Dada Joe
Songster
Sunny between floods, that is!
I joined this morning, and doing this from a phone is not the easiest thing for an old man. I read all the sample questions and will try to reply to the ones I remember. My first post described a lot. But, the rest?
My grandson brought us 4 chicks in a brooder box from his school. The teacher sent me three hens and a rooster that are actually 3 roosters and a hen. The hen is a Buff Orpington, 2 roosters are a cross between a Buff and what looks to be Rhode Island Red, but? The other rooster appears to be an Isbar cross of some sort. Hayden, my grandson, said it came from an olive colored egg, so, it may be a ?
I tinker in the shop on anything mechanical, restoring cast iron lawnmower engines, and look for old model lawn tractors to put them into, restoring the tractors mechanically, paint is optional to me. I am repainting the 1965 Simplicity while doing several improvements, waiting for a machine shop to finish making a repair that will be better than original equipment. My chicken tractor will be a reconfigured wooden playset, and, as I said, bear proof, though we have none of them here. Wind should not budge it, either. The tinker in me will make it as easily mobile as is possible, likely on late model riding lawnmower front tires.
I run a labor free yard equipment shop for retired farmers and their families. Parts are all that I charge, and if I have a used part that works, even that is free. Keeps me from having a yard full of dead lawnmowers, other than the ones I am working on.
My wife wants the chickens, I enjoy the building and rigging. The playset should yield all framing materials, only should have to purchase siding, mesh and paint. I have a stack of 22 Gage steel roofing that I have tried to give away several times. 3 of those sheets will be the roof, over the coop and run. I was able to move the playset before, using a 2 wheeler, even moved it once setting it on the front end of an old Yazoo mower, so I think 2 wheels, properly placed, should be enough to roll around on. Right now, I would likely need duals, as soggy as it is in north Alabama, and will build such a provision into the wheelsets. If I cannot move it, the Simplicity will!
I joined this morning, and doing this from a phone is not the easiest thing for an old man. I read all the sample questions and will try to reply to the ones I remember. My first post described a lot. But, the rest?
My grandson brought us 4 chicks in a brooder box from his school. The teacher sent me three hens and a rooster that are actually 3 roosters and a hen. The hen is a Buff Orpington, 2 roosters are a cross between a Buff and what looks to be Rhode Island Red, but? The other rooster appears to be an Isbar cross of some sort. Hayden, my grandson, said it came from an olive colored egg, so, it may be a ?
I tinker in the shop on anything mechanical, restoring cast iron lawnmower engines, and look for old model lawn tractors to put them into, restoring the tractors mechanically, paint is optional to me. I am repainting the 1965 Simplicity while doing several improvements, waiting for a machine shop to finish making a repair that will be better than original equipment. My chicken tractor will be a reconfigured wooden playset, and, as I said, bear proof, though we have none of them here. Wind should not budge it, either. The tinker in me will make it as easily mobile as is possible, likely on late model riding lawnmower front tires.
I run a labor free yard equipment shop for retired farmers and their families. Parts are all that I charge, and if I have a used part that works, even that is free. Keeps me from having a yard full of dead lawnmowers, other than the ones I am working on.
My wife wants the chickens, I enjoy the building and rigging. The playset should yield all framing materials, only should have to purchase siding, mesh and paint. I have a stack of 22 Gage steel roofing that I have tried to give away several times. 3 of those sheets will be the roof, over the coop and run. I was able to move the playset before, using a 2 wheeler, even moved it once setting it on the front end of an old Yazoo mower, so I think 2 wheels, properly placed, should be enough to roll around on. Right now, I would likely need duals, as soggy as it is in north Alabama, and will build such a provision into the wheelsets. If I cannot move it, the Simplicity will!
Glad you joined.
