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RE: I Finally Got My Vegetables Planted:)
What a nice pile of chicken litter. We have a little duck litter to use and a whole lot of sheep manure (170 sheep) to amend our 3 veggie gardens (45'x25', 75'x10', and 10'x10') and our landscaping. We cleaned out the barnyard (haven't started on the barn stalls) and now have a pile of sheep manure for composing in one garden bed as large as your pile of chiken litter.
We have 3 varieties of paste tomatoes (8 plants), red & yellow bell peppers, tomatillos, hot pepper, lettuce, spinach, peas, sugar snap peas, bush beans, black beans, melons, garlic, broccoli, squash, sweet yellow corn, cucumber, and a few other things I'm forgetting.
My wife wants to get a 6-8 fruit trees, establish a row of black berries, increase the size of her strawberry patch, and get rhubarb planted (PIES!).
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BCSnob
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06/07/13 05:16am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: could anti flea/tick goo be too powerful for our dogs?
What you want are R&D test kennels with every breed of dog for testing all drugs before being approved for sale on the market, breed specific doses and side effects should be determined for every drug, and there should be breed specific dose packages.
Perhaps instead of testing drugs on breeds with varying levels of genetic mutations to assess for "sensitivities" across the various breeds; breeders and breed organizations should be breeding dogs with fewer genetic mutations (more like the less sensitive test beagles).
IMO when drugs are found to be safe with beagles but not other breeds; the problem is not with the drug but with the genetics of the other breeds (excluding the size differences).
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BCSnob
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06/05/13 10:43am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: could anti flea/tick goo be too powerful for our dogs?
Safety testing required before products are registered may be inadequate. Specifically, Farwell said the beagle is the standard laboratory animal used for companion-animal safety studies, but that breed is not sensitive to spot-on products. “The beagle is not the appropriate animal,” he said. He did not say what changes, if any, the agency would propose on testing protocol.""Perhaps because the "senstive" breeds are more inbred/less genetically robust (have genetic mutations), in much the same way Collies are "sensitive" to ivermectin due to the MDR1 genetic mutation.
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BCSnob
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06/05/13 07:41am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: could anti flea/tick goo be too powerful for our dogs?
Or you could simply measure out the spot on drug based upon your dog's weight.
Herein lies the problem with prepackaged drugs. Drug doses are typically based upon body weight; however, companies cannot prepackage drugs for every body weight. So they prepackage drugs in weight ranges. If the body weight falls at either end of the weight ranges the drug dose will be at the minimum effective dose or possibly near the maximum safe dose.
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BCSnob
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06/05/13 07:38am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: could anti flea/tick goo be too powerful for our dogs?
NO, I sure would not. Some small breed dogs have problems even with the correct dosage. If you have not opened it why not just return it?I would not be surprised if some small dogs (<10lbs) are getting too much volume of drug when the entire amount of the smallest weight package is used.
The max dose/lb calculations above indicate any dog under 11.3lbs getting the entire small dog package would exceed what the drug company has setup as the max dose/lb for the larger dogs.
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BCSnob
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06/05/13 05:31am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: could anti flea/tick goo be too powerful for our dogs?
You don't say what treatment you have.
I know for fact that ALL Frontline weight sizes have the same concentration of active ingredients (%drug in liquid); the only change is the total amount of liquid. This information is clearly listed on the packages and the product inserts.
Use Frontline Plus for Dogs (fipronil 9.8% and S-methoprene 8.8%) on dogs and puppies 8 weeks or older. Frontline Plus for Dogs is available as 0.67 ml applicators for use on dogs and puppies up to 22 lbs, 1.34 ml applicators for dogs 23-44 lbs, 2.68 ml applicators for dogs 45-88 lbs and 4.02 ml applicators for dogs 89-132 lbs.
We use this FACT (same drug concentration) to save money by purchasing the largest weight size and then measuring out some of the liquid for each dog based upon its weight.
0.67mL will treat up to 22lbs: 0.67mL/22lbs = 0.03mL/lb
1.34mL will treat up to 44lbs: 1.34mL/44lbs = 0.03mL/lb
2.67mL will treat up to 88lbs: 2.67mL/88lbs = 0.03mL/lb
4.02mL will treat up to 132lbs: 4.02mL/132lbs = 0.03mL/lb
I simply draw out of the package with a syringe&needle the desired volume of drug, remove the needle from the syringe, and then apply to the back of our dogs with the blunt end of the syringe. Any left over drug I save in a glass vial for the next time we treat.
The weight ranges also provide you with what the drug company thinks are safe maximum doses.
1.34mL will treat from 23lbs = 0.058mL/lb
2.67mL will treat from 45lbs = 0.059mL/lb
4.02mL will treat from 89lbs = 0.045mL/lb
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BCSnob
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06/05/13 05:18am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: Presumptuous Visitors
If Sam, our Livestock Guardian Dog, had not been convalescing from a probably snakebite to his paw; the visitors would have been greeted at their car before they could get out.
