Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Sally Sunshine]

What about the gray PVC? Its made for outdoor applications even up north. Its still very light and it doesn't weather like wood and you can make it with an open bottom so that you can move the runs around and keep the ground from getting torn up. I can make one 10X5 run for about $70 (If I shop at Lowes) and have wire left over for another run.

The place where I work used the gray stuff to make a PVC run that is about 10X20, with a vaulted ceiling and a short, human sized door. A little heavier, but still completely movable for one person.

we are on 2 acres of woods Renee there is no open, the dogs have the only small open spot. The kids dont even have an open area except thefreezing pool lol

 

[rbaker0345]

Ugh, I will keep thinking.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I can not answer for Sally, but the way it happened for me was, I had someone from the Harrisburg Lab come out and test because I had some sick birds a few years ago, and got really concerned since we are less than half a mile from some very large production houses and I knew they were having issues...while they were walking around I got to talking about NPIP, they took one look at the old silo's and all the pigeons that fly around and told me I would have to cover everything....I kind of laughed at the time because I do not mind the pigeon's, now the little sparrow's are another story.

What we need is breeding pens and small ones all lined up, thin long runs covered with wire or even tarps! I just cant do that nor do I have time. I have exactly two full days (if you call them full with the time change) to empty, vacume clean coops and boxes and bleach everything and clean up runs of sticks and crap. Netting for one area alone will take a day with just two of us, I have learned that no matter how great your carpentry skills are you are thrown something wacky it takes time. time I have is until noon Monday!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

let me snap a pick from above the one area..... brb

 

[Sally Sunshine]

ok you cant see fence but I traced where I think it is, it goes behind the one coop to the WFS coop so it goes into the woods more behind the coop. They love that area, its dry and full of peat from the trees and such too!!! I could run a wire down the front but that is the mud hole. nasty it got this summer when it was so wet.

As you can see, the old wood shed is HUGE and my goal is to shore it up and reroof and add small breeding pens and long runs coming out from each pen, I can fit a ton under it too. They can have cover from elements as well as wire top out in the sun. That means the other run has to go eventually so I have access to behind the new coops.




my goal but alot nicer and the coops will be off ground and smaller.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

 

[Sally Sunshine]

hmmm my goal pic isnt showing up..

 

[Sally Sunshine]

 

[sumi]

I have milked a horse, and let me tell you she wasn't happy about it. We had to get the colostrum into her baby (whom she had rejected). She was sedated and there were four people helping (on top of the acepromazine, mind you). We had her blindfolded, lip twitched, someone was holding a skin roll on her neck, we had her pinned up against a wall and some one was pulling her tail and holding up one of her legs so that she couldn't kick me. I managed to get 6oz of colostrum for the baby to drink, I nearly missed losing my face and vowed never to breed that mare again. Have you ever seen how small a horses teats are? But the foals titres came out normal, so it was all worth it.

Mine took it very well, thankfully!

 

[sumi]

Awe, Sumi theyre so cute, but look at the look that mama is giving the camera. I don't feel trust in that look.
Doesn't it make you want to let one of your broodies hatch out a bunch of eggs Sally?

O.K... how about this one?