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Wish you lived closer because maybe I could buy a couple but that's a LONG drive even for chickens! 

Chickens are a never ending source of fun and adventure!  Our old Rhode Island Red is named Penny too!  She occasionally skips a day because she is older.  My other three will be a year old in June.  I am adding a Marans, an Ameraucana and a Welsummer this year.  Then I can figure out which chicken lays which egg.  There's a hatchery in Maryland that we can order them from but we may get roosters so I would give them to the Amish which is where I got Penny.
 
I installed a rope light around the inside of their coop and bought a really good automatic timer to turn them on and off from 5-8 every morning.
 
Using sprouted grain can cut your protein feed bill by 75%.   Barley is best but you can't find it at this time of year in our area so I'm using wheat.  I tried the soaked grains and they didn't like them.  
 
Fighting to keep them in lots of unfrozen fresh water is the worst part of the deal.  The automatic waterer inside of the coop needs some work this summer, and while the heated waterer (which might be for sale later) is causing some moisture build up inside so that has to go.  It's only a problem on the days that are too cold to open the coop.  I found a huge heavy Christmas Tree stand at Walmart for 75 cents, added a wire cage to the top of it, and am now just giving them water in it twice a day. This summer it will turn into a fresh food dish.

It's always nice to actually see how others garden and this is a really nice video that continues as the season changes.  I just wish it was in our growing zone, but it's educational anyway.
 

 

Thanks for meeting me with the goods!   Wouldn't it make people wonder what we're selling and buying at night in a parking lot?  Four quarts of excellent maple syrup pretty much perfect!! 

If it's the best quality, first run and the best lightest grade, then I will buy a gallon.  Next time I make Indian Pudding I want to use Maple Syrup, and I also like it best over good quality vanilla ice cream.  It never spoils so in a year we would use it.
 
I don't have a problem with diabetes, but for those who do, maple syrup is a good source of inulin, not insulin, that helps with diabetes.  There are lots of foods with inulin.  It also aids in digestion.
 
http://www.prebiotic.ca/inulin.html

If anyone sells Maple Syrup that is first run and they don't burn it or smoke it to death, then let me know.

Chickens are a never ending source of fun and adventure!  Our old Rhode Island Red is named Penny too!  She occasionally skips a day because she is older.  My other three will be a year old in June.  I am adding a Marans, an Ameraucana and a Welsummer this year.  Then I can figure out which chicken lays which egg.  There's a hatchery in Maryland that we can order them from but we may get roosters so I would give them to the Amish which is where I got Penny.
 
I installed a rope light around the inside of their coop and bought a really good automatic timer to turn them on and off from 5-8 every morning.
 
Using sprouted grain can cut your protein feed bill by 75%.   Barley is best but you can't find it at this time of year in our area so I'm using wheat.  I tried the soaked grains and they didn't like them.  
 
Fighting to keep them in lots of unfrozen fresh water is the worst part of the deal.  The automatic waterer inside of the coop needs some work this summer, and while the heated waterer (which might be for sale later) is causing some moisture build up inside so that has to go.  It's only a problem on the days that are too cold to open the coop.  I found a huge heavy Christmas Tree stand at Walmart for 75 cents, added a wire cage to the top of it, and am now just giving them water in it twice a day. This summer it will turn into a fresh food dish.

Chickens are a never ending source of fun and adventure!  Our old Rhode Island Red is named Penny too!  She occasionally skips a day because she is older.  My other three will be a year old in June.  I am adding a Marans, an Ameraucana and a Welsummer this year.  Then I can figure out which chicken lays which egg.  There's a hatchery in Maryland that we can order them from but we may get roosters so I would give them to the Amish which is where I got Penny.
 
I installed a rope light around the inside of their coop and bought a really good automatic timer to turn them on and off from 5-8 every morning.
 
Using sprouted grain can cut your protein feed bill by 75%.   Barley is best but you can't find it at this time of year in our area so I'm using wheat.  I tried the soaked grains and they didn't like them.  
 
Fighting to keep them in lots of unfrozen fresh water is the worst part of the deal.  The automatic waterer inside of the coop needs some work this summer, and while the heated waterer (which might be for sale later) is causing some moisture build up inside so that has to go.  It's only a problem on the days that are too cold to open the coop.  I found a huge heavy Christmas Tree stand at Walmart for 75 cents, added a wire cage to the top of it, and am now just giving them water in it twice a day. This summer it will turn into a fresh food dish.

