Dixie Chicks

[Beer can]

sighs all that lovely ground ... thats alot of seed is it a dwarf variety or something never heard of that

Golden bantam is the oldest open pollinated heritage breed of sweet corn, 1902 Burpee started selling it.
I grow it every year, matures early, sweet, good corn flavor.
Some super sweet hybrid corns just don't have the flavor.

 

[perchie.girl]

100! WOW! That's incredible! Hopefully you will be somewhere soon that you're able to have the animals you want. Whenever I see Guinnea keets for sale I think of you. My neighbors would shoot me if I got guinneas. Although our neighbor that owns 9 acres right next to us said when they get the house built, they are going to raise peafowl. Hopefully I will get used to the noise. As long as they are quiet in the night, I'm working so much, it won't matter.

My hiouse waits for me to return... sixty miles east of here.... I have eighteen acres that are paid for. When Grandma doesnt need me any more I am going home. I brought my horse with me when I came down here to work but when I lost my job I took her back. By then Grandma was needing help... At that time she was still driving a little so I could go home and tend my animals.... Goats Chickens horse ... Horse was on a once every three days feeding schedual. My neighbor Tom was feeding her once a week and I was feeding her once a week. The chickens were on automatic waterers and Huge gravity feeders that only needed to be refilled about once a week.

The three goats were on free feed just like the horse. though they got Alfalfa They went through a bale about once every seven days. At that time I had a roommate living there so she kept an eye on everything. By the time she moved out she had lived in my house longer than I had. and she caused all sorts of trouble about two years later. She left all the crap that she couldnt fit into her apartment..... and when i finally asked her to move it she went crazy old lady on me.

That was the summer the well pump died and I had to haul 200 gallons of water in a big tote once every three days to water all the livestock. By then the goats had tore up the fences and would get out at will. I had no water delivery method to serve the pouiltry so I had to open the coop so they could reach the water Iin several tubs outside near the goat gate. It took three days for the coyotes to kill and eat my flock.... The well got fixed in ten.... in two more months either dogs or mountain lions destroyed the goats... we only found Domino by the horse corral... Hes buried up in the animal cemetary.

Thank goodness My horse is very very good with her feet I have seen her Kick a plywood wall and remove a disk of plywood tthe size of her hoof and send it twenty feet away. Dogs of any kind dont intimidate her shes just as deadly with her front legs too. And she stands her ground. So shes no fun for dogs to chase.... And shes too big for a mountain lion to even attempt....

The goats were her company.... sigh.

Here is my land. the blue is the house the white shows existing fences and the white square is the horse shelter
Its 24 x 24 feet. i want to build the poultry house where my yard meets the horse corral It too will be 24 x 24

by doing that I will be able to run water lines along the fences to serve the horse and the poultry. For thirteen years now I have been watering with hoses.

deb

 

[ChicKat]

My hiouse waits for me to return... sixty miles east of here.... I have eighteen acres that are paid for. When Grandma doesnt need me any more I am going home. I brought my horse with me when I came down here to work but when I lost my job I took her back. By then Grandma was needing help... At that time she was still driving a little so I could go home and tend my animals.... Goats Chickens horse ... Horse was on a once every three days feeding schedual. My neighbor Tom was feeding her once a week and I was feeding her once a week. The chickens were on automatic waterers and Huge gravity feeders that only needed to be refilled about once a week.

The three goats were on free feed just like the horse. though they got Alfalfa They went through a bale about once every seven days. At that time I had a roommate living there so she kept an eye on everything. By the time she moved out she had lived in my house longer than I had. and she caused all sorts of trouble about two years later. She left all the crap that she couldnt fit into her apartment..... and when i finally asked her to move it she went crazy old lady on me.

That was the summer the well pump died and I had to haul 200 gallons of water in a big tote once every three days to water all the livestock. By then the goats had tore up the fences and would get out at will. I had no water delivery method to serve the pouiltry so I had to open the coop so they could reach the water Iin several tubs outside near the goat gate. It took three days for the coyotes to kill and eat my flock.... The well got fixed in ten.... in two more months either dogs or mountain lions destroyed the goats... we only found Domino by the horse corral... Hes buried up in the animal cemetary.

Thank goodness My horse is very very good with her feet I have seen her Kick a plywood wall and remove a disk of plywood tthe size of her hoof and send it twenty feet away. Dogs of any kind dont intimidate her shes just as deadly with her front legs too. And she stands her ground. So shes no fun for dogs to chase.... And shes too big for a mountain lion to even attempt....

The goats were her company.... sigh.

Here is my land. the blue is the house the white shows existing fences and the white square is the horse shelter
Its 24 x 24 feet. i want to build the poultry house where my yard meets the horse corral It too will be 24 x 24

by doing that I will be able to run water lines along the fences to serve the horse and the poultry. For thirteen years now I have been watering with hoses.

deb

Your place looks beautiful to me -- from the satellite view. So sorry for the struggle that you have gone through. I love those rocks/boulders. It kind of reminds me of Rainbow -- just off the freeway, I looked at a property in Rainbow once... Had an idea that I should buy 10-acres avocado orchard near Fallbrook and there was a 10 acre one for sale that had been totally trimmed back - right on the freeway and the hillside was definitely 45-degree angle topography. I lived in Oceanside at the time - and for work flew out of Carlsbad to LAX and on to where every my assignment was for the week. My job was 1oo% travel. I love San Diego BTW. My cousin lives in Temecula now.

