What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

They enjoy the sugar pie sized ones, don't care too much about the normal carving Halloween ones, don't look twice at those pixie sized ones, LOVE the green goose necks and cushaws (when I share those), and I about loose a hand with those flatter dusty green ones. NO clue what varieties any of them are.

 

[Molpet]

those flatter dusty green ones.

Which one is closest
Types of Green Squash & Pumpkins - Good Gourds https://share.google/g0jsyyAGJGSmCCLOT

 

[TJAnonymous]

It's been a busy week and will be an even busier weekend. I did get some lettuce and greens seeded before our rain spell this week.

Bought a cheap, portable carport that we are going to turn into a rabbit colony this weekend for meat rabbits. DH and I have damn near divorced over the rabbits in the sunroom. It's the doe. She makes a righteous mess and refuses to use a litter box. Sooooo.... they will be evicted to the new rabbit house once it's finished.

Need to evict the chicks too but waiting until they are fully feathered. Btw, I'm thinking my experiment worked. I think all 5 eggs that hatched were hens. There's only one that I'm still a little unsure but I'm about 75% sure she's a hen. I my experiment, I reduced the incubator temperature to 98.5.

 

[jerryse]

It's been a busy week and will be an even busier weekend. I did get some lettuce and greens seeded before our rain spell this week.

Bought a cheap, portable carport that we are going to turn into a rabbit colony this weekend for meat rabbits. DH and I have damn near divorced over the rabbits in the sunroom. It's the doe. She makes a righteous mess and refuses to use a litter box. Sooooo.... they will be evicted to the new rabbit house once it's finished.

Need to evict the chicks too but waiting until they are fully feathered. Btw, I'm thinking my experiment worked. I think all 5 eggs that hatched were hens. There's only one that I'm still a little unsure but I'm about 75% sure she's a hen. I my experiment, I reduced the incubator temperature to 98.5.

I think you got lucky. Others have tried and failed. It works on some reptiles like alligators.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I think you got lucky. Others have tried and failed. It works on some reptiles like alligators.

I don't think the temperature itself actually changes the sex of the bird. That's determined during fertilization. But... I have heard that hen embryos can survive slightly cooler temperatures than rooster embryos. I don't know if that's valid scientifically but I figured I'd give it a shot. Out of 9 fertilized eggs, five hatched and all seem to be hens. Four were quitters so I guess we'll never know if they were roosters.

 

[WthrLady]

Which one is closest
Types of Green Squash & Pumpkins - Good Gourds https://share.google/g0jsyyAGJGSmCCLOT

I think they're blue Moon pumpkins, which aren't on that list.