Location: Va. Horse Center
Attendance: 14
Minutes:
- Co-Chairs announce themselves and present meetings organized and with agendas now!
- Re-Confirmed dues for membership at $10.00 annually and will be due at first of year.
-Will be processing again at Paul Pavilion for anyone that may have missed it the first time and is interested. All are welcome.
-Christmas Party plans announced will be held at Barbara Mullinixs home. Details to be announced.
- Anne Mcclung wrote chicken book called This, That and the others, coming out soon.
- Discussed its time for planting garlic. Make a hole in soil with thumb, stick in then cover with 1in. soil, followed by straw or mulch.
- Elizabeth Sauder presents wild foods and included a sample (very delicious) of persimmon pudding with recipie.
- Barbara Mullinix presents demonstration on wine making using notes from Mother Earth News No.41 Sept. 1976 Issue.
- Other food samples shared: Linda Davis brought Corn Bread made with hubbard squash (yummy also)
- Hannah Gould share fun facts about why roosters and hens make noise. "Crowing" and how. She also demonstrated her own talent of crowing.
- Pat Foreman gave brief update on legal chicken issues. She says the "ship is turning, and January is target date for legalizing chickens in Lexington." The new electives on city council seem like a positive force towards "Chicken Goodness" this year.
- Discussion on using lights in coops during winter to increase egg production.
- Hannah wonders how to sex americana chicks earlier than 3mo. of age. Pat says per Carl Mogenson of Natural Bridge Zoo Feel chicks pubic bone, if soft and wide apart its a Hen, If close and hard its a rooster.
- Nancy Wolfe asks why her chickens were roosting ok they started staying nights in Nesting boxes. Per Pat- could be mites- check underside of roosts, or maybe its just warmer in nesting boxes, check for drafts. Also sometimes if chickens are molting it makes it harder for them to fly up to roost.
Meeting Closed
-JEPC
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