Protected sleeping space. Outdoor space should be significantly more

2.25’ cubed is a reasonable amount of interior protected resting space per duck 👍🏽

Duck farming 101

Housing & shelter considerations

1. Protection from predators like foxes, raccoons, coyote, bobcat and birds of prey. A secure duck house is essential to prevent loss

2. Ventilation to regulate moisture. Ducks produce a lot of moisture so proper ventilation is important to prevent respiratory issues and bacterial festering. If stacking houses, design airflow between levels with board spacing on floor and ceilings

3. Space requirements. Each duck requires about 5 square feet of interior space

4. Bedding needs. Ducks enjoy burrowing into bedding made of straw or wood shavings which also absorb moisture

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This is a really interesting way of putting it. Definitely makes sense.

The more I learn about animal husbandry the more I have to acknowledge that humans are and have been domesticating themselves. Which isn’t entirely as bad as it sounds, necessarily. But the repeated observation of multiple domesticated species is that they become more and more dependent on human interventions (antibiotics, deworming, artificial insemenation, fences, feed troughs, incubation or hand raising of offspring, interventions during birth to save the mother or offspring) Some of these are the unintended consequences of focused selective breeding for one feature at the exclusion of all others, but others are more insidious as the farmer is just trying to protect his bottom line here and there. And for the humans species I see the interventions all around us. We use antibiotics, we intervene during child birth to save the mother and child, we of course take medications for parasites, and many other ailments. We provide IVF and other amazing treatments. We live in cities we eat at restaurants instead of gathering the food or prepairing it. I do these things too, I believe at least one of my kids would be dead if we did not do these interventions. And if we needed to use IVF I wouldn’t hesitate, and all the other things and yet I can not help but clearly see that we are weakening our species genetic pool. And in time we will become more and more dependent on these interventions for more and more people. I don’t like the implications or the predicted outcomes.

#grownostr #genetics #evolution

Olive growers used to swear by Olivarda, otherwise known as mata- mosca or fly killer. Not that there are any olives our way this year, but it is an attractant to the wasps that go after the olive fruit fly.

This happens to be under a tree that is a pain to pick anyway, being near a building. The smart way of doing is it to plant it out in huge areas along or around the margins of olive grove terracing.

And that's all I know about olives 😂

It's going to be weird having literally not one olive on 200 trees after this last year's marathon where the harvest was beyond record breaking and the mills closed weeks later than usual, but still before everything was picked.

#olives #spain #olivegroveeggs #permaculture

I had that come up on my car a few times, the first time the garage said the computer can set it off when the vehicle when it reaches a certain mileage. They serviced it all and didn't have the computer tool to turn it off so it wasn't until they took it to another garage up the road they managed to reset the computer and get rid of the light.

The other time something in the engine was being funny I think the cam belt or something and it didn't get up the hill so it was obviously faulty.

Had to look at my notes. Started in flats on July 1. Transplanted on July 28.

First of the fall greens. Escarole is one of my favorites. I like to make a wilted salad with hot a vinaigrette.

#gardening

Putting this out there #ladiesofnostr I'm in need of sports bra recommendations, front or back close, good compression and mid range price. Not part of the itty bitty titty committee 😒. I'm tired of struggling into the ones I have after a humid campground shower.

Remember pre Google and even a few years after that you would go to a website and there would be a 'website ring" of recommended website in relation to similar content?

Wouldn't that be something worth doing similar on here with npubs? What is the best way implement that?

#asknostr

#grownostr

#permaculture