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RE: Egg quality. I noticed with the hens in a coup that I fed egg crumbles vs my little free range survivalist hen that I didn't feed for a few years, her white was thinner but the yolks were nice and dark. I wonder which one makes for better baby chicks.(with fertilized eggs of course)

Rain gauge finally came in. Plugged in the little LCD display and tilted the tipping cup back and forth and had a count displayed so it works.

I'm not using the display and will hook it up to one of my controllers indoors the tip the tipping bucket to make sure that works. Then I'll see if I can find a place to rig it up outdoors temporarily. Supposed to be on a nice level platform so "rigging it" - goat proof?

Screw it down to a piece of plywood, set it on the roof of the car, find highest point of rounded roof, shims corners of plywood until it's level. Gonna have to move the car where the wire reaches but they give plenty, 50 foot I think.

Forgot to order my brackets first thing this morning so I did it first thing this afternoon. Will be a little less apt yo make it here for the weekend but that's ok, I have plenty to do.

I have Horse Thistle in my tunnel and beyond the South end a bit.

Brought some horse manure in several year's ago. Didn't get a lot and thought I had it taken care of but then I quit gardening out there and even visiting so it spread. I did feed the goats hay out there a couple of years ago and got more from that. At any rate, I have it now. It's not real thick but it's spread out and I don't want to broadcast plant killer, RoundUp etc.

Just informed my son that we're going to pull grass and various weeds until there's noting but thistle left and then dig those out, collect them and burn them with the next trash burning.

Forced No Till Gardening.