Silver, hurry up... Your chickens are going to forget you if you don't hurry up!
tee... do a wiggle in your chair and call it a happy dance. LOL.
Mom, I frequent another site also, and love it there. It is a very small group of people, a lot of them have gotten into trouble on another site. HEHE No hang ups and crap, you know. Slow, yes, but it's great.
Robin! I have 10 faverolle babies running around. Two girls for you as soon as I know which are girls and mama's are done raising them. A boy too if you want another back up.
Gigi, YEAH! goncrats on the future GD! That does sound/read a bit wrong don't it. I have not heard back from the Currator, but I figure he's busy and I will give him time to answer.
Savannah... I love the "out of pocket" line to describe how you've been feeling. Glad you are feeling better though. Being sick sucks.
Rusty, HI!
Fuzzy, is this your busy week again?
Now... Today I decided to see how badly I could make my muscles hurt. I cleaned the WHOLE run out. I ended up carting back 3 sled loads of totes full of crap and shavings and dirt from the run floor. I cleaned out the dust bathing areas and I am thinking I might needs more soil under the bates motel and the 4x12 under-run areas.
Fritz the Jerk has found himself at the bottom of the pecking order out in the back. Well, he's just fine if he stays to his side. If Florus get's out, he's not so nice to Fritz anymore. Florus's cajones have dropped and he's not putting up with no poop from Fritz, and Fritz runs screaming like a girl now. Poor baby. The plan for the spring is to make a serema only coop section. Fritz is a great little roo. He's attentive and very alert. He deserves to be master of his own flock.
RaZ posted a webpage on the MI thread that had grazing frames. I am thinking instead of putting a new apron all around the coop and run, I am going to built a grazing frame all the way around the coop. They'll come away from the coop about 2 feet. This will give me something to keep anything from digging under, and it'll also keep a green zone around the coop. I will also then put a fence around this area with chicken wire or fish line running around that to keep the hawks from getting in this way...
SO, the plan for the frame, get the rabbit fencing that is 3 feet tall. It's the cheeper fencing, but it's sturdy and harder for a coon to bite, fox to dig through. That will be attached out from the bottom of the coop to the outer end of the frame.U-nailed in so it is secure. The cross ties will run every 2 feet all the way around, will be with some of the less than pretty wood you can pick up in the reject section. I will plant the seeds for rye/clover/grass to grow, then I will run chicken wire over the top, and use furring strips or what ever to keep the chickenwire from coming loose/hurting the birds feet. It'll allow the grass to grow through, but keep the birds from digging it out. Will then also keep the birds on greens while they are locked up in the summer when I am at work. The only place the frame won't really be will be on the side of the coop that backs against the trees. BUT an apron will go their the same way as the grass way. Think this is a good idea? It's going to add appox 172 sq feet of run... but outside of the run...
Grazing frames... I also want to build a few of these in the areas of the yard that the ducks destroyed with their digging...
They used hard ware cloth, but with my budget and my champaigne tastes... LOL Chicken wire will do the task and its cheap enough to replace as needed.
