rented a tiller this weekend (3 day weekend but it rained the first 2 days ) , so it was mucky and tough going and I almost killed myself (seriously ) but I finally got it all tilled in. It's supposed to rain the next 2 days, I'm worried that it won't be fit for anything other than tomatoes! Oh well, I'll have to have a think on what in the world to do! The cost of veg is SO high that I HAVE to plant some, but from seed takes forever but buying seedlings is as much as buying grown and ready from the store!
Does anyone know if you can buy (import or otherwise) eggs, catapillars, chrysalis? We have none around us and am jealous! Of course there could be ecological issues though?
mowed the yard yesterday so the foul were all run about a bit, this morning that same Cayuga had laid a tiny egg again. I'll take a pic tomorrow of it next to it's normal sized sister that SHOULD be laid tomorrow morning!
I gauge heavy weights by how it compares to a bag of dog food (40 lbs), that fish doesn't look like it could weigh that much, it's so deceptive! What were you in India for, just a holiday or work?
Demon likes nothing better than to roll around in rotting birds, snakes, fish, mice, rats, rabbits, coon, deer etc, and then come and try to rub on us ... just lovely!
the number one complaint of several of the farmers here have been beavers. More than coon, chucks, opossum etc. Lots of the farmers have stands of woods to sell off down the road and a pair of beavers can devastate a few acres in a season.
I occasionally ran into those sorts of attitudes in "town" and in some of the breed specific/no kill rescues, so I either omitted the "working" part of our conversations completely (yes, in essence lied) in order to bail a dog out. But do they ask the general "good" person if they are going to overfeed them and neglect them? No. I think they have some of those stringent rules because of people looking for "cheap" purebreds.
The rural/small town and TRUE working rescues were THANKFUL that someone who knew what they were doing was taking this dog off their hands to give them a real, viab
well I can't speak for everyone, but when I was involved in rescue, I traded/received/gave dogs to other rescues at no charge. I often couldn't adopt out dogs for enough to cover the vet bills on dogs that breeders wouldn't take back. The cost at the local shelter to bail a dog, fully neutered and jabbed up, was $13 (which is like 6 quid). The shelters made it SOOOOO cheap to adopt a dog that I just couldn't understand why more people didn't rescue dogs. I got so frustrated and upset about what OTHER people did that I was ignoring my own dogs due to the time that my rescue efforts took. S
we had a few dozen chicks, 6 ducks and 2 turkey all from a day old. We had to separate the turkey and ducks from the chicks as the turkey would footpeck at the ducks and eyepeck at the chicks, even with all sorts of sparkly silvery things hanging everywhere. The ducks didn't bother anyone. The 3 bantam chicks were the worst, they were all pullets but they were constantly fighting eachother and the others, no matter how big they were.
don't overwash him, more than once a month is too much as it hinders the natural oils in the coat
feed mackerel, sardines, salmon skin or other oily fish, or avocado if you can get it
stress can do it too
It's made me call and book the rototiller from the rental place! I like the idea of a path and hadn't put one in before, I don't have any paving stones, has anyone used bricks (we have a bunch of them) or are they just too much of a pain to make into a path similar to this one?
It has been SO wet here for the past few months that only a couple of the farmers have harrowed or sprayed as of yet, and it rained again today so I haven't a clue when crops will be put in. Even our closest neighbor (a farmer) hasn't even put in their personal use garden yet.