Have heat lamp over the water dispenser instead of buying a hot pad or new waterer with heating built in
Use lettuce to attract chickens in at night, then chickens won't destroy floor looking for food... and no rats
Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
wd foods
the local grocery store wd foods bought 6 dozen of our eggs this week! thanks harley.feed, aaron toso.coop.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
do your chickens smile too?
From: Aaron C. Luke
To: cfg
smile
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From: d
To: Aaron C. Luke
Subject: RE: (certified hugged)
Certified by whom? An impartial entity I presume? And who certifies their impartiality? A fourth party? In the limit, we would all simply certify each other—but why bother? Do chickens really enjoy hugs? I’d like to think so, but it is the sort of anthropomorphism that gets your face ripped off by a “smiley, happy” chimpanzee at the zoo. Do your chickens smile too? Good luck to you, my friend. Good luck to you.
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From: Aaron C. Luke
To: d
Subject: RE: (certified hugged)
This is my farm spam for 2011. So please delete as appropriate.
This week I have extra free eggs as the restaurant that normally buys them didn’t sell as many. I want you to share them with any people you know on food stamps. My farm is a way for food-stamp-recipients to buy weekly produce straight from a farmer with their EBT card. I still have room for additional subscribers this year. I have amazing organic feed from Scratch & Peck in Bellingham. Scratch & Peck uses local organic grain growers for their food. My 18 chickens (and Ernie) get weekly hugs and have a grassy yard. Let me know if you would like a dozen.
+Aaron
To: cfg
smile
________________________________________
From: d
To: Aaron C. Luke
Subject: RE: (certified hugged)
Certified by whom? An impartial entity I presume? And who certifies their impartiality? A fourth party? In the limit, we would all simply certify each other—but why bother? Do chickens really enjoy hugs? I’d like to think so, but it is the sort of anthropomorphism that gets your face ripped off by a “smiley, happy” chimpanzee at the zoo. Do your chickens smile too? Good luck to you, my friend. Good luck to you.
________________________________________
From: Aaron C. Luke
To: d
Subject: RE: (certified hugged)
This is my farm spam for 2011. So please delete as appropriate.
This week I have extra free eggs as the restaurant that normally buys them didn’t sell as many. I want you to share them with any people you know on food stamps. My farm is a way for food-stamp-recipients to buy weekly produce straight from a farmer with their EBT card. I still have room for additional subscribers this year. I have amazing organic feed from Scratch & Peck in Bellingham. Scratch & Peck uses local organic grain growers for their food. My 18 chickens (and Ernie) get weekly hugs and have a grassy yard. Let me know if you would like a dozen.
+Aaron
Monday, March 14, 2011
Rhody + Aslan's How
Sunday, February 6, 2011
wsda eggs laws and seaweed foliar (research by carolyn)
I. labeling for wsda approved egg cartons
a. name and address of producer
b. size (based on weight of a dozen eggs)
aslans how is large
c. grade (aa, a, or b) has to do with the shell condition as well as the air cell between
the shell and the membrane. aa has 1/8", a has 3/16" space between the membrane
of the yolk and the shell. You can see it if you shine a light through your egg.
d. have wsda seal
e. must say 'keep refrigerated' in 1/8" labeling
f. keep refrigerated at 45 deg F or below
II. seaweed folier
a. the irish used it every day
b. pot growers speak highly of it via hydroponics
c. Chop up the weed and half fill a 2 gallon (10 liter) bucket which is topped up with water. Loosely cover and let ferment for a few weeks. Strain and dilute about 20 times. It is more effective if you are able to collect samples of different seaweeds, especially if they have different colors and so a different mix of elements.
Collect about 2 to 3 pounds of seaweed from your local beach. . Rinse the seaweed well with water. This helps in removing the extra salt from the seaweed, which may harm your plants. You could soak the seaweed in water for some time. Now, place the seaweed in a glass container and add water to it, twice the amount of seaweed. Cover the container with a lid and leave it undisturbed for 2 to 3 months. Wait till the water turns brackish brown, which is an indication of disintegration of seaweed. Your organic seaweed fertilizer is ready for use. Mix it with equal amount of fresh water and apply while watering, every one to two weeks. (!)
d. The Bottom Line
• Seaweed extracts contain plant growth regulators which, like traditional rooting products, can stimulate root growth in cuttings and transplants
• Seaweed extracts have no reliable effect on plant production or resistance to disease and environmental stress, especially in field conditions
• Variations in plant materials and environmental conditions are greater determinants of plant health than applications of seaweed extract
• Seaweed extracts for landscape use represent a poor use of natural resources, especially those from environmentally sensitive coastal ecosystems
For more information, please visit Dr. Chalker-Scott’s web page at http://www.theinformedgardener.com.
