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[Nikon]

Happy Chooks that Roo is a real stunner!


Thanks everyone for the photography love, I've been needing it lately.

 

[casportpony]

Another fire:


-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

• http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Barn-Fire-Rages-in-Gilroy-Ferguson-Road-Pallet-280041322.html
• http://abc7news.com/news/firefighters-battling-pallet-fire-near-gilroy-/360807/

-Kathy

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: That has got to be the strangest thing I've ever seen.

Quote: Thank you!

Oh bologna! I like your pics, and my chickens don't compare to yours!

Happy Chooks that Roo is a real stunner!


Thanks everyone for the photography love, I've been needing it lately.

Thank you, he is giving me some really nice offspring.

Another fire:


-Kathy

Oh no! I hope they get it out quickly.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Very nice!

-Kathy

 

[HighStreetCoop]

The pig that looks like a sheep! There are some of those in Davis. My vet says that they are vicious!

Most pigs are IME (sure, they're cute when their little, but they don't stay little). When I was a kid, when the neighbors removed the piglets from the sows, they had to alert everyone because sows would often break out and go on rampages. Facing down a 500 lb raging sow with nothing but a buggy whip is terrifying. Pretty much gave me a life-long dislike of them.

 

[HighStreetCoop]

Anyone near Oakland have a 5'-ish length of chicken wire or hardware cloth I could buy? I need to make a top for the brooder this weekend and I *really* don't want to buy a $70 roll of chicken wire at Home Depot. I'm open to other ideas and advice, too.

 

[casportpony]

Anyone near Oakland have a 5'-ish length of chicken wire or hardware cloth I could buy? I need to make a top for the brooder this weekend and I *really* don't want to buy a $70 roll of chicken wire at Home Depot. I'm open to other ideas and advice, too.

Are there any recycling places near you? The ones near me always have interesting items that they're will to sell.

-Kathy

 

[Minflick]

Let alone how SHARP those tusks are! My kids did 4H (dairy goats), and one time we were in the daisy chain taking piglets from the sow. Sow was not a bad pig, as sows go... We were nearly finished and the sow was mad, and turned her head and a tusk grazed the forearm of the project leader's husband, who was in the pen with her, doing the actual removing of piglets while the rest of us were outside the fence. The sow did not bite down on his arm (I had a perfect view of her profile - no biting happened) But that tusk that grazed his arm? Laid it OPEN, 3-4 inches long, and about 1/2 inch deep. Cue the BLOOD. God awful mess. And that was accidental, she wasn't attacking him - I've seen that, I know what it looks like, and this wasn't it. That was one of two events that had me telling my girls there would be NO pig project in their futures, no how, no way. Piglets were cute, anything older than that was too dangerous for my comfort.

 

[HighStreetCoop]

Are there any recycling places near you? The ones near me always have interesting items that they're will to sell.

-Kathy

That's a good idea. Maybe Urban Ore would have something ...