Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

How is everybody surviving this "heat event" ? Is it different then "heat wave " or " heat dome".....? or are we just looking for different names for crap weather ? It looks to me as if July has firmly moved in to August , and now just wondering what exactly does it mean for weather the rest of the ...

Yeah me too :)) They started on the cukes, so new fence up, which mainly just inconveniences me, they trimmed the undetermined tomato plants to fit the hoop covers, I can live with that... and on a good news front, the bees are back, all over the white clover on the front 1\4 acre lawn, so at least ...

You would think I have got it covered by now, but no, they ate half of my lettuce, I doubled the fence cover and they took it down and ate rest of it

Sounds scary Ontario Chick! Perhaps somebody is spraying insecticide there? That's the odd thing, we are on 10 acres and next door neighbours the same size never go outside to speak of , the hay field across the road hasn't been cut yet , not sure why, it's a bit late, I simply can't see any change...

Well, it really doesn't look good here, normally I would see bumble bees all over the hosta flowers and I have actually seen more humming birds then bumble bees, not even wasps on the raspberries , nothing here changed and nothing in the neighbourhood either. There were wild strawberry blooms all ov...

Anybody noticed a lack of pollinators and uneven development on their raspberries ?

OMG , how cool is that ? :)

chicken wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 21, 2024 3:20 pm

sorry I missed your reply. We bought 4 nigerian dwarf goats instead.

Oh good, I always felt sorry for the "fainting goats " obviously something amiss with their nervous system, not something one wants to propagate :)

Last of the seeds planted by grandchildren, Naomi choose broccoli and radishes seeds, was a bit disappointed they didn't grow right away.
I think she is going to be even more disappointed when she finds out she planted broccoli

Oh Kathy, I am so sorry for your loss, it seems like you are asked to carry way more then your share.
Sending good thoughts your way. H