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    Zuccini Plants are not growing Zuccinis

    I think I am getting some decent pollination.... I have already harvested two or three from this plant.
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    Coyotes took 10 birds in broad daylight

    Coyotes can be tough to deal with. When I bought this farm I was seeing them right up close to the house regularly. Once I brought a over a few of our Alaskan grey timber wolf cross dogs and put them each on 100 foot runs around the house and outbuilding area the coyotes stuck to the hay field...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Not all ours.. we have had six two of whom have passed away one from cancer and one from suicide. We also raised my wife's niece and nephew for a few years and then my two nephews and niece for a few years after that. We are now down to four teenagers ages 14 to 19 left at home, though the...
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    Getting Stains off Show d'Uccle

    I cannot imagine that slightly stained colored feathers are going to hurt the poor bird in any way shape or form, and the bird certainly doesn't give to whits about it, why keep torturing the poor creature? I am going to guess the look bothers you? Personally I wouldn't put any kind of...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Sadly everyone in my family loves radishes... we can pretty easily eat through two or three pounds of them a day here... As many as I grow it still doesn't put a dent in what we would "like" to eat... I am going to have to do another year where I go nuts with them and grow 15 or 20 thousand...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    These radish seed pods are quite prolific, each plant produces 150 to 250 pods or so. I just harvest them here and there for salads and snacks. Harvesting 50% to 70% of the early pods also allows the smaller number of remaining pods to produce bigger better seed. I love radishes, first you...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Picked a snack for this evening... Harvested some of the young radish seed pods after watering the garden tonight..
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    My yard around the house is currently three to four foot tall grass and my mint grows within that, I don't have a lot of issues with it spreading too much... lol... Even if it did it wouldn't bother me if it took over all three acres of yard area near the house, I love the smell of it... I am...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Starting my tea collecting and drying for the year. Currently working on the St Johns wort and mint growing in the yard around the house. Next will be the small yellow clover and the large purple clover growing in the yard. Then I will move on to the Oregon grape growing around the house and...
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    Big Girl is limping! Help me, please!

    Vets are expensive that is a fact and in 45 years of raising chickens I have never heard of one being taken to a vet before. I am sure vet would see a chicken and likely treat the animal. I am not sure why a person would give a chicken vitamins, in 45 years of raising chickens I have yet to...
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    I need encouragement

    Steve about a mile down the county road from us raises sheep and then makes yarn from the wool, then he weaves the yarn in a mechanical loom making various products as a side business. It is an interesting process that has always fascinated me to no end. We have a Mennonite group from Waco...
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    I need encouragement

    This is probably going to seem very strange, but I sew, as does my little (6ft1 250 pound) brother. We grew up on ranches and farms and it was common to be assigned to helping the older women with their sewing projects, we would stand at the ready to fetch things for them thread needles etc...
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    Housing for barn cats and their kittens

    Our pride of cats started out about 27 years ago with a wild cat that I found in a rock pile in the city. She was maybe 6 to 8 inches long, though was not actually all that young in spite of her small size. I took her home and fed her some of the turkey as it was just after thanksgiving and...
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    Big Girl is limping! Help me, please!

    Most of the birds that I have seen with a bum leg injured the leg by getting it caught in something, their legs get quite a bit of leveraged force when they get caught in something. With my chickens thankfully I have never had one with a "broken" leg before, though I have had a number of them...
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    New Member to BYC

    Welcome to the forum..
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