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    my lonely little pheasant

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    my lonely little pheasant

    poor bob white ,, i do like to view those as individuals but more as a species , imagine rip your wing off to be free to die , i will keep that wing , take in to the sweat lodge ,, make magic , got 100 eggs in the incubator , bob white , now at day 3 of 23 ,, some years ago the call of the...
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    my lonely little pheasant

    not a lot of response from this network but i report ,, the golden made it through the winter good , i read about these birds , plenty food and water do good in the cold , it was a cold cold winter here , turns out this is a rooster putting out cape feathers , pretty boy . kept the bobwhite...
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    my lonely little pheasant

    hey guys ,, i got got a hatch happening ,, you remember me the guy got his bird living in a wet card board box ,, anyway i liked my egg shipment , late season 60 count 50$ delivered Iowa certified bobwhite ,66 each in the incubator , day 23 , hatching 4 am , now i have 4 each out and a...
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    my lonely little pheasant

    quail eggs came in from iowa , plain northern bobwhite , 60 eggs 50 $ delivered good plus up on the egg count . i had quite the time getting the quail racks installed , it was good for me , make me think and do, eggs now set, 23 days to hatch 18-20 days to lockdown , i think i will try to...
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    my lonely little pheasant

    hello hello , i once lived in barbarono vicinito , the berci mts in view of the euginian hills , 52 via dellica republica https://keytopoetry.com/percy-bysshe-shelley/poems/lines-written-among-the-euganean-hills/ Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the...
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    my lonely little pheasant

    little girl doing good , we look eye to eye .. she cavorts i put 1k keystroke lyrical language in , system failed it out your loss , sorry ,, now have 60 hatching eggs quail due in ,,, time will tell and my loss .. i put out quite a lot of well crafted language and it just went away...
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    my lonely little pheasant

    all the peafowl died , it makes me sad , the little golden is out in the pen . i have a box in the pen . little bird likes the box .the pen is by the front walk . when some one visits the bird ruffs the feathers on it head and cavorts. working on a bamboo frame around a big bush, bird spends...
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    peafowl eggs hatching

    candling above my skill level just now lost #2 no pipin day 29
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    peafowl eggs hatching

    my peafowl are hatching m i am so nervous , 9 eggs shipped in , day 28 99.6 F 60% humidity , one of them was out the shell before i locked down , had its little leg caught , i think i freed it ok. pretty much dried out m under the red light , dipped beak , it sipped , not jumping around but...
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    my lonely little pheasant

    my peafowl hatching look for more in peafowl
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    my lonely little pheasant

    bird is still alive , it wants to be outside still brooding in the bathroom , odor seems not a problem since i put a negative ion generator in there ,excreting everywhere . i have 9 peafowl eggs in the incubator day 14 . bird spends the days in the window looking out , finally got my 40 in...
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    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    ya go ahead , use them plastic buckets , you are the man in charge , but be advised some those plastics work out ok but some them are very bad news ,, i have plastic planters here just break into tiny flinters when i try to pick them up , and plastic ropes that are real hell on earth...
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    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    cardboard works good , degrades and returns to the earth in time and i guess we all got plenty cardboard boxes shipped in i think cardboard planters in a brush pile would be a very good thing , perhaps a little unsightly but ;; i wanted to get all the cardboard shipping boxes came in here ...
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    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    time will make good soil do not worry about covering the whole thing , just a little bit here and there , i would not use any plastic , just stuff that will degrade over time , even steel and iron will degrade over time ,, look at the soil , feel it smell it taste it , look for worms and...
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