Maine

[superchemicalgirl]

I had a turkey that was broody for 10 months. Don't ask me how to break a broody.

 

[JDisme]

shoot. Put eggs under her at that point!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I did a couple times. She just rotted them.

 

[lazy gardener]

I would give her eggs, but... I DON'T NEED MORE CHICKENS. ;>

If I put ice packs in the nest box, they'd just move to an other box. Got too many girls laying and too many nest box options to try that. I could put them in a dog crate, but the tractor is easier, and there is nothing to bed down on in the tractor. It's over a mostly packed clay surface, with just a few weeds for munching pleasure.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I have broken Brodie's with an ice bath, quite literally dunk them in ice water

BUT I have one oegb cross that refuses to be broken
I may give her quail eggs

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Oh and my oegb crosses are the best briodies I have have

 

[Hiltonizer]

Apparently I stopped getting notices for this thread... 5 pages later.

Hiltonizer, my Halonas just up and died, too.

Same deal, just caught up on 5 pages.

I have 3 or 4 Halona plants that came back from the dead. I had written them off completely, didn't even go look at that end of the row for 2+ weeks... during which we got that few days of rain, and when I did they were back.

I have some good looking fruit on them now probably ready soon.

I can't imagine they were in flower at the same time as the other cucurbits, so i'll try saving the seed... though they themselves are an F1... since they were dead it'll be fair to call them zombie melons.

In other news, no amount of pyrethrin seems to stop squash bugs... but the Winter Luxery pumpkins are holding on and I have a ton of fruit nearly ripe... already harvested a few early ones.. they're beauties. The Diana watermelons are incredible. This will be my last year with Ministro cukes, they put out great for a bit but half have died and the rest have all but quit producing.

 

[Hiltonizer]

Oh, and does anyone want a Speckled Sussex rooster? We let him and his 3 siblings just kinda free range around the house since they were all that survived an early hatch... and he just crows all day under the windows while I'm on work calls... she won't let me bump him off but may consider letting me rehome him. Otherwise i'm going to frame a fox...

 

[buckabucka]

I just let broodies be now, after failing with fans and empty cages. I think it depends on the individual bird.

Squash bugs have arrived here. Not in droves yet, but I crushed clusters of them under dead leaves in the hoop house. It could easily get out of control, because I go back to work today...

 

[lazy gardener]

I think I've had fair luck using Sevin on squash bugs. Also I thoroughly soak the soil at the base of the plants when the SB first appear. The water forces them to come boiling up out of the soil in a mass migration to high ground. They climb up the plant stem where they can be plucked off and baptized in a bucket of soapy water.