Hello Old Friend

Wow it has been forever since I have posted here. it is one of those things like visiting old friends. You know you want and need to do it, but get caught up in other things and before you know it you have missed all those opportunities. Well we got moved, been fighting lots of health issues. Me and Molly find it hard to do much some days due to aches and pains. Then mom and dad have had several health issues that we are really glad that we are close enough to help out. Been working with the poultry some, expanding in all directions. I plan on raising several Asil this year. I have 2 brood cocks and some real nice hens. I expect to see good things with the asil.

My KO shamo have been breeding like rats. There is a very good market for these little guys so I have been incubating all the eggs I can from them. Market isn't the only reason I like these little guys. They have as much heart as any gamefowl out there. They are just pretty neat little fowl to have around.

I am breeding out of 4 pair of bantam asil. I plan on raising enough of these little guys that I can show some this fall. APA and the American Bantam Assoc. has excepted them in their list of fowl that can be shown in their shows. I am breeding blacks, spangled, BBReds and silver.

I have a real nice asil stag in with the 2 best madagascar game hens I retained from last year. I intend to beef the madagascar up a little this year. We will see how I progress on this.

My last poultry project is for meat and egg production. I love the blue turken or naked neck which ever you wish to call them. They lay a huge egg. They are very calm, and lets face it, they are cool to look at.

I have purchased a real nice blue naked neck rooster and several large black hens. The NN gene is dominate so I will get blue and black nn chicks from here. All the hens are larger than the nn hens so I plan on getting a little bigger bird for processing. NNs are a large bird but I am hoping to get a little hybred vigor on size and get a little more meat per bird for the table. All the hens I keep NN and blacks used for this project all lay a huge light brown egg. I am hoping to get a real nice dual purpose chicken in this cross.

I have lots of plans for gardening this spring. I have access to some ground here where I live and besides expanding my chicken project, I plan on putting in a garden about 3oo feet long by 40 feet wide. I am checking into Okla. regulations that pertain to home grown garden items being sold to the public. I hope this year is much wetter than last. Plans are for a couple hundred tomato plants. Some will be planted in tubs and near the house, while others will be in the garden. I also will be planting corn, green beans, black eyed peas, corn, peppers, cantaloupe, okra and water melons. I will be starting my tomato plants in about a week. I will start them in doors and try to start them staggered out so I will have tomatoes for several months. Hopefully this summer I will get a greenhouse of some sort put up so that I can move some of the tomatoes that are planted in tubs can be moved in and have fresh tomatoes after the first frosts.