Dixie Chicks

[BriardChickens]

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

1400-1500 lbs. in a round bale on average. Hay is expected to be expensive at the moment. Some people are expecting to pay $300... our normal prices are $40-60. Horse quality.

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.

Here it is recommended that those kind of set ups still get pumped out every other year to get the best out of it. You don't want to pump out too often or you loose the "good bacteria". Right now we only have a 2000g holding tank, but will upgrade a 2 step tank and leach field with the new house.

 

[Amberjem]

WRT septic caps.... Its reallllly a good idea to find them.... If there is an issue the septic company will charge about ninety bucks an hour to find them.... starteing with one and a half hours.

Mine needs to be pumped out periodically.... because of a dying leach field.... Getting a new leach field done is as expensive as digging for a new septic.

I got lucky the first time I needed to have it pumped. The fellow had started with his rod across the back of the house... and I went over by the tree with a shovel and scraped down about six inches right ON top of the cap.


My Caps are metal domed affairs about eighteen inches in diameter.... they are very thin so it would be possible for an adult to stand there and it could crush dropping them into the tank. After the tank was pumped and re capped and re buried. I layed a sheet of plywood over the top of each Cap to let me know where they were and to keep me from worrying about falling in if I were to walk over them.

for what its worth as well the septic guy hopped in to the full tank and showed me how he could walk on top of the "mat" that forms on top of the effluent underneath. And it did not stink.... it only smelled like very rich dirt.

Pumping cost me about 125. and If i am careful not to put toilet paper in I wont have to have it pumped more than once every four years.

Thats One person with a tank big enough for a family of three.

deb

how many gallons?

Man, this board is def like a box of chocolates.....this morning it is septic caps (who doesn't have one?) and I swear that there was some post about group sex...or maybe I read it wrong... and property lines and encroaching suburbia. Gotta love it.

Question: There is a two day heat advisory here...should I take momma hen, new chicks and still infertile eggs under momma into the house that is airconditioned here....in the cat carrier they are already in (but inside the coop?_) All the chickens are panting...heat index will be 105 to 110 F this afternoon. I hate to disrupt ma hen, worry her sitting eggs will be just toooooooo hot for her; she is being such a great mom...I think the more tolerable temps would be worth the disruption of moving the entire nest and contents into the kitchen here.

Morning everyone

variety is a good thing keeps things interesting morning

What happened and which one?

he decided to go hormonal was chasing other cockerels relentlessly...even when I stepped in his way he still continued to chase the others..nothing was distracting him from the chase.... he wasnt happy with being only around strictly cockerels as well

 

[Mahen100]

I wish I had checked under the broody hen earlier...might have saved it. There was a really big chick dead in shell...almost completely zipped but not zipped in spots...just couldn't push out to hatch. There are two more eggs that "float" right but have no pips and didn't "wiggle" during a float in 100 degree water. What to do? I put those two back under the mama.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: Good question..... I have an incredible perk rate on my land.... the distance between the caps is about six feet so add on another six for each end.... so twelve feet long by appx six feet in diameter.... those ends are rounded not flat.

http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/construction/tank.php

about 3000 gallons

deb

 

[Amberjem]

I wish I had checked under the broody hen earlier...might have saved it. There was a really big chick dead in shell...almost completely zipped but not zipped in spots...just couldn't push out to hatch.

There are two more eggs that "float" right but have no pips and didn't "wiggle" during a float in 100 degree water. What to do? I put those two back under the mama.

aww...what kinda chicks you expecting to hatch?

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: That runs about the same price as what I am paying.... your round bale is the equivalent of almost thirteen of my three strand bales.

Wow 40.00 for 1500 lbs of hay....

that is a big difference. That would be the equivalent of approximately 4 dollars a bale for me.... WE NEVER paid that little.

deb

 

[Beer can]

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...

That's how my grandparents was, pipe came out of the ground down below their place, water ran into the creek. My parents have a holding tank, then a perferated tank, then leeches into the ditch crosses under the road a fertilizes the field across.
I don't know what we have, house is 100+ yrs old. Heard the bathroom was put in in '63. See no evidence of what it is or where, hopefully I have no problems. Doesn't stink anywhere, front yard dry. You shouldn't have to have a tank pumped, if it's working properly, breaking down solids. Adding those bacteria tabs is a good idea. You can also add sour milk down your drain, works the same. Grease should not end up down the drain. Toilet paper would be best if it wasn't flushed but I don't know many that wouldn't (Gramma wouldn't).
Best setup, how our house is, only toilet water goes to tank, all other drains (grey water?) go directly to leach field, or elsewhere all together. That way soaps, detergents, bleach, etc doesn't affect or harm the bacteria breaking down the solids in the tank.
Buddy of mine built what he called a evaporation field. Perferations in the pipes goes up rather than down as in a leach field. Sets on a thick layer of gravel with grass growing on it. Don't know how it worked out haven't been there in a long time. The reason he said he was going to try it was he's never seen a leach field work right anyway, they always leak out somewhere and stink.

 

[Mahen100]

@Amberjem I was given three eggs by a person who's driveway I pulled in because of a "fresh eggs" sign. The one blue egg I was told was pure bred Americauna, and it hatched; and the other two even she didn't know....so I was only hoping to offer the Orp chicken something to try her wing as raising. So far, she's doing great. I think it is possible the dead-in-shell chick was from the roo I had to rehome...it was a really big chick...maybe even big enough to get stuck in an egg. The other two eggs still under her...if even partially developed...would indicate some of the eggs under the hen were from my own flock after the rooster was rehomed...but before my chickens became infertile because of that. I don't have a clue what the other eggs from the girl who gave them to me are....and I don't think she knows either...so some mutts.

 

[Alaskan]

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...

That's how my grandparents was, pipe came out of the ground down below their place, water ran into the creek. My parents have a holding tank, then a perferated tank, then leeches into the ditch crosses under the road a fertilizes the field across.
I don't know what we have, house is 100+ yrs old. Heard the bathroom was put in in '63. See no evidence of what it is or where, hopefully I have no problems. Doesn't stink anywhere, front yard dry. You shouldn't have to have a tank pumped, if it's working properly, breaking down solids. Adding those bacteria tabs is a good idea. You can also add sour milk down your drain, works the same. Grease should not end up down the drain. Toilet paper would be best if it wasn't flushed but I don't know many that wouldn't (Gramma wouldn't).
Best setup, how our house is, only toilet water goes to tank, all other drains (grey water?) go directly to leach field, or elsewhere all together. That way soaps, detergents, bleach, etc doesn't affect or harm the bacteria breaking down the solids in the tank.
Buddy of mine built what he called a evaporation field. Perferations in the pipes goes up rather than down as in a leach field. Sets on a thick layer of gravel with grass growing on it. Don't know how it worked out haven't been there in a long time. The reason he said he was going to try it was he's never seen a leach field work right anyway, they always leak out somewhere and stink.

I don't see how a septic tank could bet set up so that it never needed to be pumped.........

Unless it is monster big, or set up a bit like a composting toilet.

 

[BriardChickens]

But don't you eventually have to move a composting tank? Won't it eventually be full of something?

edit: not sure why said "move" meant empty/pump out