Re: BD and steam
Christine , thank you for the info I will follow up and let you know the outcome, regards Ross - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:18 PM Subject: Re: BD and steam > > Hi Ross, > > There is another company in Australia (Adelaide) marketing a steam weeder > especially for under vines called 'Vaporjet'. They also have photos of a > modified version for [vegetables?] asparagus that a grower made himself. > The company's name is 'travohtec', PO Box 2162, Port Adelaide Business > Centre, SA 5015; ph 08-8347 7499; fax 08-8347 7599; email > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact person: Chris Travers 0407 976 033. > > Christiane > >
Re: Peace Seeds & cannibals
My two cents In a study that the Swedish agricultural department have done 5/10 years ago, they tested to give the chickens not a mix of food but all separate and they say that the chickens find what they need and eat what they have to. They did this in 100 pages or more in Swedish, so formulate your own feed. I don't do this my self, so live and learn, to much and hard to purchase for a hobby farmer. Ameraucanas, are a very nice bird, but they all get sick very fast, 2 years if your lucky, sorry. Per Garp/NH - Original Message - From: "Merla Barberie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:24 PM Subject: Re: Peace Seeds & cannibals > I'm wondering if anyone feeds their chickens bought chicken feed and if so > what. I saw a beautiful flock of mixed breeds which I couldn't identify > when I was in Moscow, Idaho, staying at a farm which markets on the > Farmers Market and at the Coop. They have to get their certified organic > feed from Canada through relatives there--They use 16% Layer Mash from In > Season Farms, 27831 Huntington Road, Aldergrove, B.C. V4X1B6, as well as > green stuff from kitchen and greenhouses. They complained that their > rooster was too rough and they wanted to get another, but the hens were > plump and I couldn't see any holes in their feathers. They looked great. > They get $3.00/dozen for their eggs. > > I'm real interested in feeding regimes. Also in the availability of > organic feed and its relative cost compared to conventional feed. > > Merla > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ... > > > > Chickens: I needed to get a new start (my 5 hens are ancient), so > > Saturday was 'chicken day'. I bought a mixed flock, from 2 different > > sources. (4 each, Ameraucanas, Buff Orpingtons and Barred > > Rocks)... > > >
Re: Peace Seeds & cannibals
No health problems with Ameraucanas here, except the foxes. Mine have always been healthy and I, too, love them and their pretty blue eggs (in my case) Per - What's in the Swedish free-choice buffet for chickens? -Allan
Re: Plastic trash (was Largest Oil Spill in the World)
I'm a long-retired marine biologist living on the South Wales (UK) coast. Even 20 years ago, plankton samples taken off this south-westerly shore contained more fragments of plastic than plants or animals and, searching shore windrows for micro-gastropod shells, I again found a high proportion of such fragments. It can only have got worse since then! However, it's wrong to say that plastics never degrade. I understand that a typical item will largely have disappeared within 350 to 400 years (!). Tony N-S. _ Express yourself with cool emoticons http://messenger.msn.co.uk
Re: Guineafowl (was Update on cannibals ... )
Martha - Do your guineafowl show any signs of intelligence ? Some years back, we kept peafowl, guineas and several varieties of fancy pheasant. The peafowl roosted as high as they could (tall trees, the peak of the roof, wherever). The pheasants were in large aviaries, mainly to stop them mixing (we had, for example, a Reeves who was a real killer). The guineas were free-range, for a little while; but they chose to roost no more than two feet off the ground and we lost most of them to a fox before we twigged. As for noise, try a peacock above your bedroom window at four in the morning! One day, we had a visit from the recently arrived local policeman, looking very serious. A passing tourist had, he said, heard a girl crying for help from our house in the early morning. It took an age to convince him that it was only a peacock. Tony N-S. _ Overloaded with spam? With MSN 8, you can filter it out http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID=32&DI=1059
intelligence?
I've raised guineas before and nope, I don't think I'd ever use the word 'intelligence' in the same sentence as guineafowl. These 2 new ones are no exception. I had to go shoo them off the henhouse front wall several times, just so the new pullets wouldn't pile up on each other and smother in fear of the noisy roommates. Finally, I decided I couldn't spend all day at that so I shooed guineas out of the barn. They raced out and screamed at Candy, never having seen a llama before. Candy wasn't impressed (llamas are the silent types.) I'd already spent over an hour coaxing Candy back into the goat yard from out on the road. I didn't need her deciding to leave again so I shooed them away from her. It's suspiciously QUIET out there right now. Hopefully they've hooked up with the chickens somewhere, or decided to just go back home. When we had guineas before, John had a gaggle of insurance sales reps sitting in the kitchen, trying to sell him something or other. These were definitely city boys, kept turning around to look at the 'farm life' just outside. My guineas thought it great fun to hop onto the roof of the hog shed, chase each other in a slide off the thing, then go screaming around to the other side to do it again and again. One young man finally asked me "What ARE those birds, anyhow?" On second thought, i'm not sure which has the higher IQ, a guinea or an insurance rep.
