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[chickadoodles]

You can eat it in a salad or cook the greens, make tea from it. Lots of ways to use it. I think will try salad first.
I might try it in tea before bed to stop taking sleeping pills also.
It grows wild lots of places.

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.

 

[chickadoodles]

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.
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Wow that's huge! What I read said 4-6'!
Have you tried using it?

 

[Alaskan]

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.
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I have never seen that! Impressive

 

[microchick]

I'm going to have to keep an eye out for that this summer.

@CapricornFarm I showed DH your picture of your guinea keets. He thought they were beautiful little birds and actually said I should get some!

I truly don't think he realizes what Genie he just let out of the bottle.

Hoop coop build time? I know neighbors (Amish) who have guineas. Maybe get some hatching eggs.....Brinsea. Must clean Brinsea......

 

[chickadoodles]

I hope the lettuce grows well for you and helps with pain management

Dh wants some for his neck and back. I hope it works.
Web Md said soldiers used to use it when they ran out of morphine during the Civil war.

 

[Beer can]

Wow that's huge! What I read said 4-6'!
Have you tried using it?

No! They cut your hair where I work for drug tests and not sure what it would come up as Lol.
It secretes a milky substance when you break off a leaf or the stalk kinda like milkweed. What I read is you dry that out and smoke it?
Also read that they experimented with using it to make latex.
I actually haven't taken anything for pain in many yrs, except for occasionally ibuprofen if a hangover just refuses to go away and develops into a mind pounding headache which is rare lol.

 

[CapricornFarm]

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.

I am right there with you. Thought i would be hatching baby SS by now, but with no rooster not happening. I could hatch purebred Polish, but i wouldn't feel right selling them , just in case.
And i just found out i have skin cancer on my face and i need Mohs surgery to be sure they got all of it. Bah!

 

[Beer can]

What I read said 4-6'!

Most of them that grew in the yard where 4-6. Must be if they have additional support like against our house or garage they get super tall. The stalks are hollow but strong, root system isn't very strong though, they pull up even big easy.
I put a tape measure on the garage, that one was about 10'. Checked where they grew by the house 13' and bushier.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'm going to have to keep an eye out for that this summer.

@CapricornFarm I showed DH your picture of your guinea keets. He thought they were beautiful little birds and actually said I should get some!

I truly don't think he realizes what Genie he just let out of the bottle.

Hoop coop build time? I know neighbors (Amish) who have guineas. Maybe get some hatching eggs.....Brinsea. Must clean Brinsea......

Check out my hoop coop build, especially built for guineas.

 

[ronott1]

I am right there with you. Thought i would be hatching baby SS by now, but with no rooster not happening. I could hatch purebred Polish, but i wouldn't feel right selling them , just in case.
And i just found out i have skin cancer on my face and i need Mohs surgery to be sure they got all of it. Bah!

When is the surgery?

Hoping for the best!