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Gapeys Grub

Paula Thomas's homestead and food adventures

Category: Chickens

Brinsea Maxi II Advance Hatch

My first incubator was the Brinsea Mini Advance. It is a great incubator and have used it for a few hatches but it only holds 7 eggs. I ended up borrowing a Hovabator last Fall for a hatch because they didn’t all fit in the Brinsea. I was not a big fan of the Hovabator… Read More Brinsea Maxi II Advance Hatch

March 26, 2017May 14, 2020 gapeyLeave a comment

Hatching Shipped Eggs

Hatching shipped eggs is not nearly as successful as local eggs even if you are lucky enough to get the shipped eggs to your door without them breaking. I would recommend buying local if at all possible to get a better success rate. The most common problem with shipped eggs is a detached or displaced… Read More Hatching Shipped Eggs

April 27, 2016May 14, 2020 gapey1 Comment

Olive Egger Chickens

I wanted to post some information on olive egger chickens and the Isbar x Marans cross in particular because there is not a lot of information out there about this cross. Olive Eggers and Easter Eggers are considered colored egg laying mutts of the chicken world. They are made up by crossing various chicken breeds… Read More Olive Egger Chickens

February 26, 2016May 14, 2020 gapey8 Comments

2015 Chicken Additions

Over the past 4 months my flock of chickens has grown by 6 so I thought I would give an introduction now that they are nearly all grown up. This is Agnes, a silver laced wyandotte. I always thought wyandottes were one of the prettiest breeds and they are also known to be one of… Read More 2015 Chicken Additions

December 2, 2015May 14, 2020 gapeyLeave a comment

Seattle Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour

Seattle Tilth put on an urban farm tour that consisted of 25 different farms to visit in 6 hours. I don’t think there’s any way to have done them all in that amount of time. We studied the various farms and decided to stick to the 15 located in North Seattle and we made it… Read More Seattle Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour

July 26, 2015May 14, 2020 gapeyLeave a comment

Meet my Chickens

I currently have 9 hens in my flock of chickens and each one of them has their own personality so I wanted to introduce them and provide a little bit of info about each one. I have four different breeds. The buff orpington and production reds came with the house I bought last summer and… Read More Meet my Chickens

March 19, 2015May 14, 2020 gapey1 Comment

Christmas Wreath Treat for Chickens Recipe

  This is a recipe I made for my chickens for Christmas. I have been hanging it up for them every day while they are free ranging and bring it in at night to keep the rats away from it. It’s a quick and easy recipe I found via Fresh Eggs Daily which is a… Read More Christmas Wreath Treat for Chickens Recipe

December 30, 2014May 14, 2020 gapey2 Comments

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Dropped 24 varieties of pepper seeds this week. See what varieties I’m growing in my new YT video.
We got some new solar lights for the backyard, gifted from @solagardenus, hung up over the weekend. They look great over the compost bins. No longer need a flashlight for those night time runs to the compost! PAULA10 will get you 10% off at solagarden.co
1 of these eggs is not like the other! We got our first two dozen eggs of the year by end of February. I thought we might get 2 dozen olives but she stopped laying again, then Charlie, our chocolate layer started up and then,we got a blue egg. More should be starting soon, though we have several older hens that don’t lay much if at all with our oldest being 8.5 years.
Baby basil (Thai, opal and genovese) started on 2/16, almost ready to separate and pot up. So much new growth in the growroom in 2 short weeks. A new growroom update was posted this week.
Can’t wait for the warm weather and blooms to return. These are a few from last season’s garden.
Got a new light to try out from #spiderfarmer just in time for the fig cuttings which will be going under it soon. An unboxing and install just went up.
Seed starting season has begun and I’ve posted my first growroom update video of the season. I show how the seeds and fig cuttings are doing and go over all the other seeds I plan to get started this month. These are the onions and microgreens I have under LED but there’s more in my update.
If you love hellebores, you’ll love the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival @nwfgs this year! We got a sneak peek of the display gardens this morning and they’re looking great! As you walk in the door you can’t miss this impressive ‘Florafantastic’ display that is full of a variety of hellebores and other spring flowers designed by Flower Growers of Puget Sound.
I told myself I wasn’t going to root very many fig cuttings this year but I couldn’t help myself to some free local cuttings. I’ve got 5 varieties rooting and still have 3 more that I won from @iv_organics on the way.
If you've never been to the @nwfgs Northwest Flower & Garden Festival or have gone before and want to go again, it is coming up next week at the Seattle Convention Center. This photo was taken of the @treelinedesignz garden display when we went to the show back in 2018.
Radicchio is extremely cold hardy. It has been covered in snow a few times last month and withstood single digit temps and is still alive and nearly ready to harvest. These varieties are rossa and castelfranco. Do you grow radicchio?
It’s fig cutting season! I am adding 3 varieties to my fig collection this year. Last year I added 8 so I cut back this year. 🤣 the @iv_organics fig cutting event this month may change that though. If you want to see how I rooted them this year and what varieties, I just posted a vid showing a step by step process.

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