CL, if we all parked our trailers & campers on your property, would that help with the inspection any??
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
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Yes, like almost all foods offered in stores, honey in most cases is heated and processed to eliminate the gov't's paranoia over "our safety" from germs and whatnot. Raw honey is just simply raw honey.
Little suggestion on Araucanas, Ameraucanas, and whatnot - Let the boys have their area, girls have their area.
I lately found out that when people put their chickens in runs (for safety) then let them out to free range in limited parts of the day. . . . They do it just before sunset so the chickens go right back to bed when it gets dark. Dumbest idea ever, in my opinion.
If someone is going to say they don't want to free range their chickens because of predator issues, but they wouldn't mind a short moment now and then, but just at DUSK? Do people realize they're letting their chickens out to forage in the most dangerous time of day? . . . . There's no difference between that and completely letting them free range 24/7 except the only chance the hens get is during the most dangerous point of day.
Had to rant. I didn't know people did this until the one time I drove through Port Angeles at dusk, and for the first time ever, I saw chickens outside. And I thought, wow, really? This time? And only this time of day? Wow.
btw - We've got thunder tonight!! Anyone else getting thunder?
Yes, like almost all foods offered in stores, honey in most cases is heated and processed to eliminate the gov't's paranoia over "our safety" from germs and whatnot. Raw honey is just simply raw honey.
Little suggestion on Araucanas, Ameraucanas, and whatnot - Let the boys have their area, girls have their area.
I lately found out that when people put their chickens in runs (for safety) then let them out to free range in limited parts of the day. . . . They do it just before sunset so the chickens go right back to bed when it gets dark. Dumbest idea ever, in my opinion.
Had to rant. I didn't know people did this until the one time I drove through Port Angeles at dusk, and for the first time ever, I saw chickens outside. And I thought, wow, really? This time? And only this time of day? Wow.
btw - We've got thunder tonight!! Anyone else getting thunder?
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We smear it on cuts and scrapes, suck on spoons of it when we feel a sore throat comiing on, use it to sweeten tea ... I had shingles once and MRSA on my leg a few years back ... spread quickly in just 2 days from something that looked like a zit to a blistering, burning, itchy rash in just 2 days ...3 doctors, 6+ antibiotic perscriptions later (that is when I developed my antibiotic allergy while my DD and my mom were born with their allergies). They told me my skin was going to blacken and slough off. They told me the honey was voodoo medicine. I figured at that point, it could do no more harm, so I slathered it all over my leg, wrapped it in pads, gauze and cloth diapers to try and keep it off the bed sheets, in 2 days the rash was gone! Within a week, my skin looked fresh and new, no skin turned black and sloughed off. Best of all, at least at the time, it completely soothed the pain, burning and itching. We always kee it on hand.
Where does one get this nummy voodoo medicine??
I just lapped up the local honey I bought from the farm store lastyear & am just looking for another jar of it.
Ihave a jar of deer velvet honey from New Zeland I was going to put in my tea tomorrow, but voodoo honey sounds more fun than deer stuff.
The other place I was goint to try for honey was De Youngs at Woodinville.
Nobody on site has honey to sell me by chance???
I used to buy it from a place online, but since it has surged in popularity, it has also surged in price. PCC has a small jar for $37, but I recently saw that our local nutrition store had it for only $18. Since you don't need much (and in my house the kids know to only use it when needed now, no longer for peanut butter honey sandwiches) it lasts a long time. They recommend changing the bandages daily, be we change only 2X per week, and it works great! I'll check to see if it is in stock, and if it is, I will bring some to the SECRET MEETING.
We use raw, local, unfiltered honey as well. I get it either form Misty Mountain Farms (Carnantion) or form DS's Art teacher (particularly yummy honey). Since I have been eating a tsp per day, I hardly ever need allergy meds anymore, and seldom get serious sinus infections anymore.
