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[averytds]

Interesting. I tried wilted lettuce for the first time last year and really liked it. May need to add poke salad plants to the POOPs wish list. Can't ask DH to show me what's what. Already makes enough fun of me for being a "yankee"

Still working in the yard. Have some grape vines really needing planted, but DH told me no on where I planned. I was going to plant them along my ugly, bent chainlink fence for added privacy and beauty. He said you can't plant grape vines on property lines, but didn't sight his source. I don't think it's illegal, at least I can't find anything about it in the city code. It's not a shared line with a neighbor. I was going to go across the front or back, soooo....????

Darn things are almost to the ceiling, so I've got to do something with them.

 

[Oceanseve]

I've never heard of it not being legal to plant along property lines....

Okay guinea people, need some help. The loner I couldn't get in the barn the other night doesn't seem to be getting along with the flock now. She's keeping her distance and then I notice them chasing one of the blues occasionally so I assume it's her. Only solution here to get more adult guineas so it changes the flock dynamic or what?

 

[upcdayz]

Good morning all. It's such a nice morning out. I have lots on my plate today and hope to have most of it done before it gets too warm out. Later this afternoon is day 2 of meeting with the tax preparer. I usually do my own taxes, but decided this year to give someone else the headache. Some folks actually enjoy doing that. Not me. I have enough going on right now, and that's one thing I can delegate.



Robin - so sorry about your hatchling. Hope all the others do well. We need pics when you get a chance.

 

[jcatblum]

I've never heard of it not being legal to plant along property lines.... Okay guinea people, need some help. The loner I couldn't get in the barn the other night doesn't seem to be getting along with the flock now. She's keeping her distance and then I notice them chasing one of the blues occasionally so I assume it's her. Only solution here to get more adult guineas so it changes the flock dynamic or what?

I always end up with a loner, had one that didn't fit in with my fancy flock. I put her in my grow out pen with keets & she acted as if she was there care taker. The keets are now grown & went to my neighbor. So I moved her in the pen with my free rangers she has never left the coop when I let the other out to free range. It is sad, she has been in the other coop for almost a month & hasn't joined the flock. May end up taking her to the neighbors to live with her keets (that are not even hers)!
The aggression is MUCH worse during breeding season, in a few months they will all get along better, but I know that doesn't help anything now.

 

[Ksane]

morning everyone- well, i ended up helping the ee this morning, he is drying, sadly one of the new hatchlings didn't make it through the nite, not sure why...

so i moved the other two to a brooder...

Robin, that's in your new incubator, right? How many eggs did you put in and how many ended up hatching?

I've never heard of it not being legal to plant along property lines....
Okay guinea people, need some help. The loner I couldn't get in the barn the other night doesn't seem to be getting along with the flock now. She's keeping her distance and then I notice them chasing one of the blues occasionally so I assume it's her. Only solution here to get more adult guineas so it changes the flock dynamic or what?

How sad. Is it a female for sure? I'd try getting another guinea her color. But just get 1 and try to keep the 2 together for 4 or 5 days and then set them loose together. If you get more than one new guinea at a time the new ones will hang out together and ignore her.

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

I lost another chicken yesterday to a daytime predator. I have chicken wire on top of the chicken yard. The chicken yard is chain link. I don't know if the chicken got out and got killed or if it was chicken napped. Hubby came home and went to let the dogs out and saw her laying there outside the chicken yard. When he got out there she was still twitching. It is always the smaller chickens. I'm thinking maybe a neighborhood cat? We have a cat that kills birds but he has never shown interest in the chickens at all, not even the tiny babies. It is frustrating. It seems like it's always my little boy's favorites that get killed too. Any ideas on daytime predators? At this point it seems like whatever it is thinks my yard is a buffet.

 

[Oceanseve]

If you've got wire all around how would the cat be getting in? Or do you think she's reaching in and pulling them out? I had a cat do that once while I was working on a coop. Small space in between boards, but reached right in and got a claw deep enough to pull it through.

 

[Oakieridge]

Wow it is warming up quickly outside! Spent all morning getting coops cleaned. Got a Buff roo not acting right. He is just resting on his roost won't come out of the coop. I took him out and gave him some B12.

Robin, sorry about your little hatchling, hope you post pictures of the others.

 

[Sooner]

For all you pigeion folks out there, thought this was really cool, might even work for a pair of bantams.....

 

[mefordz]

For all you pigeion folks out there, thought this was really cool, might even work for a pair of bantams.....

awww crap, now i gotta build them!

thanks cara, those are neat. i just happen to have a bunch of birds that need a new house.

you going saleing tonight? i know vinita is on, dont know about coweta.