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[cheryl98117]

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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!

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Ah come on now! Dont even pretend that you don't know the we wuv you!

edited to add

I made CR blush!!!

 

[cheryl98117]

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Congrats - do you have a due date?

Not yet, just found out this morning. Didnt believe the first test, so had to take 2 more...

 

[cheryl98117]

car wouldnt start, again... I just dont know whats going on with this stupid thing.

 

[VelvettFog]

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I don't put chips in my boxes. I ordered nesting pads from some online place. They work well to cushion the 'fall' of the egg

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Ah come on now! Dont even pretend that you don't know the we wuv you!

edited to add

I made CR blush!!!

 

[Mia_]

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I used to be a member too. Ever see the 3 day eventing course set up through the mounds? I thought the 18+ hand dressage horses were interesting fauna.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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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

And covered with signs asserting the owners' rights to destroy it all, alas.

If it weren't for the fact that I'm supposed to be doing eight other things, I'd pull out a pic I took of a prairie soil exposure at the Glacial Prairie Preserve (south of the Mima Mounds preserve) that is very instructive about podzolic soil development.

 

[Kaneke]

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I don't put chips in my boxes. I ordered nesting pads from some online place. They work well to cushion the 'fall' of the egg

I've been using shredded paper in the nest boxes

since we shred all the "stuff with identification" on it anyway, we had lots available -- it's fluffy but won't stick to the feathers, the hens do eat an occasional bit of it but that doesn't seem to impact their digestion (most inks these days are soy based), and for some reason they don't poo in it

it doesn't smell and it won't get moldy either

so my eggs are neat and clean, I never have to wash or scrub them (occasionally pull off some slightly sticky strands, that had the envelope mucilage on them, but they peel off just like posta-notes), and there's enough padding and 'give', that even with three hens in the nest box at once, nothing gets cracked

if I had to change it, it would be easy -- maybe use a dustpan, or just grab it out, since the strands are longer than chip type bedding but don't stick to things or clump up

 

[Zgoatlady]

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She's selling them as pasture raised, so that's way over carrying capacity, especially anywhere in the PNW where glacial soils, summer drought, and low soil temperatures are hard on sod formation and pasture recovery time (full disclosure: I live on a farm which pastures cattle and feeds pigs hay for just that reason: 50 pigs can destroy ten acres of pasture in a month here).

The more important question is where she got her information about chicken feed killing cattle.

So you are saying your soil suxs. What is the area ratio per acre for goats, cattle and pigs. Here I can have 15 goats per acre. She pulled it out of her

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In King County its 5 horse per acre ( but only two out at a time) than 1 horse =5 goats. Now this is so hard on your land.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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You want to make sure the chicks can get to the food, so you need a feeder for them and mom will show them what to do. I feed med chicken start to mom and chicks when they are together. Now Im not sure if thats ok but all the one's Ive done it to do just fine. Any one do something other than that?