What I ended up doing was buying a house in Desert Hot Springs (the cheap seats) then flew out of Palm Springs airport --That was very near Joshua Tree National Park (before they ruined it with all the curbs and not allowing you to pull over anywhere and walk into the desert like you can at Big Bend National Park in TX) I ended up spending a lot of time there in the desert. Went to Anza Borrego a lot too -- and Leonard Knight's " Salvation Mountain" -- by Slab City and Salton Sea.... Leonard was amazing.

Just seeing your landscape and thinking about San Diego county brought back decades of memories..... Saying a few prayers for your wellbeing and for your grandmother and the time when you get to put it all back together the way you want with your animals.

 

[perchie.girl]

@Chickcat

Thanks I too love the desert. This place is near the Mexican border about five miles east of the community called Boulevard. above and west of the Sea of Cortez and two miles from the Mexican border.

Borrego is about thirty miles east and north of it.... The Salton Sea another fifteen or so. But where my place is is up about 3200 feet above sea level. so we get snow in the winter and the nights cool off in the summer... best desert climate ever.

the black lake at top is the Salt-n-Sea Below that are fields and fields of alfalfa Bermuda and orchard grass hay... along with heat loving crops.To the extreme right of the picture is where the Colorado now reduced to canal and irrigation ditches as it tries to make it to the sea of cortez

On the Mexican side of the border is an agricultural district much the same as on our side... The Colorado sinks into the sand before it reaches the Sea of Cortez....

the little flag is appx where my place is.
deb

 

[Amberjem]

walmart carrys boss

yeah I knew that but my understanding the boss carried there has chemicals which can be an issue

 

[ChicKat]

@Chickcat

Thanks I too love the desert. This place is near the Mexican border about five miles east of the community called Boulevard. above and west of the Sea of Cortez and two miles from the Mexican border.

Borrego is about thirty miles east and north of it.... The Salton Sea another fifteen or so. But where my place is is up about 3200 feet above sea level. so we get snow in the winter and the nights cool off in the summer... best desert climate ever.

the black lake at top is the Salt-n-Sea Below that are fields and fields of alfalfa Bermuda and orchard grass hay... along with heat loving crops.To the extreme right of the picture is where the Colorado now reduced to canal and irrigation ditches as it tries to make it to the sea of cortez

On the Mexican side of the border is an agricultural district much the same as on our side... The Colorado sinks into the sand before it reaches the Sea of Cortez....

the little flag is appx where my place is.
deb

It sounds really nice!-- especially the part about being able to get cool. when I lived in DHS - no one ever ever spoke of the heat--(of course it was the desert) And when it was 115-degrees out -- everyone sheltered in AC -Yet many times of the year it was amazingly beautiful - including climate.... and wildflowers -- and I bet that you have the most amazing view of the night sky -- Like when a meteor shower passes through....

and yet still close to SD...

 

[1kluckychik]

Hennible had a little man named Everette.
Congrats Hen. We love ya

 

[Outpost JWB]

Thanks for the update 1kluckychik!

Today is my last day working at the bank! Tomorrow I start my new job! I am excited about both days..... Have to get some housecleaning done this morning before work. You all have a great day,

 

[Mahen100]

Hope your "out with the old job, in with the new" goes well, JWB.

I had a live trapped raccoon in the trap near my coop when I let the chickens out this am. Something had gotten one of four chicks my big English Orp hen was raising when I was 15 minutes late closing the coop last week. I set the live trap and eggs as bait disappeared from it three days in a row, but the trap was never sprung. (I did catch about four different chickens who seemed to rush in the trap soon as I set it at dusk before they went into the coop to roost). I finally decided I was tired of feeding the predator, and I started setting it empty of bait after the coop was closed up. Finally...after a week, I had a young adult female coon caught this am. From the looks of her, she'd recently nursed young.

Has anyone ever noticed raccoons tend to drown in submerged cages?????? My killed baby chick is avenged. :/

 

[ChicKat]

Hope your "out with the old job, in with the new" goes well, JWB.

I had a live trapped raccoon in the trap near my coop when I let the chickens out this am. Something had gotten one of four chicks my big English Orp hen was raising when I was 15 minutes late closing the coop last week. I set the live trap and eggs as bait disappeared from it three days in a row, but the trap was never sprung. (I did catch about four different chickens who seemed to rush in the trap soon as I set it at dusk before they went into the coop to roost).

I finally decided I was tired of feeding the predator, and I started setting it empty of bait after the coop was closed up. Finally...after a week, I had a young adult female coon caught this am. From the looks of her, she'd recently nursed young.

Has anyone ever noticed raccoons tend to drown in submerged cages?????? My killed baby chick is avenged.

That's always a concern about how to get rid of it. I generally shoot it in the trap ( then worry that I am damaging the bottom of the trap where the shot goes --and throw raccooon out for buzzards. Did get one taxidermied -to donate to a nature center- -- Wondered which death for the raccoon is the best route - even though they do hateful thing to chickens and chicks.

sorry you lost a bird. Smart to get the pred trapped...and probably 'there's more where that one came from ' -- at the least a mate if the babies are too little to make it on their own.