Kristen’s Chickens and Farming Ventures

[Ribh]

I have 3 mixed egg's that are due to hatch on Sunday. The rooster was a Americana/EE mix. The mother's to 2 of these are EE, but the other one the mother could either be a New Hampshire Red, a Delaware, or a Calico Princess. Any pullet's will grow up to add more to my genetic diversity to my NN's.

Yes, crossing the CCLB is giving bigger sized egg's, and the hen's are a little bit bigger than the full CCLB's. I still have my NN/CCLB hen's aunt here that is a full CCLB. This NN/CCLB hen is the only one that's laying right now. The other's have been molting.

Sorry that you lost a few of your hatching chick's. I'm waiting to get some more egg's shipped from @Compost King from his NN flock that he has going over there.

Good luck on the hatch!

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Kris

What exciting news... Will this be the last pour to finish the foundation?

Jeannie, I couldn't agree with you more. Thankfully, when mine were little we were still military and parents seemed much more responsible back then. I taught kids cooking, lapidary art, stained glass and woodworking. But I think it was just a different time or maybe just a different crowd.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

No fair... Time difference! and I should add, I didn’t get on BYC when I first woke as my phone needed charged and I was helping get Andrew off to work. He leaves at 5:30 for the morning ferry, and I needed to help unload the feed from the Jeep, make precious coffee, and get a lunch together for him. Normally I set up lunch the night before, but I hit the rack early with some tummy troubles. Lack of a microwave at the Abbatoir really limits lunch options. Had I known I would’ve donated the one from the trailer there instead.

For some reason just randomly carrying large knives around seems to disturb people so we try to keep them packed out of sight (which to me actually seems more nefarious). Luckily for Andrew, my preference for large screens on computers resulted in a very large carry on backpack for them. He takes it whenever he doesn’t drive to the other Abbatoir (which, thanks to high inter-island ferry fares, is most days) he usually uses three knives for work, a 12” scimitar steaking knife and two boning knives, as well as his steel for honing. The only decent sized bag that can carry them in his scabbard is my computer bag, so I share. I’m just glad he didn’t really like the 16” scimitar and donated it to the Abbatoir here.

It's crazy how people view knives... The last state I was in, I could carry a concealed firearm, but my processing set was considered a concealed weapon not covered by my permit. When I'd go deer hunting, I had to lock it in a box behind the back seat of the truck to be legal. Technically, carrying it over my shoulder into the field was also illegal, but no one really cared. I guess it's the difference between the game warden and the traffic cop.

My daughter is a chef and was catching public transport for a while. She had to have padlocks on her knife roll while carrying them.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Big news! We have the ok to pour from the engineer, so it’s just waiting on the building inspector and the concrete now! Foundation is almost done! And it only took 3 days and 168 photos to get it all good to go

Woot! Party time!!

 

[aart]

Big news! We have the ok to pour from the engineer, so it’s just waiting on the building inspector and the concrete now! Foundation is almost done! And it only took 3 days and 168 photos to get it all good to go

WooHoo!!
Does the BI have to approve before the pour?

Will this be the last pour to finish the foundation?

There were previous pours?
I have hard time keeping up here.

 

[Ribh]

Jeannie, I couldn't agree with you more. Thankfully, when mine were little we were still military and parents seemed much more responsible back then. I taught kids cooking, lapidary art, stained glass and woodworking. But I think it was just a different time or maybe just a different crowd.

We were even more rural back then & most of the kids were very self~sufficient. Seems there's gotta be one in every crowd.

There were previous pours?
I have hard time keeping up here.

It moves fast around here...

 

[Kris5902]

Second to last pour... first was the footings, this one is the foundation walls and pillar things for the support beams. The final pour will be a “mudslab” a non structural layer of cement on top of 6 mil poly as a floor in the crawl space. The building inspector said ok to the pour when the engineer ok’s it, almost a year ago.

In other news, I’m wrapping for Andrew at his job at the other Abbatoir today, and having our cockerels processed. And my Barnvelder boy, who I reluctantly loaded up last night (he was so stressed out not being up with his boyfriends last night, then getting crated in with the teenage jerks) will be spared! I found him a home on the second ferry trip, the catch is he’s going to be stuck in the van all day. And we have no food or water for him. I’ll drop him off tonight on the way home in exchange for an injured hen to joint my rehab girls. So BC ferries breakfast bar to the rescue... it was this or cornflakes, did I choose wisely?

 

[aart]

Second to last pour... first was the footings, this one is the foundation walls and pillar things for the support beams. The final pour will be a “mudslab” a non structural layer of cement on top of 6 mil poly as a floor in the crawl space. The building inspector said ok to the pour when the engineer ok’s it, almost a year ago.

Thanks for the catch up..sounds vaguely familiar

 

[Kris5902]

So I got a snarky email from ye old building inspector... no pouring concrete until they say so, despite the previous email stating we could if the engineer said it was ok. Luckily there will be someone on island on the 10th to come look at it. I offered escort service should he need protection from the mean “cows that don’t like hybrid vehicles”(as the inspector put it last time).

Our Barnvelder boy had a rough day all alone in the van, with just his meuslicereal and water and no company while Andrew and I worked. Little does he know how lucky he is! And the laceration to the newest rehab Gil’s leg/butt doesn’t look quite as bad as I thought it would... I’ll probably be posting some pics tomorrow on the emergency/injury/forum for advice.

Now, it is off to bed, because it was a very long day indeed. For tomorrow I’m going to weight and package chicken, dump the guts etc, check in on the chicks and the newly introduced boyo (now probably named “Phoenix”) and possibly set up mr eyebrows with some ladies... integration challenges coming soon, I’m sure!

 

[BlueBaby]

Something to amuse you from my flock:

The white naked neck hen with the scattered black feather's on her back is my NN/CCLB mix that lay's the green egg's.