Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

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Smuvers Farm said:
@staceyj kikisgirls slaps people all the time! I slap someone ONCE, and I'm the bad guy....

PS. Post the laundry basket directions please. We planted some Hawaiian purple sweet potatoes in our yard, but the ground was so hard that they grew long and very thin.... not tasty looking at all!
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Omg! That's right!
She smacked ME when I first came here!!!!
And I didn't understand that emoji and felt terrible.
So sorry!
 
I would love to hear more about the potatoes! I guess I assumed they all needed be grown in an Idaho’an climate ;)


I hear you about tiny flock. Mine was 4 and now I think I will be up to 22 Bantams. Since they are small, they don’t count!!! Right??? So I have 1 full size hen and 2 full size chicks. Don’t Judge me!!!!! And my small coup!!! :oops::fl
I may add another coop for the full size girls, no plans for 2017 though. One of those may not even be a hen, too early to tell.


staceyj said:
Morning people:frow

Winter preparations:
I have a small coop AND a small run AND a tiny flock of 6 ( remember I was aiming for 4 and threw those extra 2 in the box because everyone told me "a couple will probably die" - then everyone thrived. ;))

But I also live in a warm-ish climate where they're able to range in the yard year round.
There are seasons here though. It's not like Florida.
If we get snow here it's only a little, maybe once a year.

Freezing rain is more likely. Being close to the Atlantic ocean keeps us fairly temperate.
We get the occasional week of frigid weather, even a night or two in the single digits, then it'll be back into the 50's for a stretch.

Shells:
I rinse them and throw them in a big ziplock bag in the fridge. When it's full I toss them in a roasting pan and bake them while i do other things or sometimes toss them in the oven after I've baked something else. After they cool I put them in a clean ziplock and whack the heck out of them with a wooden crab mallet.
It only takes a minute or two because baking makes them very brittle. I love amassing them up.
Some go back to the girls, some go directly into the garden some go in the compost bin. Just depends on how much I have.
Blossom end rot is A SCOURGE here so in the spring they are LIFE to tomato plants.
I've read that the amount of calcium in shells is not as high as in oyster shells so I mix them in the bowl, but it looks as though they find the shells tastier.

@raecarrow :
VBAC baby!
You can do it!

Smuvs:

We don't hit friends!
And no heiney words or the elves will come in the night and scrub you up...then I'll be sad because I love you being here.

@Sassysouth : when you mentioned your bday yesterday I was taking a quick break from working in the yard.
Now I can't remember if I actually said happy birthday and can't find the original post, so if not- HAPPY BIRTHDAY HONEY!

@CSAchook : stop lurking and get in here. You are one of us.

I might harvest some herbs to dry today. Lots of dill, chives and lemon balm.
And I should dig up some ginger.
Also I'm excited to harvest my sweet potatoes sometime in the next few days.
Potatoes are another miracle of the garden.
You never know how many you have til you peek under the soil.
-or in my case, flip those baskets over onto a tarp.

I grow all my different types of potatoes in laundry baskets. It's a fun and easy project for you peeps with kids. Very interactive for the first few weeks then forget about them til harvest time.
Hit me up. I'll give you directions.

Have I mentioned that I'm grateful for you guys and girls lately? I like that our ages are a big spread. I think it enriches our interactions to have that depth and breadth
of our varied life experiences in our friendship.
Hugs to all-
Stacey
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I would like the instructions toooooooo.
I tried in the giant pots like all the videos on youtube ........I got a pitiful result. I think I quadrupled the taters and they were ALL super small like the new reds in the store. Very frustrating indeed.


Rubysword said:
Hey! I'm 14, not thirteen. :p
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:hugs or perhaps it should be....:highfive:.
It's been forever since I was that age but I remember it being fun. :ya
 
FlyingNunFarm said:
I would hope so but I had read reviews that they didn't hold up.
I may give it a try and see. It would be nice if it kept a little area outside without snow for them. It would unfortunately be a muddy mess of an area but I guess if it is I'll address that too. LOL
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I started seeing the same problem in my breeding run (now my Bachelor pad). They killed all the grass and it turned into a muddy mess. Now I use hay, lots of hay. Any time it start getting messy, I throw more hay down. My mom has some hay that she can't feed to her horses (it didn't dry fast enough) so I use it in nest boxes and in the Bachelor pad run.
 
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This is my cattle panel hoop run after I added the plastic to keep it dry.
It is working well.
I will have to knock the snow off due to how I chose to do the plastic but it was not hard to do.
 

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