We smear it on cuts and scrapes, suck on spoons of it when we feel a sore throat comiing on, use it to sweeten tea ... I had shingles once and MRSA on my leg a few years back ... spread quickly in just 2 days from something that looked like a zit to a blistering, burning, itchy rash in just 2 days ...3 doctors, 6+ antibiotic perscriptions later (that is when I developed my antibiotic allergy while my DD and my mom were born with their allergies). They told me my skin was going to blacken and slough off. They told me the honey was voodoo medicine. I figured at that point, it could do no more harm, so I slathered it all over my leg, wrapped it in pads, gauze and cloth diapers to try and keep it off the bed sheets, in 2 days the rash was gone! Within a week, my skin looked fresh and new, no skin turned black and sloughed off. Best of all, at least at the time, it completely soothed the pain, burning and itching. We always kee it on hand.
Where does one get this nummy voodoo medicine??
I just lapped up the local honey I bought from the farm store lastyear & am just looking for another jar of it.
Ihave a jar of deer velvet honey from New Zeland I was going to put in my tea tomorrow, but voodoo honey sounds more fun than deer stuff.
The other place I was goint to try for honey was De Youngs at Woodinville.
Nobody on site has honey to sell me by chance???
I used to buy it from a place online, but since it has surged in popularity, it has also surged in price. PCC has a small jar for $37, but I recently saw that our local nutrition store had it for only $18. Since you don't need much (and in my house the kids know to only use it when needed now, no longer for peanut butter honey sandwiches) it lasts a long time. They recommend changing the bandages daily, be we change only 2X per week, and it works great! I'll check to see if it is in stock, and if it is, I will bring some to the SECRET MEETING.
We use raw, local, unfiltered honey as well. I get it either form Misty Mountain Farms (Carnantion) or form DS's Art teacher (particularly yummy honey). Since I have been eating a tsp per day, I hardly ever need allergy meds anymore, and seldom get serious sinus infections anymore.
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I can't help with the Manuka but (hopefully) this fall I may have some local (from my area) honey to sell. I only got 20# (1 1/2 gal) this year. But by fall hope to have around 10 gallon. If we get a better summer than last. I am sure you must have some beekeepers up there who could help. Keep in mind that so much of the grocery store honey is cut with corn syrup and other things and much of it comes from countries that allow the use of nasty chemicals.
I can't help with the Manuka but (hopefully) this fall I may have some local (from my area) honey to sell. I only got 20# (1 1/2 gal) this year. But by fall hope to have around 10 gallon. If we get a better summer than last. I am sure you must have some beekeepers up there who could help. Keep in mind that so much of the grocery store honey is cut with corn syrup and other things and much of it comes from countries that allow the use of nasty chemicals.
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Yes honey has many many untold uses. Some take a certain type of honey. And if you have hayfever type allergies (comsuming) local honey has been shown to help. Just make sure you get PURE LOCAL honey.
So True! Has worked miracles for me. I used to spend a fortune on meds, and always felt miserable. Zyrtec knocks me on my butt!
Yes honey has many many untold uses. Some take a certain type of honey. And if you have hayfever type allergies (comsuming) local honey has been shown to help. Just make sure you get PURE LOCAL honey.
So True! Has worked miracles for me. I used to spend a fortune on meds, and always felt miserable. Zyrtec knocks me on my butt!
by the way, did run across an interesting honey farm just west of Littlerock
Robertson's Honey ... on Mima Rd SE
"out by the gun range" .. LOL
Robertson's Honey ... on Mima Rd SE
"out by the gun range" .. LOL
Of course the best solution for local honey is to keep your own bees. Then you get the honey plus you help the envrioment and get your plants pollinated.
We never used to use much honey. like one or two little bottles a year. Now I find myself tryng to stretch the 20# I got so it will last till harvest.
We never used to use much honey. like one or two little bottles a year. Now I find myself tryng to stretch the 20# I got so it will last till harvest.
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I have been going to check that place out. I saw they had lots of hives seting there and then next time I went by they were all gone.
