How does your garden grow?

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I haven't heard of a Ranger before. We chose our breeds as being good layers, for meat production and foraging. Ranger sounds like it would be along the same lines.

No, she hasn't let me slaughter any hens yet, but our coop is getting full. Each year a few hens will go broody and hatch out several chicks. It is getting to the point where we need to trim a few hens - probably some of the younger ones as she is more attached to our original ones.
 
The newest additions to our flock are 7 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte chicks; however, it is unknown how many will actually have the grayish blue lacing, or feather trim, as the genetics of this color does not breed true. The black and the splash (white) individuals breed true, but the blue ones have one black allele and one splash allele of this color gene.

BB (black) X BB > 100 BB
bb (splash) X bb > 100% bb
BB X bb > 100% Bb (blue)
Bb (blue) X Bb > 25% BB (black), 50% Bb (blue), 25% bb (splash)

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Our original flock included a few chickens of this breed, but we got them from a large hatchery and the breed was not very pure. The breeder in Kentucky that we got these chicks from has spent many years and dollars refining and selecting his flock back to original characteristics as noted in a small booklet where he wrote, "The BLRW variety was first developed in Germany so you will notice that I will refer to the German breeders often. They have been working with this variety a long time and it shows in their beautiful birds." (fyi, glo)
 
I brought yesterday more seeds to my garden; basilica, malabari lemon crass, zucchini, callistephus chinesis and parsley.

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ah a garden where chicks grow. what a beautiful garden!!! I want one too.
 
Salam alaykum

When you grown your own food - you certainly know what you eat. It is totally halal.

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i am really the farm girl. love animals. i want to raise a cow and pure milk from it and have chickens of my own and a garden with vegetables and flowers, but i'll need a really huge place for that.
 
WRITER said:
i am really the farm girl. love animals. i want to raise a cow and pure milk from it and have chickens of my own and a garden with vegetables and flowers, but i'll need a really huge place for that.
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A farm?

:lol:
 
^ a farm girl, yes. whew i've been reading and typing so much my fingers hurt and i can't write properlly.
 
WRITER said:
i am really the farm girl. love animals. i want to raise a cow and pure milk from it and have chickens of my own and a garden with vegetables and flowers, but i'll need a really huge place for that.
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In shaa Allah, one day you will have a place where you can do as you would like. Farming is a lot of work. Yesterday, I cleaned out the litter in the chicken coop and gave it a good wash down. The chickens we raise are free range so the meat is tougher than what is bought at the grocery, but it has more flavor to it. My wife usually pressure cooks them and freezes portions in bags to cook with rice, dumplings, casseroles, etc.
 
I couldn´t resists again when I went to shop today - more seeds.

:embarrass "Christmas" Basilica and bean "Amethyst" (purple).
 
sister harb said:
I couldn´t resists again when I went to shop today - more seeds.

:embarrass "Christmas" Basilica and bean "Amethyst" (purple).
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You sound like me. We get catalogs from seed companies and the pictures are so pretty it makes me want to try them in my garden. I have our old standby varieties that I know will work and I like to compare new varieties to them.
 
MustafaMc said:
You sound like me. We get catalogs from seed companies and the pictures are so pretty it makes me want to try them in my garden. I have our old standby varieties that I know will work and I like to compare new varieties to them.
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I know - I am hopeless with seeds. :embarrass And next I will be hopeless with the plants... but it is just at the May.

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At the risk of becoming boring ... more egg pics.
I am amazed at the difference in sizes. All chickens are the same age and breed.


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