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[Chickielady]

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Ah I see the many posts, OK!!

 

[Imp]

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I have a couple of Cherries in my backyard. Probably planted in the 70's. A Bing and Ranier, I THINK. They are huge, never pruned, about 50 feet tall. I can only pick the lower branches. The birds, squirrels, and raccoons get the upper ones. The best I have ever done is maybe 4 gallons. the worst like last year, less than a quart. They all split in the rain. The dark purple one (maybe Bing) gets very few cherries on it, partially cause it was trapped between the Ranier and a Sumac for years. The Sumac died and now the cherry is doing better, getting more light. The Ranier only gets the blush where the sunlight hits them. Some that are in the interior of the tree stay yellow. I have not seen them get any larger than a normal size cherry. Raniers were developed for this area.

Imp

 

[Rainwolf]

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Yep got power everything is good just hail/wind/rain/sun/well... normal wa weather

one batch in lockdown hatching this weekend.. quails.
2 more chicken egg batches going for 1 more week.
2 orders of eggs coming in...
order of eggs going out....
buying a super powered pellet gun for the nasty big fat rat I found last night. He's lucky .22 shots are illegal in city
gonna be out most all day.

 

[Imp]

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Ah I see the many posts, OK!!

Don't let the post count fool ya. If she didn't lose so many in the cleanups she'd be like 30,000 or more.

Hey Kooshie- Have you ever counted it up?

CL,
Can you believe Kooshie and I hit 4000 posts within minutes of one another.

Russ/Imp feels very inadequate

I'm delighted that Kooshie has joined the Washingtonians

 

[Ogress]

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I line my brooder with puppy pee pads and cover that with pine shavings. Twice a week I scoop out the shavings and replace them with fresh, one of those times I pull ap and replace the pee pads, just roll it all up tegether. Very easy, and the brooder is clean.

I use sand...I get sacks of dry sand for my coop dust baths & poop trays..and the little boogers in the brooder get sand too.
They need it to digest, and it is non flammable

So we do not worry about igniting the brooder.
I caught the little devils fighting over & trying to eat shavings before, but it has never seemed to harm them.
On the other hand, while using shavings, I had several babies get busted toes that ended up curling back and it was a pain to tape their toes straight.
The shavings act like snow drifts and I suspect that is why I had broken toes.
I switched back to sand in the brooder & have no more broken toes again.
To clean it, I use one of those big green square grain scoops like Blue Ducklings posted, and scoop it out and right into the garden beds it goes, really helps with the sticky clay soil here.

The guy who built most of my new cabin coop brought his grandad out here to see it a few weeks back - he used to raise chickens about 40 years ago (hundreds at a time), and landscape for a golf course after that. He also told me I should be using sand and then dumping it poop and all on to my mushy, swampy, slippery lawn (boy is it going to be a mess when all this snow melts!) It'll fertilize andmake my yard less slick.

 

[blueducklings]

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We do too! What color?

Black with a new engine.

 

[blueducklings]

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Too late for today, but you can buy a couple of "Snuggle Safe" microwave disks. They hold the temp at 85 for 12 hours and my little chickies hang out on them.

And how do you heat up the disks if you lose power?
I missed that.

We just lost power here and I got a brooder with one duckling, an incubator and a hatch box loosing heat fast.
I left the brooder and incubator but put a candle and hot water in the hatch box.
It worked for a while, till the power came back on.
I'll have to figure out how to do it so I don't actually open the hatch box.
Hope duckie hatches.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Ah, man. that stinks. I hope that all gets better.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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fart egg.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Be careful.