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[Greybear23]

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We go every year on Mother's Day!!! Lynn

 

[Buster52]

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Al, I will be in your neighbourhood this afternoon to deliver City's hens to my friends and help set up their electric poultry netting.

Loving this rain. Hasn't put a dent in filling our pond, though. Looks like the rain is about done for the day here.

 

[okracefan]

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MY 2 roos crow seems to be a little quiter than my previous bantam breed roos. I currently have 2 pens for my silkie roos. one has 1 hen and the other had 3 hens, which were 1 silkie hen and 2 btw jap hens. The other has only one silkie hen, they are blues. The other roo is a partridge, I just lost his silkie hen when she broody and something got her.

The blue roo was a little late on his crowing, I was told that he was a she when I got her but one morning I heard crowing comming from the pen.

 

[al6517]

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Al, I will be in your neighbourhood this afternoon to deliver City's hens to my friends and help set up their electric poultry netting.

Loving this rain. Hasn't put a dent in filling our pond, though. Looks like the rain is about done for the day here.

Yeah Jim looks like the most is gone, You showed up late at Fletcher and before I could visit with you you vanished. You are a phantom sometimes LOL Pop in Pop out, yer killin me lol.

 

[okcarla]

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Yeah, we enjoyed the trip to Chickasha, but Gerald didn't give me a chance to relax

We had already spent several hours in the garden earlier Saturday. While in Chickasha, we stopped at Ross Seed and bought more veggie seeds (seeds sold by the scoop) we also bought some pepper plants and a couple of pecan trees. I love Ross Seed store. It's still an old-timey seed and hardware store, just like I remember as a child. Not too many stores like it anymore. As soon as we got home we had to feed chickens and plant over a hundred pepper plants. I don't know why my back and arms are sore this morning.

 

[al6517]

Looks like Gerald may need a lesson in how to properly do the date night thing LOL, Tell him I will have Vito call him and give him a few pointers, but it's gonna cost him LOL.

 

[littlemama4est]

Had a chat with a neighbor yesterday. Everyone around us wouldn't be bothered at all by a roo and think our chicken endeavor is great fun! But she told me (we moved in here last summer so we're still learning some of the neighborhood secrets...lol) that one street over there is a gentleman who takes it upon him self to be the neighborhood watchdog. Not as in "neighborhood watch" type-let's-make-sure-everyone-is-safe. No no, he's the suburban, out in your grass with a ruler, "your grass is an inch too tall"-type. He drives through the neighborhood keeping his eye on everything and everyone. UGH! Soooo if we have a noisy roo, he'll start making calls I'm sure.

I'm seeing more lady bugs than ever before

Us too! Funny thing...our chickens are not interested in them at all! lol

We have raised beds for the first time this year. I'm loving them!! And praying that the gophers/moles stay out!! We were going to put hardware cloth on the bottom of them then dh decided against it. We had a couple during that last round of rain that didn't drain well and I was worried my seeds and seedlings would get flooded out. We just made tarps out of lawn bags and it worked fine!

Nana Kat ~ So sorry.....

 

[michaeldaugherty]

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I no peep that keep horse's just so ther chicken's can eat it ,,Lot's of guy's go to Horse Ranch's an pick it up to take home an put in ther pen's for the bird's to eat .
Old timer's have allway's said it was good for thim an made ther chick's grow Healthy an strong.

 

[NanaKat]

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I prefer Neem oil as an organic pesticide.

http://www.plant-care.com/pest-control-without-pesticides.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neem_oil

We strive to be as organic as possible. Good soil makes healthy plants which can survive minimal bug attacks...but I also use Neem oil and highly recommend it...will get spider mites, stink bugs, pill bugs, ants, etc.
For catepillars we use BT (b. thuricide). It works on most leaf eatting catepillars and bugs...they eat the foilage and it kills them...tomatoe horn worm, corn ear catepillar, cabbage worms, small grasshoppers....
Pylora and soapshield is also a good combination spray for organic gardens.
With any spray, you want to spray at a time that the bees are not working your garden...sprays will kill bees.

 

[Buster52]

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Yeah Jim looks like the most is gone, You showed up late at Fletcher and before I could visit with you you vanished. You are a phantom sometimes LOL Pop in Pop out, yer killin me lol.

Yeah, folks have the same problem with me at work. I'll suddenly appear out of nowhere, then promptly disappear. They call me Ninja Librarian.

I got to Fletch just in time to watch about 10 minutes of the sale and grab a bite of that health food from the snack bar... Dr Pepper and a hot dog.