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BCSnob
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06/04/13 09:58am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Presumptuous Visitors
I got a better description of what happened. My wife was in the yard when they pulled up and got out. She was waiting for them to come to her, instead they called over their daughter grew up,here and they were going to look around with her. They had their hand on the field gate when my wife ran up and told them this was private property. He still wasn't turning around until there was a bit more conversation about how the farm had been sold since they had rented the farm house.
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BCSnob
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06/03/13 04:29pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Presumptuous Visitors
My wife was alone, did not know these people, and they never stopped at the house.
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BCSnob
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06/03/13 03:04pm |
Around the Campfire
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Presumptuous Visitors
My wife had to run visitors off our farm today.
She said they pulled down our 1/4 mile long drive, got out of their car, and proceeded to tour the farm without ever stopping at the house. My wife went out and asked "can I help you". The man's response was, we used to live here for 10 years (rented more than 5 years ago) and we wanted to show our daughter where we lived. He never called the person he rented from to get permission for the visit, nor did they consider the farm was no longer owned by the person from whom they rented.
Who raised these people and what did they teach their daughter?
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BCSnob
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06/03/13 10:22am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Scottish Collie
Scotch Collie is a type of dog not a breed in the same way a pit bull is a type of dog not a breed. People trying to revive the Scotch Collie are trying to create a new breed to look like what Collies used to be 100 years ago before show breeders altered the looks and lost the working ability of Collies. Also, collie is the term used in the UK for herding dogs.
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BCSnob
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06/03/13 05:10am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: Scottish Collie
livestock guardian dogs
Lots of good info here on working LSGs; click on one of the breed photos at the top of the webpage for more info on that breed of LGD. You want one from working lines, or tested on livestock, if you want it to protect stock against serious predators.
The Anatolian Shepherd Dog Rescue League has "Buddy in NC" (1 year old) listed for adoption, Buddy has been tested with livestock.
Our Sam (Maremma Sheepdog) does let us know when strangers show up on the farm. When Soil Conservation people were on the farm he stayed between them and his sheep the entire time. Once he sees us greet farm vistors he is more likley to be friendly with vistors. When a stray dog showed up, he stood between it and his sheep barking at the stray. He runs off the fox, I'm not sure if we've had coytes on the farm since we got Sam so I don't know what he will do with them.
Great Pyrenees are supposed to be the most people friendly of the most common LGDs; they also have the most coat.
Maremmas are supposed to be a bit more aloof with strangers and have less coat that Pyrenees.
Anatolian Shepherds and Akbash are supposed to be the least friendly with strangers and more agressive with preditors (will kill stray dogs and coyotes). Anatolians have short coats.
LGDs work by warning threats with barking.
Mark
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BCSnob
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06/02/13 06:34pm |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: Towing with a Van
Cargo van - not a good ideaThat's just your opinion. Our cargo van has worked well for us for 12 years.
Saved us from storing and then moving to a new house and storing the bench seats
Comes standard with rubber mat flooring
Easier to clean out the van after hauling hay
The extra few inches of head height without the ceiling vents is helpful in stacking dog crates
to list a few benefits
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BCSnob
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05/28/13 10:11am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Who was president the year of your birth?
JFK
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BCSnob
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05/28/13 05:47am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Got stuck.....
I can tell you from experience, don't take a diesel 4X4 onto questionable ground unless you have a buddy nearby to get you out. The weight of the engine takes you right down to the frost line.Down all of 2" to the frost line on the eastern shore of MD.:B
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BCSnob
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05/23/13 04:48am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Switched from Suburban to Van
A front receiver would be better.
Our recovery hook and installation was free.
There's not much on the front of a van to hook a chain to, and either is better than nothing. Above all, when the tires slip; don't just sit there spinning digging a deeper hole.
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BCSnob
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05/21/13 11:12am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Got stuck.....
How long did you let the drive tire spin to sink it up to the rim?
Even new tires (except mudders) will fill up with mud with very little spinning.
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BCSnob
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05/21/13 09:10am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Switched from Suburban to Van
McKesh mirrors help with visibility towing and backing up.
I had a recovery hook installed to the frame on the front of our van (our van did not come with one). We've gotten stuck a few times while camping in fields at sheepherding trials and the hook gives us a place to attach a chain to pull the van out.
Mark
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BCSnob
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05/21/13 08:52am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: New total on pets taken camping!
We've taken <6 week old pups (3 different litters) on trips before. We did not allow outside dogs to interact with the pups. One trip I think we had 8 adult Border Collies plus a litter of 8 pups.
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BCSnob
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05/21/13 05:08am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: Does your insect repellant work?
DEET disolves plastics for startersYou should say it can dissolve SOME plastics but not all; otherwise DEET would not be sold in plastic bottles.
Vegetable oil will attack some plastics and so will citric acid in orange juice.
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BCSnob
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05/21/13 04:39am |
General RVing Issues
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