Dixie Chicks

[vehve]

Hmm, try this.

 

[vehve]

Well, that ended that. Quite a nice shot, I must admit. Finland needs to step up their game now, or we'll lose this.

 

[BriardChickens]

Looks like a Variagated Austeospermum. Very pretty!

Cool! I think I might have killed it already. Left it outside over night when temperatures dropped below freezing.

In good news, we are on the final countdown on my 7 duck eggs. 10 days left!

 

[hennible]

What kind of Canadian kids are your raising there, Sam? I thought you were all supposed to be hockey nuts...

Oldest likes baseball... Go figure

 

[Amberjem]

There's actually two trees at the coop, the apricot in the foreground and an apple in the back which provide nice shade for the coop. The run will block the western sun, too, from hitting the coop. The run is situated in-between the railroad tie planting rows, so there will be greenery on either side of it once the bush beans, peppers and tomatoes are in. Possibly may add a rain barrel to catch roof run-off as water is a precious commodity not to be wasted.

I was REALLY anal-retentive about the chicken coop and it nearly drove me crazy. Had to take a little while off before doing the run just to recover from burnout. I mean, really, who makes-by-hand wood shingles for a coop?!? (Necessity being the mother of invention, it was discovered that NO place in Albuquerque carries wood shingles) At one point I realized my inner Martha was getting the better of me, but some of the coop features are really too neat-o and so I'm glad I was picayune about attention to details (like elevated coop with underneath storage, the roll-out roost pan/drawer so you can do morning chicken poop scooping from outside the coop and windows you can open and adjust from outside). So I relaxed the reins a bit on constructing the run, and it shows in some areas....but at this point I just want it d-o-n-e so I can move on to other projects and get the addition-to-the-flock/later-hatched birds out of my guest room and garage and into the coop proper. Yeah, it's just a chicken coop.... Lol. "Coop magnum opus" One run and done... It will be awhile before I undertake building again.

ohhh apricot my favorite!!!!! soo jealious .......sighs,,,,,,,,, ya the new hatchlings are intergrating into the flock well, getting the hang of up and down into the henhouse and only had two stranglers to help into the coop last night...........the big girls even roosted in the henhouse with them last night...Mostly cuz violet the head hen likes it there so Butler and the other girls seem to be following along...noones even come close to changing the top hens pecking order at this point..she would be the oldest now to...by like 6 months...and momma to five of them... Interestingly enough the chick she raised after I hatched it and kept it indoors for a week is bigger then the others..........


you still have the new years hatchlings in the guest room?

 

[Amberjem]

I agree with the rain barrel thing .. I want to do something similar with mine...though I been thinking I will do it off the new shops roof..and can use it to water flower beds and stuff down there..............

 

[Amberjem]

Cool! I think I might have killed it already. Left it outside over night when temperatures dropped below freezing.

In good news, we are on the final countdown on my 7 duck eggs. 10 days left!

sooo you have a egg your anticipating hatch over any of the others?

 

[Peep_Show]

you still have the new years hatchlings in the guest room?

Thankfully "No!" They (Leza and Oops) are in the grow-out pen in the garage. Oops is full-wattle, red comb and getting red in the face, so an egg any day now....ergo the push to get her into the coop, which would be a tad cramped with no room to hid if they couldn't use the run. She's really sweet and pretty and I wouldn't want to see the coop girls tear into her.

The ones in the guest room are DH's EE chick Annie, Maya the Minorca, and Thing 1 and Thing 2 (Welsummers), who will graduate to the garage unless I'm fed up with the whole thing and decide that there's strength in numbers and just chuck them all in there to the coop at once......hmmmm...... Might be worthwhile to see if that would work as there would be so much confusion that the territorial pecking order might be disrupted.

 

[vehve]

Sam, is Punky a Merkan?

 

[NotAFarm]

It's not a foreign sport, it's an international event. The US is competing too. Sadly it's not that popular in the States... It would be pretty interesting if the NHL would pause their games for the duration of the championships and would allow all of the players to take part, and if the general public in the States would show more of an interest. It's quite a different game, since the rink is bigger, and it favors finesse over brute strength. I don't like watching the leagues, neither the NHL or the Finnish league, but I try to always catch the world championships. Same with soccer.

The only games they are showing here that I have found are the US games. I have a limited internet package out here so no streaming of stuff.

Rinne is a great goalie and is up for the Vezina Trophy. The link below tells why:

http://predators.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=764988