Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[stake]

do tell, just where that tat should go??

For an expert opinion, contact Bad Ink.......lol......

 

[fisherlady]

For keeping our run dry.... we placed plank boards around the bottom of the pen (1" x 6"), then I got a couple ton of 'fine gravel' (it is limestone chips, 1/8" to 1/4" chips) and spread it about 2 or 3 inches thick through the whole run. The birds do sometimes dig down through it but it eventually fills back in. It allows the rainwater to drain down through so the birds aren't in standing water or mud. It can be hosed off to rinse messes down through it and raked, if you use a light touch you can rake up straw or leaves from the top of it also. I plan to get another ton or so in the spring to increase the depth a bit since they have it pretty well packed in now.

 

[wingstone]

need some guidance from the garden folks...

I buy a jar of bellvue sweet pickled beets every week,,,they are a little pricey for the size jar and the fact that I could eat the jar in one sitting....

figure I might as well try growing them any one have a brand or preference and instructions on how to can them up.

 

[Hounds51]

I have been giving everyone extra protein( dog food, table meat, oats/lentils) throughout the winter, also vit./mins. with electrolytes & Vetrx in their water . Just want to make sure the ones who are molting get that extra they need and it does the rest of them good too. Hope this helps too

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Yes Thank You.
We are giving our girls extras also. They seem to be in real good shape, as I am getting 2 to 3 eggs a day.
Some of them (comming from my Buffs are really huge eggs.
My wife calls them double yolkers

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

need some guidance from the garden folks...

I buy a jar of bellvue sweet pickled beets every week,,,they are a little pricey for the size jar and the fact that I could eat the jar in one sitting....

figure I might as well try growing them any one have a brand or preference and instructions on how to can them up.

sweet-pickled beets? are these different than the "normal" pickled beet?...beets are so easy to grow!!

For keeping our run dry.... we placed plank boards around the bottom of the pen (1" x 6"), then I got a couple ton of 'fine gravel' (it is limestone chips, 1/8" to 1/4" chips) and spread it about 2 or 3 inches thick through the whole run. The birds do sometimes dig down through it but it eventually fills back in. It allows the rainwater to drain down through so the birds aren't in standing water or mud. It can be hosed off to rinse messes down through it and raked, if you use a light touch you can rake up straw or leaves from the top of it also. I plan to get another ton or so in the spring to increase the depth a bit since they have it pretty well packed in now.

that is a good idea...i think someone else had stone in their run too....sorry , I forget who

..looked like it would really work, then there would be no poop-scooping ,just hose it out if it gets too bad. Okay, so in the winter though, i bet the the "end-dirt" maybe gets a bit piled up?..maybe not i guess with the snow and rain washing it....huh..i..or WE have some re-thinking to do about the run w/ sand...maybe run w/ rock/stone is better...need to weigh options...thank you FL...

 

[Blarneyeggs]

 
Good afternoon folk:

Cleaned out the coop today....pretty nasty stuff....but good for the garden.....my CCL boy is doing great and I may send him back to the girls tomorrow mid day....

Sally:

How are your CCLs doing....hope you didn't need to cut any of them...but if you need to then it is what it is....don't need any boys, but if you have a couple of girls to part with PM me...

Lisa:

Wood chips are a good cover, but, they will steal the nitrogen out of the soil....(per NPR gardening show),...might build a screen for my run....and use a few handfuls of scratch to seed...

Hope everyone is enjoying a nice sunny warm day...

I just set some Orp Eggies about an hour ago! We're hatch buddies!!
Just set a bunch an hour ago bator is packed with brahma and CCL lol 

 

[wingstone]

LMP... I have no idea, they do seem sweeter than the beets in red beet eggs..
I know nothing about them except they are good,,,,
are they red when harvested or do they get that from cooking
I assume they grow like a radish would, but just guessing.

can I harvest and can them for use all year long

 

[wingstone]

Quote: I am not allowed, I was told they will cut the cord from the bator if I try to use it....the last couple days have been the first in over a year that there is no birds in the house.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I am not allowed, I was told they will cut the cord from the bator if I try to use it....the last couple days have been the first in over a year that there is no birds in the house.
WHAT!!! thats a sin!