What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

Not worth loosing a few fingers to find out. LOL. She'll have them out soon enough.

Yeah, I know there are over a dozen eggs in that box because every time she would get up to go eat and drink, another chicken would deposit another egg...

My DH is already freaking out about the NINE game hen chicks... Not 6 as we thought.

I currently have FOUR broody hens in the main coop. We are going to have to sell or butcher some chickens....

 

[Fishychix]

I never liked store milk. It always smelled and tasted sour to me. I did find some organic milk in glass bottles that tasted like what I drank as a kid from our neighbors, but it's SO expensive . Doesnt really matter now as i finally gave in and admitted that im lactose intolerant

 

[chickinlittles]

I'm so sorry you have to leave your hard work behind. I have had to do that a couple of times too. It's hard but I figured my improvements made sale price better and I gave next person something amazing to work with. Next time you will know what works faster. Flagstaff us lively as is a few places in AZ . New Mexico has some nice places too. We moved to western NE. It's a little humid some snow great people, summers some 100s at peak and winters this year was worst at 23 below. But prices are great my friend just bought 10 acres in Northern KS for 200K. With decent house, barn, and some out buildings. Just to give you an idea. The restaurant choices are slim tho.

Thanks so much for this encouraging reply. I agree with “I figured my improvements made sale price better and I gave next person something amazing to work with.” We got a full price offer in 6 days , 2 showings. The buyer wants to continue with the work i have done and expand upon it. Hes keeping our goats and our chickens and we are happy that they will get to stay here and be well cared for. We’ll miss them all terribly and both my hub and me have shed many tears, but this is better for them , who knows how many moves it will take for us to get settled again . We are resigned to the idea now and looking ahead to a new chapter. A new adventure.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I grew up with fresh milk we made our butter used the rest of cream for coffee .. bought milk tasted of water.. Now i use 1/2 and 1/2 in my coffee

 

[Happy hen lover]

Thanks so much for this encouraging reply. I agree with “I figured my improvements made sale price better and I gave next person something amazing to work with.” We got a full price offer in 6 days , 2 showings. The buyer wants to continue with the work i have done and expand upon it. Hes keeping our goats and our chickens and we are happy that they will get to stay here and be well cared for. We’ll miss them all terribly and both my hub and me have shed many tears, but this is better for them , who knows how many moves it will take for us to get settled again . We are resigned to the idea now and looking ahead to a new chapter. A new adventure.

Yes indeed a new adventure .

 

[Elyrian1]

Yeah, I know there are over a dozen eggs in that box because every time she would get up to go eat and drink, another chicken would deposit another egg...

My DH is already freaking out about the NINE game hen chicks... Not 6 as we thought.

I currently have FOUR broody hens in the main coop. We are going to have to sell or butcher some chickens....

You have some very determined ladies! I never let more than one go broody at a time when I had buffs. Needed the egg production more than I needed chicks. Couple of weeks, let dh get settled into the new job and get paychecks rolling in, and I'll be looking for either hatching eggs or chicks.

He is determined to have more buffs, dang it. Ah well. They were good girls. I can't debate that.

 

[Swiss]

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here are examples of the green apple cucumber (bottom) and lemon cucumbers from my garden last year. Neither are planted again this year. We really like the taste of the lemon cucumber, but they succumb terribly to wilt and are beseiged by cucumber beetles, so we hardly get any before the plant dies. The apple cucumber withstood disease better, but we did not like the taste.

hopefully, you will have better success, or get a tastier cucumber!

Lemon cukes are my favorite cuke! They never get bitter, and taste delicious. I've never had the apple cukes, and may need to try them some year (along with every other type of almost everything).

 

[oldhen2345]

Watered and weeded this morning. It’s rained all around us this week but we still haven’t gotten a whole 1/4 inch here. The rain chances are up again next week so I’m praying we will get some decent rainfall. Last time we had a really bad drought 6 years ago it was about the same weather problem. That year we lost the whole garden including most of the blackberries. Lots of trees were lost too. It’s cooler here this week about the same temps as @oldhen2345

The one thing I am afraid of with this rain is shallow rooted trees uprooting in the mud, not to mention mold and mildew

 

[oldhen2345]

Mine (Cat and Purple Snurple) have 23 eggs between them. On day 2, but doing well so far. I have to flop the Cat pancake out on the ground to get her to eat and poop LOL. Such dedication. Plus I think Elsa, one of the OGs is also thinking about it. I'm curious to see how my younger dog and Kitty Purry are with chicks.

My English Mottled Orpington - nearly 6 yrs old- is broody and sitting on the fake egg in the nesting box. Occasionally she will move to the other box and sit on the fresh eggs the hens lay daily. I don’t have a rooster. Lordy, she IS determined.

 

[chickengr]

Have you guys seen this ? "Higher mushroom consumption is associated with a lower risk of cancer -- ScienceDaily" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210421200133.htm

if you pick up mushrooms in a forest it is healthy. but commercially grown mushrooms are not. a cousin of mine grows them. I could not stay near the container where she grows them when she disinfected them. there was no oxygene, chemicals only. since then I have not been buying mushrooms.