What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

Dont waste that 'mater on a chikkin, eat it yourself, just pop it in and chow down !
in fact, I'd SHOW it to the chicken and THEN eat it, telling her, THAT is for the plant you ate that you are not supposed to, that I don't know about yet !

Aaron

 

[WthrLady]

Ugh... It's killin' me. Just spent 2 hours watering everything. No end in sight. I'm sure those of you in California are saying "hold my wine...." but an Extreme drought is unheard of in Arkansas in October.

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I've got nothing left, but livestock, to water, everything is dead.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I've got nothing left, but livestock, to water, everything is dead.

Ironically all the grass under the solar panels is still green (below) but for whatever reason the goats and horses refuse to eat it.


Other than that patch, everything else is dead unless I'm physically watering it.

 

[Ascholten]

the sun is drying it out and cooking it, under the panels the sun is not getting so it's still green, it has not been scorched out yet. As to why the critters won't eat it, have no idea, as it appears they can easily reach under them. In my instance the damned chickens have kind of crawled under the panels at times scritching and scratching around and I really don't want them to, don't need them coming into contact with a power line or something. Maybe the animals just don't like being by the panels, they are hot and reflective and at a level you can bump and bang your face into them??? It might just be the panels BEING there is what they don't like, not really the grass...... although that has never really stopped a goat before.... odd.

Aaron

 

[WthrLady]

Isn't that weird? It's green, but long tough grass. Out here we're having to watch nitrogen levels from drought conditions that is trapped in the stalks. Too high isn't good for the stock.

We have got to break this cycle.

 

[TJAnonymous]

the sun is drying it out and cooking it, under the panels the sun is not getting so it's still green, it has not been scorched out yet. As to why the critters won't eat it, have no idea, as it appears they can easily reach under them. In my instance the damned chickens have kind of crawled under the panels at times scritching and scratching around and I really don't want them to, don't need them coming into contact with a power line or something. Maybe the animals just don't like being by the panels, they are hot and reflective and at a level you can bump and bang your face into them??? It might just be the panels BEING there is what they don't like, not really the grass...... although that has never really stopped a goat before.... odd.

Aaron

Yeah, it's weird. The horses can easily walk under the back part of the panels. They will come slightly under them, smell the grass, and then walk away without even a nibble. That grass is literally the only grass alive in the pasture and they won't touch it. It hasn't been sprayed with anything... And it's normal Bermuda just like the rest of the pasture. I've seen the goats eat under the panels a few times but they mostly avoid it too. The chickens go under there all the time looking for bugs. I guess they nibble at the grass too but I haven't personally watched them do it. I don't know. Just one of those weird things. I assumed it was giving off a sound or magnetic field that they don't like... It hasn't been hot and it's not hot around the back side of the panels. They can't go in front of them because they are against the fence and there's no room. Just weird.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Isn't that weird? It's green, but long tough grass. Out here we're having to watch nitrogen levels from drought conditions that is trapped in the stalks. Too high isn't good for the stock.

We have got to break this cycle.

Especially Johnson grass which can be toxic... I seed my pasture with Bermuda in the spring and spray for weeds. In the fall, I usually seed with ryegrass but I haven't yet because no rain. So I assume the grass under the panels is Bermuda.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I cleaned my coop today and noticed some poop with dead worms so I went ahead and wormed most of my chickens. Ran out of wormer and couldn't reach about 10 of them. I also need an easy way to identify who got wormed and who didn't. Hard to keep track when you have 60+ chickens and a bunch of them look the same.

 

[Acre4Me]

Carrots.
So many carrots.

And this is only what is left if the first planting of carrots. There is still the later planting to pick, but there is less of them.

After washing them, and bagging them, there are 14 gallon ziploc bags filled to the brims/barely able to zip them, in the fridge.

So, carrot ideas? I’ve pickled done and canned some already!

 

[WthrLady]

Yeah, it's weird. The horses can easily walk under the back part of the panels. They will come slightly under them, smell the grass, and then walk away without even a nibble. That grass is literally the only grass alive in the pasture and they won't touch it. It hasn't been sprayed with anything... And it's normal Bermuda just like the rest of the pasture. I've seen the goats eat under the panels a few times but they mostly avoid it too. The chickens go under there all the time looking for bugs. I guess they nibble at the grass too but I haven't personally watched them do it. I don't know. Just one of those weird things. I assumed it was giving off a sound or magnetic field that they don't like... It hasn't been hot and it's not hot around the back side of the panels. They can't go in front of them because they are against the fence and there's no room. Just weird.

My boys are the same. Once the grass gets old, even though it's green, they'd rather eat hay or will look really hard for tender sweet new grass.