A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[sfgwife]

Paul thought he was bein funny at dinner... but he actually had a great idea. I told him bout my amok amok amok turks this mornin. And he says we jus need put our old doggie door out the back of that stall and fence it in with chicken wire for them. Heck yea do it! Last year we did the front with wire and cattle panels. But i need my milk room now so. It makes it hard to wrangle eleven leetle beasties when it is me alone. Lol! So maybe tomorrow after we get home from gettin piglets i can sweet talk him and bat my eyes... do ya think it will work on him? Hahahahaha.

I did put everyone up earLy and opened her stall door. She pedked a few nibbles at the very edge of the doorway but didnt go out. So not quite ready to be in public jus yet. Almost but not quite.

 

[memphis]

Had the girls out for a quick graze before bedtime. Supposed to rain tomorrow...again. You'd think Daisy would be full after her fern salad....but she ate like a little piggy. My poor ferns! She flew into my yard again. She's like a darn fern eating pigeon.

 

[Bantambird]

Had the girls out for a quick graze before bedtime. Supposed to rain tomorrow...again. You'd think Daisy would be full after her fern salad....but she ate like a little piggy. My poor ferns! She flew into my yard again. She's like a darn fern eating pigeon.

My chickens and Turks have discovered my asparagus. I doubt I will get any this year out of the old patch.

 

[R2elk]

My chickens and Turks have discovered my asparagus. I doubt I will get any this year out of the old patch.

My turkeys have never bothered my asparagus. for some unknown reason they seem to delight in either clipping off the onions or pulling them. They don't eat them since the clippings and the onions can be found right beside where they were growing.

One of the Sweetgrass hens has gone broody in the garden.

 

[Bantambird]

Rosabelle has gone broody now too. Since I don't think I need to hatch more than a few batches, I'm setting her up a broody place and I gave her a dozen eggs to brood. We will see what happens! She's a great momma so if they hatch the poults will be set.

 

[sfgwife]

My chickens and Turks have discovered my asparagus. I doubt I will get any this year out of the old patch.

I just dont like you on principal that your sparegrass actually grows!lol. I need find a new place to try for ours. Evidentally it does not like the bed we made for it. I tried the last two years there. We made a raised bed in sun with nice light composte a d add more every few months to it. Nope. No sparegrasses to speak of. .

 

[Bantambird]

I just dont like you on principal that your sparegrass actually grows!lol. I need find a new place to try for ours. Evidentally it does not like the bed we made for it. I tried the last two years there. We made a raised bed in sun with nice light composte a d add more every few months to it. Nope. No sparegrasses to speak of. .

Sometimes asparagus takes 3 years before you can harvest from it regularly. Our patch is 30 this year, so it's on the downward slide and needs dividing and replanting badly.
It's not raised since we irrigate it from the ditch in summer there. It gets a scoop of corral cleaning in the fall that's tilled in and that's all. Asparagus is pretty drought tolerant if it grows here. That particular patch has been mostly ignored for the last ten years except for harvest.

 

[memphis]

Annie & Fern Face Daisy will have to remain incarcerated until I get home. Can't trust Daisy won't be up to her ears in my fern beds again.

 

[R2elk]

I just dont like you on principal that your sparegrass actually grows!lol. I need find a new place to try for ours. Evidentally it does not like the bed we made for it. I tried the last two years there. We made a raised bed in sun with nice light composte a d add more every few months to it. Nope. No sparegrasses to speak of. .

My asparagus patch is well over 20 years old. I have already had two pickings from it this spring. I had to share the last picking because it was just too much for me to eat by myself. After this cold spell, I expect to have more to harvest tomorrow.

I now have two patches because I hauled "soil" from the garden to the "yard" when I was planting roses there. The roses didn't make it but the asparagus came up from seeds that were in the garden "soil" and established itself very well. I just have to be careful in the spring that I don't mow it off.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Lil and Princess gave been broody for a while so I them an Olive egger Cockerel to take care of. They're quite content but don't really want to leave their nest.