Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[two_bit_score]

A restaurant in Temple, Tx named Las Casas has something they call "white wings". It's a chicken breast wrapped around cheese and jalapeño then bacon wrapped around that. It's not dove breast but it's dang good.

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[sldva00]

Also, if they are White wings, you should be able to see a small strip of white on there wing .

If the white strip is missing, they are probably White-Tip doves. I've never seen any North of the Valley, but they're not called migratory birds for nothing. The White-Tips I've gotten have all been larger than White-Wings.

 

[pacerron]

Jim, I have been doing as Bird and Don by mixing extra Sunflower into the mix. I notice allot of the finch type will get the millet seed. No doubt that most prefer the sunflower if they can get'em open. I have seen what looks like a titmouse (sp) taking sunflower seeds into the trees and cracking them against the tree!! industrious fellers. Probably the nutrition along with the increased amount of oils in those seeds.[/QUOTE]

Up this way bird seed that is suppossed to be a bargain usually contains a large percentage of Milo. People think it is Millet by the size and shape but if it is red colored it is Milo. Most birds don't like it and will toss it out of the feeders so it is just to increase the bag weight for more profit. It will attract Doves and they will clean it up off the ground. A recent marketing scheme is to put bird seed in bags that you can't see through before they are opened to hide the various types and quantities from view. Reading the labels doesn't
prove much.

 

[Bird]

if it is red colored it is Milo

This Morning Song brand that is put out by Scotts and I buy at Walmart has a great deal of what I would call "brown" seeds, but I wonder if it's the same thing you call "red". I don't have any seeds in mine that I would call red, but that doesn't mean I'm right.

 

[txdon]

This Morning Song brand that is put out by Scotts and I buy at Walmart has a great deal of what I would call "brown" seeds, but I wonder if it's the same thing you call "red". I don't have any seeds in mine that I would call red, but that doesn't mean I'm right.

Bird, by red I mean maize. That is what my Grandfather called it. It is harvested in the summer and I have shoveled a lot of it after he combined it. It looks like this:
PlantFiles: Picture #1 of Milo Maize, Grain Sorghum, Broom Corn, Shattercane (Sorghum bicolor)

 

[EddieWalker]

A restaurant in Temple, Tx named Las Casas has something they call "white wings". It's a chicken breast wrapped around cheese and jalapeño then bacon wrapped around that. It's not dove breast but it's dang good.

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I buy these at Brooshires Grocery store all the time from the Meat department. There is about a dozen variations of them and when they are on sale, you can get them for $2 each!!!!!

Eddie

 

[pacerron]

This Morning Song brand that is put out by Scotts and I buy at Walmart has a great deal of what I would call "brown" seeds, but I wonder if it's the same thing you call "red". I don't have any seeds in mine that I would call red, but that doesn't mean I'm right.

Bird,
The redish-brown is the Milo. The white-tan is the Millet.
They are very close in size.

 

[Bird]

Bird,
The redish-brown is the Milo. The white-tan is the Millet.
They are very close in size.

Thanks, that's what I expected. So I've got a lot of Milo. The birds and squirrels do knock some of the seed out of the feeder onto the ground, but apparently something eats a lot of the milo, too.

 

[Western]

Milo is a good cheap filler for the Seed bag company's, no doubt about that. I will buy the Mixes without it and add what I need for the few dove that hang around the yard. I usually will mix 1 bag in with the deer corn too, that way they have a food source away from the house. Come to think of it, I have never seen anything but dove eating the milo. Had a pet deer that would take a couple of mouth fulls, but pull out the 20 fish food and the deer would mop that up like BlueBell icecream:laughing:

 

[pacerron]

Milo is a good cheap filler for the Seed bag company's, no doubt about that. I will buy the Mixes without it and add what I need for the few dove that hang around the yard. I usually will mix 1 bag in with the deer corn too, that way they have a food source away from the house. Come to think of it, I have never seen anything but dove eating the milo. Had a pet deer that would take a couple of mouth fulls, but pull out the 20 fish food and the deer would mop that up like BlueBell icecream:laughing:

Not promoting any companies but we got 5 bags of seed at TSC in the fall.
It was 15.99 for 50 pd bag and called Royal Wing Classic. It is a house brand that has White Millet, Milo, Wheat, cracked corn, and black oil sunflower seeds. The wheat is basically another filler but my wife says not a lot of it or Milo in the mix. There are no percentages on the bag so you get what they got in the batch in most respects.
The same stuff is 19.95 today in Denton, TX but could be a different blend.
What we are really paying for is the cost of diesel in the process and delivery path being so high.
We are surrounded by woods and enjoy Hairy, Downey, and Red Belly woodpeckers eating suet that we get at the grocery and keep in the freezer.
Hanging it in an old netted orange sack on the feeder pole really brings them and the other birds within 10 feet of the kitchen sink window.
A good article about which birds like which seeds is here The RSPB: Advice
Ron

 

[Western]

In the winter, I have a hard time keeping the Goldfinches in Thistle seed. I use the hanging "socks" and sometimes there will be over 10 on one and a line waiting at the counter:laughing:


Beautiful day today, tomorrow is supposed to be better, into the 70's:thumbsup:

 

[jinman]

Not promoting any companies but we got 5 bags of seed at TSC in the fall.
It was 15.99 for 50 pd bag and called Royal Wing Classic. It is a house brand that has White Millet, Milo, Wheat, cracked corn, and black oil sunflower seeds.
Ron

What I bought was the orange bag of Royal Wing Black Oil Sunflower Seeds. If the price is the same the next time I buy, I may just have to go to the mix.

