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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Either I missed some emails in the past 6 months to a year or my memory is 
shot to hell, how long have you been a grandparent??.  I know one is serving 
our country??  

If the baby is allergic to milk , wouldn't that be any milk? Soy milk is 
terrible, but maybe a taste can be acquired from infancy.  Is it a little boy 
or girl?  You shouldn't give soy milk to boys. 

'sorry to hear about the missing chickens, but I love watching birds of prey. 
 If it was affordable, and I in your situation, I would buy an extra couple 
of boxes of chicks and let them live wild, to keep the hawks satisfied.

If you ever get any good pics of birds of prey in action, please post them.  
I have some large  19th century books with hand colored silver engravings and 
others with color lithos  and chromos of birds of prey  (buried somewhere in 
storage).  Seeing the action live is far superior.

Are your fruit trees all full size or are some semi-dwarfs for easier 
picking.  I just bought a bunch of nectarines, the peaches I bought last week 
were huge and beautiful, but after ripened , had no sweetness.


.... bobford


--- On Sat, 8/23/08, Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Back in the saddle again
> To: "Homestead List" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 9:42 AM
> An update from the Akka Homestead..
> I quit my job last week, and am back, at least temporarily,
> on the
> homestead full time.  It is amazing how trashed the
> property can become
> in a few years of neglect, so I've been trying to clean
> up this snake 
> pit. A run to the dump and then to the metal yard is in
> order.
> I've harvested and processed blueberries, peaches, and
> very soon, 
> apples.  I have Spokane Beauty(they are HUGE), Arkansas
> Black and and OF 
> Red Delicious.  All trees are loaded, and this is the
> first time I have 
> ever gotten any Spokane Beauty apples and more than one
> apple from the 
> Arkansas Black tree.  It has been a banner year for all
> sorts of fruit, and it is still not over as I still have
> apples, pears, and figs on the tree..
> Predators have taken all but 6 hens.  I had about 14 or 15
> birds 6 weeks ago..  I haven't lost a bird in a few
> weeks now, but that's because the remaining girls are
> roosting in the trees.  So, we are building a new
> fortress/run onto the coop.  They will still be able to use
> the chicken moat, but they will have a more secured area
> outside the coop that will be a safe haven from hawks,
> possums, etc.  Overall, I think I have lost more birds to
> winged predators (hawks, owls, falcons, and eagles) than to
> furry beasts.  They even fly into the chicken moat and go
> into the coop after the chickens.  Falcons are amazing
> birds.  I'll start over with some chicks in the Spring,
> probably buy 100 straight runs and put what I don't want
> to keep in the freezer.  
> The only animals I have at the moment are the chickens, but
> I am hoping to do some fence renovation and buy some
> Katahdins.  We miss having lamb in the freezer, and the
> Katahdins worked great for us before.  I just found out,
> too, that my grandbaby has a milk allergy, so you know where
> that might lead me...lol...when it comes to goats though,
> any excuse will do!
> 
> Akka B
> 
> 
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