Chickens are a never ending source of fun and adventure!  Our old Rhode Island Red is named Penny too!  She occasionally skips a day because she is older.  My other three will be a year old in June.  I am adding a Marans, an Ameraucana and a Welsummer this year.  Then I can figure out which chicken lays which egg.  There's a hatchery in Maryland that we can order them from but we may get roosters so I would give them to the Amish which is where I got Penny.
 
I installed a rope light around the inside of their coop and bought a really good automatic timer to turn them on and off from 5-8 every morning.
 
Using sprouted grain can cut your protein feed bill by 75%.   Barley is best but you can't find it at this time of year in our area so I'm using wheat.  I tried the soaked grains and they didn't like them.  
 
Fighting to keep them in lots of unfrozen fresh water is the worst part of the deal.  The automatic waterer inside of the coop needs some work this summer, and while the heated waterer (which might be for sale later) is causing some moisture build up inside so that has to go.  It's only a problem on the days that are too cold to open the coop.  I found a huge heavy Christmas Tree stand at Walmart for 75 cents, added a wire cage to the top of it, and am now just giving them water in it twice a day. This summer it will turn into a fresh food dish.

A nice tall electric fence will fix that!

I swear there were peepers in my pond last night!

I swear there were peepers in my pond last night!

Sorry, I missed it.  It's a Nuthatch.  You will see them running up and headfirst down the trunks of trees checking in all the bark crevices for insects.
https://owlcation.com/stem/Songbirds-of-the-Northeast

The Olive Green/yellow ones are American Goldfinch.  They turn Olive drab in the winter.
 
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1AVNE_enUS613US699&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=american%20goldfinch%20facts
 
The two that are black and white are Chickadees, and the little gray one with a smudge of yellow right below the wing is a Tufted Titmouse.

The Olive Green/yellow ones are American Goldfinch.  They turn Olive drab in the winter.
 
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1AVNE_enUS613US699&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=american%20goldfinch%20facts
 
The two that are black and white are Chickadees, and the little gray one with a smudge of yellow right below the wing is a Tufted Titmouse.

And if you have a boot dryer, pop them on there for the 5 minutes.

I'm out of town at a seminar and the internet is terrible so you may want to type Monarch images into a Search Engine and check them out.
 
There are many butterfly species that you can find locally and raise for fun.  Monarchs are the only species that migrate.

We are doing this with guidance from Monarch Watch, Journey North, and the Folks Butterfly Farm in order to counteract what humans have done to them.  This isn't messing with nature.  A 90% survival rate raised in a protected environment versus a 10% survival rate in contaminated nature speaks for itself.

We are doing this with guidance from Monarch Watch, Journey North, and the Folks Butterfly Farm in order to counteract what humans have done to them.  This isn't messing with nature.  A 90% survival rate raised in a protected environment versus a 10% survival rate in contaminated nature speaks for itself.

It depends on whether the spirochete was able to lay eggs in your body before the antibiotic killed it.  If so then they can live in your tissues for quite a while before they decide to hatch and see if the coast is clear.  Then you have a repeat of the same symptoms but they should be milder as long as your immune system built up antibodies to it.  We should spend our lives getting stronger by eating, drinking and sleeping well.

It depends on whether the spirochete was able to lay eggs in your body before the antibiotic killed it.  If so then they can live in your tissues for quite a while before they decide to hatch and see if the coast is clear.  Then you have a repeat of the same symptoms but they should be milder as long as your immune system built up antibodies to it.  We should spend our lives getting stronger by eating, drinking and sleeping well.

The group effort is what made the cemetery what it is today.  They established an official organization with financial records.

Congratulations on the group effort.  That's what it took to get it fixed up and it shows.

Congratulations on the group effort.  That's what it took to get it fixed up and it shows.

Bees not only pollinate most of the huge factory farms but they improve the quality of crops.  They depend on the domesticated bees for a larger harvest.
 
For the home gardener, stop spraying pesticides and learn to deal with insects naturally.  If you have an acre or more then ask a beekeeper if they would like to situate a hive there.