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ValerieJ said:
I wish I could grow dill. It never works out for me. I buy fresh dill every week of the year. It goes into my ranch dressing and it also goes with salmon and chicken soup. If I could figure it out, I'd grow it inside somewhere and keep grow lights on it, but if it won't grow in the garden, nor the greenhouse, I don't hold out much hope for it at this place.

I'm always thrilled with whatever does work out here. We certainly do not have green thumbs. 😁
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I tried to grow dill a couple of times and it never worked out. One year the seeds germinated but the plants didn't grow well. The next year I planted seeds in the spring and none came up.

This year I had a lot of volunteer plants come up from the dill that didn't do well a few years ago. I watered them regularly and they've done great. Maybe the trick is to broadcast seeds in the fall and hope they germinate in the spring. ???
 
Unfortunately, it didn't work. Cooper is back in his own run and coop. Orpingtons are what I hope to raise around here, so it's best to have an Orpington rooster, and Ralphie is it.

I'm very sad for Cooper. Too bad he has to be so mean to Ralphie. By the end of the day, Ralphie was cowering inside the coop by himself, under the nesting boxes for protection. That won't do.

And giving Cooper away is not really an option at this point. He is too old to be counted on to fertilize eggs, and in our experience never did anyway. He is on his own. He's safe. Best I can do for him. 😥
 
ValerieJ said:
Unfortunately, it didn't work. Cooper is back in his own run and coop. Orpingtons are what I hope to raise around here, so it's best to have an Orpington rooster, and Ralphie is it.

I'm very sad for Cooper. Too bad he has to be so mean to Ralphie. By the end of the day, Ralphie was cowering inside the coop by himself, under the nesting boxes for protection. That won't do.

And giving Cooper away is not really an option at this point. He is too old to be counted on to fertilize eggs, and in our experience never did anyway. He is on his own. He's safe. Best I can do for him. 😥
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Well darn. I wish it would've worked out.

Yesterday I put together a trough to hold oyster shells and eggshells. The chickens never seemed to like the real oyster shell flakes I got. I smelled them and they kind of stink, like stale oysters or something.

So I rinsed some off yesterday until the water ran clear, dried them and put them in the trough with some crushed eggshells. Today I saw one of the New Hampshires eating them, so maybe washing is what the oyster shells need to be palatable.

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