'm in the kitchen. We do miss our fresh herbs, though. I can't wait till spring. And I'm so so sick of all the MUD!
...

I've had to spread 3 bales of straw over the bare ground out back. I need a couple more. Another month and a half and things will be greening up.

I know. I tell her all the time that she's the bravest person that I know. She says "Oh Mamaw, that's so sweet of you." She also tells me that she loves me more than chocolate and unicorns.

Now that's sweet.

is it baseball season already?

@perchie.girl

We have a Mulberry tree next to the workers outhouse

Its one of my favorite berries and one of the few berries that will grow in the tropics.

Just as I was leaving, we planted 20 cuttings in pots with our compost

All 20 have rooted and a growing really well.

I plan tp grow them as shade trees for the coops - I figure the birds will enjoy the fruit as well as us

Most of my coops are shaded by mulberries. The breeder house is in an elm grove.
We had huge mulberries in the front yard of the old homestead about a mile from where I live now. Then they got cut down when the road was widened. It also took out the really nice fruitstand. People would just pull to the side of the road to buy fruit, vegetables and eggs. When I moved here I was really happy to see all the mulberries.
You'll have to get yourself another place in the mountains there to grow some berries.

I always stopped to load up on strawberries driving to and from the volcanoes in Costa Rica.

 

[vehve]

Okay, I'd like to bring up some feed discussion again. Anyone have any experience in using peas and rapeseed for your birds? Also, I'm going to mix up some more food for the birds soon again, and since they seem to be done molting and brooding and whatnot, I'm a bit curious about what kind of protein counts you think might be good for winter feeding? We're probably going to be a bit below freezing for the next couple of months.

 

[ozexpat]

Okay, I'd like to bring up some feed discussion again. Anyone have any experience in using peas and rapeseed for your birds? Also, I'm going to mix up some more food for the birds soon again, and since they seem to be done molting and brooding and whatnot, I'm a bit curious about what kind of protein counts you think might be good for winter feeding? We're probably going to be a bit below freezing for the next couple of months.

Rapeseed is known as Canola in USA. The name more marketable. They are 21% protein

from feedipedia.com

). Broilers could be successfully grown on diets containing up to 12% canola seeds as a replacement for soybean meal (Talebali et al., 2005). In Saudi Arabia, it was reported that a 5-10% inclusion of whole rapeseeds in the diet of Leghorn layers did not affect hen-day egg production, total egg mass, feed conversion efficiency or egg weight (Huthail et al., 2004).
The nutritional value of rapeseeds and canola seeds for poultry mainly depends on its oil content. The digestibility of rapeseed oil and the subsequent metabolizable energy of rapeseeds are highly variable and depend to a large extent on the technological treatments (grinding, granulation, extrusion, micronization) undergone by the seeds (Leclercq et al., 1989). Treatments are done to break the cell walls and make lipids more available to the digestive enzymes and thus more digestible (Rutkowski et al., 2012). Due to their high lipid content, seeds are often treated (for example extruded) in association with another raw material (pea, cereal) to absorb the released lipids (Golian et al., 2007). It does not seem that protein digestibility is reduced or improved by the usual technological treatments. The negative effect of glucosinolates can be more important in the seed than in the meal because the myrosinase is not inactivated in the raw seed. High inclusion of rapeseeds thus resulted in lower performance unless the diets were steam-pelleted (Salmon et al., 1988; Nwokolo et al., 1989a; Nwokolo et al., 1989b).

 

[vehve]

Oz, thanks for your reply. I just got the feed analysis for the stuff, it's actually refined into pellet form. This stuff is 29.5% protein, and 22.7% fat. But I think I'll keep it down to about 10% of the feed then. I wasn't paying attention when Karin asked for it, so I thought it was unrefined.

I tried looking for your feed tables, but I didn't find them. What kind of fat% do you have in your feed?

 

[ozexpat]

Oz, thanks for your reply. I just got the feed analysis for the stuff, it's actually refined into pellet form. This stuff is 29.5% protein, and 22.7% fat. But I think I'll keep it down to about 10% of the feed then. I wasn't paying attention when Karin asked for it, so I thought it was unrefined.

I tried looking for your feed tables, but I didn't find them. What kind of fat% do you have in your feed?

i dont measure fat.

one could calculate it by math if they wanted to but all my feed ingredients are not raw grains



i got lazy with vitamin analysis but premix does the job

 

[chickadoodles]

This is going around on facebook and thought I would share. lol

 

[chickwhispers]

I had a RIR that could have used one of those this past molt.