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Good morning...gotta run, do chores, give meds, work out, paint, etc.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Wall of water. That's what I'm doing, I'm getting my tomato plants outside before the last frost by using those walls of water. So I am planting my seeds March 1st. Can't wait! 
 

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Originally Posted by snowflake 

  can I start my seed now??  Too cold OK I will wit another week 
 

 

I am still trying to decide if i am even going to plant a garden this year. I didn't last year for the first time in a long time.

 Hi Laura, Yes it's FFH in North Muskegon on Holton Road.  I bought two BR's at Fremont TSC last year and they are my big boys now, Frick and Frack.  My onlt roos and they have done fantastic.

It must be the cool crisp morning air, the egg song was so loud I had to look to see if she was under my bedroom window. Sure sounded like it. 

Good afternoon Michigan, snowing and cold here this morning, but the girls ran out the door as soon as they could. 

Lavender, also called self-blue, is a separate gene from the regular blue (also called Andalusian blue)

Andalusian blue - a gene that acts on black (and red)  to dilute them.  If you have wild-type bl/bl, a black bird is black.  Bl/bl is blue of various shades, the feathers usually have a pencilling of darker blue but not always.  And Bl/Bl is splash ( I see some people are calling them white, but they are not).  These are very light colored to white in appearance, usually with blue blotches (splashes) of color.  Breeding Bl/Bl splash to Bl/Bl splash will leach out the color to almost pure white.

Lavender (self-blue) -  a separate gene, Lav; the recessive form is lav, and a bird with 2 lav genes will be a light grey or blue shade, without any pencilling on the feathers.  A bird is either lavender in color or not, Lav/Lav and Lav/lav are non-lavender.

Ask Mibirder about genetics books, he is a wiz.

Ha got to Taprock! Now how about the rest of you?  You could have one to THESE (another cute-kid-falling-asleep-face-first-into-the food pic)

Here's an interesting thread on how much to plant over on the sister site the Easy Garden:

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=32827&p=1
 

And since gardening was brought up yet again on the MI board dare I plug the MI thread over yonder again, too? I't still going since the revival a couple days ago but I know we can do better! Who gardens for their chickens?

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Originally Posted by Hillbilly Hen 

I am still trying to decide if i am even going to plant a garden this year. I didn't last year for the first time in a long time.

I don't eat vegetables or fruit very much so the chickens will be getting the majority of anything I plant. I bought some spinach seeds yesterday and it will be strictly for the chickens. Going to start the seeds in  pots.

Today is almost the first truly wintery day of the well, winter! And it is nearly March! Very windy and snowy. Instead of their usual chickeny activities in the yard, the chooks were all chilling in the coop. I closed them up early with some warm oatmeal, which they enjoy.