I am going to start a new subject in this blog, or begin a new blog if I must, to identify the weeds that grow in my community garden, and to suggest ways to deal with them. Watch for this, and remind me if I forget to get it started!

It's been ages since I posted, and I barely remember how to do this. The new chickens (5) from the local feed store have begun to lay eggs. The barred rocks promptly at 18 weeks of age. Pullet eggs for lunch today...three..in the frying pan with green beans, with ketchup on the side.

correction

It was the Phoenix who injured her leg, not the Silver Leghorn.

Four egg day

After a long resting period, my five hens produced four eggs on Monday. The Silver Leghorn recovered from whatever was causing her to fall off to one side. Perhaps she got a jolt when jumping down from the high roost (4 feet up). I lowered the roosts, since she could not make it to the top. Now all five roost at knee height.

new look to our website

Duluth City Chickens has a new look.

duluthcitychickens meeting

Three of us from the original Duluth City Chickens committee met, to keep the juices flowing, at my house. Ate poticca, sandwiches, salsa and chips, and drank tea. We are a social and educational group: Duluth City Chickens.

We put a link on the Duluth Community Garden Program (duluthcommunitygarden.org) under "resources". You can subscribe to the listserve for our group at
duluthcitychickens-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

We still have a website, but not sure for how long
duluthcitychickens.org.
Lots of folks seem to link to us, so it would be good to keep our presence on the web.

November 13, 2009

Five pullets started laying in September.

One Silver Leghorn, one Single Comb Brown Leghorns, one Phoenix, one Golden Penciled Hamburg, and one Lakenvelder.

I get one or two eggs a day. I supplement daylight with a 75 watt bulb.

I let the hens loose in my backyard after dark. I hang a work light with a long cord in the grapevine arbor. The hens scratch for an hour or two beneath the light and then go in to roost. They don't venture much beyond the halo of the light bulb and they get a bit of fresh soil to scratch in once a day. So far so good.

Last night, I discovered two young neighbor girls, all smiles, standing inside my henhouse. They had found the hens in my yard outdoors and they rounded them up for me :)

Marian Syrjamaki-Kuchta