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[oesdog]

Oesdog.... You need to see if the guy with the farmland will let you put a coop on it.... On the very edge of it.... On the edge closest to your property... A small coop...
A coop the size of a dog house. That way you could lock you roos up at night on his property and let them visit all day on your property. . . .

That would make them your neighbor's roos and who could fault you for the neighbor's birds? LOL . . . It's not your fault they like to visit EVERY SINGLE DAY!

OMG, That would be tooo o o o o o Funny!

Sadly that wont work as the farm paddock is directly behind us and that has cows calving on it!!!!! They bellow like crazy - can;t figure how that noise is any quieter than a roo boy??????? I just love getting up in the morning and looking out to see another calf half hanging out of a cow!!!!!!! That is soooo class! Beautiful to watch. The Roos are the other side away from the cows but the hens from there regularly escape into the cow yard. I just love farm land. One day were going to get LAND!!!!!!! Have Piggys and goats and Turkeys, ducks and ROOOOOSTERS!!!!!!!!


Better away as I have family comming and Dan is looking his dinner.

Oes

 

[oesdog]

Yes Oes, Poeple are weird. Chickens are much better company I have come to realize. We had a couple of families that bought homes just off of the end of the runway of our local airport then complained about the noise of the aircraft taking off and landing. What were they thinking??

Funny you should say that. Our Airport here in Belfast regularly gets folk complaining. Thing is its been there longer than they have???? So why did they move there exactly???? Perhaps to have something to complain over??? Anyhow they managed to stop the international flights and push out an investor from the south which lost loads of jobs not to mention economic and travel opertunity!!!!!! Some folk are weird!!!!!!

Yeap chickens are indeed BETTER!!!!!

Oes

 

[thaiturkey]

To be absolutely fair about that, Belfast Airport must be bigger, busier and noisier than it was when it was called Aldergrove. It was very small in 1970 when I was first there and bigger by 1999.

Who was the investor? Shaun Quinn by any chance, although he lives in the north, I think

 

[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers
Glad to see you all are active.My cows won't be calving til august or july.They are quiet right now.
the ducks and the geese are the noisiest in the barnyard.
Rngr sad for you to loose your girls.aA small town around here tried to adopt laws in favor of b y chickens and it was voted down.Dratted old city folk anyhow.
God Bless!

 

[bayvistafarm]

Good morning! I haven't been here for awhile! Its raining, so I have more time to play after my chores. I just had 2 delicous fried eggs on toast! Can't beat those fresh eggs! They were still warm when I put them in the pan. When I read previous posts.. about people complaining about others keeping chickens/roo's, It makes me grateful that I live on a farm, and can have all I want! Well, within reason, lol. Our quota system here, only allows one person per farm (without quota), to have a max of I think 200 birds. We live so close to town, houses are built all around us. The previous generations having sold lots along the road. On the east side of us... a fellow sold his house/property--10 acres.... and then the new owner prompty went to council to try and stop us putting in our 250,000 gallon liquid manure storage pit. The building permit had already gone thru before he moved in.... but we hadn't started building yet. He demanded to know why he wasn't notified (how can you notify someone who may come along and buy a property), yet he did know he was moving beside a farm, with livestock. We had sows at the time, and we were expanding the operation from 30 sows to 90. Ya, move to the country and try and tell someone whose familys' been on the same farm for 9 generations.... just what they can and can't do. Good lord, now I am getting mad, lol. This happened 20 years ago for crying out loud... and hes since moved away. The sows went in 1993, and the last pig went out the door in 1996, we bought weaners and finished them. Course.. there are others who complain about the cows bawling every fall, when we wean the calves. Still..

