Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

edited my post ross so you could see.

I always keep enough buckets refilled from my barn well to do at least 1 round of watering in case power goes out (well is a distance from the barn & it's a pain to haul that many buckets back and forth if power is out or pump dies) Anyway, my bees are ALWAYS ringing the bucket rims-they like the bl...

I used to raise blue and black swedish-they are nice full sized ducks-lay well (if it's a girl!) Ross asked for a pic of adults-so added it here. I had blue and blacks, (in this pic there are also 2 rouen boys we later processed) and also Silver Appleyards. There is one badly marked one (not a bib b...

15949 Should work, I have done it before. Will be doing our Wolf River apple and Snow apple any day now, before the trees die of old age...at 100+ years could be any day! i haven't had a wolf river apple in about 10 years-they are monster apples-one makes a whole pie lol. Snow apples and Thomlin Sw...

hey black walnuts are wonderful if you get the tree I have one that I put the compost under it so it's perfect because I don't expect anything to grow under it, except in the actual compost up to this year I got one! one of the babies sprouted under mama so I have another walnut to plant somewhere e...

23877 23875 nice work la-chicken! I am concentrating on breadth this year for my stock. I have good low pea combs and yellow legs so Ethan's last suggestions for me were to concentrate on length & breadth of body frame. Adding some of Lay stock a few years back helped a lot. But, DO NOT over look t...

nice work la-chicken!
I am concentrating on breadth this year for my stock. I have good low pea combs and yellow legs so Ethan's last suggestions for me were to concentrate on length & breadth of body frame.
Adding some of Lay stock a few years back helped a lot.

Good morning! We got prob 1/2 inch rain some time during the night but all it did was leave little puddles in leaves in the yard for the wild birds and my bees to drink from (I leave lots of water out for bees but saw some wild ones today). The ground is bone dry under the leaves. Hubby left truck w...

23107 speaking of 6 packs..... shepherds! Just an update-girl 1 went to her new home yesterday, Other little girl is on a trial run now with a family as of Thursday eve. I gave them a week to see if their current rescue dog could be trained to accept her. And they could be trained to take care of m...

Killerbunny wrote:I wonder if the coons are after water too. Seems the chipmunks are around here.

One of the ones I got was by catching it in the turkey's rain barrel. It has a heavy lid but I'd been getting water for the cats and forgot to cover it over, just the one day! That coon's unlucky day.