What did you do in the garden today?

[TropicalBabies]

It is 9AM for me and I'm not sure yet but pretty sure Black Beauty(Sumatra) is queuing up for a trip to broody prison today. I had to pull her off the nest last night at chicken'o'clock to put her on the roost. Her vent area on the trip there had me questioning if she might lay or not as well but no definitive answer came as she was fighting up a storm about the indignity. I was just patting myself on the back thinking that today would be the first time in a long while I didn't need to take prisoners until I read your post @WthrLady , so, thanks for bursting my bubble.

LOL. Broodies are sooo funny <3
I can't believe i am saying this but I wish I had another broody right now. Buying an incubator online aint happening and feed store is at least 2 weeks out

 

[BReeder!]

Not quite gardening (garden is still too wet), but I did get some work done outside. I drained our duck pond and started mucking it out. It's NASTY in the bottom. I dug out three wheelbarrows of muck and gravel. There's 4 or 5 more wheelbarrows of material to remove still. The fish apparently died over winter and so did two bullfrogs I found. The worst part is the rotten eggs in the pond. I'll be building large filtration system this week finally. Then we'll add some goldfish just and see how they do with the ducks. The pond was not originally built for ducks, it was built for koi and goldfish so we are learning (in the messiest way possible). By this time tomorrow I should be able to get the pond refilled and hopefully get the filtration finished by this weekend.

The raised beds are looking ready to get planted, so I might get the peppers and eggplant transplanted soon and start getting seeds into the beds for other crops. (By "I" I mean DW for all this planting as I'll be ankles deep in muck.)

 

[karenerwin]

Are you going to chip your puppies Karen?

Hadn’t really thought about it but now that you mention it yes, we probably will. Our current dog is chipped.

 

[karenerwin]

On our way home from Cackle Hatchery! 15+ Cornish Cross chicks.
They are chirping up a storm!

 

[ShrekDawg]

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On our way home from Cackle Hatchery! 15+ Cornish Cross chicks.
They are chirping up a storm!

You’re so lucky you live near cackle haha

 

[NewBoots]

Beautiful day today, going out before I get lazy.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Okay so 6 or 9 have hatched here 3 black 3 partridge

 

[AllenK RGV]

Finally nomnoms are ready to start getting popped into my mouth! It was a great plan to let the tomatoburgler go broody when we did

 

[pennyJo1960]

Nice no tomato of any kind yet can hardly wait taste you cannot buy

 

[Halfpasthen]

Good evening gardeners. I'm finally bringing in a basket of produce a day! The garden is definitely my happy place right now. This morning I picked all of my fresh squash blossoms and stuffed them with cream cheese. Battered and fried them and served them with marinara. So good!