What did you do in the garden today?

[karenerwin]

It's a fuzzy yellow hug What breeds, did you say?

Jumbo Cornish Cross. (Meat chicks)

 

[karenerwin]

You’re so lucky you live near cackle haha

It's a 2+ hour drive each way! Today was the first time I have ever gone there. They only let 1 person in the store at a time. My hubby had to wait in the car. But I was good, I didn't buy anything extra!

 

[ShrekDawg]

It's a 2+ hour drive each way! Today was the first time I have ever gone there. They only let 1 person in the store at a time. My hubby had to wait in the car. But I was good, I didn't buy anything extra!

Still! That’s pretty close!!! We don’t have any hatcheries near us haha and oh wow that’s good you were good though.

I went to two TSCs today and no chicks at either of them.

 

[karenerwin]

Anyone else trim the floof around their butts?

No, I have not ever trimmed the floof around their butts, but I have had to wash poopy butts a few times.
After we got home from Cackle and I got the chicks into the brooder with the 5 chicks I hatched in the incubator, I got back to work on attaching chain link to the cattle panel fence to keep the puppies in the yard when they get here.
Well, first I had to take the chain link fence off of the cattle panel fence on a different part of our property. I got another good section done, but still have a lot to do. Not sure if I will have enough chain link fencing or not.
Came in just as it started to get dark. Great timing as it also began to pour!! It has been pouring ever since.
When I went out to lock up the chickens I had to dig a couple of quick trenches to divert the torrent of rain water around the small coop with the older meat chicks in it. They were being smart, they had all piled into a nest box that I had stuck in there and had put it on a high spot on the floor. They should be able to stay high and dry especially since I dug the water diverting trenches ( they are pretty small but they were working really well).
Also, pulled and trimmed weeds and grass around the raspberry plants!

 

[SusanME]

I'd wanted to plant peas and lettuce today, but had to divert to town to get medicated feed for my week-old Rhode Island Red chicks (the little feed store where I got them doesn't carry medicated feed). I came home with asparagus, seed potatoes, rhubarb, deer fence, and some pansies to pot up as mother's day gifts for some elder friends (my mom died in February, so I need to make Mother's Day planters for somebody). Then my 13 year old and I set up the new brooder in the boiler room in the cellar- our chicks are outgrowing their tub! It's a 4' diameter kiddie pool with hardware cloth around for walls, and a new brooder plate. I decided to just let it warm up overnight and move the chicks in the morning.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I never use medicated feed do not like it .. if they do get sick later meds will not help
when they do need it sorry so harsh

 

[OlympicChick]

Put up the new netting that I bought from Gardner's Supply last year on my 4x8 raised garden bed. Started getting rid of all the yard and garden junk that just seems to accumulate over the winter. Turned over all the soil in the chicken run and may put some of that into the raised bed (the bed is in the chicken run).

 

[TropicalBabies]

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.)

I am looking forward to lots of photos @BReeder!

 

[BDutch]

They will never be unappetizing to your chickens. I guarantee it. A tomato cage covered in hwc or something similar will work though.

Thanks for the warning. I will be careful.

Before I had chickens there where always wild pigeons in my garden. They loved the planted peas and young veggies too. But it was possible to grow snow peas as long as I covered them if they were small.

And I had ‘peultjes’ or snow peas last year too. I made a kind of cage over then. The chickens got in when it was time for weeding. But my chickens where more interested in the weeds and not interested in the snow peas after loosing the freshness of sprouting and growing young leafs.

So I take a chance this year and keep an eye on the chickens when I let them free range the first days after the snow peas are uncovered.

 

[BDutch]

Put up the new netting that I bought from Gardner's Supply last year on my 4x8 raised garden bed. Started getting rid of all the yard and garden junk that just seems to accumulate over the winter. Turned over all the soil in the chicken run and may put some of that into the raised bed (the bed is in the chicken run).

I am afraid to use the thin gardening netting. Small birds died in it when I used it to cover vegetables, strawberries and berrie bushes many years ago,
Now I use old rabbit fences , pieces of hwc and strong cat netting that I can stretch over the vegetables/fruits. I never used gardening netting having bantam chickens.

What kind of netting/ cover do you all use?