So sorry for you lose
; such beauty. I love that feather pattern, what breed was she?
Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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; such beauty. I love that feather pattern, what breed was she?
So very sad to lose Lucky. I’m sorry for your loss. She was a beautiful hen.
Oh My Gosh! (you can't see me but I am grinning from ear to ear and just joyous here) And what good mama
Awww and there is even a Barred Rock Tabbidy Kitty.I can't help but think one leaves this world and these beauties enter it
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Yea that was on FB
Such beauties! I tried to get Welbars which are Welsummer/BR bred, but they were sold out of them. I also tried for Welsummers but they also were sold out, and Barnvelders.... But I am thrilled to be able to get the chicks I did order - but I am still going to see if they have any extral Welbars or Welsummers when I pick up my chicksI know this would be a lot of work, but if it will get below freezing overnight (well, either really windy and 30, or colder), can you put paper lunch bags over some buds and then wrap/tie them on around the limb below? I KNOW you can't do the whole tree...but it you could do, say, a dozen buds....maybe you would still have a bit of color????
Can you speak more about Botany? I love your Botany tax!
Lastly - that is a GORGEOUS photo of the magnolia bud. Would it be okay for me to download and use as my background photo on my desktop?
My Botany Tax:
I like my Welsummers. They aren't as heavy as BRs, but lay lovely speckled eggs. Picture of a pullet, then a hen. (the pullet is VERY friendly - she will let me pick her up with no fuss. Not a snuggler, though)View attachment 3412889View attachment 3412888
Fail with the poultry netting fence, the frozen shale is too hard.
Part of the line I want to run is on the edge of our shale driveway. Normally I use a strong (steel?) tent stake and a hammer to drive holes into the shale for the step-in pins, but here I could only get about an inch, then it’s frozen solid rock, not breaking or moving at all, really impossible. The stake began bending. DH says I need a hammer drill? I think like a jack hammer! It’s not great work at any time of the year though, and I’m looking for a year-round alternative, see “Crazy Idea” below which I'll post elsewhere on BYC too.
I got 2" aviary mesh netting up on two greenhouse frames and intended to surround it with poultry netting. Here’s pics, I have a corner up for me to go in and out. The chicken door to the area was going to be where those treated blocks in front of the plastic sheeting are. But today with snow on the ground, they expressed zero interest in setting foot outside the run, they stopped yelling, so there’s no urgency to this now. They stood in the doorway and looked at the snow.
They're happy to eat collard greens and blueberries inside, thank you.
Crazy Idea? Anyone else try this?
Had the idea of placing the poultry fence in what I found out are called planter blocks. Bought a few on a whim last summer while I was getting cinder blocks for weights and things, they’re cute and I liked the shape, and the notches make them easy to grab and move around. Discovered this year that a step-in two-tined fence post fits in the hole and the notch so I placed one on the shale and used a plain post to hang extra cable on next to the electric fence cut-off switch, worked great!
I would have to fill in below the electric fence in between the blocks because the fence bottom is now higher in this scenario. Thought about stones or concrete blocks, then realized it's made for 2x lumber to make planter boxes (duh! see the image below), and found a scrap 2x8 to try and I laid out two blocks.
The scrap wood is just a little long but hopefully you can see what I mean. I have one or maybe two more planter blocks to experiment with and lay it out further, but right now it’s behaving much like step-in poultry netting does. The end fence poles, if tied or braced to something, will pull the fence straight I think. Laterally, they seem to have as much strength as when in soil, because the blocks are as deep as the tines, and I could pound in some wooden wedges into the middle hole and stop any wiggling of one tine, but they could still lift out without much trouble, which is good, or maybe bad?
Part of the line I want to run is on the edge of our shale driveway. Normally I use a strong (steel?) tent stake and a hammer to drive holes into the shale for the step-in pins, but here I could only get about an inch, then it’s frozen solid rock, not breaking or moving at all, really impossible. The stake began bending. DH says I need a hammer drill? I think like a jack hammer! It’s not great work at any time of the year though, and I’m looking for a year-round alternative, see “Crazy Idea” below which I'll post elsewhere on BYC too.
I got 2" aviary mesh netting up on two greenhouse frames and intended to surround it with poultry netting. Here’s pics, I have a corner up for me to go in and out. The chicken door to the area was going to be where those treated blocks in front of the plastic sheeting are. But today with snow on the ground, they expressed zero interest in setting foot outside the run, they stopped yelling, so there’s no urgency to this now. They stood in the doorway and looked at the snow.
They're happy to eat collard greens and blueberries inside, thank you.Crazy Idea? Anyone else try this?
Had the idea of placing the poultry fence in what I found out are called planter blocks. Bought a few on a whim last summer while I was getting cinder blocks for weights and things, they’re cute and I liked the shape, and the notches make them easy to grab and move around. Discovered this year that a step-in two-tined fence post fits in the hole and the notch so I placed one on the shale and used a plain post to hang extra cable on next to the electric fence cut-off switch, worked great!
I would have to fill in below the electric fence in between the blocks because the fence bottom is now higher in this scenario. Thought about stones or concrete blocks, then realized it's made for 2x lumber to make planter boxes (duh! see the image below), and found a scrap 2x8 to try and I laid out two blocks.
The scrap wood is just a little long but hopefully you can see what I mean. I have one or maybe two more planter blocks to experiment with and lay it out further, but right now it’s behaving much like step-in poultry netting does. The end fence poles, if tied or braced to something, will pull the fence straight I think. Laterally, they seem to have as much strength as when in soil, because the blocks are as deep as the tines, and I could pound in some wooden wedges into the middle hole and stop any wiggling of one tine, but they could still lift out without much trouble, which is good, or maybe bad?
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Thank you. She was an absolute sweetheart who loved to cuddle, had great eye contact, and had an adorable, talkative voice. She was a blue laced red wyandotte.So sorry for you lose
Must be a lovely sight when it's clear - you need to take some photos sometime.
More Wednesday Weather Whining Tax
It's darn tootin cold here - still -24C but the sun is blazing bright, hard to see with all the snow on the ground - sunglasses are definitely needed! I just checked home and not snowing there yet.
The chickies are all digging around in the straw at the far end of the barn today.
Oh how lovely and those wattles just love them. Oh I am going to see if they have them instead of the Welbars - extra chicks hatched. They have them at the place I am getting my chicks from - love that colouring
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