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[Chickielady]

OK, I gotta go to town & do the "do": Post Office, bank, grocery store, etc.
"Doing" chinese tonight, already made Blue Duckling's poke flied lice (YUMMY!)
and gonna "do" "sweetsor poke" for DH, he LOVES it, and stir fry vegies with choy mein noole.

Next time it is the excellent coconut-curry chicken and peas paneer with fresh spring salad greens already 12" high in my garden

And we are framing the few pieces left in the green house and already got the plastic 6 ml film to put on it..it is spring here wether the weather.

Later guys~~~

 

[cheryl98117]

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Looks like CL knows how to pick which eggs to get rid of !!!

Naw, I screwed up & shoulda give her 10 cockerals & kept the pullets

I love you CL your awsome, but I am SO glad you let me have at least 3 pullets. lol

 

[pettec63]

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You tilt the egg carton from one side to the other side, I do it about 2-3 times a day. The one with poo on it try and scratch it off the best you can. You want to have them site for 24 hr than put them on. Make sure your incubator is on now and get it to settle down with heat and humidity. What kind of eggs are they??

thanks! they are Buff Orps to replace my three layers, I have the brinsea octo 20 with auto turner, k I will

 

[cheryl98117]

Ok Chloes napping, heres my chance to shower, and get some wor done. TTYL! Hope the sun is out for everyone at least for part of the day!

 

[Kaneke]

hey, I just got a glimpse of sun

didn't mention it, but yesterday we got the fifth and last ore trough bailed out and all the nasty dead leaves doing their anaerobic rotting thing, removed (temporarily anyway)

and the trough skidded across the yard to the coop area

this one was harder to get out because some of the shrubbery had sent roots right up INTO the layers of plywood, so it was literally rooted to the ground --- we got MAD and shoved HARD, and it all broke loose

now I need to get out there with measuring sticks, make sure I get everything set up the way I want it for the chicks

(since they may have to fend for themselves, pretty much, when we are gone; DS says he'll take care of them but he is so busy he may neglect)

DH is going past Harbor Freight today, will take a look and see if there is anything there that would be useful in the coop or run; I need to get some closet shelf hangers to mount a poop board in the coop

either that or turn the existing double-nest box (which I removed, poor construction and lousy location up near the coop ceiling) -- upside down since it has a framed-in area on its "bottom" about the right size for a poop board .. I can put a couple of surplus dish drainers inside it, underneath, to give them a place to hide and nest if they start having that sort of urge

I still have some leftover bedding shavings to pad those --- I gave up on shavings in the brooder box because they got ammonia-ey in two days

 

[Chickielady]

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Naw, I screwed up & shoulda give her 10 cockerals & kept the pullets

I love you CL your awsome, but I am SO glad you let me have at least 3 pullets. lol

Smooches, and ya only need 1.......and 1 cockeral from CCG.............and you have an incubator!!
A reason to hatch.

NOTE: I will have Lemon-Blue Cochin chicks and Black Java chicks by the second week of next month...

And who's birthday is today??????????????

OK, I give up, who is gonna be 41 today ???????????????????

 

[pettec63]

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Really?? hmm I really thought I was being super picky with this stuff, but, I can see your point. I am changing it quite often, explain poop board, I've heard it mentioned but, never seen one? mine have a roost, they poop under it and I clean it up? if there is a better way please indulge me!!! lol!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_water_troughs_005.jpg
poop boards in action!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_poop_trays_028.jpg

another coop~

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_poop_trays_029.jpg

and still another one

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_poop_trays_030.jpg

poop is scooped off the poop board in a dusting of sand, and sifted as you do a cat box, and dump in a bucket, every other or every 3rd day as you have time.
The floor stays clean, unless you've juvenile peeps running around on the floor.
Big birds go outside and rarely poop in the coop floor area.
I clean the floor shavings out & replace it every 3 or 4 months.
Love this system!

Wow! that's nice!! Beats cleaning every couple days and I have a garden ready for the manure!! awesome!!! thanks!

 

[pongoid]

For those of you who I promised to teach but was too lazy to follow through.

El Centro de la Raza
Just in- Tamale Class Schedule for May: Saturday May 7th and Saturday May 21st. Give mom a wonderful Mother’s Day present and sign up together to take a class! Learn to make tamales that are sure to wow your family/guests and enjoy every minute of it. More info at: http://ow.ly/4Jnhk

 

[Chickielady]

I gave up making tamales, I make tamale pie, layers of corn masa & olives& ro-tel tomatoes, salsa, meat, onion, cheese & back again, latered like lasagna, first coat the pyrex with oil, then add 1/2" or so of the masa mix (recipe on the bag) and then layer, bake & enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tamales are hard work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And edited to add: I tried tamales and Mexicans taught me & I screw them up every time & made the biggest mess, and such hard work...argh, I was not meant to be a tamale maker....came to accept the fact is all..

Bye guys!!

 

[Chickielady]

Pettec63~~~~~~~~~~~

The poop is covered in a coating of the sand (I buy sand at HD) and it is wonderful to compost & add the savings & sand covered poops...easy, takes me 10 minutes to scoop poop boards off 5 coops..great addition to clay soils, and the worms LOVE it, shavings, poop & sand.