Michigan

[Bianca67]

I went to the yarn shop....

...and came home with her... :: sigh :: (her name is "Lois Lane"... Lola for short)....Clark, my buck, is twirling around in his crate right now.

I can't blame him...she is a cutie patootie.

What yarn shop to you go to?

 

[NovaAman]

So, habitual.... The yarn shop is really a rabbit vendor? Cool. She is pretty. I wish I weren't allergic... Glad I am, otherwise, I would have to build a house for them too!

the neighbor just bought the meaties from FFH for .75 a piece. I told him he should have haggled and git them for .50.

The weather, wind aside, makes for a good day. Have to move the coop for half the littles... Get a 2x4 and make a ramp for them. Think I will put the cockerels in that one.

I tried catching Mr. Fluffers to get feet pics... Gonna try for tonight. I forget who, but what was the recipe for the easy cure fir leg mites? I hate to bug him, but... He is my main dude.

 

[Juise]

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!
It's 1:15 A.M.
Whatcha doing, roosting for the night with the birds???????

....well then, goodnight in that case.

Here I thought I was the only one who posted after 1am.

So, I am torn between going where I KNOW it is, and supporting my local mom n pop shop....and waiting.

Can you not just give them a quick call and ask before heading out?

On compost, I'm more like RaZ in that I don't follow the conventional rules. A lot of ours gets turned in immediately. The thing is raw material isn't what burns plants, an overabundance of it is what burns them. Spread it out, mix it in. Nova, I wouldn't get rid of your rabbit and duck stuff. Mix it all together with your chicken stuff, the materials you rake up around your yard, shredded paper if you need more carbon. It's all great nutrition for your garden, why waste it?

When I clean the coop today everything is going to get dumped in the garden. I agree with Olive, as long as it is worked into the garden soil thoroughly, it will decompose fine and won't burn your plants.

It sounds like what I knew is the broken down version of the process. "It is hot, so it burns!" I am going to have to talk to my mum about describing things to me like I am still 3. I am a big girl! I can handle it!

(My mom does landscape design and installation. She's my go-to for all thing plant / dirt / etc. One of her jobs is the city of Brighton, for those of you over there, she does all those beds and baskets, and.. uh.. another place over there.. I forget which city it is...

My parents live over in Howell, probably rubbing shoulders with Opa.

)

Anyway, so I am wondering now if I have this straight. If anyone would be so kind as to let me know, I would appreciate that. It sounds like it would not be okay for me to put fresh chicken poop down in a layer, if I am putting it in a layer it should be composted. It is okay to put in fresh chicken poop if you mix it in with other compostable materials. Is this correct?

For my new bed, I am putting down first a very large old tarp, because it is going in an area that is currently all dense dune grass over sand. On top of that, I am laying old, rotting plywood and chipboard. Then I am putting down a thin layer of mulch. On top of that I am adding a layer of straw, then a layer of compost, and finally a layer of topsoil.

Unless I should be sandwiching the straw between the compost and topsoil? Ugh. Anyway. Mulching paths in between.

Quote:

Your chicken's manure may carry all kinds of nasties with it. The most notable being that dreaded E.coli the media likes to report on so much. Things to remember though:

1) Most backyard compost piles don't get hot enough to kill E.coli (and a host of other nasties) anyway.

2) Most veggies are not in direct contact with the soil.

3) Your chickens only have one exit. Every time you bring an egg into the house, you're carting in microscopic bits of feces and everything inside of it. How many of you with kids let them collect the eggs? How many of them then touch their faces, mouthes, surfaces in your house, etc? Are they dead yet?

All of the recalls and reports on food borne illness have people particularly on edge about their food these days. Give your immune systems some credit, the very fact that you're living with and your children are growing up with livestock and garden-fresh veggies predisposes you to having a stronger one than most people. Studies show farm kids are less likely to be ill and suffer from asthma than city kids. The quantity and variety of pathogens they're exposed to day-in and day-out is a good thing.

1) It was my understanding (which definitely does not mean I am correct,) that "resting" the poop for a year breaks down many of the harmful bacterias due to exposure, the disinfectant qualities of sun, etc., not that it would get to a temperature that would kill it.

2) In our case we grow many that are.

3) I do let my kids collect eggs, it is their favourite "job", but I do also have them wash their hands after doing so, especially as we generally have breakfast after egg collecting. I am not germ prevention crazy, not by a long shot, we use regular old soap, water, and friction to clean ourselves, and I also do think that exposure in these limited ways is very important in developing strong immune systems.

However, I don't personally feel that my 1 year old picking a zucchini up out of a scrumptious bed of fresh poop and taking a big ol' bite out of it constitutes "limited".

The pigeon that I lost the other day is back!

 

[Juise]

You ggguuuuuyyyyss! You posted several more pages in the time it took me to get my one post done, between kids and etc.! I will have to catch back up later, lol!

 

[NovaAman]

I so need to start proof reading.

babygyrl= habitual... On occasion babygyrl= baguette... Go figure.

 

[babigyrl22]

What yarn shop to you go to?

I know, I know...LOL. Actually the owner breeds English Angoras and they posted this little cutie on their FB page. I had to have her and she's sooooo sweet. Even my DH fell in love.

 

[NovaAman]

What does your dog think of this one? He like investigating her cage too?

 

[Chickmate]

No you are not reading it right. It an attempt at humor that evidently fell short. I was implying that a senior moment had me agreeing and a second flare up of senility made me forget what we were even talking about.

Just came back from TSC where I succumbed to the call of some ISA brown pullets. When the saleswoman got them out of the stock tank she asked if it was okay if one was a week old. I said sure but make them all week olds.

Yeah, I thought it sounded too good to be true. I got the humor, just thought I'd push it to see if I could get you to do it! Guess you're not THAT senile.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Now I am going to the pet store. I must buy a new cage.

Not because I added chicks...nope. Because Sam wont commit to making me that brooder...lol.. nah, just kidding. The little clean legged chicks are BULLIES to the feather footed ones. I put a perch in there and they all love roosting. lol. But what that means is....the mean gang members come along and yank on their feet feathers and pull them off.

So, Im gonna buy another cage, set it on top of this one...and anyone with a comb starting to show is getting booted.

 

[RBahmer]

babygyrl22 is coming to my house. Everybody needs to convince her she needs a bottle lamb and that they are as cute as her bunnies. LOL