mint farm 2.0

blonky has missed showing off his beautiful majestic buttery feathers
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bandit is currently mothering two mixed race children. half cochin, half old english game
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you can see they have feathery feets
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the rest of the chickens are fine too, even little buddy n honey, who has been vying for right hand man
boo currently is, so honey has periodically been fighting boo, but boo is too strong for now
lookit his little battle wounds on his comb
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the shipment of chicks i ordered from a legit hatchery arrived, and if you thought it was sad how many roosters i ended up with buying in person oh boy do baby chick shipments of confirmed hens not fare much better
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these are the blue cochins, golden campine, golden wyandotte, and speckled sussex
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lookit these nuggets. so cute
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as per norm, the one with the bandit mask is a menace
everybirdy else was asleep n she was running around terrorizing them pecking their beaks to establish head command
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there are three though that had bad shipping stress. i have been nursing them with electrolytes in an eye dropper. one passed n i buried her in my tomatoes. one is perking back up, and another is trying.
while chicks can go the first day n some without food because they are still digesting the yolk, the issue is getting stuffed in a box n yeeted from p.o to p.o
shipping stress can result in not eating or drinking. so i have literally spent every 45 minutes manually opening their beaks to put a crumb of food in far back enough that they have to swallow it because if its in the front of their mouth they spit it out
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look at these two idiots who don't wanna eat food, but will loudly peep out of hunger
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they are the egyptian fayoumi and the silver laced wyandotte
fingers crossed for them
i will post some crops later. i have some tomatoes n peppers ripening atm, some string beans out stringin' n beanin' n so on
God i love animals to death. I work part time at an animal shelter. I would love my full time to be something like that but i really couldn't be a vet. I wouldn't be able to stomach putting an animal down. So human medical field it is. Anyway your farm is beautiful, dude!!
 

Call Me Tim

Dramacrat
it's more like chicken neosporin
keeps the wound moist, insects out, n has a little bit of alcohol in it to fight infection
blue color to discourage cannibalism

the patient is moving around, sitting up on its own, and peeping but obviously we're not out of the woods yet
the movements are still baby movements, what it would do if it were under a hen, resituating in sleep, etc... all infuriating at the moment as it flops over onto the injury while sleeping n rubs the ointment on its little swollen eyelid and i have to keep re-cleaning it out
sitting up n peeping at me
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minty

runs bartertown
God i love animals to death. I work part time at an animal shelter. I would love my full time to be something like that but i really couldn't be a vet. I wouldn't be able to stomach putting an animal down. So human medical field it is. Anyway your farm is beautiful, dude!!
putting animals down does suck. i know i've done it, several times, but my brain compartmentalizes those events and represses them.

i wish i had more time to farm, honestly... the heat this summer has already been killin' some plants so i'm bout to give up on a chunk, harvest it, n let that shit go fallow. i'll be content with the bok choy n lettuce rotations in the mini grow beds in the greenhouse n pumpkin patch succeeding. it's enough the chickens can't cool themselves adequately so i gotta give them ice cubes every other hr now. it's exhausting

the baby chick died. mercury was in the coop looking for the little yellow baby, and was so shocked by its murder she went broody the following day. i am excited for best hen to successfully hatch the two eggs i am letting her sit on
stuff in the herb bed, greenhouse, baby corns n the pumpkins n sweet potatoes are fine but the tomatoes n string beans are gettin' ate the fuck up n dyin'
the grapes are sturdy too, which is a shock
90% of the bushes are fine.
everything i barely put any effort into growing is fine
this WAS tallest sunflower last week when i took this pic. there is now one that's 8 ft tall
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gwapes
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honey, learning how to play barotrauma
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boo, escorting bandit and the nuggets out for a nightly stroll
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my little buddy
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minty

runs bartertown
the sunflowers a few days back
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the sunflowers this morning after beryl (fuck texas they deserved it but my sunflowers didn't do anything wrong)
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my sunflowers after i repaired them after work (none of the stalks were broken they just needed to be retilted n dirted around the base fuck you beryl suck my dick)
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even still got bees in there (lower flower, a little shaded on the right)
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Lovecraft

Dramacrat
the sunflowers a few days back
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the sunflowers this morning after beryl (fuck texas they deserved it but my sunflowers didn't do anything wrong)
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my sunflowers after i repaired them after work (none of the stalks were broken they just needed to be retilted n dirted around the base fuck you beryl suck my dick)
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even still got bees in there (lower flower, a little shaded on the right)
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Huh, the sunflowers I used to have were much larger but with short-ish massive stems. Never grew taller than about head height for me. Probably another cultivar.
 

Lovecraft

Dramacrat
there's smaller ones in there but i have a bag specifically labeled mammoth sunflowers
the tallest one is over 10 ft n no i will not convert that into smug-euro size for you
There is no such thing as smug-euro size.

There's SI (ISU) units, and there are incorrect units.

Aaaanywhooo, my sunflowers regularly grew to about five palawan stink badger lengths in height, had a stem-radius roughly the diameter of a brass half farthing and would grow flowers with seed heads about the size of the currently most commonly used silicon semiconductor wafers.
 

minty

runs bartertown
miss mercury's 2 eggs are due to hatch any time now
taking a break from sitting on them
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the blue cochin indoors who is just as chill and has the same facial expression i am naming hermes
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pumpkin patch doin' awesome
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my little buddy
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dunno about this mechanic's qualifications but he says my brakes are fine
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young master nuggetoni, puffin' his chest out for the ladies
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egg size n color variety
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miss mercury's 2 eggs are due to hatch any time now
taking a break from sitting on them
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the blue cochin indoors who is just as chill and has the same facial expression i am naming hermes
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pumpkin patch doin' awesome
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my little buddy
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dunno about this mechanic's qualifications but he says my brakes are fine
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young master nuggetoni, puffin' his chest out for the ladies
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egg size n color variety
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2 Questions

1. For how long do those chickens typically live?
2. When do you snatch the eggs from the hens? (How old are the eggs?)
 
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