rainwolf/mamawolf can't make it.Dinner tonight at Woodinville's Panera at 6:00 p.m.
So far we have RonB, dawng, TerrorBird, Slinglings, Rainwolf and MamaWolf and HoneysuckleHills.
Everyone is welcome and some of us are bringing our family.
Great opportunity for newbees to meet the oldtimers.
I buy local grass hay especially for my chicken litter. I do the Deep Litter system. I mix pine shavings, grass hay, peat moss, and yard leaves together. The chickens love it. I fork it once a day when they are out of the coop. I don't clean my pens except every three or four months. Some people go about once every nine months. My barn and pens are small so when it gets eighteen inches deep I fork it into wheel-barrels and take most of it out. I always leave some to start the DL process again. If done right, it composts on a dirt base floor and I use it in my garden in the Spring. The chickens and even the chicks eat the choice pieces of hay and seed heads.I have what is probably a dumb question or a no brainer to all of you "chicken whiz's"I have lots of scrap grass hay from when I feed my horses. Its not moldy or anything but is the scraps that fall off the flakes when I feed. Its a pain in the butt to feed it to my horses and I was wondering if i could put that in the run over the dirt? Would it make a bigger mess than just dirt or would it help as a "litter" if I clean it out regularly. I use shavings in the coops but would like something to put down in the run. I know they loved to scratch around near my hay stack last summer. What do you all think?
I forwarded that article to DH yesterday. His response was if I got any more organic I better get a pair of Birkenstocks and stop shaving.
I sent him a note that I was looking for Birkenstocks on Amazon and the pits were beginning to itch.
I didn't get a response back.
don't forget the VW bus
Quote: Thank you so much. I should have enough scrap hay right now saved up to get a good 6in layer down and I even have some leaves that I piled up in the fall. Once this wind dies down, Ill go fork it into the run
My porch is still waiting on the wind issue to get put back together, all mah pots fell off the railings. I have to find something to plant in them, other than Styrofoam
Any ideas for some low-light perennials that do well in a pot?
