- Apr 9, 2011
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Did I say anything yet today? Probably not, I'm having a pretty owie day and not thinking well or being at all sensible in my activities.
I did find out that one of the things I can order through Amazon is chemical handwarmers for less than Costco or Outdoor Warehouse (or whomever, the store keeps changing names without even taking out any of their taxidermy) so I'll be able to keep heat packs on my hips starting soon.
I made the mistake of giving the Hamburgs a handfull of pill bugs/potato bugs/woodlice in addition to redworms a few weeks ago, and now they're pretty disappointed when they get just the worms. I never realized chickens could be so darned snarky. I'm also trying to remember what I'd done to the compost to end up with pill bugs being trapped so easily; I think there was a knot of dead grass in the middle of a bunch of pretty thoroughly decomposed kitchen scraps, but it could have been banana peels or something. One thing- I'm going to have a much more well-made compost for the garden next spring.
Speaking of compost, I realized I can sheet-compost the baby chicken bedding under my big damask rose and simultaneously evict the stupid hares from under it by putting an old dishwasher rack over the newspapers/shavings/chicken poo/spilled feed. It doesn't get past the way the spilled grain attracts rodents and slugs, so I'll still need to get a chicken-dedicated composter going, but this will deal with two nagging problems-disposing of chicken waste and providing aid and comfort to destructive native lagomorphs- I'll still need to take out the bloomed-out canes and the pencil-sized and smaller new growth so that the hares don't have cover from rain there.
I'm not actually doing any of this stuff right now, you must understand, I'm merely planning to do it. Right now I'm hoping to get to the kitchen and take some pain-killers so I can go feed the chickens their afternoon goodies and then have the ability to find the aforementioned old dishwasher guts so I can start the sheet-composting before dark, but hey, I've got a goal! A goal and a plan, even!
I did find out that one of the things I can order through Amazon is chemical handwarmers for less than Costco or Outdoor Warehouse (or whomever, the store keeps changing names without even taking out any of their taxidermy) so I'll be able to keep heat packs on my hips starting soon.
I made the mistake of giving the Hamburgs a handfull of pill bugs/potato bugs/woodlice in addition to redworms a few weeks ago, and now they're pretty disappointed when they get just the worms. I never realized chickens could be so darned snarky. I'm also trying to remember what I'd done to the compost to end up with pill bugs being trapped so easily; I think there was a knot of dead grass in the middle of a bunch of pretty thoroughly decomposed kitchen scraps, but it could have been banana peels or something. One thing- I'm going to have a much more well-made compost for the garden next spring.
Speaking of compost, I realized I can sheet-compost the baby chicken bedding under my big damask rose and simultaneously evict the stupid hares from under it by putting an old dishwasher rack over the newspapers/shavings/chicken poo/spilled feed. It doesn't get past the way the spilled grain attracts rodents and slugs, so I'll still need to get a chicken-dedicated composter going, but this will deal with two nagging problems-disposing of chicken waste and providing aid and comfort to destructive native lagomorphs- I'll still need to take out the bloomed-out canes and the pencil-sized and smaller new growth so that the hares don't have cover from rain there.
I'm not actually doing any of this stuff right now, you must understand, I'm merely planning to do it. Right now I'm hoping to get to the kitchen and take some pain-killers so I can go feed the chickens their afternoon goodies and then have the ability to find the aforementioned old dishwasher guts so I can start the sheet-composting before dark, but hey, I've got a goal! A goal and a plan, even!
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