Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

BC, I think this is just some Finnish stupidity. Although, I have to admit that a similar ban on tobacco seems to have worked pretty well. Cigarettes can't be displayed publicly in super markets or similar places, in stead you have to ask for the specific brand, and the employee grabs it from under the counter or some sort of cabinet. And this has led to more and more people quitting smoking, as silly as it sounds.

Same tobacco laws here and we have these beautiful labels

this is one of the least yucky looking labels

 

[perchie.girl]

Ok, something funny happening in Finland. Since the beginning of the year, the alcohol marketing laws got a bit tighter. To protect children from the dangers of alcohol, it is no longer legal to market alcohol publicly. Some bureaucrats saw that this also means that the breweries can no longer transport their products in trucks that have pictures of beer bottles on them. So as a protest, there have now started to appear all kinds of interesting slogans on the trucks. One says "This used to be a picture of a beautiful bottle." And now I saw another one that reads "This tape-layer protects you. We are just transporting bottles."

How in the earth a kid will be protected from alcohol by not seeing a brewery's logo on a truck I don't understand, but perhaps I'm not supposed to.

Same thing happened here for cigarettes No more billborards no more TV ads....

they can advertise alcohol on TV though but the actual act of consuming it is against the law. Yet if you are on tv on a live show you can.... Or in a movie... of course.

What stuff like that does is make people more curious.... especially young people.

I hate nanny politics...

deb

 

[Outpost JWB]

Ok, something funny happening in Finland. Since the beginning of the year, the alcohol marketing laws got a bit tighter. To protect children from the dangers of alcohol, it is no longer legal to market alcohol publicly. Some bureaucrats saw that this also means that the breweries can no longer transport their products in trucks that have pictures of beer bottles on them. So as a protest, there have now started to appear all kinds of interesting slogans on the trucks. One says "This used to be a picture of a beautiful bottle." And now I saw another one that reads "This tape-layer protects you. We are just transporting bottles."

How in the earth a kid will be protected from alcohol by not seeing a brewery's logo on a truck I don't understand, but perhaps I'm not supposed to.

Wow! That is nuts. Maybe I should blind fold my little girl so she doesn't see DH drinking his beer tonight....That's what a proper person from Finland would do right? Better Watch out @Beer can ! They might make you change your name

Finally changed my avatar by the way. If you can't figure out what it is, you have to go to @hennible 's avatar thread.

 

[perchie.girl]

Just FYi I have only been posting here pretty much except for any comments directed to me... Keeping up here is a major job.

I am going up to the house today to bring my caretaker dog cat and chicken food..... Road trip.

But it takes an hour up and hour back and an hour there.... plus a mom that needs thisses and thats at specific stores so just getting out of town can run about an hour.

My passenger car died about a year ago I got five hundred bucks for it had to use that to buy a new well pump so I am only with the truck. I love my truck but its much easier to do these kinds of trips with moms car... Its an AWD honda.... highly recommend them.

so ta ta for now.

deb

 

[NotAFarm]

so ta ta for now.

deb

Oh, TTFN, Tigger is my favorite Winnie the Pooh character!

Have a nice trip and visit!

 

[hennible]

What you guys think... Mostly about the ventilation....
I'm not sure it's a logical roof... Snow would fall towards two of the pens I hope to have so never mind that's silly...

Ok this one... 16' x 16' or equivalent floorspace... Space for 60 birds, have 40 some birds and plan on a reduction...
Interior would have four different areas a small storage area a large pen for egg production flock, a smaller brooding or grow pen or Bachelor pad, and a duck pen. I will still free range but I want each interior pen to connect to an door pen that could be covered for winter...
Any thoughts? Your dream coop have in it that you forgot about when you originally built it?

 

[Alaskan]

Al, whole sweet corn kernels in a can?

yep, toss in the entire can of whole corn kernels... pick the one with real corn, no sugar or junk added, the good stuff, actual food.

You can mix your corn meals, do part regular corn meal, and part finer/smoother corn meal, so that the result is nice and tender and not super grainy.

And no, you don't want a mixer, you want all of the ingredients just barely mixed together, so a fork to mix it together is perfect. No over mixing.

And the spoon breads are really tasty. SO good!

Quote: OK.... skylights make the roof harder to do, and always leak, skip that....

vents along the eaves, though I know lots of people who like them... I don't. I have open eave ends in my shed, and it make SO MUCH wind, super cold. I blocked them off, and everything was worlds warmer and no more wind. I have that one high vent, at the top of the wall, but that is fine, it doesn't make everything cold and windy like the open eaves did.

I will sketch up a dream chicken coop... I love that sort of thing.

 

[Alaskan]

@hennible four areas equal in size?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

What you guys think... Mostly about the ventilation....
I'm not sure it's a logical roof... Snow would fall towards two of the pens I hope to have so never mind that's silly...

Ok this one... 16' x 16' or equivalent floorspace... Space for 60 birds, have 40 some birds and plan on a reduction...
Interior would have four different areas a small storage area a large pen for egg production flock, a smaller brooding or grow pen or Bachelor pad, and a duck pen. I will still free range but I want each interior pen to connect to an door pen that could be covered for winter...
Any thoughts? Your dream coop have in it that you forgot about when you originally built it?

There is something about that 2nd plan that helps with wintering chickens in the cold. Just reviewing frostbite threads last year and coop designs I found or felt that people with that 2nd roof design have less issues with the cold and nipped combs. I love the gabled design and if it doesn't matter with your bird variety then I do like the first version best... The little spinny vent on top is a great idea and something I've considered myself. But feel over my head in putting one in. Also I feel you are right about having a snow load just fall off on one side might be beneficial.

 

[BriardChickens]

Same here, plus smokers get to look at the gross pictures of black lungs, etc on the cartons.. Not a smoker,