EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Lucky Lemon]

I would still cover the sides with something. It would give them a place to get out of the wind without having to go in there house.

Two sides are already covered, so that will be pretty easy to just cover one remaining side. Thanks for your input.

 

[Chaos18]

Liz are you all caught up yet? What's taking so long? Why don't you just skip posts?

 

[Lucky Lemon]

As long as it stays dry it would be OK. Wet is very bad for goats.
As to feed, I have full sized goats and they get up to three pounds of grain a day in the winter with some beet pulp, but usually less. Then they may eat a flake a day or a bit more of hay. Plus whatever they eat in the field. Just remember they are browsers not really grass eaters.

Yes, it stays very dry under there. Thank you for the feed info! I hope they will eat some of the overgrowth around the pond.

 

[Chaos18]

Two sides are already covered, so that will be pretty easy to just cover one remaining side.    Thanks for your input.

Could probably get away with just covering half of it. And leaving the other half open to walk thru. Are you planning to lock them up at night?

 

[Beer can]

This is so hard for me to explain in my girl words. Ok. I've got a big stack of firewood from where we cleared some brush. I want to make an end table a little like this:

BUT I only want to shave a bit off the top, so there are more stable contact points for a glass top that I'll frame in. I don't want to square the logs in any sort of way. Just shave them a bit (some more than others) so it's flat enough to set glass on top. I think it would be prettier than just setting glass on top.

From what I've read I think I need a plane for the flat edge instead of the curved blade of the spokeshave.

I was thinking belt sander also.

 

[Chaos18]

Yes, it stays very dry under there.  Thank you for the feed info!  I hope they will eat some of the overgrowth around the pond.

Mine have done a great job of clearing overgrowth.

 

[Beer can]

 

[Chaos18]

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Could probably get away with just covering half of it. And leaving the other half open to walk thru. Are you planning to lock them up at night?

Well I had not really thought of that, do I need to? They will be in the yard beside my dog yard, with my duck and goose (pond side). I could also enclose the bottom of my daughter's club house for them and put a door on that to lock them in at night. Since I'm so new to goats, I'm just trying to get all my research done and figure out what I need to do for them. My daughter is making good on her end of the deal so far. I have until Christmas basically to figure it out. LOL

 

[BantyChooks]

One really has to wonder what your google search history is like