Coronavirus Concern Up

[Chic Rustler]

I panic shopped at the feedstock today. picked up another 20 lbs of seed potatoes and a lb of sweet corn. then planted everything seed we had in the house. I got a feeling we are gonna need it.

 

[Britesea]

I hope you can keep up with that much in planted garden, lol

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I've been working on the garden too. I never plant potatoes because they're too carby for DH - but I might change that this year because I can eat 'em, lol! Oh... and corn too! I can eat the corn and potatoes - he can eat the green beans and squash. Works for me!!

 

[Hinotori]

The ground is almost dry enough for me to till the spot I moved the silkies from last year. It's still too cold for most planting though. Will be good spot for corn and zucchini later.

 

[Britesea]

We had more snow yesterday, and there's a storm warning for later today. Still too early for me to do anything but maybe start some seedlings in the south window. *sigh*

 

[Chic Rustler]

I hope you can keep up with that much in planted garden, lol

I can't. it won't be well tended unless I get laid off or stuck at home. Idk whats gonna happen, but i assure you we will eat....and so will a couple of my good neighbors

 

[tortoise]

Too early for me to start seeds. I'm eager to get started. Soon! Planting peas on May 1, most things May 10 - 14, and green beans last May 21 - 28 ish. I'm not growing tomatoes or peppers due to my nightshade sensitivity so I don't need much started early. I will start herbs instead -usually I don't have space for them

 

[Hinotori]

I've been collecting because I need to make some chicken nuggets. I packed the slow cooker as I suspect low fertility.

That will give me some future soup meals. Silkies just aren't big enough for much more. I may try baking one this time. The meat color doesn't put off hubby either. I probably can just treat them like pheasant.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I’m packing my slow cooker with quail eggs. The turn around is too fast to ignore. Six weeks from hatch to laying bird!

 

[Britesea]

We appear to have 5 layers out of the 10-12 we have left. I'm getting another dozen pullet chicks on the 30th or so, and we have 8 in the incubator that I hope are good. How many roosters do you think I should keep? I was thinking 2?
I think our one remaining rooster (Cogburn) is about 4 years old now. Is he getting too old to be much good at breeding? I ask because last summer one of our hens went broody and tried to hatch a bunch of chicks, but not a single one turned out to be any good.