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[Chickielady]

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Where did you get them?
Aren't they fun ?
I love my Bucks!!

Got them from my friend jon who shows buckeyes in IL.
Sad to sell them but mom wants blue/green eggs so buckeyes are for sale.

Blue/green eggs then you need this Wheaten Ameraucana Cockeral I have.

 

[Chickielady]

Well, I may or may not do the Marek's on the current imprisoned batches of chicks today....
I also have enough cucumber & onions to do 1 batch of bread & butter chips.
I also have a great recipe for Aunt Rita's "Anti-pasto pickles" which are Cucumbers (hot house type) onions, anaheim chili (1) baby carrots & celery chunks and cauliflower in a mustard seed apple cider vinegar brine.
They are kept in the refrig, but can be jarred & processed in a water bath if ya want.
I am doing 1 type one day and the other type the next while still processing 2 gallons of peas a day~~~
Strawberries, salmonberries and raspberries are slowing down.
Next will be blueberries, thimbleberries & blackberries.
I do the berries in pint plastic containers, first adding fruit fresh & sugar (or splenda)
These berries get frozen over night & then popped out of the plastic tubs and put 2 each in 1 gallon freezer bags.
They can then be used all winter for cobblers, cakes, pies or just plain over dessert cakes or ice cream, or in smoothies or pancakes.
YUMMY IN WINTER!!!
Not making any jam this year.
Not eating much bread these days so still have 2 cases of peach jam & 1 case of apricot, that is sufficient.
I would love to get to Milton-Freewater for freestone peaches to can sliced peaches though...
I miss my peach tree !!

 

[Chickielady]

I guess I better go give vaccines.........hate to waste a bottle on just 20 chicks though~~~but they want OUT!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Forgot to mention another cool thing we did here:
Our dogs (mine & mom & dad's) LOVE the sweet potato dog chews..which seem to be just dehydrated sweet potatoes and are expensive at $6-$8 a little bag which amounts to half a sweet potatoe, dehydrated to ounces..

So I got 2 yams and had a giant sweet meats squash, and gave most of the squash (minus big seeds) to the birds, and peeled & sliced the rest, and dehydrated.
Well the dog hated it, so I put the dehydrated yam & squash in a pot of boiling water with 5 or 6 BIG beef boullion cubes, a little A-1 sauce & a dollop of smoke flavouring..and let it sit all day.
Then I dehydrated them again, letting them soak up all the boullion possible.
The dog LOVES them!!!!!!!!!!

Cost was about $3 instead of what would be 4 bags of treats at Petco= $32

 

[Chickielady]

see now?
I am the thread killer!!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Our raspberries have finally picked up! I very much need to go pick again today. I missed the last two days and I find the more you pick, the more come in.

We wash them, then dry them, then place them in a single layer on a cookie sheet for freezing. Then spatula them off into a gallon size ziplock. That way they are loose and you can just grab a handful to add to your cereal or smoothie. We have one almost full ziplock from our first picking earlier this week. We've been eating the strawberries faster than we can get them in the freezer. I'm anxious for the sun to come back and ripen my blueberries. I have 18 overloaded bushes and planted 8 more early this spring.

 

[KMHunter]

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DH is coming home after a week of traveling, so I kind of want to see him.

 

[KMHunter]

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I DO NOT claim to be the "resident professional" but from what I have heard you should NOT feed layer until they have begun to lay. I don't feed a feed with added calcium. I feed oyster shell seperate.

My chicken vet told me that you can start feeding them layer at 16 weeks laying or not. My girls do not eat the oyster shell seperate very well so I do feed them a layer feed with calcium.

I can get 5 or 10 lb bags of feed at De Youngs in Woodinville. I know Del's sells smaller bags of feed too. They make up the bags themselves and obviously get more money for selling it in smaller amounts, but it has helped me out when I don't need 20 or 50 lb bags. I have been mixing the grower and layer together and putting out oystershell. But the young ones eat that too! So I don't know. My young ones are between 17 and 19 weeks(best guess). I think 11 weeks is too early to feed layer, so I would call around to see if a feed store near you sells smaller bags.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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You remember the Tiger's Den? Do you remember anyone with the last name of Hubbs?

Hubbs???No I can't recall but I have forgotten alot from back then....How about Bleakley for you? We lived on Getchell Hill rd. on the Hwy 92 side, by Junction Center and Horse Country.

How funny, I have not thought about those places in a long time. The only person I remember from that area was a Fricke. She lived across the road from Horse Country. What class were you in? I was in 77. Boy, that dates me!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Oh, great now my cat is missing.

Phooey on this week, I say. I'd go back to bed but the hired hand will be here as soon as she gets her flat tire fixed.