 

[oesdog]

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It is easy for folk to comment on issues and services that are far away and not something that they would regularly use, or be in a position to discuss with intimate knowledge and understanding. There are a lot of folk who don’t like progress sadly in this world. We call them NIMB’S here NOT IN MY BACKYARD! The fact is that most folk who are complaining about the Airport were not living there in either the 70s or 90s. A deal of folk have since purchased property there and then complained about noise levels and planes. It is quite obvious that if one purchases property within a flight path then one should assume that there will be on occasion noise of that nature. Just as someone who purchases a property overlooking farm land and complains about cows, sheep and chickens!!!!! Which is the reason for this observation.
In order for any City to be a player on a world stage of international business and commerce it is obviously important to have a good sound infrastructure of services which means GOOD transport links to other cities. In this respect sadly Belfast has been left behind and international flights particularly those to and from the USA are very limited here. Which for some folk would indeed seem very unfair!!!
As for the Quinn group that is a totally different matter entirely. The investor mentioned was not that person. It is sad that this conversation that started out as a simple observation of human nature has become for some posters a stage for their own particular political agenda and motives. Attacking individuals is not where we should be at on the coffee thread especially when the person being attacked is not here to defend himself or herself. Which again I am sure most folk here would feel was unfair too! There are a deal of folk here in Ireland who support the Quinn group and all that that family has worked hard to give to Ireland both north and south. There are also folk here who have entirely different feelings toward the Quinn group. Neither of these views should be up for debate on a coffee thread that doesn't include them or their reprisentitives.

Oes - I am away for a coffee I think. Have a good day and let us all remember today in Belfast we are more inclined to be thinking of sea travel and not planes as the centenery of the sinking of Titanic is upon us. Many families are still feeling a great sence of loss as many of our boys who worked on Titanic also died on her.

 

[Gargoyle]

Years ago a friend of mine worked on Salisbury Cathedral, he told me this story, it happened in the early 1970's. A new local resident took them to court over the annoying sound of the church bells. The judge was good- he just asked the Cathedral representative how long the tower had been there (since the 1330's), asked the complainant how long they'd lived there (three or four years), told them they should have noticed there was a church tower before they bought the house and told them to get the **** out of his court room.

Some judges have common sense.

 

[thaiturkey]

It is easy for folk to comment on issues and services that are far away and not something that they would regularly use, or be in a position to discuss with intimate knowledge and understanding. There are a lot of folk who don’t like progress sadly in this world. We call them NIMB’S here NOT IN MY BACKYARD! The fact is that most folk who are complaining about the Airport were not living there in either the 70s or 90s. A deal of folk have since purchased property there and then complained about noise levels and planes. It is quite obvious that if one purchases property within a flight path then one should assume that there will be on occasion noise of that nature. Just as someone who purchases a property overlooking farm land and complains about cows, sheep and chickens!!!!! Which is the reason for this observation.
In order for any City to be a player on a world stage of international business and commerce it is obviously important to have a good sound infrastructure of services which means GOOD transport links to other cities. In this respect sadly Belfast has been left behind and international flights particularly those to and from the USA are very limited here. Which for some folk would indeed seem very unfair!!!
As for the Quinn group that is a totally different matter entirely. The investor mentioned was not that person. It is sad that this conversation that started out as a simple observation of human nature has become for some posters a stage for their own particular political agenda and motives. Attacking individuals is not where we should be at on the coffee thread especially when the person being attacked is not here to defend himself or herself. Which again I am sure most folk here would feel was unfair too! There are a deal of folk here in Ireland who support the Quinn group and all that that family has worked hard to give to Ireland both north and south. There are also folk here who have entirely different feelings toward the Quinn group. Neither of these views should be up for debate on a coffee thread that doesn't include them or their reprisentitives.

Oes - I am away for a coffee I think. Have a good day and let us all remember today in Belfast we are more inclined to be thinking of sea travel and not planes as the centenery of the sinking of Titanic is upon us. Many families are still feeling a great sence of loss as many of our boys who worked on Titanic also died on her.

Nevertheless, a developing airport becomes more of a nuisance as time passes and it's inevitable that there will be complaints. If people don't complain, commercial interests may well ride roughshod over the interests of individuals. That applies to planes as well as animals.

Are you assuming that I was being critical of Mr. Quinn? Where did you read that into what I wrote? Not at all. I've met him and he's a very charming man who has done remarkably well for his family and people on both sides of the border, starting from no more than a family farm that happened to have gravel deposits. I found it touching that he preserved the old farmhouse, despite the radical change in use of the land.

 

[rngrbill]

now now children let's play nice and get back to what really matters. our girls and boys. Sorry I mentioned the airport thing.

 

[thaiturkey]

now now children let's play nice and get back to what really matters. our girls and boys. Sorry I mentioned the airport thing.

You're forgiven. Let's take off in a different direction and keep things nice and quiet.