Good Morning - 2023

[WLLady]

all those horse chestnuts are doing great here! i want 2 north of the bee yard and the rest will go into spots around the horse paddock outside the fence somewhere. got back from a week in vermont. holy ticks there. like OMG ticks. poultry admin cut the grass and we must have picked 18 off him all walking around....we stopped counting. every time we went out of the house we picked up more. but helped get the place back in shape for my stepmom...its a lot for her to take care of. she just got 6 chicks too. so helped with a coop too. i think the border guard at the crossing thought we were the boringest people on earth. didnt buy anything there....just a gift scarf from my stepmom-she crochets.....nothing else. i wanted to mention that we might have some spare ticks but didnt. lol
came home to 2 new ducklings...so thats 8 hatched under moms. still missing 2 moms on eggs. the rest are eating flies glad for the rain the last 2 days. our beans were struggling to sprout with lack of water. every year it seems.

[Happy]

Speaking of beans...we have had horrible luck with bean seeds the past 3 years. I've ordered from Dam Seeds, Veseys and bought off the shelf in our local garden center. None seem to do better than others. They are netted until they are up a couple inches in case it's birds or rodents and still horrible germination rates. We are needing to reseed again Any ideas?

[labradors]

I always save my own. At the end of the season just harvest all those brown pods that you've missed and you'll have a ton of FRESH bean seeds to plant next season. Actually, "fresh" doesn't matter all that much. I label my saved seed, then forget where I've put them. This year I hauled out some for 2020 and they all germinated.

OTOH I'm having a terrible year with wabbits in my garden. They never bothered the beans or eggplants before, but this year they chewed most of the beans when they got 6" tall and sampled the eggplant leaves. I re-sowed beans and everything was doing well until last night when they chomped on them again .

[ross]

Lol

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HAPPY CANADA DAY all

[Home Grown Poultry]

Happy Canada's Day!

CHEERS!

[WLLady]

Happy canada day everyone!!!

[WLLady]

Hello everyone!!!!! What's happening? What's going on? What's new? Alright, like @thegawd said in another post-all you GUESTS!!!! yes YOU!!!! please sign up, surf the site, ask your questions....there's a bunch of us chicken people who have been chicken people for quite a while on here and can help with just about anything and everything! We all started as new to chickens at some point, and have learned a lot over the total sum of people-years on this forum. It's a great group of people, and we're happy to help, see your chicken/poultry/ducks/turkeys/other animal photos and even play "sex the chick" games LOL.

only thing new here is we are trying to adopt a puppy we found on our farm who needed emergent vet care and ended up having to take him to the humane society to get it (weekends...emerg vets....strays/dumps with unknown history blah blah blah) and now it looks like we won't be able to "qualify" to give him a good home. Sometimes i don't understand things....oh well. Still hopeful it will come through but we were not able to foster him, so i doubt if we can't foster that we'd be able to adopt....so many silly rules, like fenced yards and no barn cats or heavy equipment, or horses....hm. oh well. there's other dogs without all the strings attached.

this coming weekend is honey weekend. like OMG what have we done honey weekend.....conservative estimate at the current time is approximately 13 boxes, or 130 frames, or 650kg of honey on the way. i actually think i'm terrified...haha. I just hope it's not raining like the past 2 weekends where we've been scampering out between rain storms to get things done! The bees really do not like being inspected with incoming storms....good news is the veg garden has every single flower fertilized, and all the fruit trees too, and so many bees in the buckwheat! I like buckwheat as a cover crop already....at least we're trying to amend the one part of the field, and it grows fast! it's waist height now and covered in beautiful little white flowers. Soon we'll be getting seed....can't wait to collect that too!

another mom duck appeared with 15 babies a few days ago. The other moms were pretty useless, a few here a few there, and i ended up having to rescue a pile of them from mean moms....and there's another mom sitting in the hay as of this morning (again)....i have found a huge pile of rather dicey explodable eggs in the last few days, so far so good on getting them out of the barn and into the compost BEFORE detonation. so far!

[labradors]

WLLady, sorry to hear about the pup situation. I wonder if they think it was your pup that you just wanted medical help for???? Mind you, I've helped out with shelters that had all sorts of rules such as no students, no military and so on....... Hope you get a good pup eventually :).

Buckwheat honey is my favourite!

Linda

[Ontario Chick]

To add to silly Humane Soc. rules, here if you foster a dog, you can't adopt it.
Apparently people would foster a dog, fall in love with it, but were disqualified from adopting it, reasoning being that if you adopted a dog you fostered, you would stop fostering !!!!
That one actually blew mi mind a bit, what are the chances you would continue fostering, if they wouldn't let you adopt a dog you fostered ?