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[mjgigax]

I'm back from dropping birds off at Blanchard. Saw some lavender Guineas, BRL Wyandott (splash) pair. There will be Blue and Gold sausage and bacon available there. Let Jerry know early if you want some.
Got to go help Jack sort ALOT of chicks for the sale now. See many of you tonight!

 

[Kassaundra]

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Try turnips, radish, collards, spinach and lettuce. All can take the cooler temperatures and the turnips and collards will last until spring and even later. You can sow cabbage and brocolli for the greens also.

Yes all those except collards are going in my fall garden. But the winter sowing I was talking about isn't growing through the winter, but sowing your seed in the dead of winter in containers outside and allowing them to come sort of like volunteers do in your garden, as an alternative to indoor seed beds and artifical light etc.....

The way it is described is in found containers (soda bottles, milk containers, to go containers etc..) that have a lid making holes for drainage and ventilation, then in spring when things start sprouting removing lids in the day and slightly covering at night until they are ready for the garden (which as they describe is very soon after true leaves start showing)

 

[sjarvis00]

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Try turnips, radish, collards, spinach and lettuce. All can take the cooler temperatures and the turnips and collards will last until spring and even later. You can sow cabbage and brocolli for the greens also.

Yes all those except collards are going in my fall garden. But the winter sowing I was talking about isn't growing through the winter, but sowing your seed in the dead of winter in containers outside and allowing them to come sort of like volunteers do in your garden, as an alternative to indoor seed beds and artifical light etc.....

The way it is described is in found containers (soda bottles, milk containers, to go containers etc..) that have a lid making holes for drainage and ventilation, then in spring when things start sprouting removing lids in the day and slightly covering at night until they are ready for the garden (which as they describe is very soon after true leaves start showing)

You can ussually get a second planting of sweet peas and bush beans in the fall so long as you stay with a variety that will produce in a shorter period of time.

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

I had something go after my rabbits yesterday morning or during the night before, all of them are now missing toes and some might not make it still, one had both front legs pulled off through the wire at on the bottom of the cages, I spent the whole evening setting traps I figure what ever it was will be coming back. My guess is another of the neighbors dogs thats the only predator I have had here other than a few snakes.

 

[mjgigax]

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[mjgigax]

New bird count (before Chicken math) - just for my own counting out loud -
3 LF
5 Buff
10 Partridge
4 Lavender
1 Black
8 Lavender/Black cross
3 Mottles
30 Mille Fleur
2 Mottled/MF cross
= 66
After Chicken Math
5.25 Chickens, and I used to hate Math!

 

[mjgigax]

Why can't Chicken math be used on feed prices?

 

[NanaKat]

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...if the feed prices don't make us cry.....

 

[GotGame]

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I would think coon, not sure a dog could really get ahold of 'just' the toes on a rabbit. But whatever it was, hope you catch it

 

[Ksane]

Still catching up but wanted to post this picture and ask why.....? My daughter took this picture last night in the pouring rain, storming, lightning, thunder....the whole works for about an hour or so. This is the rooster we bought 6 sexlink hens for because he was all alone (his brother wouldn't share the other hen). Anyway-this guy sleeps on top of the pen (that I'm in the middle of building) every night. But he wouldn't budge even in the storm, he was sopping wet and wouldn't leave his 'post'. Wouldn't even get down under some shelter with his hens.
Are roosters just not very bright? Not even bright enough to come in from the rain? It's almost like he was in some sort of trance, do they do that when they're roosting? I'm just curious as to why the goofy bird would sit out in the pouring rain when he didn't have to.