Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[Sally Sunshine]

Welcome back Sally!

I prefer the "Loxit" clip/ring, here is a site where both are available:

http://www.randallburkey.com/gamebird-supplies/cage-building.html

 

[perchie.girl]

this little tool is priceless for working with wire either welded wire fencing or field fence...






you hook the tool over a cross wire and swing the cut wire under the tab.... then you rotate the whole thing around and around till the wire is fastened. i like it because you dont have to do hog clips or wires.

deb

 

[Sally Sunshine]

this little tool is priceless for working with wire either welded wire fencing or field fence...






you hook the tool over a cross wire and swing the cut wire under the tab.... then you rotate the whole thing around and around till the wire is fastened. i like it because you dont have to do hog clips or wires.

deb

THAT IS COOL, and I could feel the pain without! lol
That tool is simplicity at its best, my problem is..........


like these paint can openers....

I cant tell you how many I have lost over the years, and I am pretty OCD too, I just don't get it!.

WHERE do they go???? I swear aliens power their ships with them and galvanized nails & screws! Oh and my daughters earing backs!!!

 

[hippiestink]

THAT IS COOL, and I could feel the pain without! lol
That tool is simplicity at its best, my problem is..........


like these paint can openers....

I cant tell you how many I have lost over the years, and I am pretty OCD too, I just don't get it!.

WHERE do they go???? I swear aliens power their ships with them and galvanized nails & screws! Oh and my daughters earing backs!!!

 

[kwhites634]

I have had blackberry and I have has goats but not at the same time.

Goats pick at anything though so I would not be surprised.

I've had goats; I suspect they'd do a good job on blackberries. I know I fenced off a couple areas of whatever had grown up wild & it did take them long to get it down to nothing but orchardgrass; need to do it again. I've tethered goats out in knee-deep grass and watched them work on honeysuckle that had overtaken an old fence row.

 

[perchie.girl]

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I have a cousin that tethers her goats to a big tractor tire.... she puts the water tub in the middle of the tire to keep it protected from being tipped over and to help anchor the tire. To move the goat she just rolls the tire to the new location and re inserts the water tub.

You cannot do this without good fencing around to protect them from dogs though.

deb

 

[Kusanar]

I have a cousin that tethers her goats to a big tractor tire.... she puts the water tub in the middle of the tire to keep it protected from being tipped over and to help anchor the tire. To move the goat she just rolls the tire to the new location and re inserts the water tub.

You cannot do this without good fencing around to protect them from dogs though.

deb

My dad used to have a big bull that was bad about getting out, so they put a ring in his nose and chained it to a tractor tire, he could drag and scoot it around, but not quickly and not through a fence, so it kept him in... sounds like country people have lots of uses for worn out tractor tires!

 

[anjovi6]

Yep, lay them down and fill with dirt and they make good planters that the dirt won't will not hold water. You can also cut them in various ways and turn inside out and wire the ends together and make all kinds of plant containers. I'm sure Oz has seen them in the Philippines.

Jimmy

 

[kwhites634]

just got the early hatch report (day 20)

73 chickens
12 guineas





maybe 50 more tomorrow

The guy w/the wedding ring on his right hand....is that a pair of clippers in his hand? Can't imagine what he'd be clipping, except perhaps beaks

 

[Sally Sunshine]

zip ties