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pollo disco said:
Well, down here on the border, life is starting to change. Summer antics have finally quelled down and the season is changing as well. My birds are all molting. Getting a winter coat ready? 1st. time mind you. Anyhow, I have been getting 6-7 eggs a day with all chickens laying now. But today, no eggs. WTH??? And ofcourse, its when I just got more feed and supplies bought. sheeesh. There's gratitude for ya! The family and I are getting ready for Dia de los Muertos festivities. We will visit my wife's grandparents graves and do the deed. (Tequila, flowers, calaveras, songs) should be fun. The kids are finally getting into it and not freaking out. Wife is happy about that. Culture and all!!! Hope everybody is well and if you are in the area, feel free to look us up. Look out, the holidays are fast upon us all.....
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Good times pollo disco! Yeah, it's high molting season in our flock here too. I'll be glad when it's over. I always enjoy your reports from Rio Rico.
 
Just wanted to share my amazing score yesterday--I got two used (from 2007) 800 gallon galvanized cisterns (4' dia X 6' tall) for $150. The best part is they have metal bottoms so they can be moved from location to location. They also had the lids and all the extra pieces to make it work. We had to get them out of where they were located, which was an adventure, but totally worth it at $0.11 per gallon of water storage. I'm very excited about watering my herb garden with rainwater.
 
Gallo del Cielo said:
Just wanted to share my amazing score yesterday--I got two used (from 2007) 800 gallon galvanized cisterns (4' dia X 6' tall) for $150. The best part is they have metal bottoms so they can be moved from location to location. They also had the lids and all the extra pieces to make it work. We had to get them out of where they were located, which was an adventure, but totally worth it at $0.11 per gallon of water storage. I'm very excited about watering my herb garden with rainwater.
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Major score!
 
Demosthine said:
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I have faith that, eventually, it will come. Eventually. I hope.
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MagicChicken said:
Chickens versus Garden

For a couple of years I had a garden with a 2' high chicken wire fence, and chickens that respected the fence. They would eat stuff that grew through it, but they never tried to get over the fence. I would plant stuff for them around the edges, and I would eat the stuff in the middle. It was a great system. And then came the Fayoumi girls, and the garden world changed...

Round 1: It took my two Fayoumi cross pullets a couple of weeks to figure out how to get into that garden. They would land on top of the 2"x2" upright posts that the chicken wire was stapled to. The fence doesn't have any top rails. It is just chicken wire stapled to 2x2" uprights every couple of feet (the uprights are screwed in to the 2"x6" frame around the raised bed garden). Those Fayoumi crosses figured out how to balance on that little 2"x2" square, and jump into the garden from there. Then they taught my fat old 3 year old production hen to do the same thing...
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My garden was decimated...


Round 2: I really wanted a garden, so I took 4'x7' sheets of remesh and arched them into hoops over what was left of the garden beds. Covered the arches with plastic poultry netting. Planted new stuff. It worked for a while. Then I found this:



Yes, that's right - my fat old production red hen. On top of the netting. I have no idea how she got up there. But she did it several times.

A few days after that photo was taken the Fayoumi crosses figured out how to get under the netting. End of my winter/spring garden. What they didn't eat they scratched into oblivion. It was also the end of the Fayoumis. They went swimming with dumplings along with the production red. I couldn't let them teach the next batch of chickens how to do those acrobatic garden-destroying things. But that production red girl sure was happy for the last few weeks of her life!
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At the same time it is not funny..........it is funny they way you wrote it up !
 
ISO 3-4 Easter Egger LAYING hens. Any color variety OK, must lay blue to blue green eggs.pm me please if you have any your willing to part with.
 
I haven't caught up in posts, that's whay work is for tomorrow! Just wanted to post some pictures of our 'artwork' on the meatie coop. I fell on the trail yesterday and shredded my palm and bruised my knee so I'm not good for too much this weekend.

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