Bird: I just noticed that my bag was 40 lb instead of 50 lb, so that makes my deal not quite so good compared to Walmart's smaller bags.

 

[pacerron]

What I bought was the orange bag of Royal Wing Black Oil Sunflower Seeds. If the price is the same the next time I buy, I may just have to go to the mix.

Bird: I just noticed that my bag was 40 lb instead of 50 lb, so that makes my deal not quite so good compared to Walmart's smaller bags.

Jim,
Have you ever tried raising sunflowers for the birds?
They grow well up here but after letting them dry on the stalks till they began to fall off and the birds were eating them, we about wore our thumbs out getting the seeds off to store in the garage. After all that work they molded anyway, so we have purchased them by the bag ever since.
Ron

 

[pacerron]

The heavens beauty at chore time this morning made it great to be alive.
Snow is all gone now and will be in high 50's tommorrow.
This weather sure has been slowing my satellite internet to a crawl tho.
Anybody else with that problem?
Ron

 

[jinman]

Jim,
Have you ever tried raising sunflowers for the birds?
They grow well up here but after letting them dry on the stalks till they began to fall off and the birds were eating them, we about wore our thumbs out getting the seeds off to store in the garage. After all that work they molded anyway, so we have purchased them by the bag ever since.
Ron

Ron, I have not tried to grow sunflowers because I think the critters would just get them. I had one plant come up volunteer and had a huge bloom. I was getting really anxious to see how it would turn out when the bloom and plant was suddenly ripped down and shredded. I had both deer and 'coon tracks around the plant, so I don't know which was first. After my entire corn crop was wiped out in one night, I decided I would not grow anymore crops to just feed 'coons. Actually, as much as I complain, I don't mind buying a bag of sunflower seeds every couple of months. My biggest feeder will last 5 days or more without refilling. We always have beautiful birds at our feeders and our grandson is thrilled to see them. He's never lived anywhere with so many critters.

 

[Bird]

I can remember when I was a kid on the farm, wild sunflowers were a hated nuisance just like Johnson Grass in the garden.

 

[pacerron]

Ron, I have not tried to grow sunflowers because I think the critters would just get them. I had one plant come up volunteer and had a huge bloom. I was getting really anxious to see how it would turn out when the bloom and plant was suddenly ripped down and shredded. I had both deer and 'coon tracks around the plant, so I don't know which was first. After my entire corn crop was wiped out in one night, I decided I would not grow anymore crops to just feed 'coons. Actually, as much as I complain, I don't mind buying a bag of sunflower seeds every couple of months. My biggest feeder will last 5 days or more without refilling. We always have beautiful birds at our feeders and our grandson is thrilled to see them. He's never lived anywhere with so many critters.

Jim,
I hope the corn wipeout was before you put the 8' mesh fence around your garden. We purchased 8' metal T-stakes and hundreds of feet of the mesh for this springs garden. You might save a few black oil sunflower seeds from the bag you purchased to plant. Lots of info on the net, how to.
We had an ambitious coon that got caught in the trap last year roll and move the trap over 100 feet to the woods. He would have gone further if he hadn't
gotten the trap wedged against a downed tree. Made a mess of the trap, bending parts and losing the handle. After I fixed it we chained it to a fence post with a dog chain. No coons in the garden since, but I'm sure they are watching.
Ron

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Get the breast of 20+ and you can throw together a great meal. Best way I have had them is , piece of cheese with Jalapeño then wrapped with bacon and thrown on the grill.

FWIW, for lack of a name, I gave them one. I've been calling these "Peppitos" for about 30 years, ....Unless someone else knows what they have been called longer than that.

If you have the time, place them on a piece of foil off to the side and "smoke 'em" until they are cooked. Prime eating!

 

[two_bit_score]

I buy these at Brooshires Grocery store all the time from the Meat department. There is about a dozen variations of them and when they are on sale, you can get them for $2 each!!!!!

Eddie

That's a deal at $2. Pretty dang good with a cold Lone Star!

 

[ronjhall]

Got rain yesterday morning in the valley. Just enough to make a mess on the car. Need to wash the car today. Later in the day everything was back to dust. :smiley_aafz: