Dixie Chicks

[Mahen100]

The "ends" of my coop completely open on big hinges....I just need to make a secure 1/4 in. welded wire insert on a frame to latch into one end, and the hens would be happier in the heat. I open one or two ends during the day, but have to latch them shut at night for security. For years I have not had predator problems other than hawks...which a bamboo patch has pretty well provided cover against. This year...something is living "with" us. I understand why the natives made sacrifices to King Kong. I left some cooked chicken out to thaw on the patio on a plate covered with a plate. This am the plates were on the floor and the chicken strips were nowhere. I was thinking...wonder if I FED the predator it would leave my flock alone......nah...better to do that feeding in a live trap... .everynight, until it is gone...then again to be sure it wasn't two of whatever variety of monster it is. I've gotten three possum....couldn't still be that...could it?



edited to add an S to monster.

 

[BriardChickens]

We had 32C yesterday plus humidity. It was nasty in my opinion. The wyandotte thought it was too warm, dug herself a hole and opened her mouth. Turkeys sprawled their legs out and opened their mouth. The ducks played in their new kiddy pool for most of the day.

Chanteclers walked around, saw one kill a frog. Layed down in a hole, drank from duck pool. Hunted some more.

 

[Alaskan]

Oh, and compost is over ther too...

Your septic cap is a large flat plastic circle thing? Huh!

My septic cap is just a four inch pipe sticking out if the ground with a cap on it... White ones and black ones (for tank and leach field)

Blech... you both know where yours is? Crap, we can't find our septic cap... :/

I know where the tank is on ours but alas the cap is covered. At least by knowing where the tank is I have a pretty small area to search for the cap. In the 9 years I've lived there, I haven't had it pumped. Leach line seems to be in working order still.

Just so you know...... I asked once..... (Because I am a major procrastinator)

It turns out.. That if you put off getting the tank cleaned out that solids start to leak into the leach field and start to clog up and ruin your leach field!!!!!!

So... Either get your tank cleaned out OFTEN, or get ready to have a new leach field dug out.

Not kidding.

It makes your leach field fail.

 

[minihorse927]

Just so you know...... I asked once..... (Because I am a major procrastinator)

It turns out.. That if you put off getting the tank cleaned out that solids start to leak into the leach field and start to clog up and ruin your leach field!!!!!!

So... Either get your tank cleaned out OFTEN, or get ready to have a new leach field dug out.

Not kidding.

It makes your leach field fail.

supposedly mine is a leach line. Not A field, A Single Line about 300+ Feet long. I was told it was a self sustaining system but I really don't know.

 

[Alaskan]

Not sure what that means... Unless the pipe opens out on top of the ground and oozes all over a field.

If it is underground it has to be dumping into something... Even if it is a natural sand pit.

That sand pit will get full of solids and then no longer accept liquid, and you will have to redig.

 

[perchie.girl]

RAIN, GLORIOUS RAIN!!!!!

It won't last long, but

with the current outlook hay prices are way up.... hopefully more rain and farmers can get a second hay crop this year. Otherwise we are looking at $200+ for a round bale of hay this fall.

How many pounds is a round bale? I know they vary from place to place and the equipment used to bale it....


I pay eighteen dollars a bale and they are 110 lbs.... Ten bales a month. for bermuda...if i wanted Alfalfa it would be 20 a bale... those bales run between 120 to 125 pounds a bale...

We dont have round bales here. and I have no pasture to supplement so I feed year round.

I dont feed Alfalfa because its too rich for a horse that does nothing.... But she loves it... So I would be continuiing to free feed the bermuda with the addition of a single flake of Alfalfa per day.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: Just so you know...... I asked once..... (Because I am a major procrastinator)

It turns out.. That if you put off getting the tank cleaned out that solids start to leak into the leach field and start to clog up and ruin your leach field!!!!!!

So... Either get your tank cleaned out OFTEN, or get ready to have a new leach field dug out.

Not kidding.

It makes your leach field fail.

I think thats why mine has failed.... When I bought the house they had 21 women living there.... It was a halfway house for women coming out of prison run by a church. 21 women in a one bedroom one bath house...

Yep the leach field got hozed.... so to speak.

Oh and dont use those enzymes they advertise on TV to break up the solids.... Septic guy said they just free up the fat which is what floats on top... turns it into small particles that can make its way into the leach field.

For what its worth Fat is in alot more than our waste... Its in Soaps too.

deb

 

[bamadude]

@bamadude
  I been meaning to inform you that one of your grand chicks has been incarcerated to the tractor

What happened and which one?

 

[minihorse927]

Not sure what that means... Unless the pipe opens out on top of the ground and oozes all over a field.

If it is underground it has to be dumping into something... Even if it is a natural sand pit.

That sand pit will get full of solids and then no longer accept liquid, and you will have to redig.

I do know that it is 1980's technology and it empties into a creek bed that's only running in water half the year. Never seen anything come out other than clear water...

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:

Not sure what that means... Unless the pipe opens out on top of the ground and oozes all over a field.

If it is underground it has to be dumping into something... Even if it is a natural sand pit.

That sand pit will get full of solids and then no longer accept liquid, and you will have to redig.

Leach fields or lines they are buried the same way.... A field just takes that three hundred feet and converts it to a series of pipes equal to that three hundred feet.

Though I hear the Infiltrator leach system is pretty dang awesome.... they have only been around a few years.... and they are run in a single line often times because their surface area is exponentially larger than the PVC pipe kind.

Infiltrator yes its a leach line


deb