Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

Crazy pepper

Plants....

 

[Razadia]

@Razadia I've probably asked a million times, but what were your chicks again? I especially like those brown/chipmunk ones. Super cute.

Then I shall hype about this self watering chili tray. It's now been 12 days since I filled it with water. They have used about half of it. And I'm guessing quite a lot of it just evaporates into the house, since the humidity inside is pretty low. So they will go for about a week and a half still with the same water, for a total of three weeks. Not too bad. And they're growing nicely. It's now been about 6 weeks since I planted them, and the sprouts came up 4-5 weeks ago, depending on the variety a bit.


The growth will probably increase once I get the proper grow light on top of them, the manufacturer should have mailed it already. Then I can put that bulb back in the mini greenhouse for the tomatoes. They don't need light yet, since they were planted yesterday. They're in 28C (82F) soil now. I think I'm going to try to get them up on a similar rig as quickly as possible though, this keeps the moisture a lot stabler than the mini greenhouse does. I still haven't found a container that would fit nicely in there, otherwise I would rig it up the same way. I would need a 8"x16" tray for that. Hopefully something that's about 2" deep.

The ones that I know what they are are buff orps, Partridge Rock (the brown chipmunks), BJG, and RIR. The rest are a mystery. I'm starting to think the yellow ones with stripes are Golden comets.

Sam, you missed the chick video!

I think it's cool how this shared custody thing works. The chicks seem to be equally imprinted on both girls, earlier today they were very keen on staying under Wilma, but now in the afternoon, they were sleeping under Emma, and Wilma even went outside to take a dust bath on her own. Has anyone else tried hatching with several mommies?

Oh, and another interesting thing. We're down to just one layer at the moment, Töyhtis. The mommies let her come into the nest to lay her egg, and then they brood it there. No fighting occurs, what so ever. The roo is pretty calm about things too, but what I'm worried about is the four adolescent cockerels we've also got in there. They seem to be pretty mellow still, but I'm sure they'll start manning up soon. I wouldn't mind culling them, but there's hardly anything to eat on them yet. I'm just afraid that when the chicks start getting more active, their paths will cross with the teen cockerels's.

Those were some of my American Gamefowl. I've had 4 hens sharing 35 chicks before.

How do I make that play as a video in my post? I can't figure it out? @Amberjem you've done it before

Just grab the Embed link for the video.

 

[vehve]

Sam, how big are the pots? How old are the plants? I want to compare

Raz, no trouble with them trying to hog chicks or anything?

 

[hennible]

Seeds went in feb 20th, not sure on sprout date. They were in tiny coconut fibre pots until today. Transplanted into 5" pot this morning... Trying to grow them cool and slow.

 

[perchie.girl]

Debster, you need to take a nap. Some sort of cardio might improve your sleep too. How are you with hand weights? Doing long sets with 5lbs hand weights while watching TV is a nice way to work up a good sweat. You could just take a couple of soda bottles and fill them with water and use those. Or sand, if you want some more weight.

Thanks for the advice... I just got up its 11:20 am so I got a good solid six hours sleep without resorting to over the counter sleeping pills. Today is grandmas Eye procedure....

Every five weeks they use a needle in her eye to inject meds for the reduction of blood leaking in to her eye. she has Wet macular degeneration. I feel for her every time and its getting worse.

I slept all day yesterday... Migrane. The weather is nuts here Humidity just swapped from about 15 percent to about 60 percent.... over the course of two days. So I got about 12 hours yesterday.

yep I need more exercise... I just bought some new clothes... That fit... imagine spending your days with clothes that are too tight. One pair of pants, One pair of Pedal pushers, a shirt and some pajamas... its beginning to get hot and the closest thing to shorts I can wear are pedal pushers. But they are all things I can move around in.

Cardio for me is walking from the house to the car...

deb

 

[vehve]

Seems like we're pretty even, Sam.

 

[bamadude]

Amber u have any new pics of my grandchicks?

 

[Razadia]

Sam, how big are the pots? How old are the plants? I want to compare

Raz, no trouble with them trying to hog chicks or anything?

Nope, the chicks would switch broodies when ever they wanted. No one ever got in a fight.

 

[minihorse927]

 

[minihorse927]

I give up