NY chicken lover!!!!

[Chicken girl 15]

Sounds like you're ready. Did you have any luck getting more? I don't suppose they'd be in plentiful supply now. Most People have already gotten rid of theirs.

I'm set with some for now. I deliver 3 more tomorrow and more next week.

 

[tao chick]

I planted carrots last year, and I pulled them out yesterday. The biggest one was the length of my middle finger. The others varied in size, the smallest was less than half of my pinkie. Same thing happened last year. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I've had this issue before and one of my friends said the soil might be too compacted and recommended mixing in some sand. I didn't try it so i can't vouch for it but it might be worth looking into.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Carrots are a pain. They grow in any soil it just has to be lose.

 

[dcba flock]

Carrots are a pain. They grow in any soil it just has to be lose.

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I have never had any luck w/ carrots.... Even tried the small round ones and they didn't do well I gave up for the amount of space I used for them...

Tomatoes I grow lots of tomatoes from seed and heirloom types so I will have plenty of extras for chickenstock too if ppl bring plants to chickenstock to trade but I have lots perennials iris etc too...?

 

[rooster58]

Anyone around the Oswego area here besides myself and my wife?

 

[Devona]

I've had this issue before and one of my friends said the soil might be too compacted and recommended mixing in some sand. I didn't try it so i can't vouch for it but it might be worth looking into.

I didn't think it was compacted. It's where we throw the critter poop and bedding throughout the winter, and it was dug up by rabbits and chickens and smoothed over by DH in the spring. Everything else grew great. Maybe the soil was too rich?

 

[myfivegirls]

@Beer can I'll have to look up about duck burgers - sounds yummy!
I saw that c'list ad for hatching eggs & did contact them about turkey eggs; sounded interested, but I don't know what she pays or she also mentioned "splitting the poults".
@Chicken girl 15 glad you have enough Roos for now. I was looking at mine today, and at the moment I don't have any that would fit the bill.
Decisions ... Elly May (Silkie/Cochin) who I got at Chickenstock in 2015 has gone broody again. I know she won't stop & successfully raised chicks last year at this time (tho it was a mild winter). Plus, another hen went broody. Why this time of year? I've been getting lots of eggs (everyone molted back in Sept -Nov) so there's been piles of 6-12 eggs in one nesting box! My only issue is the "brooder coop" is currently housing two turkeys - my aggressive tom (waiting for a break in the weather to process him ) & his replacement jake in "quarantine". And I started to do an "upgrade" to that coop, but can't now with the "bad boy" tom in there! So, I hate to give the hens eggs to hatch, only to have the 21 days go too fast & not be ready for the chicks!
The only other option, which I don't like to do often, is try to break them by moving them to one of the young pullet coops where they can't get to those nesting boxes.

 

[Devona]

just started using my laptop for this site. the first thing i looked for was the moving icons

 

[Beer can]

I almost culled the only two giant/silkie crosses I have left but didn't cause they are the only two right now that are consistently laying and one went broody for over a month and I knew would keep the eggs from freezing. Got a little annoying though taking her off the nest acting like a monster everyday. She finally quit a few days ago. Yeah, wrong time of the yr to go broody.

 

[Beer can]

I never did good with carrots either until two yrs ago, forgot to buy seeds and start some last yr, definitely going to this coming season.. I loosened up and hilled a 2'x6' maybe? hill and planted just one package of danvers half longs, highly recommend them, shorter blockier roots than other carrots, some were huge! I didn't thin them at all so there was some that were too close and spindly but overall a excellent harvest from a couple dollar packet. Shared this back then when me and the kids harvested, wasn't all of them had been picking and eating many fresh and cooked for a month or two before. As you can see picked late, tops had already died off.