Patrick: glad to see you up and posting. I sent emails before trying to set up trade for double petaled bloodroot,lARGE flowering bellwort, trillium grandiflorum, and i too would be interested in lady slippers if you should ever get some to trade. see my trade list. also have a few other thing i can possibly add to the trade. please c-mail me so we can arrange a trade.

Please check my trade list, have lots of tomatoes, and other veggies. Bean, Lima, King of the Garden Bean, Lima, Willowleaf White Beet, Bull's Blood Melon, Kansas Parsnip, Half long Guernsey Squash, Sweet Dumpling Turnip, white egg Watermelon, White Wonder Herbs: Mugwort Skullcap Worm Wood Flowers: Larkspur, red white and blue (mix preferred) Foxglove, "Silver Fox" columbine, any of the songbird series columbine, black currant ice monarda, any except red or purple

Velvet, Thanks...the most confusing thing about it is that I opened the coop and let them out when I first noticed the bloody head.....yet...the injured chick DOES NOT RUN AWAY....not only that but it seems to seek out the 2 black showgirls and invite more fights. What gives? The chickens are not crowded...and they often free range during the day....however the chicks don't seem to stray far at all from the coop..and the injured one DOES NOT take advantage of the opportunity to ESCAPE. Instead, it holds its ground and fights back. The problem is that is it outnumbered....two to one. One of the other chicks does not fight and simply watches. We have a rooster in the coop as well....I thought roosters were supposed to break up hen fights? Of course, these chicks are not necessarily hens (we don't know yet). I called our local feed store and they don't have anything. However, Stromberg's chickens and McMurray Hatchery sell a spray called "Hot Pick" to stop pecking on an injury. They also sell some kind of blinders so the chicks can't see each other (they call these peepers or something like this). They also sell beak "clip" thingies that stop the birds from fully closing their mouth. Also, I've been told I can clip the beaks with dog clippers (shudder!) but I am scared of experimenting with this last option. Should I be? ARGH! What to do!

Yikes, I was gonna say! A blue moon doesn't have anything to do with color....but that it's the second full moon this month. That happens everyone once in a blue moon (hardly ever). So, we are ALL having a blue moon, each and every one of us.