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Tina's Garden

Post by BrokenolMarine » Mon May 16, 2022 11:43 am

Tina has downsized the chickens due to the high volume of eggs they were producing, and the fact she couldn't free range due to the yotes. She put up an add on Craigslist, and they were gone in less than two days, a couple drove up from Texas and took them all. 30 adults and some chicks. She kept a half dozen chicks she had just bought and two hens and a favorite rooster. In a few months we will have just enough to keep US in eggs. Before she got RID of the flock, she was getting between fifteen and twenty eggs a day and couldn't give them away. :? At one point we had twenty dozen eggs in the fridge.

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So, what to do with the coop and run? She halved the size of the coop and put the few chickens in that, and uses the rest of the coop area for tool storage in the pasture. The run? Hmmm? What to do.... :shock: Garden!

The soil would be fertile, the covered run is in the shade MOST of the day, so... she planted the garden in the old chicken run. No deer or critters could get to the plants and even the birds were banned. The GARDEN is going great. :lol: I think it's growing so well trying to get away from the chicken poo....

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Re: Tina's Garden

Post by markiver54 » Mon May 16, 2022 12:48 pm

Looks pretty well protected! No problem with rabits or gophers?
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Post by BrokenolMarine » Mon May 16, 2022 2:44 pm

The chicken wire goes down about a foot below ground level, plus we have a coyote problem, so no bunny or gopher problem. These yotes don't buy from "Acme."
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Post by markiver54 » Mon May 16, 2022 4:51 pm

I should have zoomed in...duh, now I see the chicken wire. đź‘Ť
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Post by daytime dave » Fri May 20, 2022 10:57 am

Beautiful garden and well protected. Great
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Post by BrokenolMarine » Fri May 20, 2022 11:30 pm

She has little maters coming in!
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Post by BigAl52 » Fri May 20, 2022 11:37 pm

You need to sit post all night Marine and take care of some yotes with that newly set up 223.
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Re: Tina's Garden

Post by BrokenolMarine » Sat May 21, 2022 12:06 am

I want too, and will. Once I can turn my left wrist enough to hold it properly. I'm almost there. I also need to get the range berm done, which also requires enough wrist dexterity to safely use the chop saw to cut the rebar spikes to set the RR Ties. They have been patiently waiting on station by the dam, to become a berm, for a year. I'm almost there too. I'm hoping to cut spikes this week. The Ranch Rifle NOR the Uberti Single Action have been sighted in yet. Once the berm is done, a lot of things will get shot. It's probably been two years or more.

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