INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Chaos18]

Morning.....

Morning Phil

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I thought ammonia smell meant less!

No!! Ammonia is acidic and bad, lime neutralizes acid therefore getting rid of bad ammonia

 

[BullChick]

Your tiller stinks?

It does. It has manure on it still from yesterday.

No!! Ammonia is acidic and bad, lime neutralizes acid therefore getting rid of bad ammonia

I wish I knew what article I was reading... I think it is the one Sally put up.

 

[Chaos18]

It does. It has manure on it still from yesterday.

I wish I knew what article I was reading... I think it is the one Sally put up.

Sounds like a silly thing to run your tiller through.

 

[BullChick]

Sounds like a silly thing to run your tiller through.

Oh. I thought ... Why do I tell you things if you aren't going to read the message? Ugh!
I am giving up. I will sit here, and be quiet.

 

[Duckies Girls]

Mornin Duckies Girls I see you there   you had a good weekend?

Mornin' Mrs. Sally! I had an exhausting but very nice weekend. Saturday we took the yaks out on the South Elkhorn and fished all day. Yesterday was chicken and garden chores I put off Saturday Until the storm blew in. I took that as ma' natures way of saying I did enough and was done for the day! Hope your weekend was relaxing

 

[Chaos18]

Oh. I thought ... Why do I tell you things if you aren't going to read the message? Ugh!
I am giving up. I will sit here, and be quiet.

I read the message.

 

[casportpony]

Cool PAGE! http://poultryhub.org/AnatomyoftheChicken/

@casportpony

@Sally Sunshine

Thanks so much for this amazing link! For those that didn't check it out, you really should. It has the best diagram of the pulmonary system I have ever seen! @ChickenCanoe , this might be something that your students would like.

Great link from Sally - http://poultryhub.org/AnatomyoftheChicken/

-Kathy

 

[ChickenCanoe]

He didn't hear about this?

He didn't care.

Definitely from the shallow end of the gene pool

I didn't say he was bright.
It's hard to imagine some people as the end result of millions of years of selective evolution.

@MotorcycleChick small propane blow torch.

X2
Any kind of torch.

It's what Chicken Canoe is here for anyway!

What was the netting made of, nylon?

This SOB shooter declared allegiance the DAESH (isis )

An angry hater. No real connection except for the 911 call pledging allegiance. Apparently that was the only connection. That allegiance didn't last long, did it.
His ex-wife said he was abusive and mentally ill. - YA THINK?
She had to escape with help from her parents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/sitora-yusufiy-omar-mateen-orlando-shooting.html?_r=0
She also said, he had often made ant-gay comments as did one of his former employers.

I have something in a barrel that might be lime. Might be powdered bleach. I will go with lime since it has no smell.
So, no.

Actually, you can still lime the run if you want; just broadcast on top of the ground with a coffee can ( I know you have one of those) or a pair of rubber gloves, or both.

We used to have the feed store deliver lime. They had a big 5 ton truck they would drive the fields broadcasting it.
Then we'd plow and disc the field.
That's the easy way to do it until the truck gets stuck. We tried to pull him out with the tractor. Once, he had to leave it for over a week till the ground dried out.

Why would lime help with fragrance? Is it dangerous to the chickens? I am shuffling chickens around, and I'd love to till the empty run while there are no chickens there. How much do you put in?

It helps neutralize bacterial activity.
It isn't dangerous. I make dust baths out of sand, soil, AG lime and wood ashes.

To know how much, you need to do a soil test. Lime raises the pH of soil that is too acidic. However, if the soil was already in the correct range, chicken manure can raise the pH so if you want to plant anything, I'd do a pH test before adding lime.

Lime contains calcium but because of the higher pH, it improves the uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
The problem with trying to grow anything where chickens have been is soil compaction and high phosphorus. Also, free salts in the manure limits seed germination.
Excess phosphorus limits a plant's ability to uptake iron and zinc.

I'm paying attention here - I know whenever I get the goats I am supposed to lime the dirt floor of their pen periodically. Where does one get lime? Feed store?

Let us know how it goes, MC!

I'm heading out to get some outside chores done. I'm sure I'll be back shortly to take a break form the heat - it's early in the hot weather season here (later than normal), and I'm not as acclimated yet. (Won't be a problem in August...)

- Ant Farm

I bought some at Lowe's but I'm sure feed stores carry it too. At least the old tymey type would.

Quote:

Check this guys work clothes out. Your tilling the coop reminded me of him

Doesn't everyone garden in a suit and tie?

Oh. Uh, we have really, REALLY alkaline soil here. Solid limestone as shallow as 2 inches deep on some areas of my property. Maybe my dirt comes pre-limed...

(I know I said I was going outside to do chores. I lied. I'm eating a hot dog and pitching old photos. Why on earth I kept horrible photos of me with a really bad perm at 16, I will never, ever know. Gone now.

)

- Ant Farm

I would call that pre-limed.
Your children would like to see them.

They don't. It is a smaller version of what Pensmaster showed. My full sized one is still in the garage... Hidden behind a lot of big, heavy stuff.

I haven't used my big one in a long time. It's a 60+ year old Yardman. That used to be a good brand. I had to replace the motor on it once.

Okay, so my crate... Should I put a bottom on it? I was thinking bare ground.

Remind me, what is the crate for?

We left for the weekend and we moved our chicken back with her original chicken friend. Apparently it didn't go well I'm so sad it looks like she's dying I sprayed blue coat on it is there anything else I can do? It looks like the hen ripped her entire scalp off.

I don't know who to tag or who to ask I'm devastated. My son was supposed to show her at the poultry show on Saturday. I didn't know that chickens would forget each other that quickly. So sad.
@cheeka

Sometimes it just takes a day of separation - or less. No show for that bird.

Was out working on orchard gate pruning tree suckers etc. went to pick up branches and this little critter was not 3 feet from me. Could have just as well picked him up as a branch.

Is that a Northern Pacific or Great Basin rattlesnake. .

He was moved for the picture. He was under the tree with me in the shade as I was picking up branches. Haven't had one of these in a couple years. Got a little too complacent. Inside now doing more safe chores before going back out.

I haven't seen any poisonous snakes here, lots of snakes just no poisonous ones.
Our farm had lots of Eastern Diamondbacks - and copperheads and water moccasins.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Morning Phil

howdy Chaos what's up?