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[microchick]

Thanks. I keep hoping that also, Ron. I'm sure I'm going to be loosing more of them at some point. It's just so blasted hard to stand back and watch it happen to them in inches.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks. I keep hoping that also, Ron. I'm sure I'm going to be loosing more of them at some point. It's just so blasted hard to stand back and watch it happen to them in inches.

It is torture!

 

[Bunnylady]

All depends on IF it was pollinated by a pink lady?

Yep, possibly regular apple tree with pink lady apples.

Sorry, but while it is remotely possible, it isn't likely. Pink Lady is a trademarked name for the fruit of a certain hybrid tree. Because the cultivar is a hybrid, there is no telling what the genetics of any offspring might be, even if both parents of the seedling were the same cultivar. To make things even more complicated, some cultivars are even self-sterile, meaning you need an unrelated tree to provide pollen, or you won't get fruit. When growing seeds from hybrids, you never know what you will get - it may be a lot like one of the hybrid's parents, it might better in some ways, it might be worse in others, but it's unlikely that you will a carbon copy of the hybrid parent.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

I won a Canon Power Shot camera about 5 year ago now at a continuing ed convention in KC. Was as surprised as all get out. But it is a great little camera and user friendly also.

Went out to feed the chickens and let them out. It was raining and thundering. Surprise! They weren't calling for any rain last night but here it is. So I'm working inside today.

Decided it was time to run corid thought the flock. Some of the Welsummers and one Buff O has watery stools. Whether or not it is from coccidia or Marek's who knows. One has Ocular Mareks and the other is a little on the thin side. So at least I feel as though I am doing something for them. Time will tell. I figure if two have runny bowels, others do also, I'm not seeing all that many solid looking dropping in that group.

Logically I know I should probably just cull all the birds with symptoms and bury them good and deep but the heart just can't give my brain the OK. They aren't laying all that well. Many are over 3 years old now so no big surprise but one day I get a dozen eggs from that group of hens and the last two days I got 4 or 5. I don't know which ones have secondary fungal infections from Marek's so I cannot butcher them even for the dogs to consume. It really depresses me. I really would like to down size the roosters and butcher the extra boys I have BUT once again, thanks to Marek's I can't send them to a processer around here who butchers and I can't even safely have somebody to come here to do the job. I really have no desire to butcher them myself. I can put them down if they are sick or suffering but when that job is done, it's done. You don't have to scald pluck gut repeat.

I was outside yesterday afternoon putting up a new shade tarp for them and had a chance to watch them for awhile. I told my husband I was so disappointed in the Large fowl flock. I had 18 birds in the beginning and dreams of a happy healthy flock and that dream was shattered by Marek's. My bantam and bantam crosses are all doing well, happy plump little birds that are deluging me with eggs at the moment.

Sorry for the rant.Like I said, sometimes I really get the 'blues' about the whole situation.

Better to vent out, then pent up

 

[Beer can]

Tell me something good, y'all.

I need good.

Like latestarter said, it IS Friday.
Hope everything's alright.

 

[Beer can]

Dh told me this morning about the wild lettuce that is also a natural pain killer.
I just bought some seeds to grow it. Has anyone else grown wild lettuce Lactusa virosa?

I bought it from https://strictlymedicinalseeds.com/

It has been used in place of opioid it does not have any addictive properties and it helps all kinds of pain from headaches to bone and joint pain.
Here is another page I read on it.
http://www.skilledsurvival.com/wild-lettuce/

Grows like crazy around our house and garage. Can get up to the second story windows. When we first moved here it was like a jungle of them, didn't dare touch them was afraid they were wild parsnips or giant hogweed, both will burn the crap out of your skin.
I still let some grow on one side of our house and some by the garage. They self seed like any other weed.

 

[microchick]

I swear I've seen that growing around here. Do you steep in as in a tea or dry it or what?

Yeah, it's a bit complicated about the apple seeds I know. I'm just curious as to what they will sprout into.

 

[Alaskan]

Al that is a very handsome rooster!

why thank you! I am thinking he gets to win the prize of breeder this year... his color is washed out on some tail feathers, which is a huge no... but I like everything else about them.

Tell me something good, y'all.

I need good.

Well, I thought I was down to only a trio of super expensive Bantam Wheaten Ameraucanas... but I have FOUR left, not three, AND they all look pretty darn good, AND they are laying!

 

[Beer can]

I've had taller one's growing by the house, but here's a pic of one I posted here. That's full 8' T 1-11, so I'd say over ten feet.

 

[ronott1]

Sorry, but while it is remotely possible, it isn't likely. Pink Lady is a trademarked name for the fruit of a certain hybrid tree. Because the cultivar is a hybrid, there is no telling what the genetics of any offspring might be, even if both parents of the seedling were the same cultivar. To make things even more complicated, some cultivars are even self-sterile, meaning you need an unrelated tree to provide pollen, or you won't get fruit. When growing seeds from hybrids, you never know what you will get - it may be a lot like one of the hybrid's parents, it might better in some ways, it might be worse in others, but it's unlikely that you will a carbon copy of the hybrid parent.

And it takes a very long time to get a tree producing whatever it will produce from seed.