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[VelvettFog]

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[WhiskiRanch]

Took some Easter pictures of my chickens!!! Still no spring babies but one of my hens is on 16 eggs. Not sure how many are under my other hen.






Proud Papa Whiski. He is my main papa rooster and is papa to all my babies from last year and my soon to hatch babies this spring All of the color in my coop are from him

 

[pbjls]

where did you get your eggs ?

I thought I said......the easter bunny

 

[pbjls]

I thought I said......the easter bunny

sorrry, I could not resist.

one of my feed customers has several breeds of turkeys and I am trading feed for the eggs.

 

[ChickAudie]

Quote: Oh, I am sorry, but this made me giggle so hard!

SarahKatie - Hope you were able to bring your puppy in. Poor doggy

 

[GingerHippie]

I wasn't really that active before, but this new site is WAY more compatable with my phone so hopefully I will be able to keep up better!

 

[blueducklings]

Look what the Easter Bunny brought!

 

[CarolynF]

Look what the Easter Bunny brought!

Totally adorable!!! What a nice Easter Bunny we have in Wash. delivering wonderful little surprises all over the place!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I need some ideas for garden paths that are free or very cheap. I want all the grass gone from that area. 

Anyone have any ideas?

I should have answered this last night, but was worked down to the nub.

What I do, on my very steep area, is cut a trench about 6" deep on the upper edge and dead level on the bottom (use a level or a big shallow pan of water to control flatness throughout or this will fail by having rock wash out and make sliding hazards on the downhill bits), line it with polyester landscape cloth (although when I run out of that it's going to be feed sacks) edged with whatever's on hand (old bricks, wood scrap, plastic lawn edger) add pea gravel and level it to the thickness of cheap pavers, set the pavers on the rock and then sweep more pea gravel in until the surface of the pavers are just above the gravel. Finally, sweep building sand into the gravel and wash it in well until the surface is stable. The pavers should be a maximum of six inches apart and a minimum of two- pea gravel and sand are way cheaper than pavers, especially when bought in bulk, and you only need the closer setting where you're going to set chairs or tables. Closer than two inches turns into a pond, quickly.

To do this organically it needs hand-weeded every other year, max; on the other hand, it's the greatest sprouting media ever for a wide variety of perenniels. More importantly, it catches roof run-off and puts it in the ground instead of running merrily down the driveway.

 

[blueducklings]

You can lay a path of free safeway boxes and top it with a truck load of free wood chips.

However, poly sheet topped with crushed gravel and top dressed with some fine dirt or sand will last a lot longer.
I personally prefer formed cement...made 2 feet at a time. I make mine 5 bags at a time.
It is slightly kinder to my back.

Edge it with what you have, or dig.

Yikes.

Best physical therapist is Carissa at Sweedish Redmond. LOL.