hey DIYseattle.... did you get my reply to your email the other day??
today there is a winter storm warning till 10pm.... its snowing.... large wet snow, i call it "Slushing"
for some reason the ambien didn't work as well last night as it did the other night. all i ask for is to sleep like a log again for a good solid 8-9 hours.....
saturday i will be standing out in the cold in layers and ski clothes hoping for a miracle that WSU might beat the huskies....
hey, anything can happen. if it snows UW wouldn't know what to do! since they panic with only an inch of snow......
boise state was beat last week.... they were #3 so maybe wsu will get its 3rd win of the year..... otherwise the firing of the coach is long over due...
@ chickielady: in response to your post yesterday. my mom keep telling me i am at the wrong college..... i should of gone to william and merry in VA for poultry sciences..... the only thing is that is geared towards industrial... not something i ever plan to do.... maybe some day have ~1000 "semi-free range hens" (tractored in the orchard because pastureing is too $$, and letting 1000 run= predator buffett.)
i am looking at buying their textbooks once i have a spare $150.
Today we have a guest speaker in my Plant Pathology 313, i swear this guy is from the carribean, he has that ""jamicamon" accent, my normal professor is an indian (with a dot, not a feather) and he is sometimes hard to understand. but this guest speaker is heavily accented, good english otherwise. imagine bob marley speech style but all science, its weird. i keep thinking of sandy beaches listening to him... then like a hurricane, reality intrudes and messes up my beach.
it sounds like this is about apple breeding, facinating if i could understand it. good thing its a video class, i can watch the recording later to understand..... it looks like they are breeding Red fleshed apples, like solid red. there is a small market for this novilty apple... it reminds me of our jonathon apples but more of our Red Rome apples, those ones have red veining inside.... sadly we tore out most of the rome trees this year, warehouse stopped taking them. no one knows what a Red rome is, a perfect baking apple. but no one bakes anymore. we have a few trees left. otherwise i would of threw a fit at my dad (yeah sounds silly, but we already have 1 tree in the orchard that is the last of its kind, its the oldest tree in the orchard ~80yr+ and it is only good for applesauce and ripens in MID JULY. no one knows what it is, nursery, field man. nada. i hope someday to get one of the professors here to id it before it dies, it is very sensitive to chemicles. pear trees and golden D apples are around it and stuff sprayed on them that tree doesn't like half the time, almost killed the tree once....)
crap, if i though chicken genetics was complicated, this marker asisted introgression thing = lost. very confusing. i will stick to trial and error chicken genetics. apples are more complex and take 7 years per generation...... pear breeding takes 15 per generation, thats why there are no new pear varities. there are a few in the pipeline, but unlike apples. its hard to get customers excited about new pears when they are perfectly happy with what they got. the breeding is for farmers and warehouse storage. new varities will be resistane to a very problematic bacterial infection in our area. when people hate orchardists burning brush, or when the DOE hates it. they can never ban it. burning cuttings from infected plants is the only way to destroy Fireblight. composting or mulching doesn't kill it but spreads it. some growers are composting their prunings but i consider that risky, the compost cannot get hot enought to kill this bacteria without killing the benefical bacteria. it just cannot get hot enough. so burning is the only cure. Fireblight is a plant bacteria, doesn't affect humans. that is the best part of plant pathology class, learn of all the viruses, viroids, bacteria and fungi and they are insect vectored but only plant affected diseases. though i wouldn't eat moldy fruit.... though botrytis fungus, aka noble rot. is favored in making noble rot dessert wine. the fungus contirbutes a carmel flavor in fermentation...
sorry, add, ranting again... i just sometimes like to tell other people what i learn, and its another way to reinforce what i know to make sure i remember it. that and since i do not get to chat with my parent till night i do not get to tell them everything that happens throughout the day or what i learned, cos sometimes i forget....
one weird thing about WSU. i have not seen ANY pidgens or Crows. one or 2 Ravens.... finches.... but there are a type of magpie EVERYWHERE. those things are cute, make many different vocalizations and are SMART. otherwise there are squirrels everywhere too. it would be fun to raise a magpie..... -sigh-
are chickens able to survive with out parent support (ready to move, eat and stuff on its own) because chickens are a prey creature? like deer, horses, cows, sheep, goats... how the offspring can move on its own at once. but robbins, owls, hawks, eagles, their chicks are helpless. why did chickens evolve like that? they are omnivores, and prey on other things... but maybe the are more of a prey animal... but robbins and quail are "prey" animals and robbins are helpless while quail chicks are mobile..... weird.
there you go Illa a new question for you!
