Larsen Poultry Ranch - homesteading journey

Ridgetop

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We have never had a rattlesnake anywhere on our southern California property or the entire ridge line on the north side of Sunland Boulevard. The story goes that half a mile away was a huge poultry farm about 60 years ago. The owner was terrifed of rattlers so he bought 100 King snakes and released them. On the south side of Sunland Boulevard Rattlesnakes are everywhere and in the wash they are common but in our neighborhood we have never seen one! We have seen King snakes, Gopher snakes, and a huge black snake. I don't like raleasing species int the wild from human breeding, but may look into buying some King Snakes to release on the Texas Ranch if we have a big problem.
 

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And eggs!!! 🤬 they're not welcome.

Don't go in the hen house!! Only other snake I've ever seen here is a king snake....he lived 😁

Might eat mice if I didn't have a dozen cats who do :lol:
And very small chickens ... Have had both black snakes and rat snakes kill and eat the very small sized bantams that my son raises.... and will get chicks too. I have nothing against them as long as they are NOT in close proximity to the poultry....
 

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Hubby and I went a little crazy at Home Depot and Green Acres this weekend. Home Depot had bareroot fruit trees 25% off. We ended up getting 4. A Pink Lady apple, and 4 in 1 varieties of pear, apple, and cherry. Then we had to dig holes once we got home. Thankfully hubby's father is letting us borrow the excavator, so hubby knocked out the holes pretty quickly. Then, as we were finishing up and trying to put hoops around the trees a group of 6 deer showed up and watched us.

At Green Acres I bought some new grape plants, lavender, and a ton of veggie seeds. Got home and pulled out my seed stash and a lot of what I bought I already had from last year. I'm hoping it's not too late to start seeds for transplant, I wanted to start them at the beginning of this month. Hubby wants a ton of tomatoes and peppers, I'd like to actually try to can crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce this year, hubby uses a lot of it while cooking.

We also got a Mortgage Lifter tomato and a 6 pack of Early Girl tomato starts. I'm hoping they will do ok for a few days and we can get them in the dirt.
 

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Good to see you here, life gets busy doesn’t it. Home canned tomatoes are the best! Cook it down for spaghetti sauce, toss in mushrooms, onion, whatever, can use as a soup base too.
 
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