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Well clearly I have arrived back home from picking up the feed and straw from Scott. He was great about getting the straw bales covered with garbage bags for me. The bales were much larger than I was expecting them to be. I am going to wait until DH gets home tonight, and let him empty the car. I now have more than enough straw to last me for years.
I might go a head and look into straw bale gardening. My mother was talking about do it, from what I know at this point it is a lot like having raised garden beds. I still don't know where to put raised beds in, because of all the trees and hedges. I did shorten some of the hedges a few weeks ago, so I will need to keep an eye on the amount of sunshine in the yard. I am still hesitant to put raised beds in the front yard. While I know the beds wouldn't be visible from the street, but I worry that they would be rather incongruent with the rest of the neighborhood.
I could put them in the backyard, but then I would have to figure out how to keep the very naughty dogs out of the beds.
Puppy is the worst about messing around in the garden beds. I can always tell when he has been tromping through the beds, because he comes back in with all sorts of stuff in his fur and I get to pick it out as best that I can.
I might go a head and look into straw bale gardening. My mother was talking about do it, from what I know at this point it is a lot like having raised garden beds. I still don't know where to put raised beds in, because of all the trees and hedges. I did shorten some of the hedges a few weeks ago, so I will need to keep an eye on the amount of sunshine in the yard. I am still hesitant to put raised beds in the front yard. While I know the beds wouldn't be visible from the street, but I worry that they would be rather incongruent with the rest of the neighborhood.
I could put them in the backyard, but then I would have to figure out how to keep the very naughty dogs out of the beds.
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Yeah! whatever I know Chickie is the bragger upper, but I am still going to blame the Rustler if I don't like it.
Yeah! whatever I know Chickie is the bragger upper, but I am still going to blame the Rustler if I don't like it.
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Can't be, as these are new... DH picked these up a couple weeks ago...
Could be related in some way...the rubber/latex? or the ointment on it ?
It could be the kind of glue also.
Can't be, as these are new... DH picked these up a couple weeks ago...
Could be related in some way...the rubber/latex? or the ointment on it ?
It could be the kind of glue also.
Good evening WA'ians. I don't know about you but I've been experiencing some INSANE wind, rain, and hail in the past few days. . . A pear tree of ours is very close to falling (over our looping dirt road, and crashing into the Tolbunt pen, too) one of our greenhouses got torn up from the last windstorm, and there's a "lake" in the nesting room. . . .
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ugh!!! That woud be awful to try and pick out of the giant puppy !
I use the straw in my muddy runs, and in the coops so the hens do not hurt their feet when they jump down out of the nest boxes and roosts.
It is also absorbent to a point..and after a a few months, I cart it out in a wheel barrow and spread it on my garden area to till in.
Oh, and we all know it was the
Chicken Rustler who told us about this feed in the first place about poor Becky...wish there was a way we could get HER going again....
....look at the business she'd have in a heart beat !!!!
ugh!!! That woud be awful to try and pick out of the giant puppy !
I use the straw in my muddy runs, and in the coops so the hens do not hurt their feet when they jump down out of the nest boxes and roosts.
It is also absorbent to a point..and after a a few months, I cart it out in a wheel barrow and spread it on my garden area to till in.
Oh, and we all know it was the
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OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wish I could help!!!
We have had it bad here too, and now, it is getting really cold...been in the 50s, insane rain and hail, and wind and lightening...and my brother gave us his old woodstove, a Dutch cast iron medium, and DH rebuilt a few things and is having a heck of a time getting it going (city boy) so I gotta go help him...
OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wish I could help!!!
We have had it bad here too, and now, it is getting really cold...been in the 50s, insane rain and hail, and wind and lightening...and my brother gave us his old woodstove, a Dutch cast iron medium, and DH rebuilt a few things and is having a heck of a time getting it going (city boy) so I gotta go help him...
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I am so willing to blame both of you, in case I love the feed.
You might hate it, but your birdies will LOVE it, they know fresh wonderful feed.
My birds are already stronger, meatier and healthier.
DIY: I hope you like it !!!
Edited to add: One of the best things I have seen with this feed in the poultry special for layers is the oyster shell added, you can bits of it, and the birds eat it...and when I gave them a bowl of the grit 'on the side' they passed it by....yucky tasting stuff I bet, and this way added as Scott does, they gobble it down and they seem so much stronger, egg shells are stronger too....birds are robust, roosters look fantastic...
I am so willing to blame both of you, in case I love the feed.
You might hate it, but your birdies will LOVE it, they know fresh wonderful feed.
My birds are already stronger, meatier and healthier.
DIY: I hope you like it !!!
Edited to add: One of the best things I have seen with this feed in the poultry special for layers is the oyster shell added, you can bits of it, and the birds eat it...and when I gave them a bowl of the grit 'on the side' they passed it by....yucky tasting stuff I bet, and this way added as Scott does, they gobble it down and they seem so much stronger, egg shells are stronger too....birds are robust, roosters look fantastic...
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The neighbor and I have both made some HAY bale beds. We just find people who have old hay bales that are no good for feed. They have worked out great. The worms come up and do wonders. The beds will shrink a lot in the first year as they compost.
The neighbor and I have both made some HAY bale beds. We just find people who have old hay bales that are no good for feed. They have worked out great. The worms come up and do wonders. The beds will shrink a lot in the first year as they compost.
We have used the straw bales for insulating the water pipes and around the water tanks also.
We also bust up the straw and stuff it into the dog house so he has a nice dry sweet bed to sleep in also.
It is good for alot of things!!
We also bust up the straw and stuff it into the dog house so he has a nice dry sweet bed to sleep in also.
It is good for alot of things!!
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