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[hallerlake]

Carmen and Ginger are broody AGAIN!!!! I tried the fanny in cold water treatment. I hope it works.

 

[jbear]

I am starting to sell my calls, I just listed them on CL but if anyone here were interested I would consider a BYC buddy special

I would especially like to place my three pet quality boys in a good home. THe boys are quiet..they kinda remind me of frog noises when they quack. lol! PM me if you'd like. I am trying to avoid shipping them if at all possible. Would be willing to meet somewhere along the I5 corridor.. have friends up and down the thing so it would be a good excuse to go a-visiting. Haven't listed them here in any auctions yet either. Also will be at the Stevenson show in October and could bring ducks there.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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The plastic at HD isn't supposed to last very long. It's mostly made for temporary uses like painting or covering something for the winter. You pretty much need to plan on only getting a season out of it. If it's under your house it will most likely last forever. If you don't want to replace plastic every year on your greenhouse you need to buy the 'greenhouse' plastic sold at horticultural supply houses and catalogs. Johnnys seeds carries some sizes. I have 4 year plastic on my greenhouse in it's second year. Still going very strong. I previously had the 3 year on my greenhouse and actually squeezed out a 4th year. Costs more but so worth it.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Way cool info!
I have bookmarked the site!

Does this guy sell his fruit? I checked out the website, but couldn't really tell if he was open to the public or what.

He did make mention several times of selling. He also said he sells to a lot of schools ?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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He used to sell at the Oly Farmer's Market, but is now mostly selling by contract (primarily to restaurants and caterers, I suspect) as far as I know. This is the time of year he showed up at the market, so if I get there this weekend I'll pay attention and see if he's there.

I am most definetly making my strawberries in pipe 'towers' such as he has.
Have you seen the pics?
Absolutely awesome!
No worry over slugs either!
No stooping to pick or weed, and saves so much time with less water!
I have miles or irrigation tubing, fittings, tiny sprinklers & timers that I saved from when we were in California.
This will be an addition to the garden next year, along with a fiberglass roof on the green house, instead of plastic film.

His GH are 72 feet long and he said in 1 row he will have 7000 strawberry plants. That is equal to 1 acre on the ground. All his GH are film and if you look at the way they are put together you would say these things will never make it in a storm but they are standing proof just as are many of his methods.

 

[Chickielady]

That is one of the things I loved about the setup is it is verticle, with zero waste of water, and the added bonuses of NO SLUGS and NO STOOPING!
WA4-HPoultryMom needs to see his pics!!

 

[Chickielady]

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The plastic at HD isn't supposed to last very long. It's mostly made for temporary uses like painting or covering something for the winter. You pretty much need to plan on only getting a season out of it. If it's under your house it will most likely last forever. If you don't want to replace plastic every year on your greenhouse you need to buy the 'greenhouse' plastic sold at horticultural supply houses and catalogs. Johnnys seeds carries some sizes. I have 4 year plastic on my greenhouse in it's second year. Still going very strong. I previously had the 3 year on my greenhouse and actually squeezed out a 4th year. Costs more but so worth it.

It was very expensive and 6ml strong, not the cheap thin painting stuff.
I bought it years ago & had green & hoop houses of it in California, where it was 110 in MAY and lasted like that until October~
And the stuff lasted 2 years, same company.
It says UV protected & all!
They just do not make it like they used to!

It actually is just crumbling in tiny pieces!
Well, at least I do not have to water IN the green house any longer.

 

[Chickielady]

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Yeah- I'm done with HD for roll goods. This is the 100ft by 6 ft wide greenhouse tarp, UV resistant vinyl over polyester mesh stuff which I've got spooled on a pipe on my front porch- ordered from a wholesale greenhouse supply place. I've been inadvertantly testing its qualities this summer, including such usually disasterous exposures as "wadded up and stuck in a roll of rusty yard fencing so it will stop blowing around" and it hasn't lost flexibility nor shown a proclivity to getting holes punched through, which is good, I think?

I liked the look of that stuff, I told ya I admired it....where'd you get it?

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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??? the fanny in cold water? tell me more

I've given in and given eggs every time!

 

[Chickielady]

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All of your Icelandics are beautiful! Especially the girl with the crest in the second pic

Did you get many girls with crests? I want them so badly - my heritage is Icelandic and I love how you never know what you'll get and how different they are. However - I don't know that our backyard is the right place for the breed. Someday!

There are 2 hens in the second pic, bottom left that have hardly any comb, a blue (laced) and a black..there is others in the picture that have standard combs, and a few with what appears as a pea-type comb.
They are flighty, and self reliant.
They are also small, though not as small as a bantam.
They are quiet compared to LF breeds.
If you have a contained run (one with a net over the top) it would work great for you!
Fair warning though: They are all different, even bred by the same parents, and each is gorgeous, and you will want them all.
That said, having Icelandics will soothe the savage beast that lies in us all for COLOR!
One breed and you have it all!
It will be great fun watching the APA try to access these birds, as there can be very little standard, except for size, body type & egg color.
You can have 2X as many of these birds in the same size coop as a LF breed, and they fly well, and love to roost high, leaving the coop floor open for nest boxes and walking space, which is also nice.
Anyone with Bantams will tell you, a smaller breed is nice to have, less feed, less poop, and produces just about the same sized egg, AND so many colors!
The dark chocolate colors & blue laced patterns have fascinated me.
The standard comb cockerals with a crest are interesting too!
Almost all of this hatch is crested but one, and it looks to have some crest growing in, but "brushed back" like Mozart.