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    It's gone very quiet over here...

    Oh, Yes, Maybe they did. Work on it quickly. It can get to be a severe case...
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    It's gone very quiet over here...

    @MoonShadows Maybe but I would think it would take a little longer for your chickens to get them enough for you to suspect or see them.... Should have taken my free mop do....LOL he was raised in my dining room and none of mine have bugs...Even though he is not as pretty as Phil's.... LOL You...
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    It's gone very quiet over here...

    @MoonShadows Remember I asked you if your birds had bugs???? They have had them for a while now.... Diatom powder and wood ash in the sand bath is good. I know they love to take baths in lime powder bet that keeps them away. If you grab the chicken and move the feathers away from the ear...
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    It's gone very quiet over here...

    We have been going non stop. Yesterday, after picking up allot of branches and large twigs out of our 2 and half acres, took a very very large trailer full of them to the place we deposit them. Cleaned the chickens very well. That always happens on every Saturday unless something is going on...
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    A New Garden Pond in the Pocono Mountains

    Oh boy, I can believe it would be filled with water be last evening. I don't think I ever way as heavy a rain as at noon yesterday. I am glad I brought a second jacket or I would have got sick. I don't see any rocks in your first pics. WHY???? We expect progress pictures by Sunday.....;)
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    Alice, My Very Special Pet

    So Little Alice is not an angel. You have to be devoted to your pets and over look some things....LOL... So since the first winter she had to spend all her time in half my kitchen, she was not really happy....By the end of winter and spring began she was trying to find anyway to get out of her...
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    Alice, My Very Special Pet

    She would eat the kitty litter. Her favorite thing to do is eat snow....LOL
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    Alice, My Very Special Pet

    Oh yes, I just bought a batch on sale. That's the only way I do anything, large volume on sale. I picked up about 3000 on sale no shipping....That will last me 6 months. My dogs, Willow and Wisteria, also use wee wee pads. They don't use as many as Alice but the do "compete" in the wee wee...
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    Alice, My Very Special Pet

    @sumi That is very cool to be able to see them in their natural land. I don;t think you saw Alice types. They are from very north Africa. @frustratedearthmother Alice loves loves the snow... Sometimes I am not home all day and this is what I come home to.... This is her wee wee pads. She...
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    Alice, My Very Special Pet

    Little Alice I would like to tell you about Little Alice, our pet. She is a Geochelone sulcata or Spur Thigh Tortoise. They are native to Africa though she was hatched in the usa. We got her handed down from a very old friend. She had Alice for 5 years, now we have had her for almost 2 years...
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    Adding new chickens to our flock

    Why, did a big yellow streak fly by this morning???? :lol::lol: "Sunny-Side-Up" wouldn't have been out today for it was a little wet where the snow is melting on the roads...:celebrate
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    Adding new chickens to our flock

    Don't know who you are asking but I didn't pass you today...my mop do is a young boy but knows his way around the world already..
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    Adding new chickens to our flock

    I know Tom and Jane. I knew Little Phil when he was about 16. What a cutie he was.....I must go visit them one day soon.....
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    Tomatillo Salsa (home canned)

    I may have to try them right off the vine. I just never thought of doing that. They are also in the night shade family so they very well may get blight.
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    Adding new chickens to our flock

    Oh my gosh.....I know them very well.....if you talk to them again, tell them you know Barb from Lil Betta in Andover....LOL OMGosh!!!! I love them...We moved a fish tank in the farm house so they could have a B rated movie made there...that was a million years ago.... They were my...
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    Adding new chickens to our flock

    Nice bird. Where did you go to get him? I really don't have any regular ones for you..but you can still have my "mop do".....for free....today.....LOL
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    Adding new chickens to our flock

    @MoonShadows ???? Want my little boy??? I can run him over right now....He may take care of himself quite well....
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    Tomatillo Salsa (home canned)

    Thanks re: pantry shelves. My labels are cheap and easy to find. The big thing is that they don't leave sticky stuff on the jar when taking it off. You can get any size at walmart. See how they peal on last picture??? No mess on the jar. I keep 1500 jars on my shelves and just can't spend...
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    Tomatillo Salsa (home canned)

    I grew tomatillos one year by accident. There were about 6 plants in with my regular tomatoes. I had fun with them and it exposed me to a new food. I was not going to let those beautiful little things go to waste even though I had never ate them. Tomatillo Salsa - makes 2 pints 3 pounds...
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