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yum!!

 

my daughters neighbor,,, open the door through it out, isn't that what every one does?

interesting may have to try that...when we had dogs we never had coon problems they chased them out of the yard and did a good job of marking their territory 

Love it, never thought of hooking several carts together....YOU ARE SO CLEVER,,,, I don't know why your neighbor is having such a problem, she should be thrilled that you are so ambitious and making so many improvements to your yard...are you going to show us the finished project?   

If you ever run out I have lots of work that needs to be done on my yard

Good job,,, do you do them your self? or have help? DH and I have done 17 so far 9 to go, but I am afraid to do it myself caus I can't figure out how to hold down the pird and swin an ax at the same time, afraid I will miss

Edited by snowflake - 7/13/12 at 3:57pm

sure hope we get a good rain soon, the farmers up here are really hurting. first the frost and now the drought. Pray for rain

No Snowflake, I take them to Kapenga Farms. Just the basic, they butcher, I bag, is $2 a bird. They bantams use there bags, $2.75. I needed the weights on them so I paid the extra $.75. I did ask if they teach how to do it, he said it'd have to be something they'd think about.

They're hurting everywhere, especially here. At least half of them are a loss because they haven't grown. Although I do find it interesting how we go down a road and one side is all burnt up and the other side is the way it should be and it's the same farm. It's all about soil!

 

I dread the thought of what our feed bills will be since the majority of the country's crops are hurting. My boyfriends mom burnt corn in her pellet stove last year. She obviously won't this year! Our pellet stove is older we can only burn wood pellets. We did try mixing in small amounts of cherry pits but that messed up the motor so Aric is going to try to fix it. Although we are looking at getting a wood stove if we can afford one. We see people on craigslist giving away massive amounts of wood that we could use in a stove!

A few years ago, my ex-SIL wanted to see what a Master Gardener's yard looked like. I told her that it is NEVER finished and is always in flux.  She was kind of surprised because I "finished" several projects for her Mom up North. I suppose that family comes first, then customers and then if there is any time left over, I'll get to my stuff.

 

Hooking the carts together is nothing new. When I was a kid, I worked on my uncle's farm and when we mowed hay, we had a cutter, a baler and 2 or 3 hay wagons all in tandom behind the tractor.  I'm just doing it on a mini scale here in the city.  

Attempting to show Olive her cuteywiddlecuddlypie and Snookums..

 

The one is the back has the yellow spot on his feathers. 

 

this is what I built Tuesday between running grandson to and from camp. New roost for the chicks DD and grand daughters raised this spring

  I put bedding from the floor on the poop board makes it easier to clean and I don't have to paint it

 

sweet!!!!  look silver

just noticed how green that patch of grass is, the only green in my yard. right off the pack in the shade 

 

1 muttsfan, your Basque are doing very well the hen is afraid of every one runs if we or other birds come near her.... roo will come up and eat out of my hand but is still cautious grabs a treat and backs off...I am hoping as the roo gets a little less standoffish the hen will warm up some

Hmmm. I wonder if that works better than man-pee..................lol.

 

Aaaaah. Dog.  Big dog pee, at that.  Therin lies the difference, having birds without dogs is a Huuuuge difference. Nothing really to scare them.     I have mine locked up like fort knox in a metal coop, no food or water near the coop, and still they come............ Don't take any special skills to tell they are frequent, sand tracks are easy to read! Though DH's uncle next door's chickens and rabbit  are dead, he has been trapping and DH has dispatched 3-4 in addition to uncles 3-4, and those chickens have been dead and gone for most of a month now! 

 

Also, in the 70's and 80's coons were trapped extensively, almost to the point of being hard to get according to other hunting folks i know. You would be surprised at how many there are now..............Just no money in it so no-one keeps up anymore. 

Edited by fuzzybutt love - 7/13/12 at 5:07pm

aahh, how tasty cute!