Winter is coming! Big changes for the backyard chickens!

[@johnlord8337]

The first apple with rough skin (a natural genetic) is a yellow russet - potentially a Golden Russets. Russets have rough skin - and they are held on the tree (and the rough skin allows the apple to dehydrate somewhat - so that the juices and sugars are higher content). Russets are considered eating, cooking/baking (pies) and cider juice apples. The second tree wou;d be considered another eating, cooking/baking, or cider juice apple.

[@johnlord8337]

I had a massive content about pulling the trees upright, pruning off 1-2 lower branches, tree tar painting the cuts, get into cleaning out the old trunk cut and paint with tree tar paint, ... and eventually use dilute white latex (household) paint with antibacterial properties and paint the trunk from the ground up to the lowest branches. The ancestors had more knowledge of caretaking fruit trees - than all of the over-educated stoopes nowadays. Only prune the tree in JAN-FEB when dormant, MAR at the latest - whether snow on the ground or not. But these trees need to be staked over the next 7-8 years and pulling them more-upright, moving these horizontal droopers into being more diagonally upright. Dont overdo any massive pruning or cutting back of all the extended branches. Over the years, continue to tighten up the staking and rope each year so that you recover the trees - and the extended cambium layer of the bend becomes stronger with greater tree ring growth - making the tree stronger against leaning. Time to start making air-dried, freeze-dried apple chips, cider apple juice, apple wine, pies, jams, jellies, ... even considering making apple syrup and eventually apple sugar crystals (same process as making sugar maple syrup and sugar crystalizing).

[@tesshomestead8019]

When there’s 1000s of ppl saying the same thing about tsc feed it ain’t no joke . We had the same issues with their feed . I changed feed and my girls got so much better fast .