EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kwhites634]

Why can't I find the Chicken People show? I got home to watch it....Do I have the wrong day?

On CMT

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Fading... Heading to bed.

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh, I'm sure they're sweet, I just don't have any, so I couldn't quite wrap my head around what it looked like to watch them handle the chickens until I realized they were all Bantams. My NN and GNH roosters/cockerels are huge... (I have spurs to deal with on Dumbledore soon - I keep putting it off, but it's gotta get done. He's a CL, smaller, but feisty.)

- Ant Farm 

How many lbs?

My largest chook is a BSL.... 5 lbs maybe?

 

[lindalouly]

Well crap,
Xfinity decided to take cmt off my package after a life time. Uggggh. Guess i ont get to watch it.

 

[BantyChooks]

Well crap,
Xfinity decided to take cmt off my package after a life time. Uggggh. Guess i ont get to watch it.

 

[TJChickens]

U r pac time? So later umm8 your time? 11 mine maybe

I know it's on again tomorrow 2x

Yeah, I thought it was supposed to be on at 8pm here. PT

On CMT

Dang! All that's on CMT is Miss Congeniality. It does have it on tomorrow at 7am and 7pm.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Yes, they are. You bury them up to the neck in a bed of plants, and fill them, and they act like a low-tech slow steady irrigation system in hot dry climates. They've been used for, what, thousands of years, I think? (I'll have to look it up). You have to be sure NOT to use them around plants with strong woody roots, because those roots will actually break the pots. I have used them with cucumbers and tomatoes in summer time. They are sitting there because I pulled them up from the adjacent (previously cucumber) bed - I don't really need to use them in fall/winter.

I already had them, but was re-inspired by reading "Growing food in a hotter, drier land" by Gary Nabhan (great book). 
We've missed you!!!!!  

- Ant Farm 

I guess I should have clarified, I meant how WELL do they work lol. I know HOW they work and, where do you find them? Everywhere we look for them is rediculously expensive :/

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

@Sally Sunshine is this the picture you said you weren't sure you saved?

 

[Akrnaf2]

@Sally Sunshine is this the picture you said you weren't sure you saved?

O no, she had a turkey with her had, if I remember correctly. ( I am a men, so probably I do not! )

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Maybe 10? 11? Haven't weighed him recently, but that's my estimate. A 10 lb bird with wings, a beak, and spurs is harder to handle than those bantams...

Quote: I've had mine for a really long time (since before they were "hip"), so I don't remember how much they were exactly. They were less than the crazy prices now, but they weren't cheap either. They generally need to be hand crafted, I think. I was trying to figure out irrigation for my garden. They work fine, some years I'd forget to refill them is all, and would end up watering with the hose. Also, if you use a pantyhose over the top instead of a saucer, they dry out faster (that's a recent thing I started doing). They are useful for me as a "back up" when it's REALLY hot and hasn't rained in 3 months, in addition to watering, of plants that do well with consistent moisture - esp. cucumbers for me. Think of it as old school drip irrigation. I never grow anything again if it doesn't cut it in my climate - always on the hunt for tough varieties.

Some folks sell small ollos to put into pots. I can't wrap my head around that because of the limited space for roots in there. (Then again, the ones I've seen are soooooo expensive and small I'd never try.) You know, I haven't tried mine in grow bags or really large pots like whiskey barrels (both of which are at risk of drying out). Maybe I'll try that next year!

- Ant Farm