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Beekissed
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The wonderful aroma of chicken and turkey litter on the fields, along with the Lord of the Flies hatch of fly maggots that go along with it! 
Signs of spring in your area?
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Homesteadmom
Frugal Homesteader
I planted my garden.
Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
You planted????Homesteadmom said:
Now I'm jealous
freemotion
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Get those chickens out there turning those maggots into eggs!!!Beekissed said:The wonderful aroma of chicken and turkey litter on the fields, along with the Lord of the Flies hatch of fly maggots that go along with it!
jenjscott
Sustainable Newbie
well, the pear trees are blooming, along with the redbuds. The Persimmons are budding, and the cypress are starting to green up. The geese have mostly left for the year. and the goldfinches are starting to put on their yellow feathers.
Jen
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Beekissed
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I wish! The fields are across the road and all over the county!!! Every hay field is the dumping grounds of the commercial poultry industry around here.freemotion said:Get those chickens out there turning those maggots into eggs!!!Beekissed said:The wonderful aroma of chicken and turkey litter on the fields, along with the Lord of the Flies hatch of fly maggots that go along with it!
freemotion
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Oh, ewww!!! I lived next door to a commercial egg factory and when they cleaned the barn in the spring....with a payloader.....and spread it on the potato fields, it stunk for days and days! I vowed to NEVER have chickens, EVER!!! 
Since then I've learned about deep litter and pastured chickens, no stink!
I lived next door to a commercial egg factory and when they cleaned the barn in the spring....with a payloader.....and spread it on the potato fields, it stunk for days and days! I vowed to NEVER have chickens, EVER!!! Since then I've learned about deep litter and pastured chickens, no stink!
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Beekissed
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Now you know why I'm so desparate to try Joel's methods...kind of hoping the neighbor will notice the green, green grass and temp paddocks and ask a question or two. I would much rather he be spreading composted cow manure on his fields instead of poultry litter any day. This is a ritual that is repeated again after the first cutting and again in the fall. :/
Three times in which I get to smell and reap the benefits of his methods of farming.....fly guts plastered to every surface, never being able to drive anywhere unless the car is full of hundreds of flies, not being able to sit still in one's home unless you feel the little legs crawling your skin surface. Take any fly related incident you've ever experienced and times it by 100...this is what results from this type of fertilizing! Just think of the diseases and filth carted around by this scourge to other animals in the area....pink eye anyone?
Three times in which I get to smell and reap the benefits of his methods of farming.....fly guts plastered to every surface, never being able to drive anywhere unless the car is full of hundreds of flies, not being able to sit still in one's home unless you feel the little legs crawling your skin surface. Take any fly related incident you've ever experienced and times it by 100...this is what results from this type of fertilizing! Just think of the diseases and filth carted around by this scourge to other animals in the area....pink eye anyone?
me&thegals
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Welcome, Jenjscott!!
Today we had about 6 bluebirds--my favorites plus more robins and a couple cedar waxwings. It was also about 0 degrees windchill, but the birds didn't seem to notice.
Today we had about 6 bluebirds--my favorites
plus more robins and a couple cedar waxwings. It was also about 0 degrees windchill, but the birds didn't seem to notice.
