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  1. TillyPeeps

    What did you do in the garden today?

    What pesticide do you use for Japanese beetles? I don't want to use too nasty stuff, so nothing seems working for Japanese beetles. I applied milky spore in my yard and it worked really good, but it cannot stop the beetles from neighbors' yards. I just use trap and hand catch rest of them. I...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I haven't see Japanese beetles yet. I'll get my trap ready this weekend though.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    My winter squash (Sunshine Hybrid Kabocha) plants are loaded now. And my persimmon tree has flower buds for the first time after 4 years in ground! I'm very excited!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    No chicken in my flock wants hornworm. All my chickens looked at it and turned their beaks away. They even don't want earth worms. Right now, I get lots of complains about no strawberries for a while and not all chickens love raspberries. They are just too spoiled.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Hopefully, the peace would be there for a long time. It must be hard for you and your family. Never heard about melon cucumber before. It looks nice. I guess you have fig wasps there? Then you should have great figs to eat! There are lots of nice figs from middle east. I'm considering to add...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    The non-stop rain for last 1.5 months caused no strawberries for several days so far. Now it's so hot, some of my young fig plants are fried to death. Water melon plants are struggling too from the cool rain- super hot weather cycle. Most cherries rot and fell with only 3 left on my tree. On the...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Welcome. You are not too far from dheltzel and can get some very nice breeds from him. Check his website: http://welbars.com/
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Dennis, just want to let you know my 5y old olive egger from you is still laying 5 eggs per week this spring. Very strong and healthy!
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Actually, Brownie was the few brown sexlink chick you made from Wheaten Ameraucana x Cal. grey. At that time, all your PA blacks were boys, so I got her. the I only have her photos in my old computer and need to dig them out. She grew up being mostly black with some brown feathers around her...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I start to root fig cuttings now. As a newbie, I made lots of mistakes and got some cuttings to grow leaves but not roots! After the leaves died off, I dug them out and was shocked to find there's no root at all! Anybody have experience about rooting figs? I heard they are really easy but not...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    What got me was Delta too! I get Covid regularly every half year after that, but never lost sense of smell again. I think I need to take more supplements. :hmm
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I'm not as bad: Completely lost my sense of smell for about 2 weeks, but until today, I cannot smell as good as before. Occasionally smell something wired that doesn't exist.
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Does she have wry neck? You can try vitamin E and B Complex for wry neck. Although, I remember one of my vaccinated pullet had the similar symptoms when she's sick from Marek's. She was getting better for a while and was still laying one week before she died. I have only successfully saved one...
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    Let’s Talk About Bird Flu

    I believe my flock already had LPAI two years ago when there was an outbreak in our area. I found a dead sparrow in their run and then most of them got sick with runny nose and sharp decrease of egg production in late spring. Hopefully, the LPAI infection helped them develop antibodies to HPAI.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Never buy anything from Temu or Shein! Here's why: search the topic "Toxic chemicals in Shein and Temu clothes" You will see a huge number of reports about finding toxic chemicals in their products. They products don't need to pass any safety standard test, so they are so cheap. While you pay...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I lost my only Silkie pullet to a hawk a few month ago. She was so sweet and was my son's favorite. So I had to order 3 more Silkies for him next year. My coop is so full now! At least Silkies will not roost high with the other girls. Hopefully they will not be bullied too much, or I have to...
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    Help with my hen's health

    Some people made sling chairs for chickens with difficulty to walk. Here's some ideas: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/ You may want to give her some vitamin B in case she has some nerve damage. It's always a good idea to give her some probiotics...
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    Help with my hen's health

    How old and where did you get her? Did you recently get chickens from somebody else? Your hen looks like fully paralyzed and remind me about Marek's.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I cannot do much in this cold weather, but I pruned my fruit trees and made some tomato cages from cattle panels yesterday. After years of trying to support my store bought tomato cages (wire types and stake types) without success, I finally managed to get cattle panels and made myself 12 cages...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    I have two 7 month pullets started to lay at the end of December. It's very strange since it's the shortest day light of the year. I really like to get more Welbars and rose comb Legbars, but my coop is very full and I ordered 3 silkies to replace the two died last year. I guess that I have to...
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