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

[piglett]

The boys got their first compressor and nail gun experience today. Six hours of nailing was reduced to one.

The forty eight foot piggery is being built in two halves - the oldest gilts are just about too big for their current pen. Today all but the roof thatch was completed on the lumber component of half the first section. The hollow blocks and concrete component will start again after the sand delivery on Sunday.

Busy times continue on CocoBeach

I love my nailgun but tell the boys to keep their other hand away unless they want to be one with their work

i hope Mrs. OZ is taking us some pictures

2 jubilee chicks hatched

i did away with my lemon cuckoo splits

i only want huge english orpingtons & those lemons are on the small side

so they went to camp

 

[lazy gardener]

Hubby is talking about buying me a pneumatic nail framing gun this spring... Other women get excited about a boquet of flowers... Me... give me power tools and a load of manure... New coop in the plans.

 

[Wisher1000]

My sentiments, exactly! I love tools and manure.

For the past ten years, my Mother's Day gift from my family has been a truck load of dry horse manure. Both my old horses died this past year so I may not get it this year. It is amazing how disappointed I am that my family may not be giving me a bunch of s#^¥ for Mother's Day!

 

[lazy gardener]

Wisher, you just have to find someone else to give you a load of cr**! I can only imagine what I'd do if I had some earth moving equipment at my disposal!

 

[Tomtommom]

Hubby is talking about buying me a pneumatic nail framing gun this spring... Other women get excited about a boquet of flowers... Me... give me power tools and a load of manure... New coop in the plans.

Us crazy chicken women... we have good husbands

and if they're no good, they go to freezer camp. I mean... Uh....

Anyway.

Mine is always building my projects for me

Lucky for me, he loves DIY. I used to do my own projects, but I am rather sloppy and he'd stare at my ducttape disasters and make me feel bad. So now I just let him do it right the first time.

 

[apteryx]

Hubby is talking about buying me a pneumatic nail framing gun this spring... Other women get excited about a boquet of flowers... Me... give me power tools and a load of manure... New coop in the plans.

Love my framing nailer. The only thing that may top that is the impact driver.

 

[kingfrodo]

we are kindred spirits! I love to build and dig. My DH is good about indulging me and building stuff all the time. the hard part is that b/c he is a master woodworker (he builds stuff for a living, think Triton bass boats, Hatteras Yacts, and GE windmill blades) he wants stuff to be perfect and I just want him to slap some stuff together.

 

[Noncentzter]

It is amazing how disappointed I am that my family may not be giving me a bunch of s#^¥ for Mother's Day!

I give both my Mom and my MIL a load a sh*t each day! LOL!!

 

[perchie.girl]

Hubby is talking about buying me a pneumatic nail framing gun this spring... Other women get excited about a boquet of flowers... Me... give me power tools and a load of manure... New coop in the plans.

LOL.... Me wants one of those deck screw guns.... the kind that you load up like a nail gun.... But I have to wait for the Easter bunny to buy me one because I have no SO. And a Welder and a LOAD of electrical Conduit and about two miles each of PVC, Romex, Underground telephone line..... and a ditch witch or a small tractor with a PTO.... other than that Im good......

I got plenty of manure.....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

If a hen has been fertilised, after it lays the fertile eggs will it go broody and sit on the eggs or will I have to get a broody hen?

Like Oz said. Most modern chickens dont go broody. That being said there are several breeds of chickens that Do. Americana, Cochin, Silky, and just about any chicken that has some Game fowl in it. Broodieness is dependant on Hormones and instinct. ANd cannot be predicted to any degree unless the hen has proven to go broody in the past. Also once a hen goes broody they stop laying eggs. Thats why that trait has been bred out of many lines of chickens. But I have heard of broodys actually stealing eggs for herself to hatch.... even to the point of tucking one up under a wing and litterally carrying it to her favorite nest.

My sentiments, exactly! I love tools and manure.

For the past ten years, my Mother's Day gift from my family has been a truck load of dry horse manure. Both my old horses died this past year so I may not get it this year. It is amazing how disappointed I am that my family may not be giving me a bunch of s#^¥ for Mother's Day!

LOL.... I can send you some.... My girl has created what I call BANDINI mountain in her Dry lot. She only poos in one spot. I am going to have to hire a bobcat and a dump truck ..... Litterally ..... Um.... soon before it catches FIRE. LOL....

Quote: Ooooohhhh IMPACT Driver......

we are kindred spirits! I love to build and dig. My DH is good about indulging me and building stuff all the time. the hard part is that b/c he is a master woodworker (he builds stuff for a living, think Triton bass boats, Hatteras Yacts, and GE windmill blades) he wants stuff to be perfect and I just want him to slap some stuff together.

Oooh my dad and I were a design team for The Canon Wind farm in Tehachapi. Well UM he was the Designer and I was the Hey sketch this part up on grid paper so we can get it out to the Fab shop .... Girl. He did the master drawings and I pulled details out for the welder or sheet metal shop. Back before CAD and Personal Computers....

deb