The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

Silly Al, you think people live within their means?

Duh.... Silly me


I forgot, I am from the old generation of "pay with cash or starve/eat your own shoes"

 

[Alaskan]

 
...I suspect the reintegration after 6 months away would be a pretty ugly proposition. 

Why would that be? With integrating that many back together, there'd be too many of them to support any real fighting... Just throw them all in together and may the strongest survive to be rented back out again next year. If you timed it right, you could throw a bunch of roos in there with them then collect the survivor's fertilized eggs and incubate/breed survivor chicks to replenish with... It doesn't have to make sense, just make money!

Achem

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Duh.... Silly me


I forgot, I am from the old generation of "pay with cash or starve/eat your own shoes"

I'm right there with you. I am horrified at the purchases I see young kids making.

 

[Beer can]

I saw a rentachickens with little tractor on Craig's List once, they gave the option to buy after season was over for a couple hundred $$ xtra, Lol! What's that saying 'a fool and his money are soon parted'..?

 

[drumstick diva]

Alaskan I am with you. Though I wouldn't eat shoes. My grandfather always said IF you don't have the money, you don't buy anything. He didn't believe in credit cards SO, thanks to that I have NO credit history. I thought I was being good when everyone else was running up huge credit card debt. House insurance, etc, is several times higher because I don't have that all important history. Fortunately for some - college kids get bombarded with credit cards. My son had a credit card, checking/savings account etc. with no history and I have always paid my bills and have O.

 

[Beer can]

@vehve I've always used fresh bunny poop in our garden. Produce never touches it. Poop pee hay mix, dig a hole, put in a shovel full, few inches of dirt or potting soil, plant above, cover, roots have to grow into it, never had them burn.
Two yrs ago I cleaned out our coop, many wheel barrows of litter chicken manure. Put it in a row by our pond where I couldn't get anything to grow, mixed with a 55gal barrel of wood ashes. Same thing, layer of dirt then plant. Grew a dozen big jack o lantern pumpkins from two plants, 63 nice pie pumpkins from six plants and dozens of butter nut squash from four. Tried watermelons and cantaloupe last yr there, didn't do good, weeds overtook them, leaves aren't big enough to drown the weeds out like pumpkin. Did get some big pumpkins and lots of yellow summer squash and zucchini.
Going to clean out the coop this spring and put down another layer.
Couple pumpkins for the kids the rest with 'sweet meat' winter squash. I was researching squash type pumpkins and hubbard squash, want large heavy long storage and tasty for us and the chickens, think I'll try 'sweet meat' heirloom squash from Jung's seed catalog. I like the description.

 

[Beer can]

Anyone here ever grow sweet meat winter squash?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Is that a brand?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Apparently my male birds aren't the only ones here in Central Maine affected adversely by spring.

http://www.centralmaine.com/2016/03/22/bald-eagles-spar-on-augusta-street/

The Central Maine Guincident Command Center was not activated.

 

[drumstick diva]

thank goodness for that SCG