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[Leahs Mom]

Note to self for next year. Either fence in the chix or fence in the garden !

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Note to self for next year. Either fence in the chix or fence in the garden !

Oh yes, been there, done that and lost all my cucumbers 2 years ago

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

My chickens are still laying well! Some of my youngsters are giving me pullet eggs too. We are selling so many eggs (DH's co workers, neighbors etc) not freezing as many as I'd like. Now that we have rotational free range the eggs are normal. Having everyone confined reminded me I hate caged chicken eggs, yuk.The extra produce is really helping the eggs too.

Well my corn and tomatoes are growing, but geez.. the weeds this year! I planted 21 rows of corn (bicolor sweet) and 13 beefsteak tomato plants. Barely keeping up with it all. my geese are weeding the garden too, but don't disturb the fruits or plants. Our garden is 50ft deep, and who knows how long. It was enough to plant all that corn, lol. Estimating around 60 feet.

Calves are growing and doing great. got their vaccines so we can immunize this weekend, and hopefully band and dehorn the younger boys. Going to do my annuals for the goats and hogs at the same time, so I am on the same schedule for everyone.. We always worm late fall and late spring so will keep that schedule for everyone. My chickens are not wormed on schedule unless I see issues, or they are around the livestock regularly.

 

[Crista]

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I am looking for ventilation ideas especially on tbe gray one. One of these will be chix coop and the other my garden shed. Thankyou in advance for your input.

 

[ellymayRans]

Note to self for next year. Either fence in the chix or fence in the garden !

Yes! Several years ago as my flock grew they discovered our garden and I had to replant 2 flats of tomatoes, peppers, beans and lost several 2ce!!! The second time was just after replanting and in 20 mins the time it took me to go get the netting! I just use temporary stakes and attach a plastic netting and no one, not even the peas fly over and it only stands about 3 feet. Works great!
Our garden is doing great but I am having some bottom rot issues with only my La Roma tomatoes. So strange, they share a bed with 2 other tomato varieties yet are the only ones this is happening to.
Took some pics just this morning.

We grow Ambrosia sweet corn. Planted about 62 tomato plants and 52 pepper plants. We love hot so there's ghost, habanero, jalapeño, cayenne, chili and bells. Lol!!

I am going to have to replant my Roma bush beans as for some reason only about 10 plants grew. They do better as a fall crop anyways.

 

[ellymayRans]

Also wanted to share my peahen hatched all 4 of her eggs!! I hatched 9 and only 2 were black shoulder. She hatched 4 and 2 are black shoulder!!

She chose to nest in my flower garden just at the walkout basement patio. I let her be and she succeeded! I put a little food out to encourage a peek at the new babes!
How beautiful!!

 

[MikeTodd]

Also wanted to share my peahen hatched all 4 of her eggs!! I hatched 9 and only 2 were black shoulder. She hatched 4 and 2 are black shoulder!!

She chose to nest in my flower garden just at the walkout basement patio. I let her be and she succeeded! I put a little food out to encourage a peek at the new babes!
How beautiful!!

Do PeaFowl need a lot of room? How do they fair free ranging where there might be predators? We live on one acre surrounded by 200 that is commercially farmed. I have lots of trees they can roost in but my coop is not big enough to accomodate one.

 

[Indyshent]

My chickens are still laying well! Some of my youngsters are giving me pullet eggs too. We are selling so many eggs (DH's co workers, neighbors etc) not freezing as many as I'd like. Now that we have rotational free range the eggs are normal. Having everyone confined reminded me I hate caged chicken eggs, yuk.The extra produce is really helping the eggs too.

Well my corn and tomatoes are growing, but geez.. the weeds this year! I planted 21 rows of corn (bicolor sweet) and 13 beefsteak tomato plants. Barely keeping up with it all. my geese are weeding the garden too, but don't disturb the fruits or plants. Our garden is 50ft deep, and who knows how long. It was enough to plant all that corn, lol. Estimating around 60 feet.

Calves are growing and doing great. got their vaccines so we can immunize this weekend, and hopefully band and dehorn the younger boys. Going to do my annuals for the goats and hogs at the same time, so I am on the same schedule for everyone.. We always worm late fall and late spring so will keep that schedule for everyone. My chickens are not wormed on schedule unless I see issues, or they are around the livestock regularly.

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Or both! I tend to do both. There are some times that I don't mind the birds being all over the backyard, and other times I really don't like 'em being into everything, eating all the grass, and pooping up a storm. I've got a four-foot chicken wire fence around the biggest garden, a two-foot fence on one side of another (it's between the garage and the run, which is an enclosed 6-ft fenced area), and a gate and a four-foot chain link fence between the birds and the front yard and its gardens. They don't pick on my greens as much as I'd feared, but anything that they can reach through a fence is fair game (like the swan gourds my daughter wanted to plant).

