WOW!!! All the way "down there?"
From your info near your avatar, I thought maybe you were right here in the Kingman area.
Thank you for your offer, and I will seriously think about raising those meaties. As I recall reading, they are harvested at around eight weeks, gee, that's about the time I would normally be putting newborn chicks out into the yard. I have the brooders, and the room in my office to get this started, and I have a freezer that my sister gave me that is just sitting next door doing nothing more than gathering dust. When would be a good time to find, order, secure meaties and should I be looking at some of the mail order places to get them?
I used to travel right through your area when I was 'working' the gun shows selling a great product down in Phoenix and in Prescott, used to stay at a camp ground in Prescott Valley, I miss the camping but not the ants they had there, but I learned to live with them.
The next time you are driving through this area, let me know, I'll PM my phone number, I am just a mile north (that equates to two long blocks) of Highway 68 almost directly north of Mile Marker 21.
It's really funny, my yard has always been the best looking yard on the whole street, but I have been seriously lacking in time and energy to keep it up, and yesterday I actually took a few hours to start cleaning up the yard, especially out in back. We are on 2.5 acres, and the black plastic bags I had full of Pepsi cans were finally destroyed by all the sun and I had cans ALL OVER the yard, and as I was cleaning up I started thinking I would be embarrassed to have any one 'visit' and see the condition I have allowed this place to become.
GOOD NEWS department, I am now spending more time at home working. I got into sign making about five or six years ago, and during a lull in my other work related time, and with all the heat, I decided to get back into the sign business, custom hand routed signs, and business has really taken off. Mostly because I stopped and made a few 'sales calls' last week, and today I am delivering the last eleven of the eighteen signs I sold last week. I would really like to show them here but do NOT want to be commercializing on the forum. These signs are free hand carvings, I draw what I want on the wood, then use a handheld 2.5 hp router and cut the sign, I cut around the lettering and artwork and cut away the background so the letters stand out, rather than cut the letters into the wood. Really interesting stuff and seems to be VERY popular when I show up with a couple of my signs.
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My Son an avid Boyscout troop 262 Glendale and I built this Redwood Chicken Tractor just thought we would share. Thanks
But about five days ago more bees returned to the old hive in the column to rebuild it. We didn't want to kill them again...not all bees are Africanized, that is just over paranoid thinking. We went out the first night, when they had gone back to their original home, we filled the hole in the column with spray foam. The next day there were climbing all over the foam and buzzing around nervously trying to get back inside. The second day after filling the hive with spray foam they all went away...hopefully they will find a more appropriate home.
