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

[BullChick]

Good morning Chaos and Abi.

Yes, the sweet potato will take over a panel if you start it on it.v Then they get bigger, more prolific, and take up less space. I got a lot of normal ones when I did it and several as big as my size ten and a half shoe. Much better than just left to cover ground.


Good morning everyone. Any advice on my pullets wing?

Okay! Thanks!

I was wondering about doing that I was just unsure if it would be blood for her. No it is not broken just hurt so she can't hold it up tight. She was not in her normal spot when I went out to check on her St half time, but she had managed to get up the eight inches or so to get on the ladder so she could walk up to the end of the roost by herself.

Well, that is good!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I was wondering about doing that I was just unsure if it would be blood for her. No it is not broken just hurt so she can't hold it up tight. She was not in her normal spot when I went out to check on her St half time, but she had managed to get up the eight inches or so to get on the ladder so she could walk up to the end of the roost by herself.

IMO it is just going to take time.
Like your ankle.

 

[BullChick]

Wish I could. We are finally warming up this week. I really feel your pain. I tried chipping out some bedding this week and gave up.
If that's your issue, you may get away with just treating the afflicted birds. There aren't likely many surviving off the birds right now.


Sorry, I misinterpreted. I just reread it.
In addition to Ant Farm's suggestions.

For green bells, 'pick-me-quick' can handle cool spring and hot summer.
'King of the North' is an early-bearing variety for cool short seasons.
I personally don't waste garden space on green bell peppers or anything else that is cheap at the grocery store. I do however plant all the colored varieties that are pricey at the store. Yellow, red, orange, chocolate and purple.

Good older varieties of peas are Sugar Snap (abundant producer), Sugar Ann (dwarf for northern climates), Little Marvel (early heavy bearing bush) and for snow peas, Dwarf White Sugar (bush).

Early Canada is a 75 day early watermelon. Bush Charleston Gray watermelon has the highest vitamin A content.

Interesting article.
http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/0110/011026.html
Some sources
http://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/watermelon/
https://www.superseeds.com/pages/vegetable-seeds


Yes they vine. I usually use colored varieties in window boxes with assorted flowers for their pretty trailing leaves lending contrast to the flowers.

Me too! But it is defrosted now, so I will be cleaning coops today.
You didn't misinterpret. I have been very lazy about checking to be sure I actually typed what I was thinking. I had to go back to the post to edit it.
Thank you for your suggestions! Here in Pennsylvania, all of the bell peppers are expensive. My M-I-L got me hooked on a sweet relish, and even the green peppers are about $2 each. Not by the pound. Each.
I can't believe sweet potatoes vine. That is so cool! I thought they grew underground like regular potatoes.
When I grew my first tomatoes, I didn't know anything about them. Ditto with everything else! I plant seeds, then I am amazed at how it grows! It is a cheap experiment that keeps me entertained.

 

[Chaos18]

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Good morning.

Morning. How are things in MO?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Banty, what's a North American house hippo?

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/tor/5868054196.html

 

[BantyChooks]

Yep - I grew the Early Moonbeams one year - small yellow watermelons. They did well. Just not as spectacular as the Blacktail Mountain...  I like the yellow fleshed ones a lot!!!! (Maybe I'll try growing those this year...)

Yeah, those things are super heavy - I got some from TSC, and since I had to pay someone for delivery, I got something like 30 of them (the 4 x 16 ft panels). So I have a lot of them around, either intact or more likely cut down to 4 x 8 (esp. as trellises). It is not pleasant to have one fall on your foot - so glad your hen survived!!! 





Spent most of the day working on the brooders. STILL. But cutting all that hardware cloth and bolting together all those panels takes so much time. I stopped around 10:45p - I just need to drill the holes in the plywood bases, and then I'll fire up the pneumatic stapler and get them all put together. 

It's POURING outside - violent thunderstorms. WHY oh WHY can't it just rain like normal?! Why does it have to not rain for 1-2 months and then DROWN everything!!!!! 

Not a great time to need to be keeping the Eggplant girls and Monkey locked up in their tractor - I'll need to see what their bedding looks like. Maybe I'll be lucky, but it seems we tend to get a lot of sideways rain around here...

Banti is pelting me with cute duckie pictures on PM - NOT.... YET..... (But I am off to read about duck breeds and housing before bed...)

Falling asleep at the keyboard (maybe that duck reading won't get done after all). Good night! 

- Ant Farm 

You know you need them... Not too many. Just 2 or 3. You can keep them with your chooks for a bit.

Wish I could. We are finally warming up this week. I really feel your pain. I tried chipping out some bedding this week and gave up.
If that's your issue, you may get away with just treating the afflicted birds. There aren't likely many surviving off the birds right now.





I assume she is indoors. Try some herbal treatments. I use calendula, Echinacea and hypericum in an ointment for bumblefoot. Those may work well for frostbite too.
http://www.altmd.com/Articles/Herbal-Remedies-for-Frostbite

What's your stance on treating nest boxes? I have wooden boxes that are probably full of things I don't care to find out about. Just dust the outside, or dust the inside and rinse eggs well before eating?

Banty, what's a North American house hippo?

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/tor/5868054196.html

I love that ad!!

Here's the origin of the North American house hippo joke.... Sneaky little buggars, they are, and they'll make holes in your milk bags if you leave them out.

 

[daxigait]

Me too! But it is defrosted now, so I will be cleaning coops today.
You didn't misinterpret. I have been very lazy about checking to be sure I actually typed what I was thinking. I had to go back to the post to edit it.
Thank you for your suggestions! Here in Pennsylvania, all of the bell peppers are expensive. My M-I-L got me hooked on a sweet relish, and even the green peppers are about $2 each. Not by the pound. Each.
I can't believe sweet potatoes vine. That is so cool! I thought they grew underground like regular potatoes.
When I grew my first tomatoes, I didn't know anything about them. Ditto with everything else! I plant seeds, then I am amazed at how it grows! It is a cheap experiment that keeps me entertained.

The potatoes do grow underground, but the bigger the vines get and the richer and deeper the mound the greater and larger the yield.

 

[BullChick]

Ohhhhhhh!

 

[daxigait]

@ChickenCanoe Thanks for the link. Do you have a recipe or link for what you do with bumble foot?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I wish I could hatch eggs again