I got a super late start on the garden this year. Shamefully, woefully late. Hopefully, we'll still get something to eat out if. So far, we've picked a few ripe cherry tomatoes and tossed 'em to the birds. No one here much cares for them, but they've been volunteering for duty throughout the yard, so I keep them for my mom and the birds. Most of my tomatoes this year are volunteers seeded from last year's cherry and Rutgers plants. All my starts died this spring, so I bought some Pink Lady and Romas, but hey're not ripe yet, and the hornworms love them. When the poults are allowed into the front yard for caterpillar duty, they tend to do almost as much damage as the stupid hornworms!

I've got two habanero plants from last year which nevertheless have never fruited. I'm probably going to have to move them again. I planted them in the pheasant run because supposedly pheasants don't harm plants much... well, that's a lie, friends. Between them and the quail, they had those poor peppers bald as Sir Patrick Stewart in no time flat. They've bushed out since then, but any part that creeps anywhere near the little protective fence is promptly devastated. Once again, I planted numerous varieties of hot and sweet peppers, but the spring killed them all---except the two I brought inside for the winter last year.

I planted two types of corn and three packages worth... but have fewer than twenty plants up. Between the shade, the stomping children and guests, and the birds, the poor corn just isn't faring well this year. I'll plant them somewhere else next year. I planted several kinds of beans, and they seem to be faring better, but some of that may just be my hopefulness. Planted kidney, pinto (both as science projects for/with the kids), Alaska peas, and different kinds of green beans (including one that's supposed to be purple!). Unfortunately, many were buried when we dug the trench to get power lines to the garage and coop.

*Finally* have those lines in the ground, and if DH tells me we did it wrong and have to dig it again, I might just smack him because this is the second time I've dug this stupid thing for him. Power still isn't hooked up, but I don't care so much at this point 'cause the digging's done.

Planted two kinds of pumpkin, three or four kinds of watermelon, about twenty kinds of sunflowers, cukes, summer and winter squash, zucchini, almost every herb I could find. First year for greens. Cabbage didn't come up, but kale, spinach and some others have. I haven't ID'd them all. Planted nasturtiums, cosmos, and marigolds almost everywhere. Also planted catgrass and catnip.

Tried to do everything as companion gardening, which means means that I've strictly avoided monocultures and every plant which can conceivably get along is planted in a big huggy neighborhood, strictly willy-nilly like in any given area of garden. Since plants of the same type all have the same needs, they tend to deplete their area of the stuff they want. Avoiding monocultures avoids some of that competition, and neighboring plants confuse aerial predators, attract beneficial insects or hummingbirds and/or repel nasties and/or function as a trap crop for nasties.

I have both wild carrots (Queen Anne's lace) AND domestic multi-colored carrots coming up (again, I'm really hoping for some pretty purple ones. Might actually get the kids to eat some veggies

). It doesn't help that the poults *helped* me plant the carrots, which naturally, caused seeds to go everywhere in the yard after they took off with and shook my bag of seeds.Life with poults is never dull.

I am looking for ventilation ideas especially on tbe gray one. One of these will be chix coop and the other my garden shed. Thankyou in advance for your input.

Since people love to think chicken coops are eyesores, I think you're better off using the cute, green one for the coop. Nobody cares what the shed looks like, so bland and unobtrusive work great (and less ventilation works fine in a shed!). generally, I would advise putting the garden shed closer to the garden, but it looks like the gray one might be closer already, so it works doubly well for that purpose. The green one already has a fence started, too, which makes yet another awesome point in its favor as a coop. Just put in a pop door and maybe some more ventilation, and it's golden for the job!

 

[tmctlt]

You could add a roof turbine unit which would help " pull " some of the hot air out and perhaps add a window that would allow air movement and some light.

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=turbine+style+roof+vents&ei=UTF-8&fr=chrf-yff34


Paul

 

[pginsber]

Hey, Indianapolis folks- I got my new wormer stock yesterday. Not everyone has a worming program for their birds, but I do. I have a small flock, the stuff is expensive, I have more than what I need and most of it expires in 2018, so I'm glad to share to help defray my costs.

If you're considering worming your birds for a routine worming program, I suggest not to do it in this heat. In my opinion, worming taxes the birds' system, and I don't like to do it if they're already taxed in some manner unless it's absolutely necessary. I simply received the products now, and am ready to split them up. I'm not advocating worming the birds now.

Here's a photo of what I have. Wazine, Valbazen, and Safeguard.


Since no place sells only the size I need for a flock of 12, I have to buy more than I need. If you'd like to help me recoup some of my costs and get a small amount for your small flock at the same time PM me. I'm in Indianapolis.