Re: Update on cannibals / goat news / questions for seed starting
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:02 PM Subject: Update on cannibals / goat news / questions for seed starting Martha, i really appreciate your (educational)sharing about the chickens,types,habits etc.as one who has so far not had the conditions to keep some. This may change this year, and i'd like to know more of these basics which you and others may share. In prior times, Guinea fowl kept pecking my lettuce leavessame as the peacocks. I dont know if there were insect targets on the leaves, but there were leafbits missing. For seed starting, i use plain, grower-quality (no additives/wetting agents)coarse-shredded (not the very finest) peatmoss, sifted or rubbed well-composted leafmold, fairly fine paramagnetic rockpowder, washed concrete sand, medium sized growers'vermiculite, sifted mature garden/manure compost, pre-saved dry topsoil from the garden, and sometimes perlite. The mixratio is an art, influenced by the heaviness/stickiness of the components...especially the topsoil/compost. Because of the volumes, i use the standard white trays (so i can greasepencil/different colours on them ..re-used..on 4 different edges.. each year. And standard thin plastic inserts...3 different sizes. Later ,tomatoes go into scavenged 4" plastic pots. I use terra cotta when i can find them used. This year i also plan to use some standing- height soilblockers which i got at an auction. (although some bd person said it wasn't a good idea to use themcant remember why). .manfred >
FW: Beautiful flash film - Visions of protest from around theworld...
Title: FW: Beautiful flash film - Visions of protest from around the world... GREETINGS FOLKS - This is a beautiful flash film . . . I highly recommend people check it out: http://www.usgreens.org Visions of protest from around the world on Saturday - designed by an activist in Baltimore, Maryland. Ben Manski Green Party of the United States Co-Chair, Steering Committee www.GP.org .
Violets as Soil Indicators
Title: Violets as Soil Indicators Hello All, I was wondering if anyone could tell me what a preponderance of violets within what was once presumably lawn in my back yard? They have taken over. I didn’t see mention of them in the Pfeiffer “Weeds & What they Tell”. I did see a bit of wild strawberries mixed in so I was wondering if the violets indicate an overly acidic soil? Please don’t advise me to get the soil tested, as I will do that as soon as the two feet of snow melts & I can get it to my Ag extension agents. Also, I eat the flowers & leaves, make tincture from them including the roots, dry the flowers & admire them! Anything y’all do with your violet odorata? Thanks for any insights. Jane Sherry
Re: intelligence?
Guinea intelligence is an oxymoron. Humor! Now that's something they live. In my suburban neighborhood the fools like to car-watch. Sometimes they stop and then trot along beside a vehicle as it slows for them, and if they're in the mood, will chase the car on foot until it gets away. Their cat pal keeps his eye on them. When they insist on stopping traffic by just standing in the middle of the street, he will walk up behind one of them, sniff its butt, sending them squawking, flying like a streak for the safety of my roof. Most sundowns and sunups they perform their sun dance on "their" roof, singing through most of their vocabulary while they race each other from front to back, back to front. But then their mindlessness seems to be rubbing off on the cat. Now he sometimes sits just outside their nest, guarding it, when both are temporarily away. When they get the notion, they call me out to play, either from the front screen door or if that fails, they actually come to just outside the nearest window to my location in the house to call, at first softly They do keep me laughing, and best of all, roach and mosquito free in swamp city aka central Florida. I've raised ducks and geese here, and guineas are the funniest of the three, not menacing to others like the geese, and not alligator bait as the ducks. Patti
Re: intelligence?
Has anyone ever observed guinea fowl that were actually raised by parent guinea fowl? I wonder if they are so apparently dumb because they are missing the transference of guinea fowl culture (as in, how dumb would human babies grow up to be if they were raised without human adults or access to human culture)/ At least this might be one explanation of their apparent idiocy. How do these birds survive the predators in their native Africa? They sure don't last very long on our farm in Virginia (though we do have two who have been around for several years while others have come and eventually been eaten by various predators.
