Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

I guess nobody wanted to admit that a long-standing case of vent gleet must be incurable.

Feeling very fed up that we have wasted over a month, nursing this chicken as best we could .

Has anyone had any luck using Fluconazole orally for Vent Gleet? I found a great post by Jaye, and copied it down, thinking that I'd look up dosing after I bought the med, assuming that I could! Turns out that they sell ONE 150 mg capsule for $20! (This hen weighs about 4.8 pounds, so will need 30 m...

Do let me know how the Rosemary turns out! Too funny about the thumbs down for growing flowers :). I have flower gardens too, but I really love my veggies, and cannot imagine using an AG for them, but people seem to love growing petunias in them!?!?!? Glad the methi pancakes turned out well. It's so...

Well if you're game for it :). They need to be soaked first. I would start them in damp paper towel in a baggie......

You could try, leaving everything in until the third week in May for planting out. (You can always take cuttings and root things for the garden if you think they are going to be too big). I haven't actually done this, but I understand that seedlings for the garden are usually left for one month, the...

The noodles will be fine for the basils :). I'm finding that other plants (like tomatoes and even bush beans) need a bit more support around the base. Parsley is nice for salads and tabuleh. Maybe plant it in the garden for the butterflies. If you drink herb tea, mint is great for that, but it's inv...

The 3" ones fit wide-mouth mason jars, so I don't know what went wrong there. Perhaps you will find a 1 gallon jar that the large net pot will fit. The pool noodle should be fine. I would wrap the noodle around the grow sponge and making sure that the bottom of the grow sponge is sitting in 1/4" of ...

Maybe too much nitrogen if the leaves were bushy, but few fruit. I start them under lights and pot up into Pro Mix for veggies which has a slow-release fertilizer. I amend the planting hole with aged chicken manure/compost - imagine that! Variety does have a big influence though. Some are stingy wit...

Pool noodles it is then! I put a little plastic cage with a lettuce growing in it inside a pool noodle (with an extra piece to bulk it out) inside a 32 oz mason jar. I've just had to evict it because it bolted and it went very well. I tied some fabric around the jar to keep the light out. Re peppers...

The light usually needs to go 4" above the plants. I recently bought a pool noodle from the Dollar Store for an experiment to see whether it works better than clay pellets in a net pot. If you could find one (or some pipe insulation), it fits into a mason jar (even without the net pot, but you have ...