The Official Farming Thread...

[Bill G]

It is call harvesting not harming.

 

[jakethesnake]

I have no desire to harm wildlife.
I have blinking deterrents hung up in my back yard and for the most part they work great - till they don't during cloud coverage and when wind hangs them up onto branches.

Also, a huge close by walnut is dropping its leaves and I have seen the bird sitting in its crown eyeing my yard.

Sorry buddy. What are these blinking things hanging? I have chickens too. Little bit of a fox problem as well

 

[nbbt]

View attachment 437105Planted some garden garlic no clue if I done right but gotta start somewhere

One of our local garlic growers put out a fairly good growing guide. And the U Of Minnesota has a pdf as well.

I'll share both of their guides here.

 

[Lnk]

Sorry buddy. What are these blinking things hanging? I have chickens too. Little bit of a fox problem as well

Anything that reflects light, mobiles made from CD ROMs, they make a shiny reflective tape. We have that stuff all over. Keeps the hawks nervous. If you let your chickens get close to the woods, fox will eat real good. You are going to lose one occasionally. It has been a while since we lost anybody, probably tomorrow now. This is the season of fattening before the leanest times. Hawk activity is pretty high right now. My attempts at befriending a murder of crows is so far unsuccessful. Crows run hawks off when they find them. Just got to get the crows to hang around.

 

[Wilhelm]

Sorry buddy. What are these blinking things hanging? I have chickens too. Little bit of a fox problem as well

Proven most successful in reflecting light over a very long period of time - the coated aluminum disks out of old computer hard drives hung high & freely on a piece of waxed nylon string.
Several of them all around the yard Your chickens are held in.
The reflections are like a light show and seem to irritate predatory birds in their attempts to hunt my chicken & ducks.
Giving those disks a slight bend increases the erratic reflection of light.
I can get a picture of the disks after work.

This won't bother ground moving mammals though.
We have to lock our chickens and ducks in over night or we'd have none left within a week.
Strong fox population in my area, as well as other small predatory mammals.

P.S./Edit:
Data CD's & DVD's work too, but they reflect less and UV fade fast.

Pieces of stainless steel sheet can be used, but those are heavy and rip off in strong winds.
And they are also less reflective.

Aluminum tape oxydizes fairly fast and is less reflective too.

But, anything reflective and moving works.

 

[Lnk]

Proven most successful in reflecting light over a very long period of time - the coated aluminum disks out of old computer hard drives hung high & freely on a piece of waxed nylon string.
Several of them all around the yard Your chickens are held in.
The reflections are like a light show and seem to irritate predatory birds in their attempts to hunt my chicken & ducks.
Giving those disks a slight bend increases the erratic reflection of light.
I can get a picture of the disks after work.

This won't bother ground moving mammals though.
We have to lock our chickens and ducks in over night or we'd have none left within a week.
Strong fox population in my area, as well as other small predatory mammals.

P.S./Edit:
Data CD's & DVD's work too, but they reflect less and UV fade fast.

Pieces of stainless steel sheet can be used, but those are heavy and rip off in strong winds.
And they are also less reflective.

Aluminum tape oxydizes fairly fast and is less reflective too.

But, anything reflective and moving works.

Oh, forgot one more, pie tins too. But they have to have had pie in them first, something about cutting the pie makes the bottom reflections more erratic. Tried it both ways, definitely the ones that had pie in them work best. Also, I don't trust other peoples pie tins, seems they don't cut the pie as well as I do.

 

[Bill G]

Grandpa used pie tins...
Dad used lead

 

[greystone mountain man]

Grandpa used pie tins...
Dad used lead

I use both.

 

[Bill G]

I remember hearing the story from both Dad and Grandpa about when Dad came home with a Savage 99 chambered in 300 Savage. For those who do not know the 99 is a hell of sweet piece. Dad's piece was a open site model. They were standing at the end of the tomato field one evening looking at the gun. Shortly a Owl landed in a tree at the far end of the field. Grandpa says" I betcha a nickel you can't hit that Owl" Dad says "your on" He loads one cartridge and crack down goes the Owl.......Grandpa hands him a nickel..

 

[jblnut]

I pushed this one as far as I’m comfortable with so it’s time to stick a new rubber on here !! Tire changes are easier with the little green jacking system lol

 

[Boomer2230]

I remember hearing the story from both Dad and Grandpa about when Dad came home with a Savage 99 chambered in 300 Savage. For those who do not know the 99 is a hell of sweet piece. Dad's piece was a open site model. They were standing at the end of the tomato field one evening looking at the gun. Shortly a Owl landed in a tree at the far end of the field. Grandpa says" I betcha a nickel you can't hit that Owl" Dad says "your on" He loads one cartridge and crack down goes the Owl.......Grandpa hands him a nickel..

Your spelling is getting off. Usually here in Canada we have open sight rifles. What's the open site model?

And don't shoot owls they eat skunks.

 

[Bill G]

Your spelling is getting off. Usually here in Canada we have open sight rifles. What's the open site model?

And don't shoot owls they eat skunks.

Wow a grammar cop in the farming thread......whooda thunkit.

As for the Owl his family is not prosecuting. This was back in the 1950's. Grandpa and Dad are both in family burial plot across the road from my son.

https://www.king5.com/article/life/animals/plan-to-kill-barred-owls-set-to-begin/281-e4085f3c-a657-43aa-b572-aee7a76ca37c

 

[jblnut]

Rolled up 267 roundies to add to the 243 I did yesterday. Another good day like today and I’ll have enough for the year. Then to haul them home 22 at a time


Also took the auger down from the last bin today. Looked neat up there so I snagged a photo.

 

[Bill G]

I think I got the good out of this tire.

 

[jblnut]

I think I got the good out of this tire.

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Grandpa always said “it ain’t junk until you can see the air sticking out”.

I chickened out with the one I changed lol. Didn’t want to do it on the side of the road in the dark. Always seems to happen that way.

 

[jakethesnake]

*s-word cuts bad

 

[jakethesnake]

Hen hatched some chicks

 

[JimBear]

The beans are rather dry



I have heard of double cropping but harvesting two at the same time is is something I have never seen.
Zoom in, it’s full of rye. This chit may need screened when coming out of the bin.





They collected a bunch of antlers today as well





Lots of reports of corn testing around 12% - 13% as well.

 

[jakethesnake]

The beans are rather dry

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I have heard of double cropping but harvesting two at the same time is is something I have never seen.
Zoom in, it’s full of rye. This chit may need screened when coming out of the bin.

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They collected a bunch of antlers today as well

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Lots of reports of corn testing around 12% - 13% as well.

How’d the beans do in the rye

 

[JimBear]

How’d the beans do in the rye

Most are Running in the mid 50’s - mid 60’s, some came in around 70. the beans planted into the tall heavy rye aren’t as tall but but the bean size is much larger. They are nasty dirty though.

The beans they are in now were planted into rye that was put on at about 70# acre,