Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

Tendersweet and Red Cored Chantenay.

kewl have you grown them before?

 

[Razadia]

Quote: I haven't, so I'm actually very surprised by them so far. A frost hit shortly after the carrots started coming up and instead of dyeing they bounced back after a few days. I few leaf tips turned yellow and then turned back green after a few days.

 

[Ravynscroft]

ooooooooooh!


I had one itsy chick this morning, and after noon I had , now I have 4...  lots of pips, but not all of the eggs have pipped.

COME ON!  I pre-sold these eggs!!!!!    (first time ever doing it on an order basis)   it better work out I tell you!!!!


   

I put in way more than I needed for the pre-orders, think that I could sell extras... or give them away as freebies to the people who had bought some... so it SHOULD work out OK... but we all know how it is with live stock!    

(except for the olive eggers, I did NOT have extra eggs of those.. but I told the people that wanted them, that I was gonna be short)

Growing up I always heard "There is many a slip, between the cup and the lip"... 

So I just REALLY want to
1. see them all hatched
2. make sure they all look healthy
3. and then relax!

But it looks like, that time will not happen until tomorrow....    

Awesome!!! I claim godmother status!!

 

[Alaskan]

ohoh come on lets see some pictures!!!!!!!!!! what has hatched out so far??? awesome congrats on the preorders!

No way I can get a good picture until I take them out... so we will all have to wait... I am SUPER BAD at waiting!!! I would really like to open the incubator and crack all of the eggs open (I know I shouldn't... don't worry)

Anyway, as to chicks:

-one single comb white leghorn egg hatched out a rose comb white leghorn (giant chick, VERY tired)
-one Dominique egg hatched a chick that looks like a Dominique (50% of being pure)
-2 olive eggs hatched, both look like black Marans chicks but without any white belly (they are 3/4 Black Copper Marans)
- one white egg hatching right now, I see a black beak... must have the Dominique rooster as dad.

This might be tricky... too many black chicks...

Marans should all have a creamy white belly, rest black, maybe white lines by eyes
Olive Eggers should be all black, no white on tummy, but maybe some white on face
Dominiques should all have some white on the head...


What about if I hatch dark brown leghorn x Dominique? Will those trick me?

It looks like the White in my White Leghorn is dominant white.. since those are with my dark brown leghorn and my dominique roosters

Where is that chicken color calculator???

I think I am gonna have to reseed my carrots nada coming up yet....some of the radish seeds I saved from my radish I let to go to seed last year started popping up the other day

What is fun is to start the carrots indoors. Then when you transplant, twist the long thin root hair into the shape that you want the carrot to be... The carrot will grow like that... you can grow letter carrots.

 

[Alaskan]

Awesome!!! I claim godmother status!!

TOTALLY!!!! I might be a bit stressed because that haven't all hatched in the blink of an eye, but it is SUPER MARVELOUS that I now have a separate hatcher and incubator! SUPER wonderful to not worry about the incubating eggs having to make it through a giant humidity spike. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE RAVYN!

 

[Ravynscroft]

TOTALLY!!!!  I might be a bit stressed because that haven't all hatched in the blink of an eye, but it is SUPER MARVELOUS that I now have a separate hatcher and incubator!  SUPER wonderful to not worry about the incubating eggs having to make it through a giant humidity spike.   LOVE, LOVE, LOVE RAVYN! 

Who isn't stressed at hatch time??? lol

Just very glad you are happy and hatching is so much easier for you!

 

[Beer can]

We only grow scarlet nantes carrots, a heritage heirloom. They do good in our rocky soil. Never have started them inside, sow them, thin them, always good by time fall hits. Ready about the same time the potatoes are. Fresh carrots have amazing floral flavor you can't get from store bought. We use my father in laws advice, plant potatoes late because you want to store them over winter and have good seed potatoes for spring, so you don't want them ready too early. The biggest reason he does it is potato bugs, if you plant late the potato bugs are already at everyone's garden who plants early and they leave yours alone. Seems to work, we usually have very few potato bugs.
The old man usually has good advice, but I'll never do again one thing he said to do. He said the Indians planted their pumpkins in between their corn so the big leaves drown out the weeds and then the corn grows taller and everything does good with no weeding. Worked great until it was time to pick the sweet corn, try picking rows of corn with pumpkin vines all over, and pumpkins trying not to step on anything or trip, and fight your way down the rows. Maybe it would be OK if you were growing late dent corn or four corn, probably the Indians harvested both at the same time.

 

[bamadude]

We plant potatos on valentines day every year.
The native Americans here would dig a hole. Put in 2 fish. A corn seed, a squash seed, and a bean seed.
The corn would grow tall. The bean would climb the corn. The squash would drown out the weeds

 

[Beer can]

We plant potatos on valentines day every year.
The native Americans here would dig a hole. Put in 2 fish. A corn seed, a squash seed, and a bean seed.
The corn would grow tall. The bean would climb the corn. The squash would drown out the weeds

Yup! That's what he told me when he suggested planting the pumpkins in the corn. I couldn't imagine fighting through beans also Lol!
I imagine the native Americans harvested all at the same time (dried corn and bean seeds, winter squash) so It wouldn't be a big deal, or they didn't plant as close as I do.

 

[Alaskan]

We plant potatos on valentines day every year.
The native Americans here would dig a hole. Put in 2 fish. A corn seed, a squash seed, and a bean seed.
The corn would grow tall. The bean would climb the corn. The squash would drown out the weeds

ever tried that?