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[snailaquarium]

Simply insane! I will never live in Florida!

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Did you eat the deer meat then? What's it taste like?

It's a bit like really lean beef. I've had a few friends who said they didn't like game meat. Not one has ever felt that way after sitting down to my venison pot roast.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Bambi is hurt...

Nah. I made a good shot. He barely felt a thing.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Nah. I made a good shot. He barely felt a thing.

Usually they don’t feel anything, Ha!

 

[WhistlingBadger]

My neighbor used to go bear hunting and fry doughnuts in the bear fat. Said they were the best doughnuts hed ever tasted

It's true. Bear fat is most excellent for frying. I use it to treat leather and waterproof wood arrows, too. Great stuff. (I don't hunt bears [yet] but I have friends who do)

 

[Retired Viking]

We use to have a venison feed every year after hunting season put on by the DNR where they invited EMS, fire, sheriff and all the part time DNR wardens to the state park HQ and we enjoyed venison stew, smoked salmon, and drinks, It was a good time but that stopped in the 90s. They made really good stew, better than mine.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

We have seen six monarch butterflies in our yard so far this summer, more than the last ten years combined. And the Badgerling has already found five very tiny caterpillars. I read that numbers on the wintering grounds are still way, way down, but the first wave of the northern migration (into the southern USA) had a terrific breeding season. I guess that's why we're seeing more. How are they in the rest of the US?

We have tons of milkweed in our pasture and along our ditches, so we just officially registered our place as a Monarch Waystation with Monarchwatch.

 

[JuiceBox52]

"Alexa, can chickens eat strawberries?"

"No, a strawberry is not a venomous chicken"

Thanks Alexa, you definitely answered my brothers question

 

[Crispii]

This is some pretty heavy stuff:

 

[Crispii]

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[JuiceBox52]

:ɔ
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[Colin_T]

"Alexa, can chickens eat strawberries?"

"No, a strawberry is not a venomous chicken"

Thanks Alexa, you definitely answered my brothers question

LOL

Chickens can eat strawberries and most other fruits. They usually ignore citrus and you don't feed animals onions or onion relatives (leeks, spring onion, shallots, garlic), and no potatoe.

They also love live insects and earthworms and if you have an earthworm farm, you can give the birds a handful of worms once a week. You can also culture crickets, mealworms and other insects for them to eat.

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Don't feed chickens on a commercial poultry growing food because they usually contain low dose anti-biotics that cause drug resistant bacteria. Chicken laying pellets don't normally contain anti-biotics but check the ingredients.

You can feed them a mix of different seeds as part of a varied diet. You can buy bags of wheat, sunflower, millet, corn and other grains from most stock feeders. Mix them up in a container and throw it around the yard or have it in a bowl for them.

 

[JuiceBox52]

LOL

Chickens can eat strawberries and most other fruits. They usually ignore citrus and you don't feed animals onions or onion relatives (leeks, spring onion, shallots, garlic), and no potatoe.

They also love live insects and earthworms and if you have an earthworm farm, you can give the birds a handful of worms once a week. You can also culture crickets, mealworms and other insects for them to eat.

Yeah I had already fed them the strawberries but my brothers were asking all sorts of questions lol

 

[PhantomCarp]

We have seen six monarch butterflies in our yard so far this summer, more than the last ten years combined. And the Badgerling has already found five very tiny caterpillars. I read that numbers on the wintering grounds are still way, way down, but the first wave of the northern migration (into the southern USA) had a terrific breeding season. I guess that's why we're seeing more. How are they in the rest of the US?

We have tons of milkweed in our pasture and along our ditches, so we just officially registered our place as a Monarch Waystation with Monarchwatch.

Here in New England I have seen 1 monarch this year.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

We have seen six monarch butterflies in our yard so far this summer, more than the last ten years combined. And the Badgerling has already found five very tiny caterpillars. I read that numbers on the wintering grounds are still way, way down, but the first wave of the northern migration (into the southern USA) had a terrific breeding season. I guess that's why we're seeing more. How are they in the rest of the US?

We have tons of milkweed in our pasture and along our ditches, so we just officially registered our place as a Monarch Waystation with Monarchwatch.

I currently have over 20 monarch caterpillars that are in crisalis stage. The others 20ish are babies or eggs. I do this every year, and find them wild on my milkweed.

I will upload pictures later. Its cool that another person is doing this.