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[broodytood]

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I have a 'pen' that you 'dot' on insect bites, called itch stop I think...anyway, it is like a fat felt pen, and it contains 100% ammonia, and it works, just a dot.

Did you see My Big Fat Greek Wedding? Her father put Windex on everything. That's essentially ammonia.

One of my closest friends (proper British girl) is married to a 100% Greek guy who immigrated here after his village was attacked by the Turks. He was 8 and was taken prisoner. They let him go after 5 or so days and his parents said, "ENOUGH" and got on the boat(plane) to America.
That movie is so hilarious and true to life! She took me to see it when it first came out and I almost died laughing! It is her life in reverse! Her youngest DD is soooo very Greek it is not even funny! I'm going to find her this Greek t-shirt I saw once. It said, "I DON'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT...I'M GREEK!" They are very full of life just like the movie shows!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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CL, knock me upside the head before you run out of Cochins, please: I'd still like two hens to keep with my second BLRW cockerel*, but I REALLY need to take a few weeks and deal with the house and garden after the Hamburg cockeral is properly housed. At least long enough for the sheep to get the lawn under control: I suspect that working in shoulder high grass isn't helping my ability to put in a full days work.






*yes, this might be considered a color project, don't you think the world needs BLRW Cochins?

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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[Stumpfarmer]

You know, if you forget to take the aspirin it doesn't help at all.

 

[L0rraine]

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Yes Honey bees normally don't fly below 50* however there are some bees that never read any of the bee books. Also I would encourage helping the mason bees. They take very little work or space. With masons you get no honey but they do more pollination than honey bees. Also has the tree been pruned. If it is way overgrown it will not produce. It could also be that the bees that had been there in the past have died off. Honey bee's will travel about a 2 mile radious for feed .

I had wondered about the mason bees. I think our local nursery sells them in early Spring. My son-in-law made a mason bee 'house' for my daughter's yard that they seemed to have had fairly good success with. I'll have to put one on a Christmas wish list for me.

As I recall they just have their's propped in their Cherry tree.

I had also wondered about the pruning. I attempted to prune all the fruit trees the first couple of years we were here, and was amazed at how it seemed to help. They obviously hadn't had any 'love and attention' in years. I may need a professional pruner for the older prune tree tho', because it's quite gnarly and old looking for a tree that probably isn't really that old (I'm guessing it was planted in the early 80's) and, it's hard for me to know just how best to attack it. I need to find a way to get it to sprawl, but so many of the larger branches are currently growing straight up in a twisty turny fashion.

Thanks for input. I know we all appreciate it here.

 

[L0rraine]

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CL, knock me upside the head before you run out of Cochins, please: I'd still like two hens to keep with my second BLRW cockerel*, but I REALLY need to take a few weeks and deal with the house and garden after the Hamburg cockeral is properly housed. At least long enough for the sheep to get the lawn under control: I suspect that working in shoulder high grass isn't helping my ability to put in a full days work.




*yes, this might be considered a color project, don't you think the world needs BLRW Cochins?

A resounding YES!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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CL, knock me upside the head before you run out of Cochins, please: I'd still like two hens to keep with my second BLRW cockerel*, but I REALLY need to take a few weeks and deal with the house and garden after the Hamburg cockeral is properly housed. At least long enough for the sheep to get the lawn under control: I suspect that working in shoulder high grass isn't helping my ability to put in a full days work.




*yes, this might be considered a color project, don't you think the world needs BLRW Cochins?

A resounding YES!!!

There's someone on the Breeds, Genetics, and Showing thread who is working on that color, and I've been reading along on all the color threads on that part of the forum. It's less a matches-and-gasoline thing than the Hamburg/BLRW cross, which makes the chicken calculator read-out the computer equivalent of "You must be joking!"

I should be doing thirty-three gazillion other things at this minute but am instead recovering from the adventure that is feeding the teenagers, who drag their feed dishes way out of my reach and then stand in them when I put them within reach so I have to push them out of the way to put the feed in, after which they step on the edges and catapault the feed all over the pen. When the young master shows up, I believe we need to find a nice board and screw the things down, eh?

Lunch. Time for lunch. That's why my head feels like a helium balloon about to slip its string.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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What to keep me from getting preggers ?????

 

[RustyHen]

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Great save all them that you can, I can't stand it when I see swarms being killed on the news.

 

[pettec63]

ok here are pics of the BLRW babies together, man they were tough!! kept flying up and not settling down!! You guys do such a great job at taking pictures!! I did my best! LOL

I only have dark blrws but they are all cutie patooties!!