What did you do in the garden today?

[fuzzi]

Did nothing in the garden today.
3pm and we just cracked 32'F and that won't last long. Good grief. 82'F 48 hours ago.
Fairly certain the mums are toast.
Stayed in (except for livestock duties) and baked 4 loaves of bread after milling wheat.

Mums are pretty tough.

 

[fuzzi]

Chicks!! (No ducks)

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In the brooder!!
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No! Don't make me want to get some!!!!

 

[Acre4Me]

WHY no LINGS? (but chicks are adorbs I have to admit)

Spouse didn’t want any yet (if ever). But, we don’t have a great space for them yet. The best available space will go for some chickens this year. But I definitely will try to get some at some point in 2025 or 2026!

 

[cj2024]

I think this Basturma chicken recipe is better than the other one I posted, since it uses sugar and salt, and the water soak time was 6 hours instead of 2hrs., so it will taste just right.

 

[akroberts1085]

The weather man is saying more rain and on Saturday snow but it doesn't snow here, well with the exception of last year. We got snow and a couple of weeks later we had a thunderstorm that made the yard look like it had snowed.

 

[akroberts1085]

The first picture is the snow. Second is from the thunderstorm

 

[WthrLady]

Mums are pretty tough.

THey are, but they don't like 6'F for hours on end.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I have muscovy, pekin, mallard and indian runner ducks. pekin, mallard and indian runner always get back in the coop. half of my muscovies have to be chased back every single evening. I am sick and tired of that.

I have 13 ducks. My original 7 are Pekin (2 hens), Silver Appleyard (1 drake, 1 hen), and Welsh Harlequin (3 hens). They rarely give me trouble and go right back to their coop well before dusk.

The "troublemakers" are the 6 babies I ended up with last summer that I never intended to get. It's a long story how I ended up with them. Four of them are offspring from my original flock (1 drake, 3 hens). The other 2 are Ancona - Indian Runner mixes (1 drake, 1 hen). All are a PITA. They are constantly beating up on my other ducks. They never want to go in their coop at night. It's a nightmare to get them to leave the pond without having to chase them out. And these are the a-holes who disappeared yesterday.

 

[chickengr]

I heard muscovy taste like beef.

they do have red meat. I prefer pekin.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Finally getting some rain tonight. We really badly need it. I don't think it's rained in a month after getting TOO much rain last month. We've got a burn ban currently. It's been cold and hovering around freezing at night for the past few days. Yuck. My peach trees and dogwoods have bloomed so I'm hoping it warms up soon before it kills the blossoms.