I have been going to check that place out. I saw they had lots of hives seting there and then next time I went by they were all gone.
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Yes, like almost all foods offered in stores, honey in most cases is heated and processed to eliminate the gov't's paranoia over "our safety" from germs and whatnot. Raw honey is just simply raw honey.
Little suggestion on Araucanas, Ameraucanas, and whatnot - Let the boys have their area, girls have their area.
I lately found out that when people put their chickens in runs (for safety) then let them out to free range in limited parts of the day. . . . They do it just before sunset so the chickens go right back to bed when it gets dark. Dumbest idea ever, in my opinion.
If someone is going to say they don't want to free range their chickens because of predator issues, but they wouldn't mind a short moment now and then, but just at DUSK? Do people realize they're letting their chickens out to forage in the most dangerous time of day? . . . . There's no difference between that and completely letting them free range 24/7 except the only chance the hens get is during the most dangerous point of day.
Had to rant. I didn't know people did this until the one time I drove through Port Angeles at dusk, and for the first time ever, I saw chickens outside. And I thought, wow, really? This time? And only this time of day? Wow.
btw - We've got thunder tonight!! Anyone else getting thunder?
They'd be out foraging all day on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and after 1pm on Friday, and after 3 the remaining days. I have a fenced 2 acres that will have 2 more fenced areas within (25'X30'); and 2 tractors that I can pull out of the fenced areas to the front pasture (that at times seems to be an Elk super highway)
Not sure if I'd hear it with the way the rain has been hammering the roof! No flashes, though earlier we had heavy squalls not as bad as Thursday when the squalls were 9 stop with really wicked winds.
My girls are always in at dusk - it surprises me how early they sometimes choose to head back to the coop. On warm nights, one of my EE's will sleep on a perch in the covered run rather than in the coop. This makes me a little nervous. The only thing that could get in is a bear, and I don't want her attracting any. Since we have had snow covering the yard the past few weeks, it is amazing to see how much they eat! My last bag of food lasted 4.5 months with 9 hens. They are already nearly half through the new bag, and I opened it in February, and I supplement with lots of veggie scraps and other leftovers that I throw in their covered runs each day.
Yes, like almost all foods offered in stores, honey in most cases is heated and processed to eliminate the gov't's paranoia over "our safety" from germs and whatnot. Raw honey is just simply raw honey.
Little suggestion on Araucanas, Ameraucanas, and whatnot - Let the boys have their area, girls have their area.
I lately found out that when people put their chickens in runs (for safety) then let them out to free range in limited parts of the day. . . . They do it just before sunset so the chickens go right back to bed when it gets dark. Dumbest idea ever, in my opinion.
Had to rant. I didn't know people did this until the one time I drove through Port Angeles at dusk, and for the first time ever, I saw chickens outside. And I thought, wow, really? This time? And only this time of day? Wow.
btw - We've got thunder tonight!! Anyone else getting thunder?
They'd be out foraging all day on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and after 1pm on Friday, and after 3 the remaining days. I have a fenced 2 acres that will have 2 more fenced areas within (25'X30'); and 2 tractors that I can pull out of the fenced areas to the front pasture (that at times seems to be an Elk super highway)
Not sure if I'd hear it with the way the rain has been hammering the roof! No flashes, though earlier we had heavy squalls not as bad as Thursday when the squalls were 9 stop with really wicked winds.
My girls are always in at dusk - it surprises me how early they sometimes choose to head back to the coop. On warm nights, one of my EE's will sleep on a perch in the covered run rather than in the coop. This makes me a little nervous. The only thing that could get in is a bear, and I don't want her attracting any. Since we have had snow covering the yard the past few weeks, it is amazing to see how much they eat! My last bag of food lasted 4.5 months with 9 hens. They are already nearly half through the new bag, and I opened it in February, and I supplement with lots of veggie scraps and other leftovers that I throw in their covered runs each day.
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