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Having decided that Blondie is probably a roo, I decided to follow someone here's advice, and have him sitting on my lap. I wouldn't want him to think he's boss.
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Wait, I thought Gallium aparine was sweet bedstraw, whicjh is the native equivalent of...argh, the herb you use in May Wine*, anyway: sweet bedstraw has cumarin, a blood thinner (the vanilla smelling stuff in wilted strawberry leaves and sweetgrass). I don't think that's a problem for birds, though.
Euell Gibbons has a recipe for making coffee with actual caffiene by roasting cleaver's seeds, but I myself do not want to try it!
*Sweet Woodruff
read further -- sweet woodruff is the same GENUS but not the same SPECIES
Galium odoratum = woodruff
Galium aparine = bedstraw/stickywilly/etc etc
since the article stated that a decoction of the "stuff" was medicinal, I made up a pot of it, since I do have this chronic urinary problem
stuff tastes rather like new mown hay smells, and is very slightly sweet
we will see if it has any effect on me, and I'm pleased that it apparently has some vermifuge effect on the chicks; have been giving them yogurt and garlic every few days, and putting apple cider vinegar in their water --- with luck they won't get parasite-ridden
Wait, I thought Gallium aparine was sweet bedstraw, whicjh is the native equivalent of...argh, the herb you use in May Wine*, anyway: sweet bedstraw has cumarin, a blood thinner (the vanilla smelling stuff in wilted strawberry leaves and sweetgrass). I don't think that's a problem for birds, though.
Euell Gibbons has a recipe for making coffee with actual caffiene by roasting cleaver's seeds, but I myself do not want to try it!
*Sweet Woodruff
read further -- sweet woodruff is the same GENUS but not the same SPECIES
Galium odoratum = woodruff
Galium aparine = bedstraw/stickywilly/etc etc
since the article stated that a decoction of the "stuff" was medicinal, I made up a pot of it, since I do have this chronic urinary problem
stuff tastes rather like new mown hay smells, and is very slightly sweet
we will see if it has any effect on me, and I'm pleased that it apparently has some vermifuge effect on the chicks; have been giving them yogurt and garlic every few days, and putting apple cider vinegar in their water --- with luck they won't get parasite-ridden
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The young ladies:
They have a four foot by twenty foot enclosure; all of the reading I've done on SSHs tells me they want cover, elevated perches, and grazing; I think we would have gotten off on the wrong foot if I'd put them in the chicken tractor. They also have there own personal haystack ant hill, which they are making short work of.
They're like fairy-tale chickens, I think.
They have a four foot by twenty foot enclosure; all of the reading I've done on SSHs tells me they want cover, elevated perches, and grazing; I think we would have gotten off on the wrong foot if I'd put them in the chicken tractor. They also have there own personal haystack ant hill, which they are making short work of.
They're like fairy-tale chickens, I think.
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gorgeous, Julia !
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Uh, oh. So what will you do with her? Who will you put her with?
Uh, oh. So what will you do with her? Who will you put her with?
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How pretty they are!
How pretty they are!
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Uh, oh. So what will you do with her? Who will you put her with?
Well, I have one GL Wyandotte bantam chick (I think it's a female, though) and several BLRW bantam eggs in the bator now...the others I had I got rid of because they just need too much work.
BUT I am now on the hunt for a good SQ Silver Laced roo--who I would use one season and then resell and try to work towards pure Dun Laced Bantam Wyandottes.
Uh, oh. So what will you do with her? Who will you put her with?
Well, I have one GL Wyandotte bantam chick (I think it's a female, though) and several BLRW bantam eggs in the bator now...the others I had I got rid of because they just need too much work.
BUT I am now on the hunt for a good SQ Silver Laced roo--who I would use one season and then resell and try to work towards pure Dun Laced Bantam Wyandottes.
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Repeat after me: she's in Massacheusetts, she's in Massacheusets, she's in Massacheusetts...
Repeat after me: she's in Massacheusetts, she's in Massacheusets, she's in Massacheusetts...
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Repeat after me: she's in Massacheusetts, she's in Massacheusets, she's in Massacheusetts...
It's too late...I won the auction and bought the pullet....I already paid...she's shipping on Tuesday.
Repeat after me: she's in Massacheusetts, she's in Massacheusets, she's in Massacheusetts...
It's too late...I won the auction and bought the pullet....I already paid...she's shipping on Tuesday.
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