The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

I was asking the kids to vote if we should start heating or not. The votes were split, some for and some against.

We might just wait until there is risk of pipes bursting. So much less work...and then the wood we have might last all winter....



make sure you dump the ash where it will not get wet. Ash is great, but needs to stay dry.

Yes, it is in the corner that has a roof over and tarps on the side.

 

[microchick]

I walked the ravine that pretty much encircles half of our house and was able to get enough sand to fillthe nesting box with about 2 inches of sand. It wasn't the driest stuff but it will eventually and hopefully they will be thrilled with it.

So this ravine is about 150 feet to our north and east. I can stand down in the ravine, look up and see the house. And there, in the sand were the prints from a really big buck. We could literally sit on our deck with our rifles and watch for him but come Saturday, that deer will disappear into the buck twilight zone, only to reappear the day after rifle season ends and antlerless season begins.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I walked the ravine that pretty much encircles half of our house and was able to get enough sand to fillthe nesting box with about 2 inches of sand. It wasn't the driest stuff but it will eventually and hopefully they will be thrilled with it.

So this ravine is about 150 feet to our north and east. I can stand down in the ravine, look up and see the house. And there, in the sand were the prints from a really big buck. We could literally sit on our deck with our rifles and watch for him but come Saturday, that deer will disappear into the buck twilight zone, only to reappear the day after rifle season ends and antlerless season begins.

How do you know it was a buck... size?

 

[microchick]

How do you know it was a buck... size?

Buck prints are larger and there is a wide gap between the pads. Sometimes the toes are spread wider apart at the points but what we watch for are the big wide spaced hoof prints. The does can be big but they are always evenly spaced and close together. Personally, I like to find the tiny prints the fawns make. If the doe has had twins they can be only an inch or so long. So cute.

 

[Alaskan]

I walked the ravine that pretty much encircles half of our house and was able to get enough sand to fillthe nesting box with about 2 inches of sand. It wasn't the driest stuff but it will eventually and hopefully they will be thrilled with it.

So this ravine is about 150 feet to our north and east. I can stand down in the ravine, look up and see the house. And there, in the sand were the prints from a really big buck. We could literally sit on our deck with our rifles and watch for him but come Saturday, that deer will disappear into the buck twilight zone, only to reappear the day after rifle season ends and antlerless season begins.

same here but with the moose. I totally think they have calendars.

one year we had a giant antlered beast that WALKED right by my front door every day. The DAY the season opened...he wasn't there.

(turns out the house a 1/2 mile from us, set out a yummy snack by their barn, the day before the season opened.... and shot him 2 minutes after the season started)

 

[ronott1]

UC Davis is running a chicken feed study to see if fly larvae can replace methionine in the feed without causing a fishy taste.

I would try to participate in the study but I am too Old! They want young taste buds for the study.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/fly-la...linenewsletter&utm_campaign=dateline_20171107

 

[drumstick diva]

fly larvae no thanks

 

[ronott1]

fly larvae no thanks

The fly larvae is ground up and added to the chicken feed. The chickens eat the feed and then the people taste the eggs that the chickens lay to see if they taste different.

 

[microchick]

I agree .

Just knowing there was something different that my birds eat would make me automatically
taste something different in their eggs.

Al, I wish it was like that here. No feeding the deer to lure them in. You can plant food plots, have fruit trees. Naturally occurring food only. Now with the Chronic Wasting Disease they don't even want you to put salt blocks out for them in the summer.

5yrs ago before the CWD outbreak we would dump a bag of corn out in the timber for the deer and turkeys when the snow was really deep and it was cold. Now we can't even do that. Kinda sad but I do understand their thinking.

 

[ronott1]

I agree .

Just knowing there was something different that my birds eat would make me automatically
taste something different in their eggs.

Al, I wish it was like that here. No feeding the deer to lure them in. You can plant food plots, have fruit trees. Naturally occurring food only. Now with the Chronic Wasting Disease they don't even want you to put salt blocks out for them in the summer.

5yrs ago before the CWD outbreak we would dump a bag of corn out in the timber for the deer and turkeys when the snow was really deep and it was cold. Now we can't even do that. Kinda sad but I do understand their thinking.

the reason for the study is that methionine is going to be phased out from organic chicken feed. Chickens need it so they are looking for a different source. To get the same levels from fish or flax causes the eggs to taste like fish.

Hopefully the fly larvae will work!