glenolam's madness - April passed away

[savingdogs]

I'm glad I checked in here real quick. Resting up from chores. Front yard looks great so far!

You are tooooooo funny.

 

[sekinkead]

glen - that was a great story!

 

[glenolam]

KATIEGIRL!!!!


YOU'RE A GRANDMA AT 30!!!!

What the hell did you do to these eggs before sending them to me? Give them freaking steriods or something? I mean, they're putting my eggs to shame, hatching on day 19 and all! WTH??? One has already hatched and AT LEAST 3 more have pipped! I'm just baffled and amazed....


Maybe they heard about my encounter with Joey and want to stay on my good side....

 

[savingdogs]

What a cool pic! that looks exactly like the incubator I just bought.

 

[moolie]

Too funny about "Grandma"

They are so tiny and helpless looking when they first pop out, it's amazing how quickly they grow up.

 

[Denim Deb]

I can hardly wait to get an incubator now!

 

[TanksHill]

AWWW!!!!

 

[glenolam]

One more hatched over night, this one is a buff colored chick with black stripes.

Then there's several more pipped - some are even from my hens!!!

Whew....I thought for a minute that katie's chicks did something to my chicks....kind of like a hostile takeover to dominate the hen house

 

[glenolam]

Sorry PCC - I realized I never even answered your questions!

The soaps you make look awesome, how much milk do you use for a "batch"?

A 4# batch (which is usually 1 log's worth) requires anywhere from 15-17oz of milk. I typically make 8# batches, but still freeze the milk in ~16oz bags just in case I only want to do a small batch.

Man, there are soooo many more question I could ask, I guess I'm gonna have to reseach this more!!! We've got 6 people in our house, and believe you me, Momma does a LOT of laundry, can you use this soap as laundry soap?

From what I've been told, no. I guess I could make a lye-heavy laundry bar with no milk...something like a 100% coconut oil bar. I just went and bought some Fels Naptha bars from Walmart....they were $0.97 each so I figured that was just easier than making my own, waiting for it to cure, finding out I did it wrong....etc.

How long till you get your barn/shed from CL?

We can pick it up Saturday May 14th. I'm so excited about it. It's in such good condition and now that I don't spray milk everywhere when milking it'll stay clean! I'm going to put some walls or linolium floor on the floors/walls so it wipes off easily, but that'll come in due time!

 

[popcorn chicken]

Hey,,, Thanks for the info!!! I'm still on the fence about this goat thing haha.

The kids like showing them in 4H, and we've done a couple of open shows that were local, but that's it. We sold 2 wethers in the 4H auction last year so that helped a little as far as the fed bill goes (the kids do get "some" of the money). But I'd rather raise something I know everyone will eat, and that's PIGS!!!

We're kicking around the idea of getting rid of the 7 Boers, and keeping the 2 Togg does (mother & daughter) and then getting a couple of hogs in their place, but we'll see, none of the kids have expressed an interest in show pigs in 4H. Their cousins do, so I don't think it'll be a hard sell, if ya know what I mean.

Nice chick pics anymore on the "floor"???