I SOOOOO wish you lived up here. I have nothing to prove by doing it all myself. I need experience. There is a difference between designing and doing. I have always loved hands on doing, helped me understand what I am designing. When I inspected work sights, I observed, never told anyone on how I wanted it done, I just wanted it done and done right. If it wasn't they had to do it again. The company I worked for hired pros. It makes a difference. I learned a lot. . . . I should let them just do their job!
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I SOOOOO wish you lived up here. I have nothing to prove by doing it all myself. I need experience. There is a difference between designing and doing. I have always loved hands on doing, helped me understand what I am designing. When I inspected work sights, I observed, never told anyone on how I wanted it done, I just wanted it done and done right. If it wasn't they had to do it again. The company I worked for hired pros. It makes a difference. I learned a lot. . . . I should let them just do their job!
2??? Oh 3 or 4 ...now were talking.. That is why birds are called a flock... I like your thinking... We have given a way most of our chicks... We can't wait to see what they look like..
Oh & we got our first chick this morning from our hen Lorraine !!! Yee haaa
Oh shoot girl you are hilarious !!! Love your epic adventure..So progress continues on the coop here. I'm asked my husband to push to get it finish with the heat having arrived here. So I think we are t-minus a week now to finish. I'll be relieved once they are in because I'll have the mister system in place on their new coop. We had a short hiatus on progress because we don't have a truck to get material. The neighbor helped us out yesterday though, so that was great. He had his kids come over and look at the chickens. The younger son had seen them when they were still babies, this was the first time they've ever held chickens though, so that's fun.Shortly after they left though, we had a near miss with the chickens and dogs. I think the chickens were just a little flustered with having the kids around so they kept gravitating towards the wood pile which is next to the fence that separates the dogs from the chickens. I kept trying to shoo them away from the wood pile/fence area. But god, next thing I knew I see out of the corner of my eye Boss Hogg's butt running through the dog yard with my boxer following close behind. One of our dogs, Nibbler, is excellent with the chickens. She loves them, is very gentle with them, and is mainly just interested in eating their poop. She immediately ran to the corner of the yard and was cowering in fear of what might happen next between the other two dogs (who have high prey drives) and Boss Hogg. As soon as I saw Boss Hogg and Bug in the yard, I started screaming these loud, guttural screams at the dogs. Bug recalled immediately and peeled off the chicken. But our dog with the highest prey drive and lowest recall is Hemi, our corgi. Hemi didn't completely recall, but with all my shouting he hesitated enough that I could get to him. Boss Hogg lived to tell the tale, completely unscathed. Just wet tail feathers. Both she and Rosco were so upset afterwards (Rosco wasn't involved, just heard all the commotion and screaming) that they were bouncing around in front of me until I picked each of them up and held them for a bit. They settled down after that and roosted fine for the evening. Close call though. So anyway, work resumed on the coop. As you guys have seen, we've got that curved dirt area for the run. My husband asked me to figure out the angles for the wood cuts to frame the curve. I haven't had any experience with wood cutting, but I figured, "Hey, it's *just* geometry, right?". Well, an annoying 90 minutes later, I had it figured out. But my angles add up to 89 degrees, so one degree off isn't too bad. And anyway, we'll probably have more error on that with the cutting, it's not like the tolerances are that tight on the saw. Here's my chicken scratch...
But, we're making good progress...
And the chickens are anxiously awaiting their new pad. By the way, I noticed today that the chickens were sort of obsessed with my husband's car. Especially at looking at their reflection in his hub caps. Have you guys seen this?
I mean, they are pretty good looking ladies, perhaps they are thinking about a modeling career...
That's all for us tonight. Hope you all are having a great weekend!
I might try to put a mirror out & take photos.. I have photos on our S D card. Someday I will be able to post.. Love the black & white..
I got some good advice from countrygirl and some longtime chicken experts she knows. I'm making some changes and going to keep working with Button for a while longer.
Maybe it's me being optimistic, but after 4 days on poly vi sol and some other diet changes, Button looks a little better. She still needed to be placed in the coop last night, but she is getting out on her own again.
I've noticed that the older girls don't pick on her as much anymore and when she nabs a good piece of treat, they let her have it for a while before someone takes it away. I've also noticed that Sasha runs interference for Button a lot. Good girl.
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Glad she is doing good.. Did you splint her toe?
Well an even better hatch this weekend than before; 25 out of 27 eggs for 93% and 4 out of 4 Welsh Harlequin ducks for 100%. Soooo I have loads of Easter Eggers/olive eggers and duckies for sale! Including 4 Muscovy ducklings. PM me if you are interested!
You know, City Farm, I bet you are right. They want a profit, turn over is important, when a % has hatched on its own, I wonder if the help the rest out so they can use the incubator for the next tray of eggs? Some how it makes sense. Some close to hatching, survive the sudden release, the others die. Cut their losses. Also, when you have 100dred of peeps how do you spot a sickly chick from one just sleeping. It would take someone observing rather then glancing.
I lost a chick out of my first 6. I had no way of knowing if I did something wrong or it was failure to thrive. I tried to keep her a live, did my best to feed and water her for nearly a week.
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