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[RedReiner]

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I instantly thought of you when he told me about it. I figured there is probably not much to burn around you, any more, but still made me worry.

No and we still have snow in the shade up here....I tried unsuccessfully on Sunday to burn some stumps that are 5 years old...I even poured diesel on them and used paper...nope, too wet.

they are not dead yet. I have pulled monster stumps that were 20+ plus years and they were still full of pitch and fresh as any we just cut in the center. The last one I pulled with an excavator was rotten a few feet in but the roots and center were still alive. it was big enough that I had to split it in 4 sections to get it out of the ground

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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No and we still have snow in the shade up here....I tried unsuccessfully on Sunday to burn some stumps that are 5 years old...I even poured diesel on them and used paper...nope, too wet.

they are not dead yet. I have pulled monster stumps that were 20+ plus years and they were still full of pitch and fresh as any we just cut in the center. The last one I pulled with an excavator was rotten a few feet in but the roots and center were still alive. it was big enough that I had to split it in 4 sections to get it out of the ground

They were pre-burned in 2009 during the Oden Road fire when we almost lost our house...they are charred already. DH was going to try to pull them up with the backhoe but our electrical line runs between them.

I used a drill and drilled a bunch of holes into them and will be filling them with charcoal and some stump killer stuff this weekend...if it stops snowing long enough.

I need them gone because they are in my future goose pasture.

 

[Chickielady]

I am gonna go cook dinner...one minute the sun is out & 80 degrees, then a cloud floats over & it is 40...then black, hail and wind.
ARGH!!!!!!!!

 

[cmsdvm]

OK, all you goose girls, I just hatched 2 sebastopol goslings today- they are dark grey- which I have heard usually indicates females. The mother is pet quality- grey and white- does not have a curly breast. The father is a nice white show-quality gander from excellent stock. I am not extremely familiar with geese- being a serious bantam breeder and only a dabbler in ducks and geese. Is there any way I can accurately sex them, other than color, and can I tell if these will be white or grey? I am considering taking them to Stevenson to sell as I have 2 broody geese sitting on eggs too.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Greys usually are females....although I've had some lighter greys turn out to be males. You should bring them with you to Stevenson and ask Jean (pips&peeps) to sex them for you....if you had pure whites I'd buy one from you, I'm in the market for another couple of females.

 

[blueducklings]

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Did you look up the Guide to raising Geese?
I was very close to buying goose eggs at Monroe's show. Sebastopols are my favorites. I like the feathers. But white gets muddy to quickly in my backyard. That's why I got blue ducks.

They are like silver cars.

 

[Ogress]

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That is so sweet!

 

[Ogress]

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Not here

 

[Ogress]

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I've got 3 that are 1 month old (OE), and 14 that range from 2 - 2.5 months, the 4 orpingtons being the oldest, largest and last to feather. These orps are about the most mellow chickens I've seen, they let the smallest 2 barnevelders, which are the same size as the 3 OE, push them around! The OE's seem to be growing faster than the older batch of chicks. Of my 9 hens in another coop, the EE's grew the fastest and the Wyandottes the slowest.

Gosh I dont know Id say if it was the other way around I might try it. Do you have a crate or something that you could put the chicks in so they would stay safe and the older one's could look at them and get use to them being there?

I'll put them in a dog crate first and then open the door after a week or so. But now that the weather has turned so cold again with snow (not much, thankfully), I think I may wait 2 weeks more.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK so what is this I hear about a show at Puyallup??? I need details!!!!