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Before I offer any suggestions, I would like to clarify... Are you still wanting to get something that can be walked on well, or just looking for low groundcover / low perennials and doing a path? What kind of light does that area get? (Full sun, part shade, etc.?) Also, you asked about herbs coming back, or maybe it was a specific one, I forget, but our oregano and thyme always come back, often, but not always, the rosemary comes back, and the sage sometimes makes it over winter as well. The winter we just had, everything lived through, including the other herbs that I normally have to replant every spring.
Glad he is doing well / even better with the change.
Looks good, and I like the run frame, too. I would think that a plant barrier would be a sufficient wind breaker, but maybe someone else will answer that knows more about it. We are pretty near the lake here, 1/4 mile or so, and it tends to be windier than elsewhere, but it sounds like you have a lot of wind all the time. My MIL and FIL live up the road from us, and while our house is in the woods, theirs is on top of a big big dune, and it is way windier there than here, even though it is a 2 minutes walk away.
LOL
Been working on the new garden bed a lot here, and the garden shed, and the kids' butterfly garden, and doing a lot of weeding all over. Bah. Almost finished a table I was doing for the kids, have it cut, sanded, painted, and woodburned, have to give it some legs. I am pretty sure it must have been a really big wooden wheel, not sure what else it could be. Been doing a lot of looking into shade loving native plants to add to the woody play areas here, and working on clearing out more of the understory growth through those areas as well.
I am having an issue with those new nest boxes I made a couple weeks (or something) ago. The lip in front is just as tall as the one on the old wire baskets, but they keep kicking all the straw out of these! That never happened in the old ones, and now I have collected a few cracked eggs that were dropped straight on the wood bottom. What's the deal? Here's a picture of them. Kaia is waiting for Eskaba to finish laying an egg.
I am pretty certain the one little americana is mostly blind now. I suspect she has some sight, but I am thinking not much. I am fairly sure that she reacted to a cat walking past a while ago, which is when she ran into the tree, so I think she sees a bit. None of the other littles had any reaction to the cat at all, he was far away and not coming in their direction, but she flipped out, turned tail, and ran.. straight into a tree. I think perhaps she could just see a dark shape.
I have been setting her in front of the water and dipping her beak a couple times a day, and in front of the feeder a couple times or so a day too and giving it a shake. She always drinks and eats when I do those things. I am not sure how much she is eating or drinking outside of that, but she looks okay and is perky, aside from being smaller than her flock mates. I get her out of the coop in the morning, and set her on the roost in the evening, otherwise she does not leave in the morning, and she will sit under the roost at night if you don't lift her up. I am going to add a ramp to the new roost I am planning and hope she can do that even if she can't see well enough to fly up to the roost.
She has gotten far friendlier than the rest of her little flock with all the handling, and will hang out with the (human) girls when I set her out, and likes being held and carried around. I still think it's funny, and Kaia especially loves it. The rest can be picked up, but I don't think they like it. This one does, she is very sweet. I am still not all that sure she will survive, though, and if she does, I am sure she will still be the first to be picked off by a predator.
Before I offer any suggestions, I would like to clarify... Are you still wanting to get something that can be walked on well, or just looking for low groundcover / low perennials and doing a path? What kind of light does that area get? (Full sun, part shade, etc.?) Also, you asked about herbs coming back, or maybe it was a specific one, I forget, but our oregano and thyme always come back, often, but not always, the rosemary comes back, and the sage sometimes makes it over winter as well. The winter we just had, everything lived through, including the other herbs that I normally have to replant every spring.
Glad he is doing well / even better with the change.
Looks good, and I like the run frame, too. I would think that a plant barrier would be a sufficient wind breaker, but maybe someone else will answer that knows more about it. We are pretty near the lake here, 1/4 mile or so, and it tends to be windier than elsewhere, but it sounds like you have a lot of wind all the time. My MIL and FIL live up the road from us, and while our house is in the woods, theirs is on top of a big big dune, and it is way windier there than here, even though it is a 2 minutes walk away.
Oh dear lord, please don't let council see those Uggos. Chickens will be out-lawed everywhere!
LOL
Been working on the new garden bed a lot here, and the garden shed, and the kids' butterfly garden, and doing a lot of weeding all over. Bah. Almost finished a table I was doing for the kids, have it cut, sanded, painted, and woodburned, have to give it some legs. I am pretty sure it must have been a really big wooden wheel, not sure what else it could be. Been doing a lot of looking into shade loving native plants to add to the woody play areas here, and working on clearing out more of the understory growth through those areas as well.
I am having an issue with those new nest boxes I made a couple weeks (or something) ago. The lip in front is just as tall as the one on the old wire baskets, but they keep kicking all the straw out of these! That never happened in the old ones, and now I have collected a few cracked eggs that were dropped straight on the wood bottom. What's the deal? Here's a picture of them. Kaia is waiting for Eskaba to finish laying an egg.
I am pretty certain the one little americana is mostly blind now. I suspect she has some sight, but I am thinking not much. I am fairly sure that she reacted to a cat walking past a while ago, which is when she ran into the tree, so I think she sees a bit. None of the other littles had any reaction to the cat at all, he was far away and not coming in their direction, but she flipped out, turned tail, and ran.. straight into a tree. I think perhaps she could just see a dark shape.
I have been setting her in front of the water and dipping her beak a couple times a day, and in front of the feeder a couple times or so a day too and giving it a shake. She always drinks and eats when I do those things. I am not sure how much she is eating or drinking outside of that, but she looks okay and is perky, aside from being smaller than her flock mates. I get her out of the coop in the morning, and set her on the roost in the evening, otherwise she does not leave in the morning, and she will sit under the roost at night if you don't lift her up. I am going to add a ramp to the new roost I am planning and hope she can do that even if she can't see well enough to fly up to the roost.
She has gotten far friendlier than the rest of her little flock with all the handling, and will hang out with the (human) girls when I set her out, and likes being held and carried around. I still think it's funny, and Kaia especially loves it. The rest can be picked up, but I don't think they like it. This one does, she is very sweet. I am still not all that sure she will survive, though, and if she does, I am sure she will still be the first to be picked off by a predator.
