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LisaYolkUm said:
I am no expert on growing basil but what I do is working
I bought basil seeds ----organic ones................and then just put them in a container on my deck and they have grown very well. I pinch off the leaves and a bit of the stems when they start getting bigger..........someone told me that helps them grow better...........today I cut up the leaves etc that I picked and froze them in olive oil in an ice cube tray.

My deck is sunny............and they don't any special treatment.............I water everything about the same...........when they are dry.

the soil...........is miracle grow and vermiculite and peatmoss combo................hope this helps.......
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Thank you Lisa!!..I am pretty much doing the same thing..the plants on the front porch are doing well...it's the plant out in the cutting garden...go figure, I would think a plant would do better with "no-limits"..hahaha, but what do I know
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...hahaha...I am getting basil, not as much as I would like though. I will most likely get some seeds and see what I can do from there. You know, start from scratch...sometimes that does work better...sometimes..hahaha

Got back from Lanc. Co on Sunday, wow..being in the car for these trips is getting harder to do, I am getting old.
Not chicken related, but too cute not to post
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...an aspiring "Imelda Marcos"...she does love to shoe shop!!


I think she has the whole "Olivia Newton John" thing going on..."let's get physical"!! hahahaha

**Wing- I would have LOVED to stop by, but it just didn't work out this time. We will be down that way again in August. Maybe we can visit at that time.
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I love visiting with my BYC friends...makes me feel "more-normal"...hahahaha
Last Saturday we met MC-Abi) & her "Caveman" at the Mackeyville greenhouse...there wasn't much left to buy, picked over real hard!! But we did enjoy ourselves.
MC is such a great friend...she even gave me a few eggs to put under my ever-lasting broody hen!! Such a great ENABLER..oh, I mean FRIEND!!
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So, while I was away..a THIRD hen decided to go broody on us....keep in mind, I only have 6 laying hens...so, this really cuts into our egg count!!
I do believe though, with the set-up we have them in that two are "over-it" and now we are back to trying to "normalize" only one...hahaha, this is crazy....
The other two are able to be with the rest of the flock now, they aren't making a 'bee-line' to the nest boxes anymore...now the egg-waiting game
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Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful weather!! So glad we have a few days here to dry out some.
To keep this post even more chicken related..here are the good-looking cornishX!!
Their feathers have come in really well, I have seen pics where they have spots missing and just look "haggard" , these guys look very nice!!..well, i think so anyway
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LittleMissPurdy said:
Not chicken related, but too cute not to post
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...an aspiring "Imelda Marcos"...she does love to shoe shop!!


I think she has the whole "Olivia Newton John" thing going on..."let's get physical"!! hahahaha

**Wing- I would have LOVED to stop by, but it just didn't work out this time. We will be down that way again in August. Maybe we can visit at that time.
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I love visiting with my BYC friends...makes me feel "more-normal"...hahahaha
Last Saturday we met MC-Abi) & her "Caveman" at the Mackeyville greenhouse...there wasn't much left to buy, picked over real hard!! But we did enjoy ourselves.
MC is such a great friend...she even gave me a few eggs to put under my ever-lasting broody hen!! Such a great ENABLER..oh, I mean FRIEND!!
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...hahahaha

