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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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This is the bean selection that went into the chili last week from beans harvested last year. It includes rosso di lucca, pellegrini, jacobs gold, rockwell, 1500 year old cave beans and some pintos.
The majority of the 19 annuum pepper varieties I started 10 days ago have germinated. A new pepper starting video is coming soon!
The grow room is starting to fill up! I have a growroom tour posted on my ‘gapeysgrub’ YouTube channel if you want to see what’s growing and what equipment I’m using.
Happy #nationalchiliday! Made a batch of chili over the weekend and tossed in a handful of frozen peppers which were much hotter than expected making the chili almost inedible. Seems like I made the same mistake last year. Will I ever learn? Made another batch with no heat the other day to combine with it and it’s much better. Lots of home grown beans went into each one.
Thanks to @ajwildwayfarm for bringing me one step closer to becoming a bean enthusiast! I got a few beans of each of these varieties to try out. Scarlet runner is the only one I’ve grown before. Have you tried any of these? I recognize some of these from @wholefedhomestead’s collection.
Seed mail came yesterday from the @mykitsaproots seed swap. Lots of goodies. I shared them all in my stories yesterday if you want to see all I got.
Look how beautiful this variegated chicory (radicchio) is! It’s growing fast but might still be a bit too early to put it out in the garden.
The greenhouse made it through the snow storm with no problem. We are starting to see some of the vivid choi mustard starting to bolt already but the red giant mustard is still doing great. Some of the lettuces are getting their roots eaten which has killed a few of them.
Happy #flowerfriday! The snow completely covered all of the plants in the yard including the hellebores and snow drops. The snow has started to melt and the plants are reappearing. It’s amazing how cold resistant they are.
The chinense and baccatum peppers are coming along nicely. They're a month old and all growing at different rates. Just started the annuums and waiting for them to sprout.
Garden goals: be a bean enthusiast like @wholefedhomestead and @ajwildwayfarm. I’d like to say I grew all these but nope. This is a 13 bean fiesta mix I found on @azurestandard. It has a bunch of different beans, peas and lentils that I’m looking forward to turning into a soup. I may try growing a few of the beans just for fun though. 😁
Happy #tomatotuesday! This is a throwback to 2016, the year I grew the japanese black trifele tomato which is one of my favs but haven't grown it since then cuz I'm always wanting to try different varieties every year. Well this is the year I'm bringing it back and it will once again be in our garden. The only other varieties I'm growing that I've grown before are the Fertunia Italian paste and my favorite cherry tomato, Barry's crazy cherry. All the rest will be new to me varieties. What tomato variety are you looking forward to growing the most next year?

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