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[justbugged]

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These ads are just evil. I would so love to have my llamas back. There isn't anything better than a Llama kiss.

 

[Chickielady]

this is what we are ready to do now, and gotta go rent a giant gas powered compressor, wish us luck and we will take photos~~
http://www.howtodrillawell.com/
I gotta see all this free stuff.....

Later today I intend to study more on eating some DE...it is so gritty though

We'll see....
And the sun is going to be out the next few days, I bought two huge tarps. and will tarp the building site....
Oh, and I took some pics of MOT and his crew, Roscoe P. and Elliot.

 

[Chickielady]

OK, a new photo of 6 mo old Roscoe P.:

and 6 mo old Elliot:

Now Mr. MOT:

and his crew of ladies:

those are the Rhode Island White babies...one pullet has a foot with 2 crooked toes, should be culled as it will no doubt bother her and creat problems her whole life as she rotovates (

)...but since I only have 3 pullets, I will waite....so far she has not had any issues with it bothering her or getting sore.
OK, off to work~

 

[Chickielady]

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Interesting indeed, but I don't like how those posts have been supporting Murray McMurray or Ideal Hatchery, claiming that they keep the lines going. They don't. Ideal has been crossing Blue Wheaten and Wheaten Ameraucanas with the original stock as well as Production layers for quite some time, AND, Murray McMurray also has been using the same ol stock for a LONG time as well as adding Production layers to the genepool. Hatcheries should never be praised for breeding something and keeping it right.

Same thing with many breeds. Surveys done through the ALBC and elsewhere have highly inflated numbers for many breeds of poultry that really ARE rare because all of the hatchery line birds are counted, despite the fact that a hatchery bird and an exhibition bird of that same breed/variety placed side by side look like different breeds.

Take the wyandotte for instance. Compare a white wyandotte from a hatchery to a wyandotte bred to standard. Compare them in shape, type, size, comb quality, leg color, beak color... at the LEAST the hatchery bird will be at least half the size of the true wyandotte. Standard bred poultry are, in general, in need of preservation.

Part of the reason I keep Dewlap Toulouse despite the fact that they are hard to hatch and eat quite a lot (well, they do grow quickly, so there is payoff) is because they truly are in need of preservation. Most of the toulouse are the production type, which is quite different from the dewlap toulouse.

Exactly why I am raising heritage breeds, and some will be hatching Black Java as well.
I have raised hatchery birds for eggs only, but will not ever again.
I also vaccinate my birds.
I read an article somewhere not too long ago where a hatchery official meantioned that they, the big hatcheries and egg farms were not resposible for the avian disease outbreaks, it was we, the small home avain breeders who do not vaccinate and attend bird shows, that are spreading disease everywhere.
Made me mad...wish I could remember where I read it.

 

[Chickielady]

Teresa:
I read your camping post again and I swear I can smell the campfire and taste the food !
You cook like me !
Sounds soooo good !!!
My favorite breakfast is a "scrap" pot:
Consists of the dutch oven on a medium/low fire, add bacon, sausage links, stir/flip a few times...add pre-steamed new potatoes, get them browned the meat should be ready, push to one side and pour in a doz eggs scrambled, and cook them off...all in one big beautiful black pot I guard with my life....YUM.
This is my "scrap pot" breakfast.
I cook the taters before we go camping...and whip the eggs too.
Better to take pre-done everything.
Easier clean up.
Now I am hungry!!!

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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I have been looking at his system on eBay. Please let me know how it works.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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This is almost exactly what we did for breakfast one morning. in my big cast iron dutch oven... Sausage chopped up and cooked, some onion (already chopped) and bell peppers, already cooked 'taters. After this was all cooked real good, warmed and browned....then....you make little "holes in the tater mixture" and add an egg. Cover with lid, add coals to top. I love cooking over a campfire. Sorry....my cheerios are not doing it for me this morning. I do as much pre-done also...much easier.

Oh, I forgot....before adding the eggs....we had left over saugasge gravy ...added it to the pot, stirred, then added eggs.

 

[Rainwolf]

http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/boa/1998775611.html
free boat

 

[hallerlake]

I've decided this thing in my backyard is a well head. When my house was built in 1916, the city didn't have water lines this far. I'm trying to decide what to do about it. I wouldn't mind using well water to water the garden. How do I find out if there's water down there, and how do I tap it? Who would I talk to?



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[lacasitarojafarm]

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Looks good to me. How much? Lentils and peas in there too... I wish I had access to that kind of feed without paying $25 for a 20# bag. The feed I buy is mostly corn and soy with some additives to make it a complete feed. It's $160 1/2 ton. I buy scrtach eed then and add peas and oats to it and I am thinking of adding some vetch that we didn't plant as a cover cop for them to scratch.