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  1. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I'm growing fewer things this year. One variety each of tomato, pepper, green beans, onions and peas plus kale and collards, maybe lettuce. Dark green zucchini, butternut squash, pickling cukes and dill. My fall cabbage experiment was a bust. Heads are forming but they're super loose, not firm...
  2. Smokerbill

    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    My "broody" is an incubator. It doesn't teach chicks what to eat. LOL
  3. Smokerbill

    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I tried giving the last batch of little chicks wetted feed but they didn't go for it until they got older.
  4. Smokerbill

    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I didn't look at the bag before but found that it says for adult birds. Thanks for mentioning that. I need to get another bag of all flock tomorrow, so I guess I'll get another bag of chick starter while I'm at it.
  5. Smokerbill

    9.5 week old hens eating almost 1/2 lb of feed per day; will this go down at adulthood?

    Or just weigh one dry scoop. Never mind. I reread your post.
  6. Smokerbill

    9.5 week old hens eating almost 1/2 lb of feed per day; will this go down at adulthood?

    You're not weighing the food after it's mixed with water are you?
  7. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I haven't given my chickens scratch for a loooonnnng time. They get excited enough when I throw some of their feed pellets on the ground, which is a lot easier for them than eating out of the feeder.
  8. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I ran out of chick crumbles, so I put my old Kitchen Aid grain mill to good use. Worked well at grinding the all purpose pellets.
  9. Smokerbill

    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I finally figured out an easy way to turn pelletized all flock feed into chick crumbles. I was totally out today and my chicks are too small to eat anything else. I was considering bagging some pellets and smashing them with a hammer, but this morning I remembered I have a Kitchen Aid grain...
  10. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Happy New Year! My onion seeds arrived and the seed starting mix soil is on order. I took the hinges out of my laptop today to clean and lubricate them because they were binding and it couldn't be closed up. All good now.
  11. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I tried shallower containers for onions seeds but decided to use deeper containers for starting them. Better drainage and more room for the water roots to spread out under the plants. I cut the top and bottom from a couple of cardboard coffee cans and reshaped them to make onion starting pots...
  12. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Got my onion seeds from Baker Creek today, plus a catalog from Murray McMurray chickens. Didn't know they sent out a chicken catalog.
  13. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    The big zucchini I picked a couple months ago has been curing indoors. I cut it open and removed seeds from half of it. After they dry I'll do a germination test. I cooked some of the squash in the microwave, tried it with salt pepper and butter. The flavor was mild and the texture was kind of...
  14. Smokerbill

    Whatcha Making for Supper?

    Grandson and I just put a nine pound spiral sliced ham into the oven, tightly wrapped in foil. We're still not sure if we'll glaze it later or just have plain ham. Not sure what the sides will be since that's not my job today. LOL My older grandson has been showing a lot of interest in cooking...
  15. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I ordered my Christmas present yesterday. Onion seeds from Baker Creek, same type I grew this year.
  16. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Merry Christmas!
  17. Smokerbill

    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Thanks! The only places I used OSB was where it was under the metal roof and out of the elements, so hopefully it'll last.
  18. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Merry Christmas!
  19. Smokerbill

    Whatcha Making for Supper?

    The salad wasn't enough so I made a pizza from scratch; yellow onions from the garden and slices of summer sausage. It's what I had on hand.
  20. Smokerbill

    Whatcha Making for Supper?

    A big lettuce and cabbage salad with chopped mozzarella and summer sausage mixed in. Sweet mustard salad dressing.
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