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

[hillfloweranch]

how much lasix do you give a chicken?

Depends you want dried chicken for hoodoo!!! LOL I crack myself up! Heheeee

 

[Rockashelle]

I had to drop out of lurkerdom (and finally join BYC) to comment on this...

I was showing my kids this picture and my son commented that they looked like dinosaur legs. Which then made me remember the TED Talks speech by Jack Horner, "Building a Dinosaur from a Chicken," http://blog.ted.com/2011/06/07/building-a-dinosaur-from-a-chicken-jack-horner-on-ted/. These look like the first steps to a Chickenosaurus.

 

[LFchixranch]

The Internet is a wonderful thing.

When sharing ones life with people across the Pacific, I marvel at the technology available today.

Dropbox has been my favorite technology. You can increase your dropbox size by referring. Here is a referal - http://db.tt/MPfThm5t . If you use that to join - my drop box will increase by 500mb.

Your Box has gotten larger.

More Chicken photos please...

 

[ozexpat]

I had to drop out of lurkerdom (and finally join BYC) to comment on this...

I was showing my kids this picture and my son commented that they looked like dinosaur legs. Which then made me remember the TED Talks speech by Jack Horner, "Building a Dinosaur from a Chicken," http://blog.ted.com/2011/06/07/building-a-dinosaur-from-a-chicken-jack-horner-on-ted/. These look like the first steps to a Chickenosaurus.

that is an awesome speech. thanks and welcome to the world of byc.

 

[ozexpat]

Your Box has gotten larger.

More Chicken photos please...

as requested

The little ones are the chicks abandoned by one of my locals. They are 2 weeks old. The Kano (Amerikano) chicks are almost a month.

 

[hillfloweranch]

Ok oz your chicken house looks better than my actual house! Lol

 

[LFchixranch]

Ok oz your chicken house looks better than my actual house! Lol

x2, now I almost feel bad for my flock..... New coup in my future me thinks

 

[Sally Sunshine]

PERFECTO OZ! Thoughts..... your fruit trees, what kind of root systems do they have? do you have trouble with roots and newly planted? How does that all work. I see your new plantings, quite interesting how old are the youngers planted in the pic at the coop? Can you tell my days as horticulturist are coming out?

 

[ozexpat]

PERFECTO OZ! Thoughts..... your fruit trees, what kind of root systems do they have? do you have trouble with roots and newly planted? How does that all work. I see your new plantings, quite interesting how old are the youngers planted in the pic at the coop? Can you tell my days as horticulturist are coming out?

The tree in the coop is a 12 month old coconut tree. We have almost 300 trees that are 20 - 50 years old. Some of the older trees are starting to decrease productivity so its time to replace.

Mrs Oz has been working on the project for 3 years and has had 350 trees planted between the older trees. We marked the trees that have the largest yields in terms of both coconuts and copra per coconut. We let those coconuts ripen fully then keep them for seeding. We just leave them on the surface under the tank stand. Once the branches get to about 6 feet tall we plant them in a hole 4 feet deep. Planting them deeper seems to make for stronger trees. Any deeper than 4 feet and we hit water.

There are very few surface roots on a coconut and most animals wont eat the leaves.

Our other fruit trees get woven bamboo fences to give them a chance to get some height before they get beat up by herbivores.

 

[ozexpat]

Ok oz your chicken house looks better than my actual house! Lol

Our coop has 300 hours of labor in it. Fortunately labor is cheap. I also have a gardener that has become a crazy chicken man as well.