Utah!

[Rykel]

Casa, i have heard that cat nip makes a calming tea, i even had the recipe somewhere but I've never been able to try it.when is the right time to start seeds? I'm as new to gardening as i am to chickens.

 

[corvidae]

Ok, time for a chick update:

Hatched a couple of Cream Legbars as well as ordering some of the 2013 line from Greenfire. I think I have about 8 of those chicks running about now, all girls. Greenfire sent some others as packing peanuts--they look like maybe a Sussex of some kind and a couple of Marans of some flavor. I'll be getting rid of those, since I don't really have space for them. Wish I could post pictures of them, but it doesn't seem like I ever have time (at middle child's piano lesson right now).

Hatched out a few Isbars and also ordered some from a breeder-- out of 14 shipped chicks, 7 were DOA. Looked like they got smoothed by the others. The breeder appears pretty reputable and is willing to back the chicks, but we are giving the others a couple of more days to make sure they are okay. They are all on quarantine for a couple of weeks to prevent any repeat of the Great Plague of 2012.

Also hatched out 6 or 8 of my BLRWs--cute little buggers. 2 beautiful Splash by lovely Blue shadings and the rest are Blues and Blacks. I have a heap more of those in the 'bator.

And the best news: out of a dozen of Bargain's Welsummer eggs that went into lockdown, ALL of them hatched! Joel is uber excited that he finally got his babies. I still have a ton of Welsummer eggs in the 'bator, but that's okay.

So we are now swimming in chicks and I have lots more in the bator. I also have another dozen Isbar eggs on the way. Why? Heck if I know. Clearly, I need Chickens Anonymous. Only problem is that I don't have time for the meetings!

 

[Cynthia12]

Check it out..the Robins think it's Spring..they are here. I caught this Robin in the top
of our Cherry Tree yesterday..ahh, blue sky.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Casa, i have heard that cat nip makes a calming tea, i even had the recipe somewhere but I've never been able to try it.when is the right time to start seeds?  I'm as new to gardening as i am to chickens.

Catnip? Whoa! That is interesting. Especially for it to be CALMING lol.

Here is what I do for timing--
Last week of march---Cold hardy stuff can go out now-you can plant directly outside now onion sets, garlic, cabbage, brocc, caulif, snap peas, lettuce, spinach.

Mid April--started plants listed above are ok to put outside in the garden if they have been hardened off

Now--end of April --start seeds indoors for warm weather plants, tomatoes, peppers, squash, eggplant, zucchini, pumpkins, etc. I start the squash and pumpkins end of April because they grow so fast they get overgrown easily

Last week in May--I usually put everything else in this week. Sometimes Mid may if the forecast looks good, but I rarely have to cover for frost if I wait til the end of May. All my starts, my seeds like beans and carrots, I get my starts Mother's Day weekend that I do not have started myself, to get the best selection, then they spend a couple of weeks on my patio tables in the sun, easy to cover and water, then all goes in the dirt that last week in May. (Covered with a little layer of shavings/poop from my girls to get them started )

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Donna, that is great the Welsummers did so well! Yay!

I get the whole swimming in chicks thing--my 12 teens are in the garage, then the 6 for my neighbors, and I have 42 eggs due next week , and 45 on my table resting to go in the bator tonight or tomorrow. it is going to be so fun. Oh! Guess what? I got some olive egger eggs from a marans mama and an Isbar daddy Just a few, but fun. She sent a couple BLRW too, 3 eggs I think--then some Barnevelder, BCM, Blue Marans, , Wheaten Marans, cuckoo marans, Ameraucana (blue ones, yay!), SBEL, EE. Now I just have to try not to keep any--I was planning on raising them a week or two and having all the fun then selling them at chickenstock

Blu, did you get your Wheaten marans eggs? Were they as dark as the picture?

 

[blujems]

Donna, that is great the Welsummers did so well! Yay!

I get the whole swimming in chicks thing--my 12 teens are in the garage, then the 6 for my neighbors, and I have 42 eggs due next week , and 45 on my table resting to go in the bator tonight or tomorrow.

it is going to be so fun. Oh! Guess what? I got some olive egger eggs from a marans mama and an Isbar daddy

Just a few, but fun. She sent a couple BLRW too, 3 eggs I think--then some Barnevelder, B/B/S marans, Wheaten Marans, cuckoo marans, Ameraucana (blue ones, yay!), SBEL, EE. Now I just have to try not to keep any--I was planning on raising them a week or two and having all the fun then selling them at chickenstock

Blu, did you get your Wheaten marans eggs? Were they as dark as the picture?

No not yet...On the waiting list, only 8 people ahead of me. I hope they come sooner rather than later.

 

[Rykel]

Thanks Casa good luck with the welsummers Donna!

 

[cyndiloowho]

Having so much fun with all of the gardening talk! My biggest tomato producer is Big beef. I always grow Early girl also for the flavor as well as the heirlooms and cherry chocolates & sun sugars. Although the sun sugar never make it into the house. My 17 yr old is like a rabbit in my garden, now I want to try that "big girl" one that was mentioned- was that the name? I'll have to go back and read again.

corvidae- yay for your Welsummers!!! What is bargain?

 

[Cynthia12]

Picture overload!

Had fun taking pictures today..since I told Red I would get some of her girl.

red's girl...icelandic/EE mix. Very pretty girl so far..



Girl, Makes Me Happy!


This is the Welsummer that has been teasing me. She was 5 months on the 18th.
Guess she will be one to take a while to get really started.

Sphinx was right..: it's a boy..this is my little Miracle baby. Guess I won't be keeping
him after all.

Little stink!

The blue OE I kept..

Lisa, remember that light blue in the OE's that I kept. Here HE is. Boy, I called that
one wrong!

Here is my latest Miss Piggy that sundance surprised me with. I love her! She will
jump onto my leg every time I kneel down. She will let me pet her back like you would
a dog. Not too many chickens will let you do that.

And here is one of the sweetest faces you will ever see in a Bantam. My Bantam
Faverolle. Isn't she sweet? My Japanese is going in with her. She also jumps up on
my knee. She's on it here.

 

[cyndiloowho]

Cynthia those little OEs I got from you are showing no red whatsoever although one of them has less feathering and almost no tail yet. I'm thinking that AT LEAST 2 of them are girls! You did a great job choosing for me! Thank you