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[Chicken Rustler]

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They are awesome horses. Not too tall, usually under 15 hands and stocky. Very athletic, quick and excel in performance. I owned a Poco bueno bred mare. Sweetest temperament, smart and cute as can be. The only downside of Poco Bueno horses is Herda, a hereditary disease. If looking to purchase one make sure you check the pedigree. I wouldn't buy one that is double bred Poco Bueno. Herda is recessive and takes two carriers. Horses can now be tested for the gene. It's ok to have a horse that is a carrier, just don't breed it to another known carrier or if possible not at all.

From my limited exposure to them they tend to be buckers. I was just fishing to see if anybody else threw that out there !!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

What the heck have I been disconnected from BYC ??? Now over the weekend I could understand since it was decent weather and a holiday weekend that people may be busy or gone. But in the last 12 hours there have only been 27 posts. And the bad part is that 9 of those were mine.. Maybe I need to disable my key board so I won't chatter so much.

 

[broodytood]

Gotta love it when the kids big their bug treasures to you!

But in this case it was a very large, cool moth. Cerisyi's sphinx moth is what we think it is. It is about
3 1/4 x 1 1/2.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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VERY COOL !!!!! You can look it up on www.enature.com awesome site.

 

[Chickielady]

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The best pale pink climber for Raymond is New Dawn, but it's not very fragrant nor probably what you're thinking of as old-fashioned (not extremely double); there's a great big not-old-fashioned Grandiflora called Queen Elizabeth which is happy there, too (my friend who had a midwifery practice in South Bend had a glorious one in her yard) but it's a huge shrub rather than a climber. Climbing Cecile Brunner gets big, and has a nice tea-rose fragrance in flowers that look as if they came off a wedding cake.


As for yellows, will you take apricot? Look into Buff Beauty; it's amazingly fragrant and a vigorous climber. There's good yellow climbers you could get that I can't grow because my winter temperatures are too low; the best true yellows are the old Tea and Noisette climbers.

The best white, hands down, is Long John Silver.

Places to look:

Antique Rose Emporium, Heirloom Roses, Vintage Gardens, possibly Roses of Yesterday and Today is OK now; in the eighties they nearly destroyed the oldest Heritage Rose business in the US by not paying attention to their rootstock's virus infection. Antique Rose Farm up in Snohomish have great plants, but you have to go there to get them, which has been hard to do lately.

My favorite old pink, not a climber, though; the damask Ispahan:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/100_2112-1.jpg



Long John Silver in a typical June state of bloom:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/DSC_0683-1-1.jpg

It's once blooming, where once includes June, July, August and off and on until October 30, when this photo was taken:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/100_2393-2-1.jpg



Buff Beauty, which blooms in waves from June until September or October (and might bloom in winter in Raymond)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/DSC_0091-1-1.jpg

(some questions it's dangerous to ask me, sorry)

This is exactly why I did ask you!!!!!!!
Thanks so much for all the info, I wrote it all down!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Send a PM & pic to Illia the national moth expert, seriously.

 

[broodytood]

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VERY COOL !!!!! You can look it up on www.enature.com awesome site.

I didn't see it on enature but "images of the natural world" images by Mark Chapell had a good shot of one.
It's big enough that I don't want it crawling on me. Feels like a small animal. Yuck! But pretty!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Does this look the same??

http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?allSpecies=&searchText=Cerisyi%

 

[broodytood]

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YEAH! How did you find that? I guess I didn't do it right as usual. But that is it.

 

[Chickielady]

Hi guys!
I have just a bit of time here while the guys are on a break...then will have to disconnect again.
Here is some photos:
Now Stumpfarmer, pay notice to the tiny area these guys are working in..pull in the semi, loaded it, back down the driveway & dump in a pile, DH had to move the rat mobile elsewhere..now they are spreading the soil smooth in a hole down there that usually fills with water and has been unusuable..but will be usable after this.

Driveway up here is to the right of the truck..

a view from the left side
and the next 2 pics are looking UP the driveway at the site

DH moves the rat mobile as the dump truck needs more room..

And the BAR-BE-CUE SPECIAL and 3 dark cornish cockerals AND a free mystery chick arrived this morning right on schedule & healthy and of course went right to the feeders...

Still amazes me why you can breed a white rock to a cornish & get a bird that is born hungry & grows faster than a weed & ready to butcher in 6-8 weeks ???

Seriously!
They are starving right out of the box!!!!!!!

This is the free mystery chick what McMurray calls a "free rare & exotic chick"
Last time I got a black polish with a white hairdo..this looks like a barred rock to me??

One of the lemon blue cochin babies, a pullet:

She did not like being up on the incubator..so put her back..and you can see a Reeves pheasant or two in there

In the shade in the grow on pen, Buckeyes, Ams, OEs and a few white Plymouth Rock pullets.

OK, gotta run!
Talk to ya all later!!