Seedling update and homemade chick food

Our tomatoes, early flat dutch cabbage and some flowers are already in need of re-potting.
Top view of some of the tomatoes, we have them at various stages in prep for
ripening in the hoop house. Some of our favorite varieties are Determinate and some
are Indeterminate. Determinate means that the plant has a primary and a secondary
axis, producing a limited supply of fruit/ ripen at relatively same time frame.
Indeterminate has a central axis, growing, indefinitely in length, producing a
succession of lateral branches, bearing flower buds. Indeterminate will ripen
throughout the season.

We'll work on re-potting in a week or so, depending on the weather and will

move them to our small outdoor greenhouse during the day and back in, in

the evenings, or we may hook up our milk house heater and leave them out.

Many of our herbs have long germination times, but they are beginning to

fill in and grow well. We are however again struggling with our sweet and hot

peppers. The seed is viable, we check by sprouting some on a moist paper

towel. So I'm either over watering them or under watering*sigh* I've replanted

them for the second time and pray they sprout.

As we've educated ourselves about GMO's and commercial animal feeds,

we've been on a path of making and mixing our own feeds. Today I'm grinding

our chick feed, this will supply a weeks worth of feed for the small chicks. As they

grow you'll need to increase your amounts Here is what we grind;

2c. organic barley

2c. organic oat groats

1-1/2 c. Painted Mountain Indian corn

2c. red winter wheat

1/2 c. organic flax seed

1/2 c organic sunflower seed

and to this I add;

3-4 Tbsp. granular garlic

2tsp. sea salt

4-5 Tbsp. Thorvin Kelp

1 tsp. of each herb listed; yarrow, oregano, rosemary and basil.
Here is the Painter Mountain Indian corn, we grow each year for ourselves as

as well as for animal feed. Everything added and waiting to be mixed. It smells wonderful! Okay now

don't laugh, but..... it makes their poo smell better too, LOL! Mike even says it

smells like Italian something *wink* You can see the different textures in the grains, some I grind finer than

others for better absorption. They love it and we place a small plastic lid

full of sand and small grit in along with their food and water. We also

begin introducing grated up carrots, lettuce, squash, bread crumbs, etc...

This is when they learn to become beggars*wink*