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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Wish I would have known this on Saturday...I could have taken her. Oh, well...you will find her a nice home. Talk to Jbear. Maybe she would like her.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Absolutely. One of the reasons we're still farming is that we have hay that gets fed to cattle and pigs (that's ground with grain). I'm trying to come up with some small grain or pulse I can grow on the well-acre for chicken feed/supplement next winter. Although I suspect, from the way they buzz through mint, lavender and lemon balm seeds, that I maybe should just cut the invasive oregano and feed that.

That's a wonderful idea! Kind of pre-seasoning them!

My daughter and I are having conversations about what feeding lemon balm would do to eggs for pastry. It's possible that I'm looking for excuses to just let the stuff take over even more than it has!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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One thing I know about pasture is that it lasts longer and feeds better if you have sufficient fences to rotate your animals off it at regular, short, intervals. I can carry 25 cow-calf pairs here with six pastures vs 15 with one. The problem of course is fences; the problem is *always* fences. Well, and watering troughs: what really killed our ability to do managed grazing was my cousin's wife insisting that her horses needed a separate acre, which cut us off from *three* watering trough positions.

Remember also that unless you have your own well or some sort of protected water-right with your property you'll be limited on irrigating your pasture, and plan accordingly. I will spare you a handful of anecdotes about showering at my aunt's house on an apple orchard in Teiton.

We have a 6 family shared well. I checked on the water rights thing and I am allowed to use 5000 gal a day per area like 5000 for personal, another for livestock and another for crops. At least thats what I gathered from the info.

Read it carefully. The well agreements I am familar with....do not mean this. But I could be totally wrong - and since I have not read your agreement...I don't want to steer you wrong. Just make sure and read it really good and read it 2 or 3x. Just to verify.

 

[RedReiner]

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Wish I would have known this on Saturday...I could have taken her. Oh, well...you will find her a nice home. Talk to Jbear. Maybe she would like her.

I got her momma from Jbear

and I didnt really know until today that mom was pretty much done with her, she keeps getting left behind and gets cold. its not a big deal, I just bring her in the house and she sits in my lap. someone will want her, she is a pretty little thing and would make a good showsmanship bird I think, or just a pet.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I am seeing more reasons that it is good for me to live so far from RR. Keeps Alice safer and keeps me from having a pocket chicken. But hey I might not need too many morereasons to go midnight shopping at RR's coop.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK simple question simple answer please ! ! Is lemon balm the same as lemon grass ??

 

[TrystInn]

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No!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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No!

THANK YOU. See reason I ask is that Lemon grass is one of the things in my bee feed.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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No, Lemon Balm is related to mint, Lemon Grass is related to Irises (I think- I'll look it up later). Lemon Balm is great bee food, by the way- its latin name is Melissa officianalis, and Melissa means "of a bee." It's a self-seeding root-running beast, and my chickens love it, both leaf and seed.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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No!

THANK YOU. See reason I ask is that Lemon grass is one of the things in my bee feed.

Really? Because Lemon Grass is a tender tropical plant.