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Im on the west side so unless you want to drive this way I cant help you with chicks..
But if you want eggs
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Im on the west side so unless you want to drive this way I cant help you with chicks..
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What precious little babies! Congrats!
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Nice job, must be a nice guy.
Nice job, must be a nice guy.
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Ive never had a problem with any of our Marans Roosters they are just great guys..
Now Im wondering about the Light Sussexs guys have a 9 chicks and two of them are not bery nice. The rest of the chicks are nice. Im thinking of not having this line, and just going with the Cornation Sussex. Husband told me last night STOP with the chickens, so now I have to make a choice. I do know FBCM and English Orp and Buff silkies stay! But Really want the Cornations to stay and the Wheaten Marans and the Blue Copper Marans too
Maybe if I just keep 3 hens and one roo he will let me keep more kinds...
Oh no, I don't know if I could make those choices. Don't you still have Ameraucanas too? Yes, I would definitely try for the 3 hens/roo combo and see if that is a workable compromise.
Ive never had a problem with any of our Marans Roosters they are just great guys..
Now Im wondering about the Light Sussexs guys have a 9 chicks and two of them are not bery nice. The rest of the chicks are nice. Im thinking of not having this line, and just going with the Cornation Sussex. Husband told me last night STOP with the chickens, so now I have to make a choice. I do know FBCM and English Orp and Buff silkies stay! But Really want the Cornations to stay and the Wheaten Marans and the Blue Copper Marans too
Oh no, I don't know if I could make those choices. Don't you still have Ameraucanas too? Yes, I would definitely try for the 3 hens/roo combo and see if that is a workable compromise.
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What ya men I cant strip the ears just to see yup that is corn !!! I suppose ya would have issue with sticking my finger in the bottom of all the chocolates in a box just to find the fillings I like too !!!
What ya men I cant strip the ears just to see yup that is corn !!! I suppose ya would have issue with sticking my finger in the bottom of all the chocolates in a box just to find the fillings I like too !!!
Howdy baack atcha!
Rusted One and KJPanda
Sounds like quite the setup there, Rusted One!
NOAA says rain all weekend up here in Oroville, KJPanda...
but our weather is often considerably different than ya'll's.
If you want to check it out, I found this site the most accurate for actual weather forecasting. Just plug in your zipcode and make it a favorite!
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...ate=WA&textField1=48.9392&textField2=-119.434
Sounds like quite the setup there, Rusted One!
NOAA says rain all weekend up here in Oroville, KJPanda...
If you want to check it out, I found this site the most accurate for actual weather forecasting. Just plug in your zipcode and make it a favorite!
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...ate=WA&textField1=48.9392&textField2=-119.434
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What ya men I cant strip the ears just to see yup that is corn !!! I suppose ya would have issue with sticking my finger in the bottom of all the chocolates in a box just to find the fillings I like too !!!
What zgoatlady said!
What ya men I cant strip the ears just to see yup that is corn !!! I suppose ya would have issue with sticking my finger in the bottom of all the chocolates in a box just to find the fillings I like too !!!
What zgoatlady said!
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I've got six (I think, haven't counted lately) 90 year old ones. The darned^ squirrels and starlings have built nests in the limbs and they're breaking up; nobody has had time to prune them since the seventies. Most of the apples go to the cattle, which is all to the good, but with the weather this unspring I doubt we'll have many this year.
90? That's amazing! Do you think if they were prune/fertilized/sprayed whatever that they would remain productive indefinitely or do they eventually die of old age?
There are some old, old orchards in this part of the country, but they almost all have endemic apple scab, and the nesting habits of Eastern Grey Squirrels (may they all go to the great nut house in the sky) and especially starlings have taken a toll on them. There's a couple of the apples my great-great grandfather H.F. Smith planted before 1900 at the Regional Recreation Center at Marvin and Steilacoom. Kings and Gravensteins actually do OK unpruned for a long, long time as long as they're in well-drained soil and out of direct wind: my orchard survived the Columbus Day and Inauguration Day storms because it's in the lee of a 150 foot prominence about half a football field's length away: we actually lost the cherries, two red Gravensteins, two Pink Ladies (?) and a couple of Yellow Transparents in the Columbus Day storm because they were just barely out of that protection.
