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I too am interested in this red foot thing.
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I too am interested in this red foot thing.
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Well, now... if red feet are any indication of fertility... My roo is super stud of the year!
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it's not the first I've heard of it. my roosters' feet have gotten really flushed looking before and I was told it was hormonal. I'm not sure if this rooster has radish feet right now or not. but we will have more, young roosters directly so....
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Your roo needs to get his mojo on.
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mine too. I'm only seeing about 1 "bull's eye" per half dozen eggs.
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The one hen I really wanted to breed forward... Goliath doesn't like her, or she's sterile. None of her eggs set in last batch were fertile, and I've not seen a single one of her eggs have a bulls eye when it hits the pan. Fertility was poor in last set of chicken eggs. Some not fertile, and a LOT of quitters.
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so the rabbit pen is now garden space. right now mustard greens and beets are coming up. if there is room later we will fill the available space with other stuff
the potatoes in feed sacks seem to be growing well
the potatoes in feed sacks seem to be growing well
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the garden is full! but we had a couple bare spots so we resowed then today with other things. okra, Swiss chard, squash, and collards. I can't wait until its all going strong!
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so here is our little corn plot that we filled and sowed in the rain right before my heart attack. we resowed to fill the gaps and I'm just waiting on the new stuff to get up so we can mulch it to help keep the grass and weeds down. the corn is planted way too tight and it's gonna take ALOT of manure to get a decent harvest.
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It's common to have skips in rows of corn bro. Corn is on a timer more than any other veggie I know. Hoe up a the rows when they are about a foot tall so the air roots have something to grab or they will fall over during wind storm. Ofcourse you can't do this if it's too wet
It's key corn gets fertilizer (high nitrogen) when it's about knee high and also when the tassels first appear but are still green. Fertilize at the lower leaf drip line both times. Then spray the cobbs for with BT & Palmolive during the evening to kill off any boring worms that turn out to be white moths.
Don't ask me how I know this living in the middle of corn country.
My tomato seeds popped up today, still waiting on peppers.
It's key corn gets fertilizer (high nitrogen) when it's about knee high and also when the tassels first appear but are still green. Fertilize at the lower leaf drip line both times. Then spray the cobbs for with BT & Palmolive during the evening to kill off any boring worms that turn out to be white moths.
Don't ask me how I know this living in the middle of corn country.
My tomato seeds popped up today, still waiting on peppers.
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