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[beaglady]

I have a few scovies available, some older boys and I have 3 chicks that are about 2 weeks, or I have broodies on 16 eggs...
Can not remember who was looking for scovies, I have the large french white and I think Beag Lady has some other colors of scovies, she is in the Harrisburg area.

I have some, but the silly girls have not gone broody this year, and I haven't set any eggs, so I have just a couple adults. I wouldn't mind finding another hen myself.

 

[PlaidBattleAxe]

Howdy All! I just saw this thread, and thought I'd pipe up. I'm in Erie, and new to raising chickens. My coop is 75% finished and a friend of mine has 5 hens and a rooster (buff orpingtons I believe) for me to start my flock once I've (well, mostly it's DH doing the hard labor) finished it. I'm excited to finally be "doing this" ---- raising chickens and having a mini farm on our .6 acre.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Day #2, egg #2! #2 is on the left, it's smaller and lighter, does that mean a different girl laid it?! Btw, I have enough for an omlet now !!

Looks like 2 different hens to me. Enjoy your omlet.

Muscovy ducks take so long to hatch! I'm not sure if I have the patience to hatch ducks. Hatching chicks has me spoiled, I guess. Friday night I found 2 muscovies had pipped. Since then, I've got at least one more pipped, but no ducklings out. In the mean time, many chicks have piped, hatched, and dried, while the ducklings are still contemplating their next move.

Patience Grasshopper, patience...lol

 

[KlingKlan]

Howdy All! I just saw this thread, and thought I'd pipe up. I'm in Erie, and new to raising chickens. My coop is 75% finished and a friend of mine has 5 hens and a rooster (buff orpingtons I believe) for me to start my flock once I've (well, mostly it's DH doing the hard labor) finished it. I'm excited to finally be "doing this" ---- raising chickens and having a mini farm on our .6 acre.

and the Pennsylvania!! Unite!! thread! There are a lot of great people here with awesome advice and tons of patience for us newbies and all our questions... you WILL have questions, I know what I'm talking about

!

I'm only 9 days into it, I ended up with older Red Sex Links from the auction, not what I wanted, so you're very lucky you have a friend to give you chickens and a little help with the process.

The coop takes FOREVER, doesn't it?!

 

[KlingKlan]

Looks like 2 different hens to me. Enjoy your omlet.

 

[dheltzel]

Patience Grasshopper, patience...lol

You're the one that said ducks take 3 days to hatch. Valuable advice, but if it takes longer then what ?

What if they need my help?

All those chicks jumping around in there like popcorn! I want to take them out so bad!

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Just leave them grow where they are. The limiting factor for how many pounds of potatoes you get is the amount of sun the leaves can collect and use to fix carbon (to make starch, which they store in the tubers for energy to produce next year's plants. Growing out the side will help that, the bushier the better.

Though potato tubers are in fact stems, as SS noted, they do not produce potatoes directly off the stem, but rather produce side stems to grow horizontally and then swell at the end to produce the actual potato. Burying the stems just puts the potatoes into layers in the tower instead of a single horizontal layer underground.

A tower might yield a slightly higher harvest per square ft than growing the plant in the ground, I think this could be mostly accounted for by the additional mulching and watering people tend to do with the towers. Potatoes in a row in the ground are incredibly productive (that is why they are fairly cheap in the market). My advice is "don't sweat it", just let them do their thing, those plants have been producing well for centuries without anyone fussing over them.

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Thank YOU! there are many "layers" of potatoes so,.not going to fuss over this..it is supposed to be simple & I do not want to over think anything..i am prone to migraines

Just got back inside from looking things over..I have the feeling I will have plenty of those spuds! hahaha...

Day #2, egg #2!





#2 is on the left, it's smaller and lighter, does that mean a different girl laid it?!

Btw, I have enough for an omlet now

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Fantastic!!

...I would say ,yes, probably a different girl..all my girls have different eggs..and all but one are wyandottes.

 

[fisherlady]

Howdy All! I just saw this thread, and thought I'd pipe up. I'm in Erie, and new to raising chickens. My coop is 75% finished and a friend of mine has 5 hens and a rooster (buff orpingtons I believe) for me to start my flock once I've (well, mostly it's DH doing the hard labor) finished it. I'm excited to finally be "doing this" ---- raising chickens and having a mini farm on our .6 acre.

Welcome! Sounds like you are getting well set!
We are in your area frequently... so keep us in mind if you need transport to 'the lower 48' .... counties, that is! LOL

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Howdy All! I just saw this thread, and thought I'd pipe up. I'm in Erie, and new to raising chickens. My coop is 75% finished and a friend of mine has 5 hens and a rooster (buff orpingtons I believe) for me to start my flock once I've (well, mostly it's DH doing the hard labor) finished it. I'm excited to finally be "doing this" ---- raising chickens and having a mini farm on our .6 acre.

Hello & Welcome

...I really like the Orps too! Big fluffy butts

......what else ya got on your "mini" farm???? If you tell me mini-cows I will scream

 

[SilkieSensation]

Patience Grasshopper, patience...lol

You're the one that said ducks take 3 days to hatch. Valuable advice, but if it takes longer then what ?     What if they need my help?

 All those chicks jumping around in there like popcorn! I want to take them out so bad!

Go ahead & pull the rowdy chicks out. Just mist the inside of the lid of the bator with hot water or toss a hot was cloth or sponge in to boost humidity back up. Scovies take longer than other ducks in hatching usually too. They will pip & then sit there looking like they are doing nothing for a day or 2, then all of a sudden they are zipped & out in just a few hours. Give them a full 2 days after external pip to let them start zipping before you think about helping.