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[ronott1]

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Don't worry, I'll liberate some eggs when I'm down there and she's at work.

I wonder if Bama wrangled some yet...

 

[1kluckychik]

I wonder if Bama wrangled some yet...

Nope. 4 hour drive. I cant get him to go 15 miles to the grocery store.
Poor thing is pooped. He has been on a front tine tiller for almost an hour and 3 beers

 

[Wisher1000]

Ha Ha Ha!

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's RIRs.

It has been my habit to hatch all the eggs that the hens in the breeding pens lay in a week. I have, in the past, hatched batches as small as four eggs but more often around 10 per week from five hens. Now, I have more hens (9) and they are laying more consistently. I get three or four eggs from the 5-hen pen and three from the 4-hen pen, most of the time. I sometimes fill the empty spots in the tray with other eggs that strike my fancy. I have put three trays in already that had between 40 and 48 eggs.

I have hatched three RIRs. I only have one young RIR pullet and she is not laying consistently, yet. She is laying about three a week. I'll see about posting some pics.

 

[perchie.girl]

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fill it with sand they will use it.... Guineas lay in Scrapes on the ground with brush over head in the wild.

 

[drumstick diva]

Congrats Wisher. With my yucky eye sight I thought your picture was all seashells - albeit strange looking. Then I enlarged the pictured and they were chicks. Think I had better sight with the cataracts.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Congrats Wisher. With my yucky eye sight I thought your picture was all seashells - albeit strange looking. Then I enlarged the pictured and they were chicks. Think I had better sight with the cataracts.

I thought they were shells, too.

 

[vehve]

All of you pumpkin and courgette growers, I've got a lot of spent straw from all of winter that I would need to get rid of somehow, I was planning on making a huge enclosure with netting, filling the bottom with about a foot of compressed spent straw, layering on 6-8 inches of raw compost, and topping it with a similar amount of matured compost. Any thoughts on how well this would work for growing pumpkins and similar crops?

 

[chickisoup]

HOW UTTERLY INSANE IS THIS?????



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[Wisher1000]

V, is the straw hot? Does it contain fresh animal waste? If not, I would use it as mulch on top of the compost. Another use would be to lay it in rows between your planted rows to make foot paths. I would be concerned that with a foot of the straw compressed in the bottom, it might sour or grow some nasty slime rather than break down. If it is hot, and won't grow fungus, having 12 - 16 inches of compost should be enough to keep the roots out of it until it breaks down. I would try thinner layers - straw, fresh compost, straw, old compost, straw, repeat to the same depth but only 2 or three loose inches of each material. Here, you could likely plant directly in it in a month. I have no recommendation for the pumpkins, mine grow around the compost pile. I have never heard of a courgette.

 

[chickadoodles]

Wisher congrats on a great hatch! Hope you had a great time at the beach. 42 chicks?

Kluckychick good luck on your Npip testing!

Scg your baby quilt is very pretty.