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by WLLady
Thu Apr 27, 2023 12:56 pm
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning - 2023
Replies: 431
Views: 45597

Re: Good Morning - 2023

So there's a lot of "bad" imported honey hitting the market here. dirt cheap, and full of glucose/fructose syrup! From overseas. sigh. And the hive losses from last winter (winter 2021) means the 2022 honey which is now on the shelf is expensive-supply is down and with fuel costs sky high, labour co...
by WLLady
Wed Apr 26, 2023 4:05 pm
Forum: I'm New Here Introductions
Topic: Popping in to say HI!
Replies: 6
Views: 18011

Re: Popping in to say HI!

Welcome!!!!! glad to have you here!
What kind of chickens? hatching is the BEST LOL.
by WLLady
Wed Apr 26, 2023 4:05 pm
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning - 2023
Replies: 431
Views: 45597

Re: Good Morning - 2023

heard a very quick 3 shots just off the next property from me this morning....thinking there was disappointment on the other end of the gun LOL. Seeing birds every day in my field. don't have a tag. won't get one either for this spring, the thought of recoil...well. i have a loose screw in my hardwa...
by WLLady
Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:37 am
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning - 2023
Replies: 431
Views: 45597

Re: Good Morning - 2023

https://london.ctvnews.ca/30-000-chicks-stolen-from-huron-county-farmer-1.6364564 Why would anyone want to steal 30,000 chicks? Sell them for money? Wow someone upset about paying bird costs as well as quota? That's commercial level, no way they'd move that many chicks to backyard farmers, and they...
by WLLady
Thu Apr 20, 2023 9:06 am
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning - 2023
Replies: 431
Views: 45597

Re: Good Morning - 2023

That's pretty much what it looked like at my place those 2 nights. haven't seen it since, or before!
by WLLady
Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:58 am
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning - 2023
Replies: 431
Views: 45597

Re: Good Morning - 2023

thegawd No, I didn't snap any pics. But poultry_admin and I watched for a little while both of us remarking that it looked like something really big was on fire somewhere over there! We saw that 2 nights in a row, and it wasn't until I got back on FB and saw people asking what it was that I clued i...
by WLLady
Wed Apr 19, 2023 8:08 pm
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning - 2023
Replies: 431
Views: 45597

Re: Good Morning - 2023

we could see that light pillar from here!!! pretty incredible!!
by WLLady
Mon Apr 17, 2023 2:57 pm
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning - 2023
Replies: 431
Views: 45597

Re: Good Morning - 2023

LOL TomK I left most of the FB poultry groups for precisely that same thing. Like come on people! No fence, no protection, free ranging, late winter, nowhere for the birds to get into that the predator can't follow.....puhleeeeese! There was one that said "but why couldn't they go into the coop and ...
by WLLady
Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:40 am
Forum: Gardening
Topic: 2023 veggie garden
Replies: 74
Views: 33764

Re: 2023 veggie garden

the seed pods on cercis are really flat and about 2-3 inches long and exactly the same colour as the bark and dead leaves and seem to be very clustered together....maybe just being missed? the ones on my tree fell with leaf fall too....
by WLLady
Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:26 pm
Forum: Gardening
Topic: 2023 veggie garden
Replies: 74
Views: 33764

Re: 2023 veggie garden

@Killerbunny there are some named cultivars of cercis that are sterile and do not set seed. they are still great for bees and butterflies!

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