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[Chicken Rustler]

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While the fiberglass would let some light in the metal will last way longer. If I were doing it and had the money I would use the metal and put one sheet of LEXAN down the middle. Lexan is way better than the fiber but also more $$$$.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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OK so would ya consider PM me the recipe??? I am always trying to figure out new deserts for DW. The one at dinner was a SF cocoanut cream pie and it was very tasty. Reba said it was a new experiment for her but she did very good. She use to have SF deserts a lot but not enough call for them out here in the middle of no where.

 

[blueducklings]

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I see how ya are !!!! drove right by and didn't even wanna meet up for coffee or ?? Anytyme anybody is going South (like Oregon) give me a shout would love to meet at the freeway for coffee or ?. Ya really should be takin a break from drivin by the tyme ya get this far south. In fact I think it's required aint it. Yeah thats it it must be one of them new laws ya never get told about until its too late !!!!!

Haha we just about stopped at every rest stop, apple store and game stop from Redmond to salem. Just took us a tad over 6 hrs to get there.
I guess a stop neaer CR's for coffee would be just enough caffine to give us another boostto the next town.

 

[Tailfeathers]

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If there is just a week or two age difference, I probably wouldn't worry about separating them. The only exception is that I wouldn't put Day Olds in with 2-week Olds right away. But after a week or so, I wouldn't worry about it. The size difference is more of an issue than the age. Also, the breed will make a difference. For instance, I would probably put two-week old Buckeye chicks in with Day Old's and not worry about it as long as there wasn't an overcrowding issue or something.

God Bless,

 

[blueducklings]

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Oh they are heavenly! imagine taking a tomato, combining it with a nectarine, and then add a pumpkiny finish. It's hard to explain the taste but it is my favorite fruit. They tend to do pretty well in western washington, at least the Fuji dwarf persimmon. The only problem is the window of time you have to eat them all. (not really a problem) when they're ripe you have about 2 weeks tops and they tend to ripen all at once. about 5 years of fruiting one tree will give you more than you can handle of course there is always persimmon jam!


Oh don't go there....I love dried purrsymums
Except I worry that they might have sulfites in them.

 

[WhySayWhat]

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OK so would ya consider PM me the recipe??? I am always trying to figure out new deserts for DW. The one at dinner was a SF cocoanut cream pie and it was very tasty. Reba said it was a new experiment for her but she did very good. She use to have SF deserts a lot but not enough call for them out here in the middle of no where.

I'll copy it later tonight or tommorow. It calls for Egg White powder, but that stuff is SPENDY! So, I sub in 4 egg whites for the 3 Tablespoons of the powder. It's all a guestimate when I try a new recipe, lol. It turned out really good, a bit too much spice though! One word of caution about using low-carb recipes though if you aren't following the diet...they can pack on the pounds very rapidly! I keep a low-carb photo file (with recipes) on my facebook page too. If you'd like, you can add me (I can PM you my name, lol).

 

[blueducklings]

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Ooh yum. Did you use bob's gluten free flour or did the recipe come withtheir own flour mix??

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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OK sounds good Thanks

 

[blueducklings]

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OOOhh I need some red worms to make my worm bins... need to make bins first I think

when I do this spring/summer can I get some worms from ya to seed mine?

All ya needs is an old cooler box with a drain plug, a big bag of coffee grounds, a fine wire mesh on the bottom to keep the worms from drowning in coffee and lots of kitchen scraps.
I'll give you the worm starts.

 

[Ogress]

This weather has not been kind to my internet connection nor anything else! The storm late Saturday blew the tarps off my chicken run. I have 1X3's running the length of the tarp, and it is bungeed all around. The bungees were stretched to the max, and when I triedto pull the tarp back over the run on Sunday morning, one of the bungees snapped free hitting me on the finger joint (middle finger). It is swollen huge and is turning some interesting colors! Good news is it no longer hurts and of late this afternoon, I can bend it again. Of course the cover blew off the run again late this afternoon - I'm waiting till tomorrow to put it back up.... and we have "applesauce" all over our yard too! The hens all crowd together in the coop whenit gets windy like this! I'm getting impatient waiting for the handy-man to complete the coop, so I did a bunch of work on it Sunday morning before wrestling with the tarp. I'm going to paint the inside with Kilz tomorrow and then install a scrap on linoleum on the floor for easy cleaning and then I'll cover it all with pine shavings. I want the girls in there before the snow they are predicting this weekend and early next week.

CGG - the chicks are very active now, they sing and chirp so much in the mornings that this A.M. DH yelled at DS to turn down his music because he could hear it with his headphones on! I think I will take out the divider panel in a couple of days and then watch how they all do together.

CL - I'd love some raspberries! I planted a bunch of varieties from Raintree a few years back (I drove out there to pick them up). Most died the first year. The Autumn Gold (yummiest) died after 2 years. The only one that survived longer was "Tulameen", but even it did not flourish. It grew slowly over 7 years till mu puppy dug it up in November. Blackberries grow crazy here, and the blackberries near where I'd had the raspberries now look like they can be a cross. My blueberries (over 30 bushes) usually do well, but a bear got them all last year.

My $149 seed order from Uprising has arrived ... never spent anywhere near that much for seed before! I also bought a seed starting matt. Now I better get busy building the beds to plant them all in! Luckily I have a bunch of scrap wood around, mostly old palattes. I don't have soil though ... compost, but not enough to fill the beds.