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[jbear]

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You QWACK me UP

 

[jbear]

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she is a pretty cute pocket chicken, snuggles right down and makes little peeping noises when she gets warm. would you like my address? Alice is off on Holiday so no worries there lol

It's a good thing my DH doesn't read the forum here. He was pretty taken with the Seramas and I'm afraid I'd end up with a house chicken if he knew one was available. He likes little dogs too and our Pomeranian who is NOT my favorite dog is for certain his little boy. DH is a big softie. But I like that about him. Sometimes he's a lot nicer than I am.

you NEED a house chicken.. hahaha
haven't you seen all the designs you can get for their diaper covers?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Very much not in my experience: well pumps, especially submersibles, are meant to pump a pressure tank to a specific level and then stop, and only come on when water is run; real irrigation pumps are meant to run constantly, but that's not what residential pumps do. The worst thing is when the pump is short-cycling- that burns out the electric motor really fast, unless the switch goes first. Having a residential pump run all the time increases the wear rate of parts in sandy wells (most Wetside wells have at least some sand) and kills you with the power bill: our pump bill went from $9 a month to $150 when we developed a hole in the suspension pipe.

(I've been responsible for pump replacements here for over thirty years now, and it's a set of lessons I've learned the hard way).

I heard and read this in several places including a residential home show. And once again, the company that installed the new pump confirmed it also. It was even suggested we install something (can't recall the name) that just keeps recirculating the water. We didn't have the money plus there is the issue of electricity. I just don't need people complaining because my use of water is wearing out the pump. Someday we'll put in our own well or move! I will never again share a well. Major headache.

Pump companies want to sell pumps.

Which reminds me: since we are weaning calves in cold weather, I've got an open hose down to a tub in the corral. So we'll be running the pump full time until we move the calves out. Which may be after Christmas, the way things are going.

Oh, well, I've got to go fish two eggs out of the Wyandotte coop and stick a plastic-bucket laying box in. As soon as it gets dark. After a couple hours of the easy part of the weaning round up, since I am old and busted.

 

[RedReiner]

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she is a pretty cute pocket chicken, snuggles right down and makes little peeping noises when she gets warm. would you like my address? Alice is off on Holiday so no worries there lol

It's a good thing my DH doesn't read the forum here. He was pretty taken with the Seramas and I'm afraid I'd end up with a house chicken if he knew one was available. He likes little dogs too and our Pomeranian who is NOT my favorite dog is for certain his little boy. DH is a big softie. But I like that about him. Sometimes he's a lot nicer than I am.

I happen to have a miniature pinscher pup looking for a home also lol lookie there!! 2 for 1 deal!! whats your DH's email address again??

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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No, Lemon Balm is related to mint, Lemon Grass is related to Irises (I think- I'll look it up later). Lemon Balm is great bee food, by the way- its latin name is Melissa officianalis, and Melissa means "of a bee." It's a self-seeding root-running beast, and my chickens love it, both leaf and seed.

Is it the stuff that looks like mint, but smells like floor cleaner?

Lemon-scented floor cleaner pretty much. I hear it makes good tea when it's dried.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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As far as I know the local farm slaughter truck is currently unavailable due to a wreck.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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No, Lemon Balm is related to mint, Lemon Grass is related to Irises (I think- I'll look it up later). Lemon Balm is great bee food, by the way- its latin name is Melissa officianalis, and Melissa means "of a bee." It's a self-seeding root-running beast, and my chickens love it, both leaf and seed.

you are fortunate to grow that, Julia

every time I have planted seeds, or seedlings, they've died ... I think we are hotter and drier here, than you are

It's mostly growing in places I started mulching in 1984: it likes high soil fertility and a lot of organic material.

I'm happy the chooks like it, and mint: I can give up trying to get rid of that too. And the sheep thinks my enemy, Geranium X oxfordianse "Claridge Druce" is the best stuff ever, nice sheep, good boy Bacchus!

 

[Kaneke]

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you are fortunate to grow that, Julia

every time I have planted seeds, or seedlings, they've died ... I think we are hotter and drier here, than you are

It's mostly growing in places I started mulching in 1984: it likes high soil fertility and a lot of organic material.

I'm happy the chooks like it, and mint: I can give up trying to get rid of that too. And the sheep thinks my enemy, Geranium X oxfordianse "Claridge Druce" is the best stuff ever, nice sheep, good boy Bacchus!

ROTFLMAO ...

Yelm ?? high soil fertility ?? lots of organic material ???

well, maybe in my compost bin ....

truly I think there is still some chocolate mint, surviving in what used to be the vegetable garden, but it gets all the water from the downspout, so most of it got flooded out

I need to clear that area out anyway, it has a bunch of pier blocks sitting in there, and most of the leftover plastic seedling pots; DH wants to extend the daytime chicken run through there and under our deck (four feet off the ground) so that the chickens will clear out all the weedy stuff growing under there

the area is not secure enough for a full time run, but DH is concerned that the chickens feel too cooped up in the chicken tractor (20 x 5), and with this chilly weather he doesn't want to sit out with them while they free-range

I dunno

they've always seemed happy enough, to me, when they were in the tractor ... they just wanted OUT when it got windy or rainy

 

[SadieSue]

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It's a good thing my DH doesn't read the forum here. He was pretty taken with the Seramas and I'm afraid I'd end up with a house chicken if he knew one was available. He likes little dogs too and our Pomeranian who is NOT my favorite dog is for certain his little boy. DH is a big softie. But I like that about him. Sometimes he's a lot nicer than I am.

you NEED a house chicken.. hahaha
haven't you seen all the designs you can get for their diaper covers?

Shhh... Talk like that will result in a Serama under the Christmas tree!

 

[SadieSue]

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It's a good thing my DH doesn't read the forum here. He was pretty taken with the Seramas and I'm afraid I'd end up with a house chicken if he knew one was available. He likes little dogs too and our Pomeranian who is NOT my favorite dog is for certain his little boy. DH is a big softie. But I like that about him. Sometimes he's a lot nicer than I am.

I happen to have a miniature pinscher pup looking for a home also lol lookie there!! 2 for 1 deal!! whats your DH's email address again??

Ohhh no! Our Pomeranian is 12 years old now and still going strong. I've made promises to DH that Dasher will be treated well for the rest of his precious little life which seems like it will go on FOREVER. And then NO MORE little dogs. At least not until we get one.