What did you do in the garden today?

[Molpet]

<sigh>. We have 4 chickens segregated due to tapeworms . Apparently from earthworms, according to farm vet (several farm vets) business that does not treat chickens. Tapeworms are species specific, and require an intermediary host (like earthworms, flies, grasshopper, etc). Asked if they can ID the tapeworm (so we know which intermediary vector like worm or fly) but they cannot do that, and said most likely earthworms. So now we will address the wet area that the chickens dig around and we’ve put off addressing. Chickens are receiving meds, a tapeworm med for horses at a small dose, and require 2 treatments followed by 2 week egg withdrawal. With the price of eggs, I’d rather treat and keep, plus all 4 chickens look healthy and are laying eggs. In a solid bottom dog crate now, once they get 2nd dose next week, we will put them in a separate pen.




Yes! But, this naturally happens when you figure out what works best, what you eat and enjoy.

That’s similar to mine - 11 raised beds are just under 1000 sqft, plus 2 large “raised beds” (garden dirt on top of ground) for an additional 1100 sqft, not including cane berry beds. You live in a neighborhood, so you have a very nice size garden!!

Congrats on new baby!!! Another little gardener! I know your other two help you with some things garden related.

Last year I didn't add red pepper powder to the fermented feed for a couple winter months. In March I started adding an piles of round worms were under the roost
Previously I had seen only one worm out of a rooster.
I wormed everyone and didn't see any worms, but I didn't have a fecal run.
So red pepper seems to be a preventative for round worms and maybe a treatment.
Your milage may vary

 

[jerryse]

2 degrees when I got up this morning. High of 13 predicted. Not going above freezing until Saturday maybe. Worms are tough to eradicate. Roundworms have a stage where the larva can enter the flesh and go dormant. In dogs they migrate to the fetuses and puppies are born already infected. Tapeworms my hunting beagles would pick them up from rabbit poo. Dogs will eat rabbit poo. I would see gel sacs in the body cavity of rabbits. A stage of tapeworm. Grazing animal can get worm eggs from pasture vegetation. Poo onto grass and eggs ingested. Many ways to get infected. Free ranging chickens are at risk.

 

[igorsMistress]

I got things watered and started to plant a few more onions and my kid called me for a ride. Her car is at the dealer for service and it’s going to take a while. It’s chilly outside yet so I think I’ll wait a bit to go back out anyway. The plan for today is to finish trimming the lemon tree and get it wrapped with burlap, then transplant a few succulents to better locations and set up the additional feeder for the birds.

 

[igorsMistress]

I got things watered and started to plant a few more onions and my kid called me for a ride. Her car is at the dealer for service and it’s going to take a while. It’s chilly outside yet so I think I’ll wait a bit to go back out anyway. The plan for today is to finish trimming the lemon tree and get it wrapped with burlap, then transplant a few succulents to better locations and set up the additional feeder for the birds.

Never mind, I’ll get the succulents done today but I decided to put up the fence in the shade garden instead. I used the last of my bamboo to give the gate some rigidity. No materials were purchased and it’s not beautiful, but it works

 

[Smokerbill]

I went out early this morning and bought a bag of seed starting mix. Cabbage, kale, bok choi, collards, leaf lettuce and watercress seeds are planted. I'm planning to get them into the garden by the end of March.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Just hoping to have time to plant this year.

 

[WthrLady]

Cold doesn't even describe it.
Plowing for the day is done.
I'll need to do it again in the morning. This snow is powder and blowing everywhere.
Unholy and this time next week will be 56 LOL I swear.

 

[WthrLady]

Been a long time. Hope the gardens are all doing well. I'm just starting to plan this year's vegetable garden. The garden is under of blanket of snow at the moment. Only things really worth carrying about it there are the garlic and asparagus, both of which are still dormant for the winter.

Anybody else deciding to cut back on plant varieties this year? I really think I am going to focus heavily on tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. I just might dedicate over 400 square feet just to those. And I'm thinking of going with one variety of tomato, one of cucumber, one of sweet pepper, and probably two hot peppers (jalapeno for salsa and chipotles and something else for other stuff like spicing up tomato sauce, pickles, relished, etc.). Marigolds are something else I want to mix in even more this year along with some other flowers perhaps. I'll definitely plant onions, potatoes, carrots, zuchinni/ summer squash and herbs. That really might be all though... In a 1000+ square foot garden that currently has 12 raised beds!

It . Seems crazy to be so simple this year, but I need to limit the amount of work on the garden. My job will be busy in the Spring and Summer and DW is busy with an infant these days in addition to our two school aged kids. Less variety will be simpler to manage and should produce more of the things we like most. Seems like a win win.

CONGRATS on the new baby!

 

[SkyAJK]

<sigh>. We have 4 chickens segregated due to tapeworms . Apparently from earthworms, according to farm vet (several farm vets) business that does not treat chickens. Tapeworms are species specific, and require an intermediary host (like earthworms, flies, grasshopper, etc). Asked if they can ID the tapeworm (so we know which intermediary vector like worm or fly) but they cannot do that, and said most likely earthworms. So now we will address the wet area that the chickens dig around and we’ve put off addressing. Chickens are receiving meds, a tapeworm med for horses at a small dose, and require 2 treatments followed by 2 week egg withdrawal. With the price of eggs, I’d rather treat and keep, plus all 4 chickens look healthy and are laying eggs. In a solid bottom dog crate now, once they get 2nd dose next week, we will put them in a separate pen.

We have a lot of rain for awhile now, so my chickens dig and eat so much earth worms and many other things. I dread the worm business in chickens. There is no way of avoiding chickens digging, what the joy of living if they can not do what come natural being a chicken. But I hate the treatment....This week I will get them the med for tapeworm, see what we have in Australia.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Last year I didn't add red pepper powder to the fermented feed for a couple winter months. In March I started adding an piles of round worms were under the roost
Previously I had seen only one worm out of a rooster.
I wormed everyone and didn't see any worms, but I didn't have a fecal run.
So red pepper seems to be a preventative for round worms and maybe a treatment.
Your milage may vary

Forgive my ignorance please, what is red pepper powder? Chile powder? Crushed red chiles? Cayenne?