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

[BantyChooks]

Very nice graph. I may have to do one like that for cocks- or even hens for that matter.
That will make the process more disciplined.
ALBC has a good video for selecting breeding cocks and birds to cull.



I have witnesses!
She's obsessed with moving anything I touch.
I can be in the middle of cooking dinner and have all the spices I intend to use out on the counter. As soon as I turn my back, she picks them up and puts them back in the pantry. I turn around to grab one and it is gone.

That said, I'm sure the two of you could have some good man hating conversations.

I was aware of a PDF on breeder selection but not of a video. Would you please direct me to it?

I'll be doing breeder evaluations around the end of March. Not that I have many or in some cases any to choose from, sigh.

 

[BantyChooks]

@ChickenCanoe The blues play the habs on the 30th. May the best team win.

 

[Akrnaf2]

That's a lot of lemons! What do you do with them all? That would be an awful lot of lemonade! Our little lemon tree has about 8 ripe lemons on it and I think we'll have the kids make us some lemonade this weekend

I will squize them, and freez them in ice qubes bag, and that will be our Lemmon juice supply for summer, this was the last year harvest.

 

[kwhites634]

I will squize them, and freez them in ice qubes bag, and that will be our Lemmon juice supply for summer, this was the last year harvest.
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Do lemon trees have a shallow root system? Soil mostly sand?

 

[Akrnaf2]

Do lemon trees have a shallow root system? Soil mostly sand?

The root system of citrus is dependent on the watering regime of the first 2-3 years. Giving small amounts of water daily will make them produce shallow root system, but giving large amounts of water, but with big intervals will make them produce a deeper one.
Mine was tall full of fruit, with a very wet ground and a very unusual strong wind, that made the problem.

 

[kwhites634]

The root system of citrus is dependent on the watering regime of the first 2-3 years. Giving small amounts of water daily will make them produce shallow root system, but giving large amounts of water, but with big intervals will make them produce a deeper one.
Mine was tall full of fruit, with a very wet ground and a very unusual strong wind, that made the problem.

A shame you had to lose such a producer. Just have to plant another & hope for better fortune.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

If it happens again I'll call my real plumber...he needs a new truck, anyway.

 

[Akrnaf2]

A shame you had to lose such a producer. Just have to plant another & hope for better fortune.

No, didn't loose it! Just cut the branches(, and smierd the cuts with anti fungal ointment) to avoid the wind to fall it entirely, and will give it a push with a ratchet to straighten it back. Hopefully will get it to produce in a year or two.

 

[kwhites634]

No, didn't loose it! Just cut the branches(, and smierd the cuts with anti fungal ointment) to avoid the wind to fall it entirely, and will give it a push with a ratchet to straighten it back. Hopefully will get it to produce in a year or two.

Well, that's better. Not good, but better.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

No, didn't loose it! Just cut the branches(, and smierd the cuts with anti fungal ointment) to avoid the wind to fall it entirely, and will give it a push with a ratchet to straighten it back. Hopefully will get it to produce in a year or two.

My 4 lemon trees didn't like a week of 20 degree weather..

No lemon aid for farmer connie