>>1232300I've never seen it with stones on it before, but that would help prevent erosion. My raised beds had piles of deadfall limb debris piled up with yard waste piled over that then a layer of soil over that. They were pretty big, but melted down quite fast, like a deflated balloon really. They had mushrooms sprouting through the soil all the time. Years later there was practically nothing left, but once in a while I'll hit an old limb that hasn't quite composted into nothing near the very bottom when digging root crops out.
>>1232343with my own experience with other seeds, yes. The ziploc bag method helps a great deal for most seeds. Though, I've never tried it with ones that have 2 months long germination cycles. I bet they need something like acid scarification. I'm sure something in their native lands eats the berries and craps them out so that they grow faster than those not eaten.
>>1232344Layer feed should be fine for them right now. Young chickens usually have odd eggs or small eggs to start out. As they get older they get stronger and bigger. I had one egg a month or so ago that was the same size as a quail egg, without a yolk inside.
I see your golden-laced Wyandotte and raise you a speckled Sussex.
