Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[barbiegirl]

We used some chicken compost in our garden. Some sprouts started to pop up were we didn't plant anything. It looks like our garden will have many pumpkin plants this year lol. We gave our chickens some pumpkins last year and I guess some seeds were buried in the mud and poop.

 

[colejohnson73]

Well. I just started with chickens and have five pullets. A Silkie, an Australorp, an Ameraucana, and two Barred Rocks.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Go Pennsylvania.

Welcome! What county are you in?

We used some chicken compost in our garden. Some sprouts started to pop up were we didn't plant anything. It looks like our garden will have many pumpkin plants this year lol. We gave our chickens some pumpkins last year and I guess some seeds were buried in the mud and poop.

I had a surprise pumpkin plant too next to my porch. I'm just going to leave it there for kicks. I had a pumpkin on the porch that the girls were eating and now I got a surprise in spring.

Good news! My husbands landlord let me plant a garden behind our work building where there is lots of full sun.

Bad news : I now have poison ivy blisters on my arms (I did wear gloves!). Any body have any good home remedies for Poison ivy? I found some jewel weed yesterday, I will have to track down some more today at the park. Sshhh, don't tell anyone I'm stealing...,

 

[chiques chicks]

Anne, jewel weed is my #1 go to, although I'm one of the lucky ones who doesn't get pain ivy, generally.

 

[Chaos18]

Bad news : I now have poison ivy blisters on my arms (I did wear gloves!). Any body have any good home remedies for Poison ivy? I found some jewel weed yesterday, I will have to track down some more today at the park. Sshhh, don't tell anyone I'm stealing...,

Sorry to hear yoy got devil weed on your arms. I'm one of those people that seems to constantly get the stuff. Had it real bad last year and had to take a bunch of steroids to help.

 

[Reyvaughn]

I can't remember...were you interested in the chocolate Orp? Which I'm thinking at this point MAY be a pullet?

Yes I was/am. I was after a boy, but I thought about getting some eggs to hatch so I had both. Right now I am sinking money into Bielefelder eggs, so no Orp eggs right now.

 

[LadyBehir]

to quote Ambassador Kosh "And so it begins"

 

[SilkieSensation]

Go Pennsylvania.

Welcome! What county are you in?

We used some chicken compost in our garden. Some sprouts started to pop up were we didn't plant anything. It looks like our garden will have many pumpkin plants this year lol. We gave our chickens some pumpkins last year and I guess some seeds were buried in the mud and poop.

I had a surprise pumpkin plant too next to my porch. I'm just going to leave it there for kicks. I had a pumpkin on the porch that the girls were eating and now I got a surprise in spring.

Good news! My husbands landlord let me plant a garden behind our work building where there is lots of full sun.

Bad news : I now have poison ivy blisters on my arms (I did wear gloves!). Any body have any good home remedies for Poison ivy? I found some jewel weed yesterday, I will have to track down some more today at the park. Sshhh, don't tell anyone I'm stealing...,

Vinegar or rubbing alcohol to clean the oil off your skin & begin the drying process. Yes, you will stink until you get a good shower but it really helps.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

so, does that mean that since summer is here and the ai will go away that things will go back to normal, with fairs, auctions, swaps and trades allowed to open again? what do you think?

In PA they have closed all PA funded shows to poultry through till next year's farm show (2016). This is still in the precautionary stage as no Hi Path cases of AI have been found in PA or even on the Atlantic Fly Way......yet. New Bolton assured me that it is not IF it comes, it's WHEN. I hear through the grapevine that they expect the Fall Migration to be the downfall of the east coast... There are hardly any confirmed backyard cases so far, mostly commercial production. It makes me wonder, are our birds less suseptable? Or are less backyard breeders reporting their losses? At this point, just crossing my fingers and am hanging onto my egg layers as I keep hearing that egg prices are climbing.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Go Pennsylvania.

Welcome! What county are you in?

We used some chicken compost in our garden. Some sprouts started to pop up were we didn't plant anything. It looks like our garden will have many pumpkin plants this year lol. We gave our chickens some pumpkins last year and I guess some seeds were buried in the mud and poop.

I had a surprise pumpkin plant too next to my porch. I'm just going to leave it there for kicks. I had a pumpkin on the porch that the girls were eating and now I got a surprise in spring.

Good news! My husbands landlord let me plant a garden behind our work building where there is lots of full sun.

Bad news : I now have poison ivy blisters on my arms (I did wear gloves!). Any body have any good home remedies for Poison ivy? I found some jewel weed yesterday, I will have to track down some more today at the park. Sshhh, don't tell anyone I'm stealing...,

Vinegar or rubbing alcohol to clean the oil off your skin & begin the drying process. Yes, you will stink until you get a good shower but it really helps.

Added benefit: smell keeps boys away.