Nevadans?

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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Oh NO - I did not mean to do that, I feel so bad

I guess I need to think more before I post

But if you do decide to eat them, they are very tasty. I balance how bad I feel at taking their life - by know that they would not be here if I had not hatched them, that I loved and enjoyed them while they were here, they had a really good life with lots of food and fresh air, plus I really enjoy eating chicken - and not soft mushy store chicken (sorry for those who love it, my DH does too), but chicken that has muscle like steak and flavor, plus I know how it is handled cause I clean it. Also give me a good idea if I am feeding too much, too little or just right.

 

[laceynoelle]

lol i like how our raised chicken tastes. We just dont eat them often, im not sure why. I want to raise a batch every year to eat, because we probably go through one every week or so. And dont feel bad about that, it was a good point.

 

[mythkat]

Laceynoelle,

I have a Welsummer roo to rehome If you'd like him let me know.

 

[Penturner]

Welcome back Lacynoelle,
The only compost pile I did was just that, a pile. hosed it down as needed for moisture but since it was next to the garden that was almost done by overspray. turning it was simply shoveling it from one pile to another. did that maybe once a month. It seemed like nothing was going to happen for the entire summer and fall. Then I forgot about it over the winter. the next spring I went out to start the garden and there set a nice pile of compost. I heard it works best if you add a little of an old pile to a new batch of stuff to compost. I dunno we moved away soon after that. All the rest of my life we composted by plowing everything under. In other words just go bury your trash in the garden. Never think of it again.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Yea, I'm like Genny. I have a pile. I don't water it or turn it, so there it sits. It's not hurting anybody but it's not doing me any good either.

 

[NevadaRon]

I've been trying to work on a compost pile but I can't tell if it's doing anything or not.

It just looks like a pile! I call it Pig Poo Peak for the obvious reason

This is my first try - like you Penturner I have always just plowed everything under which seems to work. I only started one this year because of the prodigious amount of "starter" my pigs produce - and, I wanted to see if that worked better than the method I've been using. The biggest problem I see is the need to keep it wet - not easy here in the desert.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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That is funny - I don't care who you are.

No name for my pile, but now I will have to work on one. It does eventually reduce to nothing - I think the wind blows it away.

 

[SparksNV]

Wow!!! Everyone here is amazing!! Thanks for the info on the compost piles.

My neighbor behind me has a compost bin (one that you buy and spin) and his veggie garden produces incredible veggies. Mine looks so dinky and each year it gets worse. So, with the chicken poo and a friend of mine has worms (we will trade poo for worms), I hope to have some amazing compost next year for the garden. I am going to take all this info and look online at the library for "let it rot" (thanks Peep!). I will come up for a plan for the husband to help me build an area for the composting pile. We have to somehow make it so that our pug, Brees, doesn't eat it (she has a bad habit of eating poo - we have even caught her eating Cooper's as he is taking care of business

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Nevada Ron: Beautiful views!

One thing I love about NV is how the sun changes the colors at sunrise/sunset. Wish we could buy that 10 acre parcel. We really would like to buy some land but we wouldn't be able to get what we owe on our house. I like the name "Pig Poo Peak"!

Horsefeathers - even before I read your post about the red on your pullet, I was saying to the dh that I noticed red on a couple of the hens! Mostly, on the white Orp/EE (Meringue) - she has the most red. Does the red come and go at first? I could swear I saw some red on a couple of others, then when I went back out (after reading your post) to look at them again, I only saw red on Meringue. I put 3 golf balls in both nest boxes (is that too many?) but have not seen any activity up there.

I think I was giving them too much scratch, so I have stopped giving the scratch and only give a little bit of treats in the evening (wow - they swarm me!) to try to encourage pellet eating. I have a feed bin in the coop and one in the yard. I was thinking about letting them free range in our yard while I am home but I don't think I could get them back in the run - Only the least dominate one will let me catch & pick her up, so I am not sure how I could get them back hmmmm

Welcome back LaceyNoelle! Our computer was down for over a week - didn't realize how much I used it, til it was gone!

Hope everyone has a great Friday - I think I will take my girls to a movie this afternoon...

Carol

 

[SunnyDawn]

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They'll go back in on their own at dusk but if you wanted them in before that... well my DH sometimes gets a bug in his ear about getting them all in the run early, if we are heading out for the evening, and it is quite a sight watching him try to herd those chickens!

Ok, I shouldn't laugh but,

it's just too funny! He says it's easier than herding cats. No, I don't know what he means by that.

 

[Peep_Show]

Sunny:

Probably means about the same as nailing jello to a tree.....