calling any one from missouri

[ChickenCanoe]

Anybody near St. Louis (city or county) or Jefferson County ( I'm in Cedar Hill) that has fertile Marans eggs? I am wanting to hatch out some chocolate eggs and (hopefully) get some chocolate egg layers.

@karenerwin

Not Marans but I have Black Penedesenca hatching eggs. Blacks are the DP variety.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/products/penedesenca

 

[microchick]

I found this in the first article I downloaded:

Leftover inoculated seed should not be eaten or fed to animals

Yep. We had that message written on our soy bean seed. Not for human or animal consumption.

Gotta love that GMO insecticide, fertilizer, mold resistant seed. NOT

Just wondering. Is it possible to get uninoculated pasture seed? That is usually a mix of grasses and I think clovers.

 

[ocap]

if I am planting a legume I want it inoculated, I would keep my chickens in the pen until it sprouts, there is no ability to put nitrogen in the soil without inoculation (unless the bacteria necessary is in your soil) That is an opinion from piecing together a little reading, I might be wrong.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yep. We had that message written on our soy bean seed. Not for human or animal consumption.

Gotta love that GMO insecticide, fertilizer, mold resistant seed. NOT

Just wondering. Is it possible to get uninoculated pasture seed? That is usually a mix of grasses and I think clovers.

Hummert's international has a great variety of seed and I think they have stores in KC, Springfield and one close to my house in St. L.
It's mostly for wholesale but do retail as well.
I bought all my poultry pasture seed there.

Their catalog also tells if a seed is GMO or not. The trick is getting the right catalog. They have some for bedding plants, equipment, seed, etc..

if I am planting a legume I want it inoculated, I would keep my chickens in the pen until it sprouts, there is no ability to put nitrogen in the soil without inoculation (unless the bacteria necessary is in your soil) That is an opinion from piecing together a little reading, I might be wrong.

IMHO, it will still fix nitrogen but much better if inoculated.

 

[Lady K]

Im in Liberty Mo..getting ready for our first flock

 

[ocap]

Im in Liberty Mo..getting ready for our first flock

you found the MO thread !!!!

 

[potagergirl]

Im in Liberty Mo..getting ready for our first flock

we are happy to have you on the MO thread!!

 

[Lady K]

Thank you! Happy to be here

 

[EdenCamp]

Welcome! What are you going to flock up with?

 

[Lady K]

Well we have decided to go with an Orpington, EE and either a Plymouth Rock or Australorp