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I've never had a silkie hen grow spurs. My roosters don't always grow spurs.

It spirals because of his silkie blood.

Half of Leven's right spur. He was catching on himself too much with those spiral things. Right was was about 6 inches long on him. I took 3 inches off

Oh yes, trying something to see if you can do it is always great. Means you get to know how it works. I've seen several people who are getting a dozen or more eggs a day with their relatively young large flocks put up many gallons of limed eggs. I just don't understand that. They'll have fresh...

It's pickling lime. Used to make cucumbers stay crunchy when you pickle. I've never bothered with it when pickling. It's not really problem additive for food. Some of the stuff they put in commercial bread can be. I personally have gastric issues with a lot of the dough conditioners and...

That sucks. Ive only broken toes and those hurt bad enough

Mom doesn't do a timer, but she's used drip lines for her 70+ pot garden for years now. Works really well

It's been mix of rain and sun here all day.

I'm good. Set 5 eggs under a silkie trio last week. Collecting from a different pen to set more.

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I don't get out there to let them out. Silkies are safe in their pens. Large fowl have an automatic door

I'll probably always keep at least a few as pets at the worst

Had 3/4 inch yesterday. It being drier today is good

Well they concider Styrofoam to be a delicacy so I wouldn't trust they taste much

I toss broken eggs where mine can get them. They fight over them but never touch eggs in the nest unless one breaks. Never had signs of one becoming an actual egg eater. Friend of my Mom's did and taught the rest of the flock to do so. I suggested trying some extra protein first but that didn't...

There weren't any visible here last night. I even checked when the dogs woke me for potty

This was south last night. The entire sky was lit up here. No color tonight

It was very light and wispy what my eyes could see. The phone could see all the color though. The long exposure is part of that. The streaks coming from this overhead starburst were a bit more visible.

Phone on night mode could see the color better than me.