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Originally Posted by Olive Hill 

 

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In one word Kubota.  Ever since Deere started using outsourced foreign engines you may as well go orange, anyway, "nothing runs away like a deer(e)"

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Originally Posted by RaZ 

 

What I personally will not lay claim to is that I am a "farmer" or even have a "farm". However, I should not be prohibited from trying to be self-sufficient in my attempt to feed myself.

 

 

I wish you the best of the luck, but lets call a spade a spade.  If you have any intention of arguing your case with the RTFA you are, indeed, claiming to be a farmer with a farm. The very description of the Act is, "to provide for circumstances under which a farm shall not be found to be a public or private nuisance".  Section 2, not even a quarter of the way down the first page of the act, defines a "farm" as, "the land, plants, animals, buildings, structures, including ponds used for agriculture or aquacultural activities, machinery, equipment and other appurtenances used in the commercial production of farm products."  

Every single protective provision in the act begins with "A farm or farm operation...", the latter being very similarly defined as the first.  If you're not a "farm or farm operation" it does not apply to you.  If you're going to walk in there and claim you have protection under it, you are by extension claiming to be have a farm. 

You gotta do, what you gotta do.  At least own your actions, though.   

Shamrock, your modern games are lovely!  I'd never seen them before, but what a neat bird.  And those legs!  (I also second (third?  fifth?  tenth?) the compliments on your writing.  You come across very well.)

Raz, glad you're not in prison.  For a chicken.  Can you imagine that conversation "in the yard"?

You know, when we first came up with the code name for Olive, the first thing I thought of was not Pimento, but Martini.  Not sure why...

I love the dog-in-screen tales.  I'm going to have to figure out something.  I wouldn't care so much but I know the cat is going to find the holes the dog made and then run off.  Which is a problem in and of itself but really he would have a hard time coming back to the house and meowing to get in because he appears to be afraid of the geese.

Now that I finally have my coop done (Well, mostly.  Well, enough for inhabitants.) the chicks are really enjoying life.  Though they seem confused about things like worms they accidentally scratch up.  Which is OK, I guess, since Opa's banties just run over and steal them.  I think they're cold at night, but it hasn't been that cold here, 50's or so.  They all sleep huddled in a pile in the corner.  Are they going to be OK tomorrow night when it gets down to 38?  I mean they're like 7 weeks old and, with the exception of a few tufty bits, seem fully feathered.  Are they just sissies?

Love my Kubota

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Originally Posted by Olive Hill 


Figures. You also have an Aussie.

Just kidding. I'm too poor for a new one anyway! LOL!

Truth be told, when I spring for another tractor it'll be a Deere.  Speaking of  Jillaroo, the ACD, she's actually playing nice and watching my KC duckling as it zooms around the yard.  A huge training step I never thought would happen

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Originally Posted by 1muttsfan 

Love my Kubota

 

  

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Originally Posted by EeyoreD 

You know, when we first came up with the code name for Olive, the first thing I thought of was not Pimento, but Martini.  Not sure why...

 

That one's far more fitting.  LOL!  Only... a bit girly.  Rum & Coke, just doesn't have the same ring to it though, does it? 

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Originally Posted by Olive Hill 

 

That one's far more fitting.  LOL!  Only... a bit girly.  Rum & Coke, just doesn't have the same ring to it though, does it? 

Martinis are girly?

It's not like I suggested an Appletini or a Cosmo.

Though I always thought of martinis as sophisticated so...  (well, I did until my friend from Boston spent a night spilling them on my toes.  I think they held his liquor better than he did.)