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[Imp]

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My grandmother ran a boarding house during the great depression, and was a renouned cook. When I watched her cook she used one battered old cup, and her hand to measure with, she told me that it did not matter much but you needed to use the same cup all the time so your measuments would stay the same. I smile when I see all the fancy measuring equipment we have today.

Exactly how my Grandma Sokolik cooked, and my mother and her elder sister Margaret, all of them cooks of great reknown; Mom eventually got into more precise measurments, but that was at least partly because she did a lot of wedding cakes and cooked frostings which can go disasterously wrong with unbalanced ingrediants.

I grew up with the White House Cookbook as well. To this day I still every year, for the holidays, make the Cranberry Refigerator Cake. More than any other food that says "Thanksgiving & Christmas" for me.
I'm going to have to ask dad for the book.

Russ

 

[RustyHen]

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Kaneke,
Do you have connections to Ketchikan? That's where I'm from. Have we had this conversation before?

Hi Imp....a few pages back I posted:

(something to the effect) I was concerned about the poo of my chickens. I went and did a search on chicken poo and found a web site that you had posted a link to that showed (had actual photos) of different kinds of "normal"chicken poo. I now do not have to worry. What a wonderful link. I learned so much. Thank you for posting that...I think you posted in something like 2009.

4,3,1,2,
I have posted that link many times. Glad it helped you. Now so many people have it, I rarely get to post it anymore.

They tend to grow bigger faster and are not supposed to crow? dunno never had one

I swear: I learn something new EVERY DAY...I did not know you could casterate a bird.

4,3,1,2, & Rainwolf,
cmsdvm in Tacoma does the caponizing in the clinic.

Hey CR,
I would like a raccoon proof cover for my garden pond. Is this something you might be interested in doing?

Russ

Imp​

So if they can't crow they can still make fertle eggs right???

Sorry just could not help it just thought (roosteer)!

 

[Iheartchicks<3:)]

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Kaneke,
Do you have connections to Ketchikan? That's where I'm from. Have we had this conversation before?

Hi Imp....a few pages back I posted:

(something to the effect) I was concerned about the poo of my chickens. I went and did a search on chicken poo and found a web site that you had posted a link to that showed (had actual photos) of different kinds of "normal"chicken poo. I now do not have to worry. What a wonderful link. I learned so much. Thank you for posting that...I think you posted in something like 2009.

4,3,1,2,
I have posted that link many times. Glad it helped you. Now so many people have it, I rarely get to post it anymore.


4,3,1,2, & Rainwolf,
cmsdvm in Tacoma does the caponizing in the clinic.

Hey CR,
I would like a raccoon proof cover for my garden pond. Is this something you might be interested in doing?

Russ

Imp​

So if they can't crow they can still make fertle eggs right???

Sorry just could not help it

 

[RustyHen]

We live about 60 mile from Richland WA, but on the other side of CR's Big Creek.
We have not felt anything last night or today, of course we have trains go through town all times of the day and night, I just don't pay too much attention to loud noise or vibrations.

unless it has a chicken based hue!

 

[Ogress]

Anyone have any ideas on how to get one of my hens to start using the nest box again? One of my EE's made a hidden nest in the woods and was laying her eggs there for the past 2 weeks. DD found the nest (all the eggs were fine and wee cokked them up for breakfast today). She had used the nest box properly for a year, and suddenly switched to using the woods, and she continues to use her hidden nest even after DD discovered it (it is very hard to reach!).

I use shredded paper in the nest boxes. The only change I can think of is in the color of paper. For the past few months the paper has been bright neons (shredded old yearbook orders and other papers from the school). Last nest box change, I shredded up a bunch of old insurance policies on white paper. I have one nest box left with bright paper in it on the top corner. The chickens had not been using it, so I did not chage it. Now they fight over it! Some of the hens have started using the nest boxes in the eglu which are filled with wood shavings (all my birds free-range, so they have access to all 12 nestboxes).

Even though all the birds are out together, they all head back to their own coops at night. I never find them in the wrong ones, but they seem to use the nest boxes in any of the coops randomly.

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

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How big and do you just want to keep the coons out but let water / rain in? Give me little more info I think I have a design in mind.

I'm thinking some open grate kind of thing. Yes keep the critters out, but let in rain, light. The net keeps out the herons, but the raccoons just rip right through. Any kind of open grate; I'll probably need to cover with the net as well. Those darn herons will stick their heads through 1 inch openings. I don't really mind them (except when they are eating my chickens or fish) The liner is rather expensive to let them poke holes in. It's a large enough pond(maybe 8X5) that it might need to be 2 pieces.

It's an oval shape. The yellow X is where the pump is. I need to pull it frequently to clean it. It can be moved. The red line is a shallow shelf for plants.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15498_img_0301_1.jpg

Russ

Your pond looks so clean!
What kind of filter or filtering system do you use?
I've got to do something about mine....

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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I can't find that recipe. The online search tool isn't very good.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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If you can lock her in and not let her out till she lays that is the only way I know of. But hay dont ask me my girls like to lay under the goat feeders.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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How big and do you just want to keep the coons out but let water / rain in? Give me little more info I think I have a design in mind.

I'm thinking some open grate kind of thing. Yes keep the critters out, but let in rain, light. The net keeps out the herons, but the raccoons just rip right through. Any kind of open grate; I'll probably need to cover with the net as well. Those darn herons will stick their heads through 1 inch openings. I don't really mind them (except when they are eating my chickens or fish) The liner is rather expensive to let them poke holes in. It's a large enough pond(maybe 8X5) that it might need to be 2 pieces.

It's an oval shape. The yellow X is where the pump is. I need to pull it frequently to clean it. It can be moved. The red line is a shallow shelf for plants.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15498_img_0301_1.jpg

Russ

It is very do-able with expanded steel and some framing. But looks like it is something that would really need to look at and measure then go build which given our locations may not work for me.

 

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Does no one want my rooster? XD