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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 13, 2011 13:08:19 GMT -5
Well, Tim, If you wake up in the morning and can't find that cow, she came to California, where all the cows are happy. Boy, all that and milk too. My green with envy button was just pushed. After Leo chopped half that pile, I cleaned out the chicken coop and refilled it with corn bedding. They will muckify it in about 2 months. Then it will go to the compost pile. I let the chickens in that patch to clean up before we chopped, and they ate every weed. But alas, I can't get them to make cream for my coffee
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Post by DarJones on Dec 13, 2011 18:45:04 GMT -5
Only Holly would try to get milk from a chicken. Hope that made you spew your coffee! DarJones
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 13, 2011 19:43:23 GMT -5
Only Holly would try to get milk from a chicken. Hope that made you spew your coffee! DarJones Well, you can get milk from pigeons and flamingoes. And there was a chicken that could produce milk listed in a Ripley's Believe it or Not column once, I think.
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Post by steev on Dec 13, 2011 19:55:55 GMT -5
If you just want your coffee a lighter color, chickens can do that for you, but it will taste like ****.
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 14, 2011 15:19:04 GMT -5
Well, I've been told all sorts of things about chickens, so excuse me for being gullible. This was Leo, 20 years ago. We were culling roosters. When he put this one on the table it laid an egg. So I says to him, "Leo, that rooster just laid an egg, I believe that to be a hen." And he looked at me and said, "Who you going to believe, me or some lying rooster? Those roosters will do anything to avoid the cleaver." Attachments:
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Post by davida on Dec 14, 2011 20:00:54 GMT -5
"That's funny, right thare. I don't care who you are."
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 14, 2011 20:17:34 GMT -5
"That's funny, right thare. I don't care who you are." Funny now. Have that happen a couple hundred years ago and you would risk having the whole town descending on your farm with torches and the local witch finder (after all, an egg laid by a rooster could hatch into a basilisk)
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Post by steev on Dec 15, 2011 15:07:48 GMT -5
Not if you scramble it with some onion and peppers before the word gets out.
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 15, 2011 17:52:51 GMT -5
Well, so far no basilisks, but we had a couple of double yolkers and even one no yolker. So, I guess I'm not going to win the Pulletizer Prize.
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Post by steev on Dec 15, 2011 20:16:46 GMT -5
You must be yolking,
On a more serious note, if you can breed for those yolk-less eggs, I think you can get rich in these cholesterol-fearing days. Might be a tad difficult increasing your flock, but if it was easy, everyone would do it.
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Post by grano on Dec 15, 2011 22:17:49 GMT -5
How is the gourdseed in cornbread?
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 16, 2011 16:11:43 GMT -5
Well, all I know is that I made a dozen muffins and went to find the camera, by the time I came back there was not enough to serve for dinner. My house is always teeming with feral semi-adults that eat like jays. Spouse gave the 3 stars out of 4. He said with only one to taste, it was hard to tell. I would grow this corn again especially if I can't find a flour corn as good. Dar assures me that Cherokee White is as good a flour corn in less time. But I've now found 4 corns with the name Cherokee White, and need to ask Dar which one. If you have a long growing season, this one will not disappoint. It's drought tolerant and grinds like a dream.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 2, 2012 18:18:44 GMT -5
The pile at the end of chipping Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 2, 2012 18:20:11 GMT -5
And then the pile gets recycled to the traveling chicken coop. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 2, 2012 18:21:26 GMT -5
When it comes out of the chicken coop and into the compost pile. Attachments:
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