So, while I was away..a THIRD hen decided to go broody on us....keep in mind, I only have 6 laying hens...so, this really cuts into our egg count!!
I do believe though, with the set-up we have them in that two are "over-it" and now we are back to trying to "normalize" only one...hahaha, this is crazy....
The other two are able to be with the rest of the flock now, they aren't making a 'bee-line' to the nest boxes anymore...now the egg-waiting game
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Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful weather!! So glad we have a few days here to dry out some.
To keep this post even more chicken related..here are the good-looking cornishX!!
Their feathers have come in really well, I have seen pics where they have spots missing and just look "haggard" , these guys look very nice!!..well, i think so anyway
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Your little GD is certainly adorable! In either E Marcos or EN John mode!
Glad MC was able to be neighborly and help you out with the broody eggs!
Your cornish are looking good! It is so cool that you were able to broody raise them!! Certainly was a win/win for you!
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
Hello everyone! Just an update, I posted about a week ago that my Leghorn had an "encounter" with the neighbors dog and is no longer with us. So @roseschicks told me I could buy one of hers as a replacement. WhenI got there she introduced me to chicken math. My two new additions
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are bantam Langston mixes. They are from @msladyhawke originally. Do you have any more info on them? Love to know for curiousitys sake. The girls are named Flora and Fauna and I will post pics tomorrow.
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sorry to hear of your loss.
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...But very happy to know you are now a chicken math whiz!! Nothing like the right tudor to help out with that!!
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fisherlady said:
I have Whites, Barred and Silver Pencil Rocks.... only adults right now are the SPRs, but lots of chicks running around which I will use to establish a group of 5 or 6 hens and a rooster of each.

Wing, I have you covered on a WR roo as soon as I figure out how many I have. I honestly have just let the little buggers go running around with their broody mamas. I only hatched out 6 or 7 of the WR but I am pretty sure the odds would be astronomic at having all but one be pullets! So we should have an extra to send your way. I know for sure I have an extra BR boy already and I am pretty sure there is an extra SPR boy too.

Right now we are on broody #16, and as soon as most of the chicks are big enough for me to know boys vs girls I will be selling all the extras. I have 5 hens currently on a mix of BR, Light sussex and White Leghorn eggs, though the fertility on the LH eggs was really poor, so may only end up with 4 or 5 to give the friend I am hatching them for.

It is fishing/camping season and DH and I are ready for these hens to give it a break! 5 of our current broodies are repeaters from earlier this year already.
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oh my..16 broodies
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...I can't wait till this craziness is over....I want eggs! hahahaha....and NO...more chickens doe not equal more eggs...it equals more broodies..your example right there !!! hahahaha
 
fisherlady said:
I'd love to know how he managed to get 30 birds at TSC and wind up with all pullets??? I think someone packed a hatchery flat wrong! I would hate to have been the person who got the crate these girls were supposed to be in! About now they are realizing they got a flock of roos!
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wingstone said:
The turkey are also getting big, soon time to send them to an outside pen

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do your turkeys "peep" a lot?..maybe it is because the one here was raised by a hen and it wasn't ready for her to go..but she definitely was!! It is getting better though...still has it's bouts of
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though.....hahaha, I told DH.."this has got tot be the most vocal "thanksgiving" i have ever seen"...
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oletymer said:
Hi, I live in Claysville, Did live in canonsburg but that was before the coops went up....
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Love your avatar!!! hahahha....
chippysmom327 said:
Met a guy at a swap who told us he bought 25 straight run chicks and ended up with 24 roos.
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wow...hahaha, that i were the other crate went!
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LittleMissPurdy said:
Hello & Welcome:frow ....middle of "no-where"  here or heaven... however you want to look at it:p ...hahaha (Clinton County)
Do you have any birds yet?...cause if you need some...I am most positive someone here will be most neighborly , aka..enabling, for you! !;)
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Well thank-you! I have started my own little flock of chickens, and I'm still looking to expand by 4 or 5 more! I have 2 Rhode Island reds (Thelma and Louise), 2 lavender aracaunas (Mildred and Dorothy), 2 bantam mixes (not sure of the breed! Named Evelyn and Edith), a leghorn pullet (Stella), a leghorn Roo (ghost), and a Bantam Cochin Roo (Jack). I'm a nostalgic girl and decided to name them all with popular names from the 1920s...hoping to style their coop the same way sometime soon!!

If anyone does have any hens they'd like to add to my "Rat pack" let me know!

Also, please check out my post in the rehoming forum for our little orange bantam, he gets picked on by our other roosters so we can't keep him. He's all isolated and would love to have some ladies to look after.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/900630/beautiful-little-bantam-rooster-in-lancaster-pa
 

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