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[Chickielady]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken
this instructions say a boneless turkey breast, butterflied open, and same with chicken and duck, so wrap the duck around the chicken and wrap the duck inside the turkey, tie shut...looks so absolutely awesome !
Saudage one looks good too !!!
Goodnight all, stay safe and warm !!!

 

[SadieSue]

Its snowing here. I am HOME!!!!!

Glad you made it home safely. My daughter came home yesterday and is leaving her car here for the winter. We are also planning to attend the Picasso exhibit at SAM, along with the Harry Potter exhibit at the Seattle Center over Christmas vacation. Love to see pics of your "illegitimate chicks" when you have a chance to post. Oh, and I told my daughter that you were in Rogers Hall, (she replied "No way! That's awesome!) and told me Rogers was just down from the blue lot where she normally parks her car. You guys are close!
Have a fantastic Thanksgiving -​

 

[hallerlake]

My little greenhouse is 5' X 7'. I use a brooder heat lamp to heat it. I have a thermometer that records minimum and maximum temps inside and out. I found that the heat lamp only kept it 2 degrees above the outside temps. I threw a winter weight row cover over the top, and now it stays 8 degrees above outside. The row cover also makes it good for house plants in the summer. When it goes down into the teens, I start bringing more plants into the house. The GH doesn't stay warm enough for geraniums, etc., but I brought one into the house. I'll take cuttings from it next spring. It is nice not to have to buy potted fuchsias every year. I suppose I could try a small space heater in it if I really want to keep more tender plants in it. What kind of space heater are you using? I added a temperature sensitive timer this year. I spent yesterday moving some stuff from the greenhouse into the house. Moving other stuff from sheltered locations into the greenhouse, and moving more stuff from unsheltered positions to sheltered positions. Today, I dug up dahlias I want to save, covered other dahlias that I care less about, but wouldn't mind if they came back, with plastic buckets. I also dug up the acidenthera after remembering last night it's not hardy here. Next year, I'm putting them in a pot rather than digging them up. We haven't had a killing frost yet, so the tops of everything are still green. The laundry room/workshop is full of begonias, acidentheras, and dahlias drying before I can store them. Hubby will be unhappy if I leave them there too long.




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I have a lighting store not to far from me that sells hydroponic supplies. I thought about it, but just haven't done enough research on it yet. I need to get with it, and check it out. I have had a great year with the greenhouse. I have had the GH for a number of years now, and it spent most of the time as a quasi garden shed. Last year I finally decided that it was time to make it worth something more than a catchall. Last winter I was able to winter over most all of my geraniums and ferns out in the GH. I did have to add extra protection to the GH when the temps drop well below freezing last winter for a couple of weeks. I put blankets over the roof of the GH, and I had a space heater on a temperature sensitive timer. I was able to keep everything alive out there during the cold spell. (Including a cranky little hummingbird.) The GH is only 6'X8' I know at this point I could use more space than that. I need to build another shelf over the chicken feed and other supplies that I have out there. That should help some on need for more shelf space. I still have awful lot of plants to stuff into a rather small space. And I worry about getting the feed and stuff wet accidentally. I figure that I will need to cover the bench, and make sure that it drains away from the feed containers.

 

[nlove_3000]

I haven't posted in months.... but I'm so frustrated with my darn chickens right now I had to come post. I have 24 hens with 4 roosters (only 2 roosters are mature). I have a HUGE coop with white light on a timer, and two heat lamps. I have a nice and deep layer of bedding. I have two feeders with large amounts of quality food as well as grit and oyster shell. I have a heated water source and a run of good size. I was getting 12-15 eggs a day until about a month ago. I let them all out to free range for 3 days in a row while I did a massive overhaul of the coop (replacing old roosts, shoveling bedding, etc.). They didn't lay in the nesting boxes those three days. Since they have been locked up they have been boycotting me! I had a record 5 eggs one day, but for the last 6 weeks we average 1 darn egg every two or three days. Our night temps are below freezing but come on! I'm going through about 100-120 lbs of feed each month plus nibble treats and leftovers so with no eggs at all it's getting frustrating.

I read the post about the cayenne pepper and I'll think I'll give it a try, but this is my first winter with the chickens -- is this really normal? I thought some of these gals were meant to be cold hardy (Buff Orps, Barred Rocks, and a miriad of others).

 

[ReiMiraa]

anyone know how to turn a normal chicken pen into an electricl fence? is there a DIY kit or do i just by an electric fence converter thing and clamp it to the wires???

 

[hallerlake]

Last spring someone actually did drive into my house. My first thought was earthquake, but it didn't last long enough.


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[hallerlake]

A lot of it depends on what kind of soil you have. If you're on soft soil like silt, there's more movement. if you're on hard glacial till, there's less.


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We did not feel a thing, and I am super sensitive to seismic movements.
Gary and I have both spent alot of years in the BA and NorCal...but neither of us felt it here in Raymond and as far as the news has said, no one else out here felt it either...the jolt went North towards Olympia I guess, not west.
What did LaSombra say about it right under her house ?????

Sorry, I was so busy yesterday with work, I never got on here. I didn't feel ANYTHING! Sounds crazy, being that my house sits directly on top of the epicenter, literally. I mean, within a mile, if not less. I was awake, and up and around... didn't feel anything. My husband didn't either. He was in bed. The dog didn't notice... the chickens either. weird! Mom says that sometimes, you don't feel anything if you're exactly on top of the epicenter... is that true? Anyone know? My next-door-neighbor said she only felt a slight bump like a bird hit the window and that's what she thought it was since there was a flock of birds that flew up at the same time. She's just a little bit further away from the epicenter than what I supposedly am.

 

[hallerlake]

I'm so sorry.

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[hallerlake]

I can't imagine going through that loss ten times. I'm terribly sorry.

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PitterPatterPalace...

You bring new and old wounds to the front of my mind, an ache to my heart, and tears to my eyes... I'm sorry, I know how emotionally and phisically upsetting a miscarriage is. And I also understand the need to stay constantly busy, and positive...

It must be the extra stress of the times... As just over a month ago I lost number 10,

yes thats right, 10 miscarriages, and one beautiful, loving, happy, little love of a 2 year old monster.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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There is a thing, down south, called Turducken, it is a chicken stuffed inside a duck, stuffed inside a turkey. I had someone tell me about it...told me it was really yummy. Oh, and it is then stuffed with stuffing. You can buy them on line and at Cabella, but they are REALLY expensive.