What did you do in the garden today?

[PeaShack]

Having fun using PlantID to figure out what all the exotics are that the elderly previous owners planted. This is African Plume, Bauhinia galpinii. Gorgeous but has way overgrown due to lack of pruning over the years. This winter will be “lop”-a-palooza!

 

[jxp]

I will be very happy when I can quit lugging 5-gallon buckets filled with frozen bottles. I end up putting out between 9-12 of them. Then I have to pick them all back up after dark and refill them so they can freeze overnight. Labor intensive...

Labor of Love intensive.

fixed it for ya.

 

[jxp]

Tomatoes usually spilt due to too much water.

Or inconsistent watering.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Found the missing chick. It was dead inside the cage. I reached in with a little butterfly net and scooped it up. Mama got upset and, once again, stomped the new baby. I had to push her off of it.

Anyway, I looked over the dead chick. It looks like it had some of the yolk or something it hadn't absorbed. It was filthy and covered in dirt so hard to tell. It's also possible that mama also attacked it's belly.

Poor little thing. It also had leg feathers, just like her mama. Such a shame.

 

[Nym]

Or inconsistent watering.

Yes, true enough. I'm jaded because of all the rain here - I have cherry tomatoes splitting all over.

 

[Nym]

Found the missing chick. It was dead inside the cage. I reached in with a little butterfly net and scooped it up. Mama got upset and, once again, stomped the new baby. I had to push her off of it.

Anyway, I looked over the dead chick. It looks like it had some of the yolk or something it hadn't absorbed. It was filthy and covered in dirt so hard to tell. It's also possible that mama also attacked it's belly.

Poor little thing. It also had leg feathers, just like her mama. Such a shame.

Do you think she'll harm the remaining chick?

 

[TJAnonymous]

Yet another reason why I'm looking forward to fall.... Her coat looks so ugly when the sun bleaches it out... I think she enjoyed the nice, cool bath though...

 

[TJAnonymous]

Do you think she'll harm the remaining chick?

I'm not sure. I honestly thought the dead chick was the new one that hatched today. It wasn't until I got it out of the cage that I realized it was the first chick.

She seems very defensive of her baby. She growls and attacks every time I open the crate door. Maybe she killed the other one because it wasn't properly developed? Just seems weird that it didn't happen for 4 or 5 days after hatching. You'd think if it didn't absorb the yolk, it would have died within the day it hatched.

 

[Nym]

 

[cj2024]

My 3 Isa Brown eBay eggs that I hatched turned out to be roosters and two of them are feet biters. However, now that I know they are feet biters, I don't give them a chance. Whenever I see them do the wing shuffle, I slap them silly.