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A Few Fotos From Today

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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No idea what kinda "weed" this is, but it's bound to be one, that's bout the only thing thrivin around here these days.


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Here's another one, only this'ns purkle.


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Lookin to the East at sundown


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Lookin to the West at sundown


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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Thanks FH. Even tho they may be weeds, I just keep tellin myself. They are pretty, so ya gotta stop n (not smell) but at least look at the flowers LOL
I forgot to add one picture. This was on the underside of an old railroad tie that I picked up to chunk in the burn pile......was soooo glad I had my gloves on.
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Jinglebob

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Great pix!

That first one looks like the plant and leaves we have on american licorice, but it don't get them kinds of flowers , I don't think.

FH, you just send all your "kosher" weed down here. My cows are evidentley Jewish, cuz they will eat it and thrive on it! :lol:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I have no idea, like I said, and I've never paid any attention to what it does after it blooms. I don't know if it makes some kinda seed pod, or what. This was close to the gate that I had to get out and open, so it caught my attention. They grow more in the barditches. I've never seen one out in the pasture. ???
Don't know what a kosher weed looks like either LOL
I looked up american licorice and came up with several different varieties, but can't tell if this is one or not from the pictures on the website I found.
 

John SD

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JB, my "kosher" weeds were dried up weeks ago, except for a spot in the corral where I'd forget about filling the pickup or truck tank and the kochia .. errr.... "kosher" would be nice and green from right where the tank ran over about halfway down the hill. I was thinking of running a soaker hose across the upper portion of the corral and periodically turning the cows in for intensive grazing! :roll: :D :lol:

Seriously, IMO, if cut and put up right "kosher" is some of the best feed there is right up there with the best alfalfa. Can't let it get too rank though or it gets stemmy and that awful dust!
 

Jinglebob

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John SD said:
JB, my "kosher" weeds were dried up weeks ago, except for a spot in the corral where I'd forget about filling the pickup or truck tank and the kochia .. errr.... "kosher" would be nice and green from right where the tank ran over about halfway down the hill. I was thinking of running a soaker hose across the upper portion of the corral and periodically turning the cows in for intensive grazing! :roll: :D :lol:

Seriously, IMO, if cut and put up right "kosher" is some of the best feed there is right up there with the best alfalfa. Can't let it get too rank though or it gets stemmy and that awful dust!

I don't thnk my cows would allow it to get too stemmey! :lol:

They tell me it thins the blood, but so does clover when we have a clover year. Some peope and their cows are just too damn fussy! :shock: :lol:
 

Faster horses

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I never heard of kosher weed thinning the blood. But I do think it can be high in nitrates.

And yep, the cows do like it. But it will also make them loose because
of the high protein in it, so you need to be a little careful if you get
close to shipping time. Two years ago when it was very dry, we had some new seeding and the kochia weeds came in. It was the only green place
in the whole country.

I guess the seed companies sell kochia weed seed but I think it is
different than this wild kochia weed. Does anyone know for sure?
Not that I'm interested in buying any! We seem to have plenty. :p
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I got to wonderin what a Kosher weed was, didnt find much on that, but looked up Kochia weed, and it's discribed as a tumbleweed. Is that what ya'll are talkin bout? A tumbleweed?
 

Faster horses

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Oh, Lilly, I am ashamed of myself. So much so that I went back and
changed the misspelling of kochia. You are a good detective to figure
out 'kochia' from kosher. What is wrong with me? I know perfectly well
how to spell kochia. I fear for my mind at times, and this is one of
those times.

Thanks for the correction.

And yep, it is a tumbleweed when dried up. It has as much protein as
alfalfa when it is green and growing and it is palatable to animals.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Well I knew it wasn't what I kept findin when I typed in kosher weed.....kept bringin up stuff bout marijuana LOL I knew that wasn't what ya'll were talkin bout, wasn't till John SD said "kochia", that I looked that up and found it sayin tumbleweed.

