i know more about. grass today than i knew yesterday.. the plan for the puppy pen. was/is.... to cover with topsoil out of brick ends farm i got 2 dumpp trailers full... it is an interesting place to google. between the cafeteria leftovers from harvard and bu. plus the local horse shlt - the combination makes the grass grow green..and puppies very educated...
as for the seed... what i uisually do is cover it with rye-- really cheap... grows very quickly only once---and then cover with normal grass seed which will continue to grow next spring.
i planned to put the 7 foot netting around to keep the chickens off it.. but since ben got drafted for overnight duty, i had no help yesterday... impatiernt that i can be... i wondered if teh chickens would eat the seed.. so i expiremented with the rye...
the answer to that question is... yup... they eat seed-- i can not immagine they ate it all, but clearly i need to get teh fence up today to get seeded and ahead of tomorrows rain.
i don't know. if you can see it with the puppy hill camera... but i put sand in teh 14'circle where the tipi will go... it should be a nice place to sit and talk with pups...
we may have to address teh chicken population...i do enjoj the guinnea hens-- they are so pompus and official looking...as they race around making a heck of a racket-- eating ticks as they go. the seed damaging bunch are the hens... and they visiting significant otheres. of which we now apparently have 6-- it is supposed to be impossibel to keep them like that---i am told we would have fights- so far all we have is a very noisy barnyard... with at least 2 of the roosters being people chasers. three are a bona fied childs pet. i think the logic is.. if they were not a kids pet then they would have been turned loose in the forest as coyote meals.... but to be kind, parents drop them over teh fence in the beautiful meridith farm where they have several pastures close to the road for people to enjoy as a drive by exhibit... that is where elvis lives. -- the mini zebu with golden balls on his horns-- and donkeyus and the other 2 white goats... etc. janine's collecton. meridith does not like roosters.. so they get graduated to crazy acres-- where i have lost count.
except i now have a fight between me the roosters and the grass seed.
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altho it is intereesting to have them all loose-- and egg hunts happen daily... they may present a problem with sitting on the ground in the puppy pen.... it may mean we put up this lightweight plastic netting as permane puppy fence-- you can easily see thru it.. and it did last for years in the "V" puppy pen. ( now the yolk house....
it was always hard to explain why our pups went from that light weight vinyl netting to heavy duty chain link fence- heavy duty because they could and did push thier way thru the lighter weight chain link...so why not the netting?? i think it was because it was more like a 7 foot wall that they could not stand up on it. or get a hole started... thus proving that the first step to any project is the critical one.;
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now there is an FYI-- i bet alot of you never heard of a capon- when i was a kid roast capon for sunday dinner was the thing...and i suspect why my grandmothers chicken gravey was so memorable. that part of my family is definitely farm family--- and i suspect grandma or grandpa and probably my father.... knew how to caponize a boy chicken ---so it would eat more fight less and be more flavorful.. you got it. a "neutered" rooster was in my youth sunday dinner.--and i am told there are parts of europe who prefer capons-- problem is the process is not conducive to mass production - but teh old timers knew what to do with all the extra roosters.
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somewhere i have a picture of my father driving himself and his siblings to school in a pony cart where the pony had a shed to eat hay all day and then carry all the kids home again. and we complain about school busses??
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the chaos buggy.... i may have to enlagre it-- sizzle rode in it with out a problem. but she is more agile at turning around to get orff... so it .. too is a work in progress...
GM CARLENE..ONCE AGAIN YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY WITH DD..CANNOT WAIT TO WATCH OUR “ONE & ONLY” CHAOS IN HER VERY OWN WAGON..HOW WONDERFUL OF YOU..MAYBE HER LINDA WILL RIDE ALONG..LINDAAAAA..
