jaye
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Post by jaye on Jun 15, 2012 9:45:39 GMT -4
I am glad to hear you stopped when you did. Sometimes it is better to stop and attack a project like that when you can attack. I cheated yesterday and called in sick. I finished putting everything in the garden. Hubby and I discussed expanding the garden out. If we expanded it this year and mulched it with the cardboard and straw it would ready in a couple of years for something besides squash. I would like to say it is as easy as just turning the sod once and mulching, but because of the deer here we have to build an fence around any garden area. 1000's of acres of hay, up to their bellies in it and they still prefer my garden. I read about Capecmom's raspberries and got a pang of envy. I tired that my first year here and the deer had them gone in a week. Planted them right out the back door too. But I guess that shouldn't surprise me when I caught them last year on the back deck with their head in the chicken food. So the garden has to get bigger. But what I really want is grapes. Grapes do really well around here. One of the venders for the company I work for sent us some samples of their new jelly flavors. I about fell on the floor when I tasted the grape. It was definitely not the colored sugar that you buy at the store. It actually tasted like grapes. Sooooooooo the garden must get bigger. Hubby keeps telling me I am trying to turn him into a farmer.. He is after all a blacksmith....not a farmer. *gruff..gruff*
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Post by jaye on Jun 15, 2012 10:07:19 GMT -4
While I was it it yesterday I put up a box and roost out in the chicken run so I could cordon off the rest of the flock from the coop when the chicks hatch....I hope I hope. It should be any day now, If I don't see chicks by Sunday I may have to graft some in and pull the eggs under the two hens I have sitting. One did push one rotten egg out yesterday so I figure the ones she is sitting on must be viable or she would have pushed them out too. I wish I would have been more prepared for the two hens to go broody, and I would have had nesting boxes in place and an area set aside in the coop to brood. But after the fiasco last year I didn't think they would sit again. (Two neighbor boys raided my coop and stole all of the eggs, what a surprise they must of gotten when they cracked the first one and found an embryo) These girls are firmly in place in the next they have chosen. Even the rooster is pissy with me when I try to check the status of the eggs. He has always been protective of the one little hen, but he was down right confrontational with me when I tried checking on her and the nest. So he and the others will just have to stay in the run or the yard while the girls are brooding. Then we will build some proper nesting boxes and a brood area. Oh well the coop needed some maintenance this year anyway. I want to get the feeder in and find a decent waterer I can use through the winter when I have to plug in the heater to keep the water thawed.
Any body have any good designs for a chicken waterer?
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Post by Martin on Jun 16, 2012 13:06:56 GMT -4
martin[/b[, does it look like it will be useful? Yes. ~Martin
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