Dixie Chicks

[vehve]

Jem had compost pictures? Hmm, I might need to dig those out...

 

[minihorse927]

Jem had compost pictures? Hmm, I might need to dig those out...

it was a little mini composter that was installed in the garden

 

[vehve]

Cool. Or hot perhaps.

 

[minihorse927]

I've tried to find the pic, no luck.

 

[bamadude]

Hi to Bammy too, get a lot of peppers yet?

Yes. My carolina reapers are doing too good. I cant eat them fast enough. They are really really hot. A couple pieces about the size of a grain of rice is all I can handle.
My tomatoes are not doing as well as I had hoped.
How are your veggies?

 

[seminolewind]

Anacona Ducks.
One of ours has a brown feather on his back.

But that is not why I write.
A young small flock of Bresse I had decided to sell this Saturday has a problem. They got caught out in the cold mountain rain storm several days ago. When they got back into their house the next morning they have a sort of hiccup cough. None of my others in runs next to them that run the garden with them have the sneeze like hiccup. They have not been around anyother chickens and we are bio-secure. I have not brought any new chickens in either. I am certain they caught a chicken cold when they got caught out in the cold mountain rain storm.
I have been looking for a safe anti biotic to give them without taking them in to a Vet clinic as I dont want anyone to exagerate and run off half cocked. No Drama Queens allowed. So since I am not willing to go yo the vet where I know they have drama queens working where do I turn. Dixie Chicks. Help Dixie Chicks your my only hope.

The best you can do for respiratory is Tylan (Tylosin). 1 teaspoon per gallon for 5-7 days. You can get it on Amazon, Tractor Supply.

 

[hennible]

in short, I had an ohiki pullet get completely caked in mud and was stuck on her side in it, almost dead, she's alive and well. We had a discussion after some quail pictures were posted about how some would and some wouldn't eat them. Jem posted a bunch of awesome garden pictures and explained what her composter was to my garden illiterate self. Everyone discussed with seminolewind about the change. Cold Canadian said they're too jealous of your green houses to post their own gardening pictures.

Not all necessarily happened in that order or was said in the exact words.

Thank you

Hey Sammy, how are things in Canuckia?

Good, got more greenhouses.
How's things in Finland?

 

[seminolewind]

ApiaryandAviary, sometimes, or most times chickens (people and animals) carry the microbes that can make them sick and they are kept in check by the immune system. If the immune system gets stressed (cold rain) it's possible for those microbes to have the opportunity to multiply and make the chicken sick.

 

[seminolewind]

I am in awe of anyone that grows vegetables or fruits. I had a green thumb in NY but then I moved to Fla. and my green thumb turned brown.

 

[vehve]

Veggies aren't that great, we still haven't gotten real summer weather. Tomatoes kept getting attacked by the chooks, but now they're fenced in. First flowers appeared a week ago. Onions were destroyed, just replanted, carrots are starting to pop up from the ground. Beans are about five inches from the ground now. Fennels are doing okay. Herbs are a bit slow to start, and wild birds got to the berry bushes before we put up nets. It's gonna be a killer blueberry year though. But those grow in the wild.