Posts by BusyBlonde

Go to www.co.iredell.nc.us/Departments/Planning/Zoning/aspx, figure out where you are located, and click on the tab for your zoning. Hope that helps!

We'll be reducing our flock before winter.  Out of the 8 Marans I have, 6 are roosters - ouch!  I'd like to keep two, the black copper and the splash, but two roosters to two hens isn't a good ratio.  Although I could...

Roxannemc, I am sorry you haven't found this thread particularly helpful and feel targeted by some of the joking on here.  I am a relative newbie, having only had my chickens for three years.  We raised them when I was a kid,...

This didn't happen to me, but to my sister and a friend of hers.   My Dad passed away of a massive heart attack.  He was in his car, but managed to get it off the road and in the parking lot of a small public fishing area...

I bought a wasp/hornet/yellowjacket trap at Lowe's Home Improvements earlier this year, and it works pretty well except the attractant only lasts a couple of weeks.  Google wasp traps, a lot of ideas for home-made ones come up....

Once you have eggs, pasta is really cheap!  I buy the white whole wheat flour.  Put 2 c. flour & 3 eggs in your food processor, a dash of salt, and you've got pasta dough in 30 seconds.  It tastes much better than...

Quote:Originally Posted by Fred's Hens Glad you mentioned that.  Why all the newbie questions on "what to feed, when, to who"???   Honestly?  Really?   Right on the bag of Purina or on the website of every major feed company,...

Quote:Originally Posted by loanwizard I agree that it is not just numbers of chickens, and it doesn't take 20 years to gain all the knowledge that you OT's have. It used to but we live in the information age. Today we don't have to...

Definitely put operating a motorcycle on your list! There is nothing like it. If you're uncomfortable on two wheels, try a trike, a voyager kit, or a spyder. We had to sell my bike a couple years ago, but I will have one again...

Crickets and peepers while sitting on the porch at night. Hot-air balloons hitting their burner while going over our house at sunset. Screech-owls calling from the treeline. My cat, purring softly in my ear while I tried to sleep for...