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[KMHunter]

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I would get some baby bird formula at the pet store, and then I would try to find an animal rescue place or vet that would take it. I got some formula at Pet Smart and it had directions on how to feed a rescued baby bird. But depending on how old they are, you may have to feed like every 20-30 min even at night.

Obviously you have never been to/around or through Tonasket. We have no pet store - maybe at the feed store. We have no animal rescue. None of the local vets are licensed for wildlife (a robin is wildlife) and won't take it. I don't know if you (Danielle) could get ahold of The vets that used to run (can't think of their names this second - Don Lay?) the clinic on East Side - Animal Hospital (before they sold to Carol Downing)....anyway....they are the only locals licensed to take in wildlife. Oh, also....The closest Pet Smart or Petco is 2 hours away....well 2.5 for Tonasket. Sorry....I just got a good laugh from this as we are so out in the sticks. I mean no harm.

Yeah, I guess that would be a problem huh?

I am kinda used to having things within about 15 min to no more than 45 min away. I feel like I live way out because of the neighborhood wich every house around me has 4-5 acres, but if I need something it is not really that far away. I have never lived in the "real" sticks!

And I have only been by the exit sign to go to Tonasket, not actually to Tonasket. Maybe one of these days......well probably not unless I was visiting "someone".

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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those the edible berry ones or are they all edible?

Both have edible berries. The evergreen huckleberry has blue/black berries. The deciduous huckleberry has red berries.

I'm suffering from the bad habit of answering questions/making comments on the oldest and newest pages, oops. Anyway, there are two kinds of deciduous huckleberries: Vaccinium deliciousum, which is referred to by those who don't pick berries on Spud Mountain as a bilberry, and V. parvifolium, the red huckleberry of stumps and nurselogs. The Evergreen Huckleberry is Vaccinium ovatum. The last two would grow in Mill Creek, given the right conditions (shade, moist high organic soil, and a stump of some sort for the V. parvifolium). Vaccinium delisiousum needs a longer unbroken winter dormancy than Puget Sound in general can provide; in Lewis, Cowlitz and Clark county it grows freely on burns on the north and east side of hills below 1000 feet (And I've picked many of them when the woods were closed for fire danger; I was also on my first commercial razor clam dig when I was a month old) and pretty freely on burns above 1500 feet everywhere in the southern Cascades. It's iffy north of Mt. Rainier on the west side, too much snow pack is as bad as too little. I think it's the species that grows east of the summit, though.

Regular old blueberries do well where the native doesn't, though, although both Evergreen and Red are beautiful landscape plants.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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There's dozens of Vaccinium in North America, even if you exclude Kinnikinick and Cranberries. One of the women we picked with on Spud Mountain/Pinto Rock/Mt. Adams berry fields insisted that there are two kinds up there, but science as yet does not agree and I suspect the difference is that the oldest plants have smaller berries.

I spent way too long as a Northwest Coast ethnobotanist, on top of my res-adjacent childhood, and can go ON about the subject, sorry.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, I've annoyed everyone sufficiently for the afternoon and now need to go do a bunch of outside stuff if I can find clothing which covers me without cooking me.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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And yes, I've killed the thread quite dead

 

[KMHunter]

Spent most of yesterday and today making modifications and changes to the run.

Almost too hot to be working outside. But after the spring and summer so far, I'll take it!

Trying to make more shade in the run by rearranging the tarp and make the area in front of the coop where I open the coop to collect eggs and where I enter the run a little less of a muddy mess when it rains.

Even got my oldest DS to help. Although he got paid.( he is trying to do any extra chores and work to earn extra gas and spending money, as he doesn't have a job yet)

I am a tired happy girl.

Have a great evening all!!

 

[KMHunter]

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And yes, I've killed the thread quite dead

Well you haven't annoyed me!!!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

A HUMONGO Thank you to Mia_ who drove up today and took 19 of my Roosters!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!! I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders!

After she left, we went on a hike at Wallace Falls. Why we picked the hottest day of the summer to do it, I don't know! But it was nice to get out and enjoy it. But after dinner and a shower, I'm putting my feet up for the evening and am very anxious to start cleaning extra pens tomorrow and moving some birds around!

Hope everyone else was able to enjoy the weather today!

 

[pettec63]

Well I'm certainly not enjoying the hot weather!!!

It's so hot here, my chickens are too hot, and I have had so much stuff to do outside, I've fried myself!!! But, I do have a few things to report, heard from my attorney today and all charges have been dismissed concerning Terry's daughter and myself!!

It just proves you can't lie and get away with it!!!!

Also, FINALLY my Muscovy eggs under my Muscovy hen have finally hatched!! Now I can have my horse trailer back!!

Stay cool my peeps!! Till next time!!!

 

[hallerlake]

Five little Spitz chicks. Another has pipped in the incubator.