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    To quarantine or not quarantine?

    Hello all, One of my New Hampshire Reds survived a hawk attack five days ago--she got a nasty cut all down her neck and back that required some stitches and had her acting shocky for a couple days. I made sure everything was as clean and sterile as I could, and on the advice of My Aunt The Vet...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Harvested even more cucumbers, harvested some kale for my chickies, and tied my pumpkin vines up a little further. I've got one pumpkin getting its yellow speckles and a bunch more just starting to form--one giant in the grass is about twice the size of my head already. Got some new potatoes, too!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I finally got to pick some ripe tomatoes! Five of them, which promptly went into a salsa with a nice big yellow onion. Green beans, too, because those are becoming a bit of a problem. Powdery mildew is starting to show up in spots in the pumpkin patch, and I'm battling that with scissors and...
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    Organic mulching questions

    You know, depending on what your other fertilizers look like, a nitrogen suck may not be a bad thing. I know that tomatoes and peppers are very sensitive to excess nitrogen, and it can make other plants sensitive to fungal infections as well. That being said, nitrogen is pretty nice to have...
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    My chicken sang the egg song!

    To the people who are curious about the egg song: some hens will get very vocal when they lay. My marans are pretty quiet most of the time, but Beyonce the New Hampshire will let out about ten minutes of BUKKAbokbokbokBUKKABUKKAbokbokbokBUKKABUKKA and so forth. I tried to tell her that this is...
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    Goood Morning!

    I'm Emily! I keep coming across this site when I'm looking for answers to Flock Problems, so I figured it's about time I joined and started contributing to the discussion. I grew up on a farm with a decent-sized flock of chickens (and the occasional duck, goose, or turkey), and I've been...
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