Pears are the longest lived fruit trees, and cherries and apricots the least, of course, brittle wood and vulnerable to any number of diseases. Well,, now that I think of it, quinces are really the Methuselahs of the tree-fruit species; I have a Dutch red ball pear and a quince tree of the same age (21 or so), and the pear is starting to show the mature weeping habit of its kind while the quince is still kicking out weird vertical branches and otherwise refusing to settle into its shape.
Of course farm or garden fruit trees are a different matter than commercial orchard trees, which are almost always replaced when relatively young: new varieties are not bred to be long-lasting part of a settled landscape, any more than hybrid cottonwoods are, and I have no knowledge of how they'll behave.
The Old Orchard, planted from about 1905- 1965 (when the Transparent had to be replaced; it's a universal pollinizer) looks like the classic orchard selection at Raintree: Grimes Golden, Gravenstein, Thompkins King, Northern Spy, Spokane Beauty, Esopus Spitzenberg, And unknown Yellow which might be a Yellow Delicious but which drops without ripening and never gets tasted, plus four Bartlett pears, a Seckel pear, and a nearly defunct Greengage plum. I've also got a whole lot of unfruitful suckering bastidges of plum trees which I love the two weeks they're in bloom and hate the rest of the year. Besides the quince and pear in my yard I have a peach which jumped its dwarf rootstock and is NOT the peach leaf curl resistant Frost, but is also nowhere it can be taken down without damaging the house and half my shrubbery!
And, Hi, I'm Julia, I do tend to yammer on when I'm not all the way awake, sorry.
I've got six (I think, haven't counted lately) 90 year old ones. The darned^ squirrels and starlings have built nests in the limbs and they're breaking up; nobody has had time to prune them since the seventies. Most of the apples go to the cattle, which is all to the good, but with the weather this unspring I doubt we'll have many this year.
90? That's amazing! Do you think if they were prune/fertilized/sprayed whatever that they would remain productive indefinitely or do they eventually die of old age?
There are some old, old orchards in this part of the country, but they almost all have endemic apple scab, and the nesting habits of Eastern Grey Squirrels (may they all go to the great nut house in the sky) and especially starlings have taken a toll on them. There's a couple of the apples my great-great grandfather H.F. Smith planted before 1900 at the Regional Recreation Center at Marvin and Steilacoom. Kings and Gravensteins actually do OK unpruned for a long, long time as long as they're in well-drained soil and out of direct wind: my orchard survived the Columbus Day and Inauguration Day storms because it's in the lee of a 150 foot prominence about half a football field's length away: we actually lost the cherries, two red Gravensteins, two Pink Ladies (?) and a couple of Yellow Transparents in the Columbus Day storm because they were just barely out of that protection.
Pears are the longest lived fruit trees, and cherries and apricots the least, of course, brittle wood and vulnerable to any number of diseases. Well,, now that I think of it, quinces are really the Methuselahs of the tree-fruit species; I have a Dutch red ball pear and a quince tree of the same age (21 or so), and the pear is starting to show the mature weeping habit of its kind while the quince is still kicking out weird vertical branches and otherwise refusing to settle into its shape.
Of course farm or garden fruit trees are a different matter than commercial orchard trees, which are almost always replaced when relatively young: new varieties are not bred to be long-lasting part of a settled landscape, any more than hybrid cottonwoods are, and I have no knowledge of how they'll behave.
The Old Orchard, planted from about 1905- 1965 (when the Transparent had to be replaced; it's a universal pollinizer) looks like the classic orchard selection at Raintree: Grimes Golden, Gravenstein, Thompkins King, Northern Spy, Spokane Beauty, Esopus Spitzenberg, And unknown Yellow which might be a Yellow Delicious but which drops without ripening and never gets tasted, plus four Bartlett pears, a Seckel pear, and a nearly defunct Greengage plum. I've also got a whole lot of unfruitful suckering bastidges of plum trees which I love the two weeks they're in bloom and hate the rest of the year. Besides the quince and pear in my yard I have a peach which jumped its dwarf rootstock and is NOT the peach leaf curl resistant Frost, but is also nowhere it can be taken down without damaging the house and half my shrubbery!
And, Hi, I'm Julia, I do tend to yammer on when I'm not all the way awake, sorry.
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