NY chicken lover!!!!

[ChickPrincess]

Best of luck and hope things fall into place for you.....sounds like a smart plan.....BUT for selfish reasons, I wish you'd stay in NY and on the NY BYC thread!

TOB

I can always stay here! lol

 

[armorfirelady]

Since I switched their food and used that salve they have been doing well. The snow can stay away till November

I use eucalyptus oil diluted in water in a spray bottle. I have never had bugs in my coops but it is suppose to be a deterant. I think it just smells nice in the coop

I like the idea of eucalyptus oil ... where do you get this? Thx. TOB

I bought it at a local health food store but like Sally said you can probably get it in the organic section of a grocery store. Walmart didn't carry it tho. It's suppose to be a bug repellant. So far so good

 

[ChickPrincess]

Hi - I'm not Armourfirelady but I got mine at a Wegman's grocery store. Where all the vitamins and health foods are. I carried it in my purse for a week. Some leaked out and smells nice. lol

I buy mine in much larger quantity, but you can check out wholesalesuppliesplus.com. $30 0r $40 and it's free shipping (if there's other things you might want to buy... otherwise you pay shipping for smaller $ figure).

 

[ChickPrincess]

My garden this year is off as well, although its probably my fault, I didn't plant it until mid June....I do have cukes and beans, kale & lettuce, brussel sprouts galore, but no peppers.but out of 10 tomato plants I think there are 3 tomatoes. If there are no tomatoes started yet, its too late. I usually go & cut off all the branches that just have flowers to let the plant put its energy into the existing tomatoes ripening. Good thing I will have tomatoes sauce left over from last year...

We had good garlic & Onions are coming along ok, but not very big. Basil did well also. That's about it.

Now, my flower garden is full of weeds...too much rain, not time to week, and some health issues prevented me from doing anything. Its pathetic...sigh

I gave up on the garden a few years ago. I find it MUCH easier to shop at the mennonite farm stands!

 

[armorfirelady]

Mars quells- I had mine in the earliest it's ever been the 2nd week of may. What hurt mine was the almost of every day torrential rains and no sun. It's finally catching up but the yield is so much smaller than last year. I doubt my pumpkins will be orange for Halloween or the squash big enough

 

[stonykill]

with all of this apple talk I walked just behind the house and grabbed 6 wild American apples and 8 or so chestnut crabs and am making baked apples to go with venison burgers and fries. I ate one wild American apple from my favorite tree. Man oh man was it good and juicy.

 

[miquwid]

 with all of this apple talk I walked just behind the house and grabbed 6 wild American apples and 8 or so chestnut crabs and am making baked apples to go with venison burgers and fries. I ate one wild American apple from my favorite tree. Man oh man was it good and juicy. 

hahaha I'm doing the same picked a bunch of apples time for pie! That and it's my dads bday 2mro so a very fresh homemade pie for him, and a peach cobble. I made a mint apple dressing for my lamb shank the other day it was delicious.

PhArm glad Ur daughter is well. sorry about the egg eater.

That e oil seems to work but has a lot of used for many animals, I'm getting some this weekend.

I hope everyone is well.

 

[featherz]

I gave up on a garden this year also. I am SO busy it ends up being a weed garden with a few GIANT cucumbers that somehow grow every year. This year I figured I'd come out ahead by buying at the local farmer's market.

Work has been NUTZ!

We have about 12 fruit trees that we put in four years ago. Got one small peach on one last year, but nothing wants to grow on these trees. They are all green, no apparent insect or rot problems. My hubby keeps wanting to fertilize them.. what should we use, if anything? I think we have mostly apple and pear, with one peach.

 

[Breella]

Under the weather and don't feel like digging through the posts,

Unsure how much to sell the apples for, not even sure what they are good for since I don't know what kind they are.

Pearl is sitting on five eggs.

In that photo she was trying to sit on ten eggs. :-/ I moved her into a crate so no one else can deposit eggs around her. She seems to have a hard time sitting on the five eggs she has (I gave her four and she laid a fifth)

Now for eggs, Someone is laying beige/green eggs. It's very light, I didn't notice that they weren't white until I put it inbetween a brown and a white. Wish I knew who it was, my choices are overachieving young Easter Egger or Silkie Mutt from TSC. Less Likely are Leghorn or Barred rock. I'm leaning towards the Mutant Silkie from TSC. The waddles are HUGE, comb is moderate, and where on Pearl there is a beautiful sparkly blue skin area the TSC Silkie has a green color. Kind of like a cross between the yellow the Leghorns have and the blue that Pearl has.

 

[Tough Old Bird]

Hi - I'm not Armourfirelady but I got mine at a Wegman's grocery store. Where all the vitamins and health foods are. I carried it in my purse for a week. Some leaked out and smells nice. lol

I bought it at a local health food store but like Sally said you can probably get it in the organic section of a grocery store. Walmart didn't carry it tho. It's suppose to be a bug repellant. So far so good

THANKS, GIRLS!


TOB