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[NotAFarm]

Thanks Scg, r o b, and chicki. I have another one that is probably ready so I will try the two smaller ones tomorrow. Tonight we are having a simple squash casserole with onion and butter, salt bbq pork chops and fried potatoes with onions.

Sounds yummy!!

 

[drumstick diva]

It's been thundering for over an hour, a couple drops & rain and that was it. We need rain now so of course it must be evaporating on the way down. It's been mid 90's here and miserable. Grass looks like straw and the weeds are flourishing.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I don't even have my garden in the ground yet and y'all are harvesting things.

 

[microchick]

Penny, I am so sorry about the peeps. I just went out to give the birds cooler water (it was up to 95 today with low humidity and gusty winds. It feels like Arizona) and was missing a head after a head count. I found one of my 10 month old bantam hens over with the roosters so I figured he had found a way in the same as she had and started looking. Nope. No sign of Oliver. Nor was he in the dirt bath wallow or standing guard as usual in the coop pop door. I did another head count. Nope, no Oliver. I was beginning to wonder if he had got out and the local fox got him when I checked under the nesting boxes. There is a little 'room' under the boxes that some of the hens occasionally lay in and sure enough, there was Oliver. Stone dead. Last night he was completely normal, humping hens, bossing the others around. No symptoms of anything. By all appearances a completely normal rooster. No weight loss, no paralysis, no signs of Marek's. I only have one ten month old OEGB rooster left. Everyone else is 4 months old or younger and just starting to get the hormonal rush. Pepper is 10 months old also but not a real aggressive rooster when it comes to breeding the hens. I added a 4 month old cockerel to the hen flock but I'm wondering if the way to find out who is tough enough to make the cut is to put all the 4 month old cockerels in with the hens and see who comes out alive.

I hate looking at things that way.

Thank you Mr. Marek. NOT!

Good news is that Doc, my Welsummer rooster is healing from his injury. His eye is open about half way now and the swelling is going down slowly but surely. He is out in the hospital coop now. Hating it but that little bird is lucky to be alive. Guarded success.

The first part of the week has been hectic here. I made a trip to the DO to get my back adjusted. Tell me why does it always hurt more after he gets down pulling everything into place? Plus he gave me new muscle relaxers so the jury is out on them. I like not having the back pain but not to crazy about the side effects. Time will tell.

Penny1960, please take care. Dizziness when you have a history of heart problems is not to be taken lightly. It could be nothing more serious than heat, fatigue, a drop in blood pressure that is temporary. Dehydration or it could be an arrhythmia. If it happens again, haul butt to the doc's or urgent care at least. Our doctors are 25 miles away so I know your hassel. But sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Don't make me get after you, girl! I hate to fly!

 

[pennyJo1960]

hella flight girl but thanks @microchick We have a new clinic within a block of here now out of Morton Hospital and thought I would stop over say high do you give pain pills outmy Dr has allot faith in me I love the lidocain aspercream I use it darn near daily trying not to use tramadol but still have to... new room on new coop still need metal for the roof but has to wait till first of the month

 

[pennyJo1960]

I grow them every year. Yummy with just a touch of butter

Butter and pepper

 

[chickadoodles]

I don't even have my garden in the ground yet and y'all are harvesting things.

So sorry but you will get yours in soon.
All this rain I now have downy mildew and have to do a epsom and compost foliage spray rotation weekly. And I had to fertilize with echo scraps for the low grade fertilizer.
The downy has spread to my cantaloupe, and cucumber plants so far.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

We get the mildew every year - sometimes the plants can hang on, most of the time they die pretty early.

Got my pig.

 

[ronott1]

We get the mildew every year - sometimes the plants can hang on, most of the time they die pretty early.

Got my pig.

Pictures of said pig are required or it did not happen!

Have you considered spraying copper sulfate for the mildew?

 

[chickisoup]

So sorry but you will get yours in soon.
All this rain I now have downy mildew and have to do a epsom and compost foliage spray rotation weekly. And I had to fertilize with echo scraps for the low grade fertilizer.
The downy has spread to my cantaloupe, and cucumber plants so far.

I'm actually surprised that I'm not having the same problems. yet.