What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

It’s the small joys in life that make it all worthwhile, am I right or am I right?

yep - pouring rain, soaking wet, flashlight wedged between the girls a metal gutter in a thunderstorm...what could go wrong

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I am reasonably certain the melon seed I have sitting on damp paper towel is developing a root, and slightly less certain the squash seed in a similar setup is going moldy. (It’s covered in white fuzz. The squash seeds are all seed library seeds, so not entirely surprising.) Got a couple colder days coming up, so I’ll leave the melon where it is for now and plant it over the weekend when things should be warming up.

 

[SkyAJK]

I just put that on top of the next days feed. Are you fermenting the crumbles and water?
But it should be ok for the compost

My chickens do not eat ferment food, they used to, but suddenly go off it. I soak their feed in water overnight, this is to ease down the dust in their crumble feed.

The left over feed is the powder part, I think it is fish meals..I am not sure, but my chickens do not eat it. I had put that on top of the next day feed and this just build up at the end of the day.

I read the feed package that it has iron, and other vitamins stuff and it says for chickens, not to feed to other animals. This is my concern that it might not be good for composting?

 

[chickengr]

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Hubby decided TODAY that he would hate having baby chickens in the house ( they are also hatching TODAY) so guess what I did, today?!

will they have lamp? I am fed up with having ducklings, goslings and poults in the house. I left some out in a coop. today poults and some goslings and ducklings will move out and will be collected in a box at night. only the smallest ones will be in the house with lamp. I keep hatching as I sell them.

 

[chickengr]

Recently I put my left over chicken feed into compost bin.

I was just wondering if anyone know if this is ok to do?

My chicken feed is crumble and mixed with water, at the end of the day there are the powdery part of the feed still uneaten, I was thinking that these are organic materials so I should be composting it, but today I am thinking it might not be ok as chicken feed have many other stuff in it.

I put leftover/wasted chicken feed into compost all the time. another thing I sometimes do with wasted feed is I wet and cover it. in 2-3 days there are hundreds of worms and chickens love it. free protein and no waste.

 

[Minanora]

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Hubby decided TODAY that he would hate having baby chickens in the house ( they are also hatching TODAY) so guess what I did, today?!

Did you decide to build that with his money? I always tease my husband and tell him "you want it? I'll do it... But you're gonna pay for it."

 

[Minanora]

I got all 10 small chickens to bed in the chicken coop today. One tried to go to sleep in my pant leg. One on my shoulder, one on my back, one in my lap. You can't sleep on Mommy. They cried and cried. No. More. Chickens... In the shed! Yay!!! Now I just need MIL to take her 6 away. This is too many chickens for my coop and run when they have to be locked up.

I caught 2 gophers, watered even more, rinsed my solar panels off, and enjoyed the garden a little bit, I finally took some pictures. And! I broke my broody. Cold bath and exclusion.

Someday I'll start my pumpkins....

 

[CabritaChicks]

Recently I put my left over chicken feed into compost bin.

I was just wondering if anyone know if this is ok to do?

My chicken feed is crumble and mixed with water, at the end of the day there are the powdery part of the feed still uneaten, I was thinking that these are organic materials so I should be composting it, but today I am thinking it might not be ok as chicken feed have many other stuff in it.

I still have little ones housed in a finch cage/kennel. Inside, I lay down two sheets of packing newsprint, a dumpy cloth, and some shavings. Every couple of days, I clean it out by removing the paper, wood shavings, scattered food (or rather, food that’s been scratched up and flung everywhere in the most wasteful manner), poop, and any scraps of fresh produce—like spaghetti squash rind, mango, banana peels, and so on. I bury all of it in one of my 'resting' garden beds. Thanks to the intense moisture and heat here, it basically composts on its own. So by the time I’m ready to replant the bed in a few months—tada! Instant soil boost. The weeds seem to love it!

Then like others, I add bone meal, bloodmeal, gypsum (serious clay issues here on the mountain), real compost with manure, 'garden soil' (comes in bags), and cococnut fiber. Soil here is bloody expensive. You need to basically make your own to give things a fighting chance.

 

[Rick589]

Recently I put my left over chicken feed into compost bin.

I was just wondering if anyone know if this is ok to do?

My chicken feed is crumble and mixed with water, at the end of the day there are the powdery part of the feed still uneaten, I was thinking that these are organic materials so I should be composting it, but today I am thinking it might not be ok as chicken feed have many other stuff in it.

Have you considered taking the crumbly powder left over after the chickens have eaten the feed and mixing it with water to make a mash? This is what we, and many others I believe, do. Our chickens wig out over it and this reduces the amount of wasted feed.

 

[Rick589]

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Hubby decided TODAY that he would hate having baby chickens in the house ( they are also hatching TODAY) so guess what I did, today?!

NICE!!!!