fuzzi's "Gardens and Chickens...and Goats? Oh My!" Journal and More Thread

[SageHill]

Dang - that's one bountiful garden!! Love it. I need to go check my figs!
My chickens are sometimes on again off again. Though the last week I go to
clean out the nest boxes (yeah they sleep in them ) and early in the morning, almost dark, twice I've found an egg - and each time it was a soft shell. Tossed each out to the wilds beyond.

 

[fuzzi]

Dang - that's one bountiful garden!! Love it. I need to go check my figs!
My chickens are sometimes on again off again. Though the last week I go to
clean out the nest boxes (yeah they sleep in them ) and early in the morning, almost dark, twice I've found an egg - and each time it was a soft shell. Tossed each out to the wilds beyond.

This helps:

One day of a steady rain.

 

[SageHill]

This helps:
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One day of a steady rain.

I haven't seen that much in my gauge since last year???

 

[fuzzi]

I haven't seen that much in my gauge since last year???

We get an AVERAGE of 48" of precipitation per year.

Now you know why my gardens are so green!

 

[Mini Horses]

About the same here for rainfall.

 

[farmerjan]

Same here for the rainfall...used to be 36-42 inches avg... but lately it has been more in the 30-36 inch range.

I have a rain gauge like that... explain to me why it has 8 lines for the tenths, instead of 10 lines... on the left if you look at the lines, I would say 1.2 inch... but 2 more lines makes it 1.5 inches... They don't make sense for tenths, or for "quarter inches".... and if you count the little line and the bigger line... there are 8 lines in each "half inch".... Something is just off about them. Mine drove me nuts... so I don't even use it anymore...I got another one that has actual "tenth" lines...

 

[SageHill]

Our annual rainfall in the county averages a whopping 9.44 inches. Last year 2024 was wet at 11.16 inches.

Our farmers need water - at reasonable cost. Unfortunately "Gruesome", the 'greenies' and the delta smelt (think I read that they have not been seen in many years and need dry times as part of the lifecycle that no longer exist because of the 'protection' - or something similar). Have all but shut off water to the farms. You travel up I-5 and there are signs all over saying "Farms need water" and similar.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

No shortage of water here - I got 10+ inches from Monday - Wednesday.

 

[fuzzi]

Eggs, I got eggs, two from the Sussex, two from the Dominiques.

I feel better.

 

[fuzzi]

Didn't have the opportunity to mow when I got home...oh well.