a. name and address of producer
b. size (based on weight of a dozen eggs)
aslans how is large
c. grade (aa, a, or b) has to do with the shell condition as well as the air cell between
the shell and the membrane. aa has 1/8", a has 3/16" space between the membrane
of the yolk and the shell. You can see it if you shine a light through your egg.
d. have wsda seal
e. must say 'keep refrigerated' in 1/8" labeling
f. keep refrigerated at 45 deg F or below
II. seaweed folier
a. the irish used it every day
b. pot growers speak highly of it via hydroponics
c. Chop up the weed and half fill a 2 gallon (10 liter) bucket which is topped up with water. Loosely cover and let ferment for a few weeks. Strain and dilute about 20 times. It is more effective if you are able to collect samples of different seaweeds, especially if they have different colors and so a different mix of elements.
Collect about 2 to 3 pounds of seaweed from your local beach. . Rinse the seaweed well with water. This helps in removing the extra salt from the seaweed, which may harm your plants. You could soak the seaweed in water for some time. Now, place the seaweed in a glass container and add water to it, twice the amount of seaweed. Cover the container with a lid and leave it undisturbed for 2 to 3 months. Wait till the water turns brackish brown, which is an indication of disintegration of seaweed. Your organic seaweed fertilizer is ready for use. Mix it with equal amount of fresh water and apply while watering, every one to two weeks. (!)
d. The Bottom Line
• Seaweed extracts contain plant growth regulators which, like traditional rooting products, can stimulate root growth in cuttings and transplants
• Seaweed extracts have no reliable effect on plant production or resistance to disease and environmental stress, especially in field conditions
• Variations in plant materials and environmental conditions are greater determinants of plant health than applications of seaweed extract
• Seaweed extracts for landscape use represent a poor use of natural resources, especially those from environmentally sensitive coastal ecosystems
For more information, please visit Dr. Chalker-Scott’s web page at http://www.theinformedgardener.com.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
'Fordson Super Major'
Weeding the carrots and potatoes currently.... make sure to thoroughly kill your cover crop; I till slowly twice. First till a week before seed sowing to allow for grass to stop sucking all the nitrogen as it deteriorates. Then till right before sowing. I will buy a weed-wacker as my soil is often too wet to use the wheel hoe. Or maybe a smaller scythe or sickle: here? Jeff at Highwater Farm is making a dynamic cultivator to go under his Farmall! I managed to plant some bush beans yesterday. The potatoes will be ready for hilling pretty soon. I have a tool bar carrier and two potato shovels.
Cabbage is a foot tall!
Both plantings of fava beans are strong. Peas are ready for a first level of trellising.
Half of my summer squash didn't come up? birds, fertilizer too hot, drip irrigation too close, soil temp?, didn't mound? What is the purpose of mounding squash, to keep the water off? Some squash is going!
Chicken fence up! After putting the chickens back in the pen they have not flied over again. I heard if you clip both chicken wings they can still get lift, so you have to clip only one side. My chicken babies are now ovulating teenagers. I gave my first egg to Harley and am collecting these cute little eggs each morning.
Looking for a rabbit/weasel trap. I have seen rabbits eat Christie's farm, and one morning I was checking on the chickens and the weasel was just sitting their watching them! It was a new experience.
I was a machinist! and fixed the Yanmar tiller with Misael. Drove to Hoquiam to get a junk tiller. Jill stated 'a junk tiller... you are a true farmer now.' For the neighbors 'Fordson Super Major' I had to use a torch to take off the 3 point side swing adjusters in order to get the skinny tiller attached.
Cabbage is a foot tall!
Both plantings of fava beans are strong. Peas are ready for a first level of trellising.
Half of my summer squash didn't come up? birds, fertilizer too hot, drip irrigation too close, soil temp?, didn't mound? What is the purpose of mounding squash, to keep the water off? Some squash is going!
Chicken fence up! After putting the chickens back in the pen they have not flied over again. I heard if you clip both chicken wings they can still get lift, so you have to clip only one side. My chicken babies are now ovulating teenagers. I gave my first egg to Harley and am collecting these cute little eggs each morning.
Looking for a rabbit/weasel trap. I have seen rabbits eat Christie's farm, and one morning I was checking on the chickens and the weasel was just sitting their watching them! It was a new experience.
I was a machinist! and fixed the Yanmar tiller with Misael. Drove to Hoquiam to get a junk tiller. Jill stated 'a junk tiller... you are a true farmer now.' For the neighbors 'Fordson Super Major' I had to use a torch to take off the 3 point side swing adjusters in order to get the skinny tiller attached.
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