Kristen’s Chickens and Farming Ventures

[rjohns39]

That's a beautiful design and very neat work rjohns. Very unique and clever too! Did you do the mouldings around the light fittings too? It's a lovely layout

Thank you for sharing

The lights were the only things I didn't do. They were on clearance at homedepot and matched my design so I snagged them.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

The lights were the only things I didn't do. They were on clearance at homedepot and matched my design so I snagged them.

Well, they work well with the kitchen. That was a good find

 

[aart]

I do not have the best poking tool right now

Drill bit a tad smaller than the stick?

 

[Kris5902]

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Thanks to @igorsMistress for taking this picture and posting it on her fugly farm thread, this is the unboxing of my packaging job. I want to start getting the bamboo branches straighter for better support but I do not have the best poking tool right now. Some of the filler packaging has been removed but you can see the stiff black material I put in on all 6 sides of the box. It keeps the sizes and corners form being crushed, the bamboo branches keep the middle from being crushed. You can see the no stick material wrapped around the eggs to hold them in place because the holes are a bit big for the smaller eggs.

That is a beautiful box! And I love the bamboo to prevent “crushing damage”! It doesn’t matter if the packaging is pretty, or where you got it, it’s the time you put into making sure the potential babies are safe. I wish all shippers would put in the same amount of effort, there would be less sad stories about cracked, broken and scrambled eggs on here if they did.

Luckily for me where I order chicks from ships here via air. They get loaded at one small airport and fly direct. They probably spent more time being driven to the airport than they did in the air as well. But the thought of eggs still scares me. Really rough roads here, sometimes the washboard on the road up the hill feels like it’s going to shake parts off the car. Nothing is quite so nerve wracking as driving up the wrong side of the road on that hill, hoping no one is rushing down it, to avoid the heavy washboard, especially getting close to the crest of it!

 

[Compost King]

Drill bit a tad smaller than the stick?

that's what I tried first, the material just sticks tot he sharp part of the bit and ... I can't explain it but it can't be drilled. I just need a straight sharp poker a better table to work with.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Kris

 

[Kris5902]

Well I’m not sure exactly what happened last night, as all was well when I put everyone up, but this morning I found Big Red dead on her back at about the same place she normally sleeps. She is too large to bury here (there’s no way I can dig a large enough hole in this ground by hand) so we will be putting her in the pit with the other remains from the Abbatoir. I’m pretty down about it, as I was hinging my meat breeding primarily on her potential offspring.

I’ve decided to overwinter Roostie, Gobbler, and Shanti (the two remaining CX hens) in the barn. They won’t get as much exercise or light as I’d like, or pasture. But they will have dry and level ground at all times and nothing they can injure themselves on. I’ll put them in the brooder, and Sammy and his girls will continue to roost on the dog crate and the Freezer I use for feed storage. (They have little 2x2 roosts on legs)

To further add to the general unpleasant news, it’s looking like we won’t be getting the cement tomorrow either. I’m praying I’m wrong, but it has been consistently raining all day, and although it is supposed to let up a little tonight, it really doesn’t look like it. The contractor was out last night to our site and no, the shale FIL has spread on the road isn’t going to help him any more than it helps us in driving out. It turns into a greasy mud in the rain. We are still proceeding as though the pour will happen, but don’t have high hopes for it.

 

[Ribh]

I'm so sorry: both about the pour & your hen. I've never got used to the way hens just up & die for seemingly no reason.

 

[MaryJanet]

Sorry @Kris5902 you must be feeling sad and disappointed. I hope the pour is rescheduled to a date not too far in the future.

I'm always a bit lost for words when chickens die. So sorry for your loss.

 

[BY Bob]

Well I’m not sure exactly what happened last night, as all was well when I put everyone up, but this morning I found Big Red dead on her back at about the same place she normally sleeps. She is too large to bury here (there’s no way I can dig a large enough hole in this ground by hand) so we will be putting her in the pit with the other remains from the Abbatoir. I’m pretty down about it, as I was hinging my meat breeding primarily on her potential offspring.

I’ve decided to overwinter Roostie, Gobbler, and Shanti (the two remaining CX hens) in the barn. They won’t get as much exercise or light as I’d like, or pasture. But they will have dry and level ground at all times and nothing they can injure themselves on. I’ll put them in the brooder, and Sammy and his girls will continue to roost on the dog crate and the Freezer I use for feed storage. (They have little 2x2 roosts on legs)

To further add to the general unpleasant news, it’s looking like we won’t be getting the cement tomorrow either. I’m praying I’m wrong, but it has been consistently raining all day, and although it is supposed to let up a little tonight, it really doesn’t look like it. The contractor was out last night to our site and no, the shale FIL has spread on the road isn’t going to help him any more than it helps us in driving out. It turns into a greasy mud in the rain. We are still proceeding as though the pour will happen, but don’t have high hopes for it.

I am so sorry for your loss. It's so sudden that can't be easy. Sending hugs.

And then the pour too. Tough day.