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[itsren]

What do you plant your garlic in? do you have problems with it getting too wet?

I just have them in the corner of a raised bed. It rains - but they seem to do fine. They have to grow all year. They looked beautiful all winter, and I never covered the bed. They're easy to grow.

I'm paying the price for going overboard a couple of years ago with my tomatoes - I think I had somewhere between 30 and 40 plants. And, I didn't know how to can. So, I took a canning class - then discovered how expensive canning supplies were. Everyone I asked if they wanted tomatoes said they didn't like them. So... hundreds of tomatoes got squashed into the ground. Now one of my weed problems is baby tomato plants - in my backyard - where my chickens play.

This week I've been pulling 7-8 plants every day.

 

[VelvettFog]

How did you quote so many posts in on?

Well -- you know how to quote - because you quoted me -- see the button that says "multi" just to the left of the 'quote' button? As I'm reading the posts and I want to reply, I click "multi" when I've reached the end of the post, I then click the "Post a Reply" button (lower left corner of your screen it is blue). That then puts all the quotes in to the reply box. I add my comments and click submit ... nothing to it

 

[Totalcolour]

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Hi, glad you finally made it to this thread! They are looking gorgeous. Ig's are looking good too. Such lovely birds.

Thanks Kate, so pleased you like them. Ig sure is building a beautiful Icelandic flock, thanks in part to your lovely birds! Do you still have some Icelandics?

Sadly, no. We didn't have any way to keep them separate from the big birds, so I'm waiting til next year to start again (with a separate coop and run). I do have some contacts for baby birds or eggs

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

You get a head start and run your snowmobile across the river. If you sink, they fish you out and you lose. If you make it across the river, you win.

very interesting

 

[SweetSilver]

How did you quote so many posts in on?

Click "Multi" on every post you want to quote, then hit "Quote" on the last one. You might have to reclick on the last one, as often I hit "Multi", then there is no more posts left to quote. So, just click "Quote" on that same post and they will all appear in your editor.

 

[lovinchickypoos]

I want to go get my chickens and ducks... but hubby just wants to sleep. Go figure. Here I am in my new house and missing my babies and wanting them here in their brand new pen and silly hubby wants to sleep, lol.

Guess we are going to go get them and bring them home later today. I''ve been a week now without my babies and all the lovely noises they make. wah wah wah.

My new house is nice and I am loving it. well except the landlady is a bit wierd at times. She tells me I can do what I want in the yard and plant what I want. Then freaks out because I might hurt her plants which she plans on digging up and moving sometime. ugh!!!! one day she says to take out this rose bush because she doesn't want it and it is a volunteer. So we do and when she comes to get her fridge she gets upset because she wanted it and now I am going to kill it because we dug it up. Oh and put it in a pot so it wouldn't die. Talk about major frustration.... Guess I am not digging or anything till she gets it done herself and when city throws a fit bout how the yard looks and the trees hanging over the house and the street I can tell them to tallk to her right????

DAng I want hubby to wake up so I can go get my birds! lol

She sounds like she has some major issues!! Unmedicated bi-polar or multiple personalities??? I hate being told what I can or can't do with the place I live in. I think that's why we bought out in po-dunk Finley! I guess I just have issues with authority.

 

[Nikki99]

The bottom ones are 15" high before hay, and I guess around 17". My measurements were off, so I started dividing and drawing lines and I finally figured...***, I have the dividers, I'll just stick them in there evenly and who cares? My experience with chickens is not that extensive, but it's just enough to know that hens are not as picky as I used to think. We'll see what they think of these.

The d'anvers are a true bantam breed. They are pretty teeny, but are not yet full grown (almost!) The boxes are about 12" high before hay and 0we8iaehclnaqwerl inches wide

, 10" deep. It was a guess, and one was very excited when we put her up there. I think these might be too small for my bantam cochin, but who knows? My big girl orps used to cram in 2 to a box, so I think she'll find something to her liking.

Well, yours are bigger then mine, hopefully my girls wont mind though.

Our bigger boxes are 12x12x14. Most of the things I've read lead me to believe these will work fine but only time will tell. They haven't started laying yet so we shall see!

What do you mean by a "true" bantam breed? I'm a dog person so is "true" in the bird world like pure breed in the dog world? So what would the Cochin and Ameracauna Bantams be? Maybe like a designer breed? Lol. Like the Labradoodles?
It seems like it takes the Bantams longer to grow, my little ones seem like they've stopped growing but are still so tiny! My friends 1 yr old Cochin Bantam roo could swallow my two little ones, is this normal? I hope not because their small size sure makes them easy targets for my standard sized birds.

 

[itsren]

Well, I think, until my kids get a better grasp of chicken husbandry, I think our three hatchery birds are the limit for us. I don't know that I want to spend the money on getting Silkies next Spring if the kids can't be more responsible.

Youngest son kicked a ball onto the side of the chicken tractor (on the grass) while the chickens were in it. Things got ugly pretty fast. Now Caunnie has beak issues (hole up at the top of the beak and the soft red part above the beak is bleeding). Sigh. I've wondered if Drama's broken beak was a result of kid-play, as well - but, since I didn't witness it, I'm not sure. We've explained this stuff to the kids so much... the boys just don't get it (or they forget it very quickly).

So... what is Blue Coat - how does it work? Thankfully, Caunnie is the head of the flock so Rhodie and Drama just seem to be cuddling up to her and not picking at her face. They're back in the coop/run now. I think they'll stay there for a good while. They're safer there.

Now, I know, without a doubt - I need to concentrate on building a sturdy, safer chicken tractor. PVC pipe is just too lightweight.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: AKA water skipping ! Best to make sure ya got plenty of power!.

 

[Chickielady]

With her permission of course Please keep us updated. Be doing my share for her.

I have not heard from her so far today...just hoping she is OK & gonna get better............