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[NanaKat]

Beautiful day...already checked on the due cows and finished the water and feed run for the hens.
Plan to work in the garden today after playing with the new baby chicks Carl is delivering.
I have some sewing to do too for the raffle for POOPS.

I Bet everybody is already out enjoying their Saturday!

 

[mjgigax]

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So true!
I should post a pic of the mini-coop I made from a garden hose storage box ( not sure what it is called - it rolls up a hose inside by a hand crank and has a short hose to hook to the faucet.)

 

[artsyrobin]

i have a washer and dryer free...LOL!! mj- love to see it!

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[averytds]

Woohoo! Think I finally figured out the multi-quote

Can't remember who mentioned wanting poke @ poops. I can try to dig some roots up, but may be better to wait until fall & I can collect LOTS of seeds if anyone is interested. There are a few places online that sell seeds also.

I'll need to remember come fall. I'm the worst with growing anything, but I keep trying anyways.

One thing I love about chicken people, they have a knack for being able to look at anything and figure out how they can put a chicken in it!

So true. I can't say too much to my DH anymore about his "junk" because now Ive got my own pile since I might be able to use this or that for the birds.

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

That is just awesome! So what kind of vining plants would you plant?

 

[NanaKat]

on those wire spool pens, you would want a non invasive vining plant with tendrils....some plant that would not take over the pen's inside or weigh it down too much....that would be easy to pull off in the fall...maybe sweet peas. or morning glory. The birds would probably help keep it pruned inside.
What about pole beans?
Even attaching an extra lattice or wire support for the vine to keep it from infiltrating the wire mesh on the pens would be useful.

 

[mefordz]

on those wire spool pens, you would want a non invasive vining plant with tendrils....some plant that would not take over the pen's inside or weigh it down too much....that would be easy to pull off in the fall...maybe sweet peas. or morning glory. The birds would probably help keep it pruned inside.
What about pole beans?
Even attaching an extra lattice or wire support for the vine to keep it from infiltrating the wire mesh on the pens would be useful.

ya'll better stop it. i may have to move so i can have room for all these pens i am going to build! i'm gonna do some 2 story and try some single story spool pens and see how they work out.

sweet peas and morning glories would be pretty, did i just say pretty? oh god, it has finally happened! i may be turning sissy! lord i hope not. i knew better than to hang around a bunch of womens!

on a more manly note, i bought a bunch of oeg cockerals and a yearling red golden pheasant at the auction last night. somebody pulled the pheasants tail out, but it will grow back.

yeah! roosters make a man out of me again!!!!!!! now i just gotta find some more hens, only have 3 extra cockerals at the moment that need ladies so i may have to go a huntin!


gotta get back to mowing, only do about 20x20 at a time, cant do more without dieing!

 

[sjarvis00]

Back from Nanakats with another load of compost for the garden, now to get the neighbor boy to unload the truck so I can work on lawn equipment.
I need to start culling through some of the birds,
Jim if you need pullets I can see what I have that I'm not happy with these will be females from matings made for male OE, some Opal, Birchen, silver blue, columbian, and a few others. I will be culling on leg length, wing length, body width, length of back then color issues.

I also have a pair or trio of Blue wheaton OE, as well as a quad of Brassy Back OE that can leave both proven breeder pens of good show birds.

Carl

 

[mefordz]

send me an email addy carl, i dont think steph wants to talk to me.

 

[Cjarvis]

send me an email addy carl, i dont think steph wants to talk to me.

[email protected] , you can always call... I have some killer birchens coming along, and some I just don't like.. You know how breeding goes, you get some decent birds to start with, work to make them better and keep hatching some you just don't like at all in the process. The birchens are right there I had one mating that made some decent cockrells to move forward with (3 out of 30) and the pullets are all getting leggy and some have broken lacing, another mating is looking real good, and the third and fourth I am real happy with so far.

 

[jcatblum]

Came in from the garden for a lunch break. Planted a pound of green beans, several dozen melons & 18 each, squash, zucchini & cucumbers. Went to plant my corn & 80% floated & 20% sunk so I am going to do a germination test. Ross seed said bring it back & they will trade it. I had bought 6lbs of it @ $16 a lb. Imagine if it doesn't germinate I don't want any other corn seed from there.

We are getting about 3 guinea eggs a day, hopefully I will have enough eggs to bring a batch of keets to poops.

For the poke salad, DH mows it down & it still comes back. I seriously think it would take an extreme effort to kill it (round up maybe)? Each berry has dozens of seeds in it, so unless I start collecting all the berries it will continue to multiple here for many years to come.

Tomorrow is suppose to be HOT. The dogs have already began seeking cool places to sleep during the day & we have been running our a/c for the past wk. usually it is at least mid April before we turn the air on. Fingers crossed we don't have another year of record breaking temperatures.