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[RedRoosterFarm]

OMG! What a beautiful lil girl. To cute! Trade you a chicken....no,no, how about 2 chickens?

Please??

This is our baby .. the Jaska




This is Jaska, she is a Finnish Spitz. Here she is just a couple of months old.

This is her now, in all her glorius bratty-ness!


She is the boss of our existence.

 

[Ogress]

What a gorgeous dog! Looks so much like a fox, I'd be afraid to trust her with chickens! Glad to hear she is so good!

This is our baby .. the Jaska




This is Jaska, she is a Finnish Spitz. Here she is just a couple of months old.

This is her now, in all her glorius bratty-ness!


She is the boss of our existence.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Hey Stumpfarmer did ya get the message that I called to check on ya last eve? CL gave me yer sisters #. Said it was the only one she had.

Nope, sorry; she called this morning, too, to see if I had power on but she was in the middle of cooking pancakes.

I called hallerlake Friday morning (I think: the days got confused, there, with the dark and the cold) but my cell was dying, and by the time we got a plug-in phone I was too tired to talk. We were melting ice to get water for the dogs, cats, chickens, and sheep, and less clean source snow for flushing toilets. Since my husband isn't supposed to do much lifting, I did most of the collection of the frozen water, plus feeding the chooks and keeping the sheep company and cooking in the dark, ugh.


Another photo: the driveway at 4:30pm today:

You did??

 

I left a message.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

The DW (Rikke) has a "Magnolia grandiflora" growing in the front rose garden. I'm impressed it even survives this far north.

There's a miniature M.Grandiflora developed by Briggs which has a constitution of iron; miniature in the sense that it's not the 60X60 of the species. It's all over town in Oly, notably in the parking lot of the Briggs branch of the YMCA, on the corner of the original nursery (they've since moved out to Porter).

 

[renart]

There's a miniature M.Grandiflora developed by Briggs which has a constitution of iron; miniature in the sense that it's not the 60X60 of the species. It's all over town in Oly, notably in the parking lot of the Briggs branch of the YMCA, on the corner of the original nursery (they've since moved out to Porter).

awesome! I am hoping ours really gets happy this year! It's only about 12' - 14' tall at this point.

 

[renart]

looks like I am putting this thread to bed tonight. So I will tuck you all in and pull up the comforter. Sleep well my friends.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Hi Jen. Hey, the 3 voltron eggs that I hatched...the white one (I believe) is a cockerel. The other 2 are pullets. They sure are looking nice.

I want to see them!!!!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

So.....going back to our whole "Baytril" discussion from a while back....one of our veterinarians just got back from a conference, where she went to a lecture about backyard chickens. First of all, I just have to say how AWESOME it is that they had a backyard chicken lecture!!!! And even more awesome that she went! (She usually calls me when a chicken comes into the clinic and I'm not there to get my input).

ANYWAY...a tidbit from the lecture, is that it is ILLEGAL to give backyard chickens Baytril and/or any cephalosporin drug because of possible resistance and how that could affect the commercial poultry industry.

Just thought that it was interesting....

 

[Sudsy Chick]

You are such a kick in the head girl!!!!I

inherited all my Grandmother's beloved and very old CI...she was 96 when she died in 2002.......and it was a big part of her dowry, to have proper pans to cook with.
This during the WWs we had & the Blitz....iron was scarce.
For a bride to-be to have a beautiful cast iron and was ready to make meals for her intended was a big plus.
Great gramppa gave his blessing, and let Rayford C Davis of Idaho take off with Gladys Rideout...........in West Plains MO.
What was Grandpa doing out there at the time?
Well, story says he was working as a grave digger as the silver mines in North Idaho were closed up.
Times were hard in the depresssion.and here they came down a dusty road in MO and there was the most beautiful young maiden about the mail box at the farm~and granpa let her go.
And that is the story ! Off they went went her dowry of cast iron & a real coffee pot & so many warm quilts GGrandma had made.La
ter, when Grandma was 94 I left Idaho to go to CA to care for her, and after 2 years she succombed to a stroke, while I fed her lunch.she had massive RA, and had to give away all her CI in the 60s and she the best fried chicken & gravy cook in the world !
I remember as a 5 year old going to see Grandma & Grandpa........and catching catfish.
And grandma cooked it right up crispy for me !
Ask any body now if they remember food when they were 5 years old !
I remember looking forward to the long trip to their home for Grandma's fried chicken & gravy!
Green bean & new potatoes with bacon !!!!!!
Oh I am carrying on & going way back now~~~~~~~~~~

I love to reading about your grandparents

I do remember my Grandma Domahilda's Vinarterta (Icelandic layer cake) - she passed away when I was very young but I recall her in the kitchen making that cake

Yum!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK I am a wee late but MY feelings on the CI is most any is good but IF it says made in (forgive me) made anywhere other than USA . Break it and it goes in the scrap. Just because too much nasty stuff in the foreign iron. JMO