July Hatch-a-Long (including 4th of July hatch-a-long)

[FortCluck]

Here’s a few pics I want to share...

Cocci survivors. They are in the Fort Cluck Addition (don’t ask why my family calls it this because I don’t know) They are all dust bathing and super happy!

Polish Deathlayers plus the TSC buff silkie

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Got my first pip on the Bielefelder eggs this morning! They are due to hatch tomorrow. Some peeping beginning too .

 

[FortCluck]

I need to see some babies!!!! I have to wait until Sunday and I am getting antsy about it

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Thought it was called cool because it doesn’t burn plants. Most gardeners here say cool not as a composting method. Like chicken manure is hot and will burn plants... no idea lol. I just do what I do and it’s working.

I almost pulled my yellow pepper plant until I realized it’s actually growing peppers!!!! So the rabbit poop worked!

Verbiage can be dependent on scale. Farmers or larger scale people tend to use certain verbiage in one way and smaller/home gardeners tend to use it in another. And at a Farmer's Market the range varies a Lot because you have large scale folks or production gardeners right along side someone who is growing an item in a small backyard. Or, at least that was my experiences at the FMs I sold at.

Chicken manure fresh is hot. Very hot! In addition to nitrogen levels some fresh manures are high in ammonia too which can kill plants. Like when the family dog pees a lot in one spot and the grass dies. Or alpacas, which are known to have communal potty piles and the urine will kill a large ring of grass around the potty pile. Manure isn't just about the solids.

Glad your pepper is doing better and the bunny manure helped it right away!

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Wow, I'm glad to know this. A little aging never hurt anything anyway with how there tends to be an over abundance of manure. Haha! Thanks for sharing!

I didn't want to gross anyone out, but aging will also lessen the chances of introducing parasites into the garden as well. While a garden isn't a host and the eggs won't be able to reproduce (usually) in the soil, you dig your hands into it and if manure has parasite eggs in it those can be picked up on the hands, or on the produce.

 

[Hucklekree]

Another Bielefelder eggs is rocking and I hear cheeping in four out of the seven

 

[SnapdragonQ]

That would be challenging! Awesome though! What are you growing there?

So far....
Many less fruit trees here but peach, pear, and Asian pear tress. I'm having troubles with the apples because cedar rust is very high in this area, but I got a few little pears last year. The tress are not mature yet.
Blackberry, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, black raspberry, grapes, and currents. Again much less than before and most are young, but I'll probably get enough this year for some canning.
Spinach, lettuces, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, swiss chard, beans, peas, tomatoes, summer squashes, winter squashes, and I recently pulled the garlic and it's drying on the front porch.

It's a much different growing environment here, and USDA zone, so I'm learning and adjusting as I go along. Some of the brambles are planted among other foundation plants around the house where I've made raised beds and others are on a sunny well drained hillside.
The fruit trees are more spread out too. Because I'm in a more winter protected area I use them as screens/breaks to be more aesthetically pleasing and useful, verses the typical orchard plot.

 

[chickiebaby1]

I need to see some babies!!!! I have to wait until Sunday and I am getting antsy about it

I did a photo shoot yesterday! enjoy!

first two are polish silkies

sapphire splash

faverolle silkie

 

[FortCluck]

I did a photo shoot yesterday! enjoy!
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first two are polish silkies
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sapphire splash
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faverolle silkie

Love them all!!!

 

[AgnesGray]

So far....
Many less fruit trees here but peach, pear, and Asian pear tress. I'm having troubles with the apples because cedar rust is very high in this area, but I got a few little pears last year. The tress are not mature yet.
Blackberry, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, black raspberry, grapes, and currents. Again much less than before and most are young, but I'll probably get enough this year for some canning.
Spinach, lettuces, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, swiss chard, beans, peas, tomatoes, summer squashes, winter squashes, and I recently pulled the garlic and it's drying on the front porch.

It's a much different growing environment here, and USDA zone, so I'm learning and adjusting as I go along. Some of the brambles are planted among other foundation plants around the house where I've made raised beds and others are on a sunny well drained hillside.
The fruit trees are more spread out too. Because I'm in a more winter protected area I use them as screens/breaks to be more aesthetically pleasing and useful, verses the typical orchard plot.

That's awesome! That is actually quite a bit you've done already!

We don't have an orchard in the standard sense either, but have used our trees to divide pastures and create shade, etc. Would love to turn a larger area into a food forest. Maybe one day.