I lied. Well not intentionally. Turns out what I get on BBC Sounds is sort of a spin off. Not the real series.
It is however available on Amazon and free with Amazon Prime.
I am not sure about there not being any backyard chickens laying 300 eggs.
If you look at US hatchery websites they usually give a rough estimate of eggs per year for each breed. Many of those are in the 250-300 range (eg ISA Browns, production RIRs).
Although I don’t source chicks from these...
Well I exaggerate a little to make the point, but yes, when the right response is to work logically through the possibilities - trauma, tumor, infection, stress - some folk go straight to treats.
When you engage some of these folk privately they will say forage doesn’t count. But that isn’t...
I too appreciate your writing on this topic and feel I have learned a lot, so thank you!
I think your most recent thread (the one that is getting bad tempered) however, may just be the wrong way to approach the discussion.
I think what we need is an easy way to answer the 'it is all because...
For those of us who don't know anything about welding, could you explain what we are looking at. I can tell that it is generally neater than previous ones you have posted (well done!). But to my uneducated eye that looks like a soldered joint.
Keen to understand!
I will triple check with my farm stands but I am 90% sure the ones near me are local - they are always only in season and generally have the same random sizes and shapes my own produce do. Definitely not grocery store type produce.
Most of mine are not 'manned' - they are on the road by the...
Interesting.
Here the farmers markets (there are 3 within a fifteen minute drive of me) have a mix of actual farmers (meat, fruit and veg) and the kinds of home kitchen goods you describe.
Once the season gets going we also get a lot of farm stands - basically tables by the side of the road...
Yes. This.
I am lucky enough to have a half dozen established peach trees and they only just finished flowering.
I guess peaches at this time of year must come from the Southern hemisphere.
Thank you for sharing your thinking. I am sure it was not easy, and there is probably not a ‘right’ answer, but what you did showed care and consideration for the individuals and for the flock.
I salute you.
I am also curious about your predator load. For you to have to act in loco praedatoris...
My hen Bernie ‘mates’ with her favorite hens. Her technique is improving. The hens seem fine with it.
She sometimes escorts her favorite hen when she wants to lay and paces about outside the nest. But not always.
She has attacked a hawk that had one of the pullets pinned to the ground.
But she...
Oh goodness.
The article I was meaning needed a glossary is simpler - it was the one on Pyrethrum/Permethrin insecticides.
It had the following terms that should have been listed out.
Permethrin: A synthetic insecticide
Pyrethrins: A collective noun describing the multiple different compounds...