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[cheryl98117]

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Ok I have to ask. Is zink safe to take while pregnant?

Here is what I located on the quick. http://www.ivillage.com/zinc-colds-while-pregnanthow-much-too-much/6-n-145732 I would just hit the zinc hard for about 3 days, and then rely on the prenatal vitamin to get enough zinc. A quick bump should not be able to create a toxic overload. It's not going to matter much after the first three days of a cold anyway. You just don't want to take to much all the time.

At least this is what I would do. A cold virus can harm the baby. I don't want to scare you, but I have been down that road just far enough to scare myself silly. The virus that is the worst known is call CMV. So I would rather risk the temporary bump of the Zinc for 3 days than the virus. But that's just me.

Thanks!

 

[cheryl98117]

I have not gotten a single egg in two days... Not one egg out of ten hens! I understand that there is much less light, and they are molting, but sheesh! Why must they do it all at one time? I hate store bought eggs!

 

[herbandteas]

Well how can someone tell me that $15 is too much for a chicken who is just starting to lay? I have 5 rir that I am trying to sell thats what the guy said he 1st asked me if it was for all 5 . I grew them up from chicks!

 

[cheryl98117]

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Ive run into the same issue out here. People dont care what youve put into them, they just want them for the cheapest price. I was thinning out my original flock a couple years ago, selling the hens for $10 a piece, and a lady called said she wanted them all, showed up handed me $10 and asked me to load them up! I was like "UH NO!!!" And the Ameraucanas... I feel I will have issues selling them as well, nobody around here cares if they are mutts or pure. Its quite frustrating.

 

[herbandteas]

Yes but in my case these are del,s birds that I brought up from chicks. But I just don't want a bunch of chickens over the winter. One of my friends bought 4 buff orp chicks from me that my hens sat on she paid $25 for them. She just loves them!

So if you or anyone else here wants some I know where to get some out in Sunnyslope



I know right now she is out of eggs but not sure about chicks.

I see chicken people post on cl all the time that price all the time but if I have to I will lower it to $10 after the week end.

 

[cheryl98117]

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Nah Im good. Ive got my flock numbers right where I want them for over winter. 14 birds is plenty for me. Plus Ive got 10 eggs sitting in the incubator for a test hatch.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Van Engelen and their retail arm John Scheepers are my current favorites on price and selection- Van Engelen has a $50 minimum, but that's not a lot to spend if you are relandscaping a whole yard and in addition can buy several hundred bulbs! Scheepers has the same varieties but no price minimum and smaller numbers. They have herbaceous peonies in addition to every bulb you could think of.

If you're buying landcape-size plants rather than propagating ones, you're almost always better off buying from the best retail nursery you can find and spending money on healthy growth rather than shipping. On the other hand, checking out Burnt Ridge at the Oly Farmer's Market (disclaimer: owner is a friend, and I was a vendor at OFM back in the olden days) and making a point of getting to the Donated Plants area at the Washington Park Arboretum (open rarely and worst of all during the day during the week) is always a good idea. ALSO: if you know what you want and can have the holes dug ready for the plants, the Lawyer Nursery (near Lacey) clearance sale in May is a great place to get big, healthy, professional landscape grade plants for cheap.

I've said a lot about Raintree and would recommend their plants and service without reservation.

The plant sale area at Rhododendron Species Foundation often has shade plants which are hard to find elsewhere.

Also, Forest Farm has something that looks like every plant in the world, and ships big plants in big pots for not-the-worst-shipping-charge; it helps to have a good plant encyclopedia by your side to supplement the catalogue, though.

Joy Creek Nursery is the place I buy clematis, campanulas, and other perennials; they sell a wide selection of shade plants and some speciality shrubs and small trees which are not easy to find otherwise.

I have Opinions about all rose nurseries, but the most important of them is that you're always better off buying in person. Recommendations upon request.

I have used Forest Farm before and love the fact you can find some of the ones you have been searching forever for.
(edited to add) I only by own root roses because of our climate.

Which is why I go to Heirloom, although I am at the end of getting heritage roses from them and will probably need to order from the place in (Davis? Sebastapol? can't remember, have it bookmarked but my bookmarks need sorted, oh, dear) to replace a couple of roses I've lost to last years nasty surprise at the end of February.

Speaking of rose places, one I neglected to mention is the Antique Rose Farm on Springhetti road in Snohomish: nice people, great roses and perennials. And too far away for me to go on a whim.

 

[hallerlake]

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No it's not. You can only get newborn chicks for what he wants to pay.

 

[Kaneke]

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you can tell that prospective buyer:

"I paid $5 apiece for these as chicks, you can have them for $5 each ... IF you pay for all the feed they've eaten since then .... or you can pay the $15 I am asking ! "

at least that's what I paid for my EEs at Del's .... and I will have to either rehome them after Christmas, or find a long term chicken sitter ....

I'd really rather keep these chickens, but we MUST go to Maui to see our doctors, and it usually takes at least a month to get in to see all of them

no guarantee that DS will be here to take care of the flock (his next hearing is next week, he is hoping to go on home monitoring) -- and RonB said he would not take them ...

 

[Stumpfarmer]

TotalColour brought the very nice broody Austrolorp who unfortunately shares a name with my younger old dog and I'll need to come up with a new one. I'm going to be taking some of the eggs out of the big incubator to put under her- how many do y'all think is a reasonable number? I suppose I should just candle all of them and use the good ones, but if they're all good what's the best number, do you think?

I still have to give feed to the Hamburg ladies and Ian and Sylvia and rice to Elvis and ABA- everything's got water, the Hamburgs got a very soft pear, the end of an over-ripe tomato, and some Romaine Lettuce ribs and Ian and Sylvia need peanuts, which they got shorted on yesterday. But I need to sit down for a while, drink water, take some ibuprofen...