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  1. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    (and I was so tired after work I completely forgot) Also, Lowes called and cancelled a chunk of my Order. Looks like I'm going to have to drive to Dothan for closure strips. {Grrrrr....}
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    When Cadkey became Parametrics for Solid Modeling it went from user friendly to NOT. Apparently, that was typical of the Cad products at the time.
  3. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    I used to teach Cadkey. Taught myself enough SketchUp in a weekend to get by. May draft something after work, if I'm not too tired - using the tractor at lunch to level more of the greenhouse [yes, I SHOULD have done this before I finished the walls. Wife had a change of plans/priorities -...
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    ...and delivery is delayed till tomorrow. For anyone curious, I can't use local limestone as grow medium in my tanks because it will continue to drive the pH of the water alkaline as it wears away, making it impossible to get the system in balance, or to grow any acid-loving plants. The rock...
  5. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Anyone that wants to offer floorplans, imagine a rectangle 166" wide by 284" tall. Doorway at bottom right corner, entering from the side. Totes measure 40" x 48". The big tanks go OUTSIDE - its only the grow beds I need to both place, and be able to walk around. Does me no good to have 48"...
  6. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Greenhouse keeps getting more expensive. $1,300 in materials coming today, should allow me to do roof, door, walls. Framing (other than one corner which is still temporarily braced) is done. My wife [brilliant woman, doesn't get enough mention] has convinced me to extend the greenhouse (roof)...
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    Can I use this bone meal as a calcium supplement in my birds food?

    I'll stick by my initial assessment then. If you have to provide a calcium supplement, and you have no other option, use this in a pinch. But don't make a habit out of it, and don't incorporate it into your long term feed plans. and if the supplemental calcium need is short enough (i.e. I ran...
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    Can I use this bone meal as a calcium supplement in my birds food?

    the potential for heavy metals is much higher - though "oyster shell" which many of us use as a calcium source isn't labeled/tested beyond disclosing that it is, in fact, oyster shell. This is an ingredient where we all know we don't know much about what's in it - beyond the general description.
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    Can I use this bone meal as a calcium supplement in my birds food?

    Define "safe" That's quartz (the mineral), from the rock they are crushing. Its chemically essentially inert. Your chickens can eat it with no issues. Chances are very, very, very good they re doing so already when they peck at things on the ground. The chances of silica being present in...
  10. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Yes, found the cat's owner - "next door" neighbor, some 14A away. Surgery (not me, my wife, our children) repeatedly delayed, but went well. Won't be going thru any metal detectors in the near future, no plastic surgery (hopefully) required. Bad break, lots of new "hardware". Close family.
  11. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Nope. Work busting my butt (OK, I love what I do - but I have been putting in serious hours). I had hoped to work on it this afternoon, but was trying to find the owner of a lost cat, and dealing w/ some family medical. (Nothing permanently bad, and what's serious is improving).
  12. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Always!!!!
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

  14. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Still too early for pictures.
  15. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Picture in the AM. Got the Greenhouse re-framed in the correct direction this time. Need to put on 3 more 2x4x12s to provide additional attachment points for the walls, then do the whole thing again, for the next 12'. Tie the two halves together, then get more roof panels, and all the wall...
  16. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Hopefully this is the last 40* morn for a while. and that the rain holds off so I can finish the greenhouse. at least I'm not playing in concrete at these temps.
  17. U_Stormcrow

    Calling All Rabbit Nutters

    They [ ___ ] around, you find out... ;)
  18. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    I've been, yes, also Sherwood Forest Faire (smaller, more "personal", but with numerous overlapping artist talent) about a half dozen times, maybe more.
  19. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Similar here - looks like some of my ginger was too close to the edge of the protection, and took some leaf damage - and the bananas of course were going to take a hit as they do every year. But better to find out now, with a relatively short double freeze, than to find out when we have a week+...
  20. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Looks like we are right about freezing. Should be able to start taking the visqueen down at lunch, going to have to water before this weekend, and thru next week. No rain in the two week forecast. Weird weather.
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