As for the garden. It's a raised bed so I can't use my irrigation... During the extremely hot months when I don't have anything growing in it or during December and first part of January each week we dig a trench in the garden and then we bury the chicken poop with the shavings and DE in the trench. My cauliflower plants are HUGE and the cauliflowers are almost ready to harvest. I've been cutting broccoli for weeks now and sneaking peas right out of the pod. Delish.
So I got off of the mountain today, took a dip in the pool and my 15 year old who has been out riding on his bike tells me there is a huge pile of bees on the berm of our next door neighbors lawn, right next to the street. The neighbors aren't home, folks walk up and down our street all of the time. I get as close to it as I can without disturbing them and I can see it's a new swarm that has come together and they are looking for somewhere to hive I suppose. I call the police department to report them right there next to the street and the person on the phone says, "You'll have to call someone who collects bees". So I said, "What if someone get's stung?" And he says, then you call 911. I'm making all the kids stay inside. Hope the neighbors get home soon so we can tell them.
Gretchen, how many chicks did you get from my eggs???
gckiddhouse, can't wait to see the pics... how many did you get from my eggs? 2 W/BW and 5 EEs?
I started today collecting my W/BW eggs for me. I will set them on the 2nd. I'm suppose to be getting eggs from 3 sources plus my own so I'm hoping for a huge hatch of W/BW Ameraucanas around the 25th of April. I have two hens who just got out of molt and their eggs are nice and blue, the other three who started out real blue are just a very pale blue at present... I guess that's how it goes with the laying cycles, but the genes are still there!