LOL Ya'll just tryin to keep us on our toes.....usin fancy names for Tumbleweeds hehe
 

ranchwife

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Lilly---I was really, really enjoying the beauty of your pictures (you really do have a great eye!!)....til I cam across your "late entry"!! :shock: :shock: :shock: Do my eyes deceive me or is that a BLACK WIDOW!!????? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!
Great....now I will have nightmares!! :lol: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Yes it is a black widow spider....bout skeered the bejeezes outta me when I picked that cross tie up and turned it over, was bout an inch away from my thumb........and you got it, that thumb in my glove has a hole in it!!!!! Didn't take me too long to turn it loose either!!! Was a big one too. the "ball" part of its body was almost 1/2 inch across.
 

John SD

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Well I knew it wasn't what I kept findin when I typed in kosher weed.....kept bringin up stuff bout marijuana LOL I knew that wasn't what ya'll were talkin bout, wasn't till John SD said "kochia", that I looked that up and found it sayin tumbleweed.

LOL Ya'll just tryin to keep us on our toes.....usin fancy names for Tumbleweeds hehe

Ya know folks, maybe we could do a feed trial grazing cows on MJ with some of those EXT cows that Northern Rancher (I thinking of NR, now it's my turn for a brain fart!) dislikes so much and see if it mellows them out?????

Speaking of tumbleweeds, also known as Russian Thistles make good feed if cut before maturity. In the 30's that's about the only thing that would grow. Dad told of the oldtimers cutting and stacking them while green and salting the stacks to preserve them.

We did that in the dry years of the 70's. I went around salting sweep bunches before Dad stacked them with the Farmhand. Seems I put about half a 3lb coffee can on each bucker pile. Cows ate 'em good as I remember. Maybe they just liked the salt?
 

ranchwife

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Yes it is a black widow spider....bout skeered the bejeezes outta me when I picked that cross tie up and turned it over, was bout an inch away from my thumb........and you got it, that thumb in my glove has a hole in it!!!!! Didn't take me too long to turn it loose either!!! Was a big one too. the "ball" part of its body was almost 1/2 inch across.

I just had me one of those all over body shudders!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Tumble weeds when picked young, say under 12 inches tall, and boiled, taste just like spinich. My daddy told us many times, that his mama would send him out in the pasture to pick tumbleweeds for supper. This was back in the Early 40s. I had heard him tell this story many times, and I always thought, "yeah uh huh sure they taste like spinich". Till one day I said it outloud....and we went tumbleweed pickin, and mama cooked em....and they did taste like spinich.
I guess in West texas the cows do eat em when they are young and tender, but after they bloom and make the sticker part I don't think they much touch em. Only places you see them growin big is on the outside of the fences, if there's cows inside the fence.

"Ya know folks, maybe we could do a feed trial grazing cows on MJ with some of those EXT cows that Northern Rancher (I thinking of NR, now it's my turn for a brain fart!) dislikes so much and see if it mellows them out?????" by John SD.......
LOL an EXT on MJ.....now there's a visual I wouldn't want nothin to do with :D
 

EastTexasGal

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That first weed you put up Lilly? if you rub your finger along the green part does it close up? we have what we call "Sensitive plant" and it grows along ditches and fence rows, and it moves when you touch it...kinda neat to play with. It willl close up too in the evening. Anyway, was just curious. Thats about the only yellow flowering thing I have seen that looked like that.

Easty
 

montana cowgurl

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ranchwife, i shoulda taken a pic of the HUGE spider my friends and i caught the other day. Probably 2" across :shock: ....nasty!....it was under a board and made me scream :lol: lol. a big grayish one...we let it go in the yard and the dogs thought it was rather interesting and followed it around a bit :lol:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Well two days in a row for perdy sunsets. I almost was too late to catch this one tho. Washin dishes and noticed out the kitchen window, so I ran outside with my camera and drove up to the cattle guard and out on the road.
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