Kristen’s Chickens and Farming Ventures

[BY Bob]

Okay.. now I am all caught up here ... I’m so afraid of going back to Bob’s and Ribh’s threads

If @Ribh thread is going off, mine is usually not.

So, I’m wondering if I should do daily house updates for a while, or just wall by wall once the sections are in? Turns out they did give us two main floor eastern windows, now I’m worrying about the eventual upper kitchen cabinets... and BIL is complaining about the second story toilets not lining up with walls. Don’t worry, I plan on having a real plumber do the plumbing (hopefully by bribing my uncle with fishing and beer)

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Sammy and Barney are back in the Meat Tractors with their respective flocks. And of course it’s rainjng now so I need to run out and fix the tarps in the dark

I would like daily's please.

 

[BlueBaby]

@Kris5902 I cracked open that first egg from the Barnevelder that I got today. It had 2 small double yolk's in it.

 

[Ribh]

Another daily here. I always check anyway. May as well give me something to read.

 

[Kris5902]

Oh, no! Now your new east wall is going to get all wet!

All the walls are getting wet, and the floors. There’s really no avoiding it unless
we sit tight until June (and I’ll take damp progress over none!)

If @Ribh thread is going off, mine is usually not.


I would like daily's please.

Another daily here. I always check anyway. May as well give me something to read.

I can do that, any day there is progress, I promise I will post it, boring or not. Hopefully it’s a daily thing right up until the roof goes on and those floors stop getting wet! The miraculous appearance of the wall in just two days could be a one time thing... fingers crossed it isn’t, but you never know, especially when FIL is involved. It should go up super quickly, it’s designed to. Piece 101 meets 102, which meets 103. And everything is labeled clearly.

Today I was shoveling gravel for the path to the common bathroom my mother uses, and the path to the septic pump tank down on the farm. The pump is broken so she has to poke it with a stick to get it running. Constantly. Anyhow, it’s a slippery, soggy “mud” (etc ) pit at the low point of the property that then pumps up to the field. The same one we dug out and hand bailed at the end of summer right after DH pacemaker surgery. It floods when it rains. It’s awful, incorrectly sized, and not even a proper commercial system, (according to the professional septic designer/installer/friend I was painting for) and it needs replaced. In the meantime, many, many buckets of gravel later it’s a little less slippery.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Kris I too am in favor of daily...

 

[aart]

So, I’m wondering if I should do daily house updates for a while, or just wall by wall once the sections are in?

I say update when ever you want to
I sure enjoy watching it go up!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Daily would be nice if you have the time. I'm so excited for you. The wood that is getting wet now, will dry. No worries. Your cats are going to have a blast in that big house.

 

[Kris5902]

It’s actually only 700 sq feet larger than our house in the city was. And no massive garage here. I suppose it probably is just a side effect of having spent the last 2 1/2 years in such a small space. I’m looking forward to seeing the cats discovering stairs. The have never had proper indoor stairs, and at most usually a step or two on the outside of their home that they would use on their walks.

Personally I think all the new chickens are more exciting over on your threads. I’ve never really introduced grown birds from outside in numbers like that. Just my occasional farm bird rescue and the like. I did do my best to quarantine them, but with the SLM and wild birds it’s not 100% of course. And tossing poor Chickie Hawk in as a teen to keep him “safe” from Mr Marans Was a break in it, then I did it again by tossing him in with his girlfriends when I “borrowed them”. Of course I knew where the chickens were coming from more intimately than is normal (for better and for worse on that)

 

[Kris5902]

About the Chickens again, Finally!

Well, we just had breakfast and I’ll admit I’m a little worried about those CX eggs. I ate a mid January one this morning for breakfast (I didn’t have enough for hatching but I’ve been setting them aside anyway) and no bullseye. I can tell Roostie has been “trying”, and am now thinking I may need to make some giant white hen saddles, based on the feather wearing of Shanti and Gobbler.

The thought of getting a saddle on Shanti is a daunting prospect, despite her being a “runt”. She does not handle, at all. She is my most high strung chicken, who panics and freaks out at everything. I hand feed the Three of them every morning, Roostie is super gentle, but doesn’t he like being touched any more than most my boys (Sammy being the exception). Gobbler is a little firmer in pecking the pellets from my hand, but Shanti is vicious. She frantically stabs with her beak, bites my hand and twists, and spills almost as much as she eats, all the while making distressed noises.

The girls just do not really behave much like chickens. I’m going to need to clean their bottoms as well, and fairly soon. I’m thinking just a trim job, as there’s not much back there in the way of feathers or fluff anyway. But that will be a two person project, at least, and a full towel wrap for Shanti I’m sure. I worry that she will injure herself in her panic, she is so fragile for such a huge bird. If there’s no luck with these eggs I may need to swap out Roostie for another lighter boy, but then where to put him? I’m going to do another Meat bird order as soon as we have some cash, so I’m thinking he could go in with them, once they are big enough to not look like snacks. My problem as always seems to be not enough girl chickens to go around...

 

[BlueBaby]

About the Chickens again, Finally!

Well, we just had breakfast and I’ll admit I’m a little worried about those CX eggs. I ate a mid January one this morning for breakfast (I didn’t have enough for hatching but I’ve been setting them aside anyway) and no bullseye. I can tell Roostie has been “trying”, and am now thinking I may need to make some giant white hen saddles, based on the feather wearing of Shanti and Gobbler.

The thought of getting a saddle on Shanti is a daunting prospect, despite her being a “runt”. She does not handle, at all. She is my most high strung chicken, who panics and freaks out at everything. I hand feed the Three of them every morning, Roostie is super gentle, but doesn’t he like being touched any more than most my boys (Sammy being the exception). Gobbler is a little firmer in pecking the pellets from my hand, but Shanti is vicious. She frantically stabs with her beak, bites my hand and twists, and spills almost as much as she eats, all the while making distressed noises.

The girls just do not really behave much like chickens. I’m going to need to clean their bottoms as well, and fairly soon. I’m thinking just a trim job, as there’s not much back there in the way of feathers or fluff anyway. But that will be a two person project, at least, and a full towel wrap for Shanti I’m sure. I worry that she will injure herself in her panic, she is so fragile for such a huge bird. If there’s no luck with these eggs I may need to swap out Roostie for another lighter boy, but then where to put him? I’m going to do another Meat bird order as soon as we have some cash, so I’m thinking he could go in with them, once they are big enough to not look like snacks. My problem as always seems to be not enough girl chickens to go around...

I don't suppose that you would be able to just order the pullet's in those, but you could always take any cockerel's to market.