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By: debbie

debbie — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:59:32 +0000

I’m working on it! In the meantime, I highly recommend “Golden Gate Gardening”. It’s a book you can request from the library. I finally bought it. It has great information on gardening on the coast. Meant for San Francisco weather, so we do a bit better here!

By: terry ellis

terry ellis — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:42:30 +0000

hi fairy tale!

if you put out a 4 seasons planting calendar, i’ll buy it! we are a bit south of watsonville and i am a gardener-in-process and i would love to have a calendar to help me decide when and what to plant in our climate. we too would like to be self-sufficient and we’ve bought a small greenhouse (6×8 for $300 from harbor freight) to help.

By: C

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:22:41 +0000

The article above is wrong in several ways, I’m sad to say. I have 9 year old hens who still lay. If your hens stop laying at 2-3 years, you did something wrong. If you add oil to the diet, such as pumpkin seeds, they rarely will get a stuck egg. If an egg is too large to pass, an avian vet can perform surgery to save the bird. If you lower the protein content of the diet as the bird ages, that prevents eggs that are too large. Hens need a break in the winter to continue laying healthy eggs, and they need lots of calcium. If you keep oyster shell out, research has shown that they can regulate their calcium on their own — I wish there was another supplement, but it appears that this is the one they can use to regulate their own calcium. They do need a special diet to stay healthy and produce eggs, so you have to know what you’re doing. Other birds don’t lay an egg most days like a chicken! That egg drains their vitamin, mineral, and protein stores. If you have pet chickens, there’s a local group that can help, the Santa Cruz Pet Poultry group. Find them online.

By: briar

briar — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:06:47 +0000

Here’s a link that talks about why hens’ egg production may decrease. Maybe it will help. http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/pnw/pnw565/

By: quaid

quaid — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:31:17 +0000

That’s a great question. We used to have a clearer link on the side of the page, but that was the old site, and it looks like that clearness was … muddied.
For event reservations and replies, you can reach us at reservations@fairy-talefarm.com.
We do have other email addresses, such as to the farmers, but we haven’t discussed exposing them on the website. Regardless, I’ll do a review with my wife and we’ll update the site navigation with a contact page that has all this information.

By: Rose

Rose — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:02:47 +0000

Hello, do you have an email?

By: quaid

quaid — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:21:45 +0000

We haven’t yet been making enough eggs to keep ourselves supplied! (Which is a mystery we are working on, why 9 hens don’t lay enough eggs for us.) Once we get that solved, we may begin having extras.

That”s sort-of how the urban farm goes; once you learn to grow enough for yourself, you suddenly have excess you want to sell or trade to others!

By: Lisa Clark

Lisa Clark — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:30:56 +0000

Hello,
Do you sell eggs?
Can I buy them?
thanks
Lisa

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