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[Chicken Rustler]

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Geeez with all of ya in this club lately I hope it aint't contagious ......I could be in trouble or very rich.

 

[Kaneke]

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I can sure tell you about our glacial till, since we had to dig holes to "perk" before we could install septic system


long-time pastures and lawns with lots of fertilizer applied, do get mole tunnels ... I just get MOSS ....

Some day go out to the Mima Mounds to get an idea of what the native prairie looked like: not a whole lot of soil development, lots of moss and lichen, more like tundra than Great Plains style sod. Which distinction did not sink in to the first farmer's perceptions until it was too late. One of the epigrams I heard from the old'uns (who said Yellum instead of Yelm and used Chinook jargon without thinking): When Hudson Bay planted wheat here the first year they got a bumper crop like they'd never seen, the second year they got a normal crop, the third a very poor one and the fourth the sprouts died of starvation. There's some productive soils around the southern end of Puget Sound now but most of it is a result of a century or more of carefully building organic layers, and the best of it is paved over north of Auburn. or in subdivisions in the Evergreen Valley.

I learned my gardening on Yelm Prairie, so I don't complain too much about how picky I have to be about watering and fertilizing here!

since I used to be a member out at Evergreen Gun Club, and even won the women's division at Rendezvous several times; oh yes I know the Mima Mounds ... also remember the shortest way to I-5 south from here, is via Rainier, Tenino, and diagonally towards Grand Mound ... lots of not-yet-bulldozed MOUNDED farmland on that route, grazed by alpacas, buffalo, longhorns, and other interesting fauna

 

[cheryl98117]

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or maybe

Depending on which was your wish.

Me, I'm generally in favor of babies, but they are a bit of work.

Its a mix of emotions, I just need to finish getting over the shock and enjoy it! Though I will say, this will be the last one for me. Im getting fixed!

 

[cheryl98117]

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Geeez with all of ya in this club lately I hope it aint't contagious ......I could be in trouble or very rich.

Well hopefully in your case, very rich!

Your already a one of a kind guy! If THAT were to happen!!! Sheesh! Then you'd be even more special than you already are!

 

[cheryl98117]

Off to take DH to work. Be back soon!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Geeez with all of ya in this club lately I hope it aint't contagious ......I could be in trouble or very rich.

Well hopefully in your case, very rich!

Your already a one of a kind guy! If THAT were to happen!!! Sheesh! Then you'd be even more special than you already are!

 

[chickens4gramma]

I have another dumb question for you all. We got the nest boxes all made and installed. 12 x 12, and 12 inches off the coop floor, with access from outside. DH put a 2 x 4 along the front for a perch for them to land on so they don't break the eggs getting into the box, as we read on BYC. But now I am wondering how to clean them out with the lip on the front? You can't just sweep out the chips because of the lip. Will I need a shop vac? lol Or will I have to scoop it all out by hand? I am thinking maybe some Rubbermaid boxes in there might be easier, as I could pull them out and wash, and sterilize them if needed. What do you all do? Thanks for the input. This is a learn-as-you-go project for us!

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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I think Kansas is a lot flatter: the Palouse hills top off at around 1000ft of vertical gain.

I know this all too well: I went to WSU, and my first apartment was a third-floor walk-up in a building (now demolished, near where Paul Allen's museum is now) on the top of one hill, and my 8am class was on the third story of a building where the elevators were...interesting, on the far side of campus. The shortest way was through Martin Field and taking the elevators from the field level (which was something like the -5 floor) to the plaza level, then walking five blocks downhill to the basement entrance and up three flights of stairs. Could have been worse, I suppose: could have lived in Orton and had my first class over in the fieldhouse.

I hear there's buses in that town these days.

there's a lot of Kansas and it's not all the same; I'm familiar only with southern Kansas which is mostly prairie cut by deeper river valleys (See: Little House on the Prairie ... which speaks of the area near Independence where my dad was born and raised)

currently have a cousin living in Palouse --- and she's a hotshot realtor so if you want to know about housing there .... look up Patti Green-Kent

South eastern Kansas is very flat with big rolling hills, Northern eastern Kansas not so much but still flat but with more hills. The hills here are more likely to have up to 500ft of elevation gain.

 

[Totalcolour]

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Hubby made some pull out drawer like things for the nest boxes, each of which has the "lip" but not very high, so the drawers can be removed and cleaned very easily. It also makes it nice to switch hens around when one goes broody - I just move the drawer to a different slot! (We like to keep the broodies on a lower spot than the layers)

 

[Totalcolour]

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Congrats - do you have a due date?