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1. Has the Mrs. tried to wrap the base of her squash plants in foil? A quick Google search will show how this is done, and is supposed to be very effective. Good luck!

2. a quick chicken food I grow are white radishes. they eat the whole thing.

3. Try raising your own meal worms for your chickens. I just started that and it isn’t difficult. I also have a lot of red worms that I dig up and give to them.

4. Poultry feed–If you can find it, generally, turkey feed is higher in protein, My chickens love it and it helps with the issues you describe

5. made a routine visit to my doctor last week and decided to ask for a tetanus shot, havent had one in years. Now can check that off the list.

6. Have you considered raising black soldier fly larva for your chickens? Great protein and super easy to raise!

7. Giving vinegar to chickens also helps with feather growth.

8. As the weather is finally moderating here in the North East the garden is beginning to show signs of life and we will have minimal replanting to do. Plan to move a cloth covered garage and use as firewood and rabbit hay storage, a must move before next winters firewood is delivered. Hard to believe that I can buy firewood as cheaply as cutting it. Next will be refilling the woodshed with next winters wood. Hope everyone has a good summer.

9. Your summer activities remind me of this verse.
   Proverbs 30:25 KJV
   The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

10. I live in a white oak mix forest just West of the Redoubt. This Spring I had fence towers of oak leaves from last fall. When I took them apart they become tomatoe cages, but the leaf mold is full of young earwigs and roly polys. It’s not a poultry feed replacement, but a supplement the chickens appeared to really enjoy. I’m wanting to expand this operation this fall emphasizing the bugs over the compost.

    I also planted a mulberry tree in the west chicken run. We’ll see how that goes, it will take me a couple years before I could meaningfully report back on that feed supplement experiment.

11. Plant radishes around your squash plants to repel the bugs!

12. HJL- You mention freeze drying. I’m looking at these units and want to know how much power they draw. I’m guessing it’s a good bit but hope you’ll share your experience on that. Many thanks.

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