Washingtonians

[Stumpfarmer]

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Wait, I thought Gallium aparine was sweet bedstraw, whicjh is the native equivalent of...argh, the herb you use in May Wine*, anyway: sweet bedstraw has cumarin, a blood thinner (the vanilla smelling stuff in wilted strawberry leaves and sweetgrass). I don't think that's a problem for birds, though.

Euell Gibbons has a recipe for making coffee with actual caffiene by roasting cleaver's seeds, but I myself do not want to try it!

*Sweet Woodruff

read further -- sweet woodruff is the same GENUS but not the same SPECIES

Galium odoratum = woodruff
Galium aparine = bedstraw/stickywilly/etc etc

since the article stated that a decoction of the "stuff" was medicinal, I made up a pot of it, since I do have this chronic urinary problem

stuff tastes rather like new mown hay smells, and is very slightly sweet

we will see if it has any effect on me, and I'm pleased that it apparently has some vermifuge effect on the chicks; have been giving them yogurt and garlic every few days, and putting apple cider vinegar in their water --- with luck they won't get parasite-ridden

Ah: in any case, there is a wild Gallium odoratum, which is the parent species of domestic Sweet Woodruff. G. aparine and G. odoratum are both Holarctic: native to the entire Northern Hemisphere. I wasn't reading: my primary academic area was Ethnobotany, and I was going from memory.

I need to eat. This has been a long, long day. So: I go to make myself some soup.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Repeat after me: she's in Massacheusetts, she's in Massacheusets, she's in Massacheusetts...

It's too late...I won the auction and bought the pullet....I already paid...she's shipping on Tuesday.

So, um, does DH know?

How long will it take for her to get here?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Repeat after me: she's in Massacheusetts, she's in Massacheusets, she's in Massacheusetts...

It's too late...I won the auction and bought the pullet....I already paid...she's shipping on Tuesday.

*sigh* well, all of our gain, I guess? Nifty hen, in any case. I'm swinging back to "something other than another BLRW" for additional hens for Ian. You'd think three new hens (and a need for a rooster for them) would make me less acquisditive, but no, sorry, bad me.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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All of her Hamburgs were gorgeous; they're not hatchery birds, but from a local breeder who'd gotten eggs from a SSH breeder in Kansas. She's got runners and call ducks, too, in addition to the Brahamas.

 

[Kaneke]

makes me wonder if I ought to try to keep this silver EE roo of mine, to maturity; he's probably carrying the blue egg gene and could make some interesting crossed chicks with a SSH ....

definitely he's showing some gold "bleed through" now ... I spotted a hackle feather yesterday in the sun, teal ! with gold lacing !!

his lower neck MAY wind up black-purple iridescent with gold streaks

gotta get hubby to figure out how to get his pictures off his old computer and online ... he did finally figure out how to get them from camera to computer, though only in a slideshow type presentation

 

[Ogress]

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My hens made such a racket until I let them out to free -range. Now they look like a bunch of drowned rats. Doesn't seem to bother them.

 

[Ogress]

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Repeat after me: she's in Massacheusetts, she's in Massacheusets, she's in Massacheusetts...

It's too late...I won the auction and bought the pullet....I already paid...she's shipping on Tuesday.

Wow! She's gorgeous! I can't see paying that much for one bird, but then I have no room to talk. I bought a baby llama when I was pregnant.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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It's too late...I won the auction and bought the pullet....I already paid...she's shipping on Tuesday.

Wow! She's gorgeous! I can't see paying that much for one bird, but then I have no room to talk. I bought a baby llama when I was pregnant.

LOL....we all havve our "weak spot" where we will spend our hard earned $$$ don't we. She is a beautiful bird.

 

[ReiMiraa]

9 chicks so far. I have been sick from the meds... so no more codien for me.

our fridge is suddenly running hot
its been raining all day and we are pushing 2.5 inches in 24hours.

been telling the BF he might need to get the brooder set up tonight cos its starting to get a little crowded. We already removed many egg shells (yes we are bad people and can't resist opening at lockdown) but my bator is good enough to stabilize in a few minutes.

I baked an apple bread last night... i think i will never use Fugji apples ever again. they have no natural sugar so the bread felt lacking.... less apples, more applesauce, cinnamon and brownsugar.

I need to try and clean my mouth good tonight I fear 2 spots might be infected. I have a bad (rotten) taste in my mouth.

Dinner is a chocolate milkshake and butter spaghetti noodles.

 

[Ogress]

Harriet's eggs did not hatch

. Today is day 22. I thought I had a solution - the 4 bantam cochin chicks from CGG (which I think are her grandbabies), and the 2 lemon blue LF from CL. I must not know how to do introductions. I reached under her and swapped out eggs for chicks and but her eggs under another broody. Initially it seemed to be working; she'd tuck them back under her whenever one peeked out, but then the 2 LF made a run for the waterer, and she pecked at them and would not let them back under her, so I took them out and put them back in the brooder with the electric hen. She seemed to be fine for about an hour when suddenly I heard a racket. She was standing up and the 2 chipmunk chicks were huddled on one side of her, the 2 pale chicks on the other side. She was pecking hard at the chipmunk chicks, so I pulled them out, then she turned to the light ones and tried pecking them too! I pulled all the chicks back out and put them with the 2 LF chicks, and they all settled down under the electric hen. Now they are all running around the brooder in a little pack, when one decides to eat, they all eat. When one wants to drink, they all drink, and then they all go back under the electric hen who is nice and warm and does not peck at them.