The Old Folks Home

[cheepteach]

Thank you, Sally. We'll muddle through. It may look like the Walton's around here for awhile, but that's ok too.

family is family---hopefully knowing you and hubby are offering a lifeline will give him reason to get back on track! just say g'nite Jim Bob!

 

[microchick]

Good morning all. I did some more day work yesterday. Fortunately those pastures were closer than Mondays.

Come to the house and I'll hook you up. Pushing it around by the tractor bucket load near the spot I was feeding the round bales. 4 horses on 4 acres doesn't cut it.

Let's see....OK isn't that far from MO. I could borrow the neighbor's trailer, no wait, they have cows. I don't think DH is going to go along with driving to Oklahoma for fertilizer when there are piles of it next door, plus the chicken poop.

My parents always grew the best gardens when I had my horses and local green houses were vying for my compost offerings from my stalls and corral. IMHO there is no better fertilizer than horse or cow composted manure. Our soil here is poor. Ridge soil is notoriously poor quality. Except where we planted our orchard and there was a corral there when we moved in. Those trees LOVE that rich soil.

I've got a hen going broody. Don't think it would take much to push her over the edge. I've taken eggs away from her for four days now and when I move her from the nest her belly is boiling hot.

Now do I dare stick some Fayoumis eggs under her or don't I? Angel on the right shoulder arguing with the devil on the left.

 

[CSolis]

Do it, Do it Do IT!!!

 

[microchick]

Do it, Do it Do IT!!!

Okay!See, that didn't take much convincing did it? Big problem I have is trying to distinguish Fayoumi eggs from other white layer eggs that I have. It's like Russian Roulette without the bullets....just chicks.

 

[CLSranch]

Now do I dare stick some Fayoumis eggs under her or don't I? Angel on the right shoulder arguing with the devil on the left.

Do it, Do it Do IT!!!

It's like Russian Roulette without the bullets....just chicks.

Yep do it. I'm hoping one of mine does soon, or after the current chicks leave the brooder I'm incubating a batch.

 

[CLSranch]

Let's see....OK isn't that far from MO. I could borrow the neighbor's trailer, no wait, they have cows. I don't think DH is going to go along with driving to Oklahoma for fertilizer when there are piles of it next door, plus the chicken poop.

My parents always grew the best gardens when I had my horses and local green houses were vying for my compost offerings from my stalls and corral. IMHO there is no better fertilizer than horse or cow composted manure. Our soil here is poor. Ridge soil is notoriously poor quality. Except where we planted our orchard and there was a corral there when we moved in. Those trees LOVE that rich soil.

I've got a hen going broody. Don't think it would take much to push her over the edge. I've taken eggs away from her for four days now and when I move her from the nest her belly is boiling hot.

Now do I dare stick some Fayoumis eggs under her or don't I? Angel on the right shoulder arguing with the devil on the left.

I once traded a truck load of horse manure for a tomato patch to a friends dad (when I was a kid) for some game chickens that I ended up giving to my brother (they ended up being his best). My mom was upset that I didn't say anything and the pasture was overrun with manure of all sorts and overgrazed. She doesn't like a lot of things if she ain't making a dollar.

 

[microchick]

That's sad.

I would clean out the stalls, rake up the corral and the neighbor up the road from my parent's house who had a green house would come down and get the manure.

In exchange they would sell my parents plants for their garden at a big discount.

Around here the Amish all overgraze their pastures. It's sad. When we told one of them that all the parasites in grass were located in the first two to three inches of growth, they looked at us like 'HUH?' Our property had no underbrush on it at all when DH and I bought it. Grass was down to the ground. The first thing we did was halt all grazing on it. When the young Amish carpenter that we bought it from came over one day and saw knee high grass in the pastures he asked where all the grass came from. We told him that it was always there. We just stopped abusing it.

 

[tuckercarlson35]

hey I am an OLD folk I am 47 YEARS old I want to join

 

[CLSranch]

hey I am an OLD folk I am 47 YEARS old I want to join

Well come on in. Not all are old here just old souls. (Me included)

 

[tuckercarlson35]

god bless!