Maine

[lazy gardener]

Nice coops. Our building supplies are being delivered today! I just came in from moving piles of rocks to make way for the delivery truck. Moving the big rocks to the front of the property to add to an existing "farmer style" rock wall. Pulling as much of the "duff" as I can off the rock wall before putting down the new rocks. That will be combined with the rotting trees and limbs that I gather to make a small experimental hugelkulture mound for fruit trees. Saving all the big flat rocks to make a walk way from the back door to the new coop. It seems so very wrong to be loading the wheel barrow full of rocks and trundling them to the front yard, then loading the flat ones from the front yard, and trundling them to the back yard. Only in Maine!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Nice coops. Our building supplies are being delivered today! I just came in from moving piles of rocks to make way for the delivery truck. Moving the big rocks to the front of the property to add to an existing "farmer style" rock wall. Pulling as much of the "duff" as I can off the rock wall before putting down the new rocks. That will be combined with the rotting trees and limbs that I gather to make a small experimental hugelkulture mound for fruit trees. Saving all the big flat rocks to make a walk way from the back door to the new coop. It seems so very wrong to be loading the wheel barrow full of rocks and trundling them to the front yard, then loading the flat ones from the front yard, and trundling them to the back yard. Only in Maine!

If we didn't have rock farming most of us wouldn't have anything to do. I'm constantly moving rocks from one pile to another around here.

 

[IZZYBELLA]

If we didn't have rock farming most of us wouldn't have anything to do. I'm constantly moving rocks from one pile to another around here.

I like the term rocking farming. Digging a hole even to plant small flowers takes forever and it's brutal on the shovel. No wonder there are so many stone walls about. On the bright side, you're getting plenty of exercise, LG!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I like the term rocking farming. Digging a hole even to plant small flowers takes forever and it's brutal on the shovel. No wonder there are so many stone walls about. On the bright side, you're getting plenty of exercise, LG!

I bought 3 apple trees last spring and they sent me 4. I had to give one to a neighbor because I couldn't find an area without slate or really big rocks for the 4th tree on my property where it would get sun (and be out of the reach of the goats).

 

[Tnic]

I found freezing them awful. A few others who did it with me also felt they were rather frost bitten etc. I now use the old method of oiling the eggs. Clean, fresh out of the house, I mineral oil the outside and store them in the frig that way. I don't have a pantry/larder that I would think stays consistently cold enough so I just take up frig space. A few dozen for the winter baking is what I have plus any lucky finds that the girls lay. The eggs do have to be flipped or rotated in their cartons every once in a while as they keep.

Tnic... love your avatar. I wish more 'heritage' folks would be into the Doms and Javas. Doms are gorgeous imo

I used duct tape on a goose, ostensibly making it goose tape today. Cuts on the foot needed something to keep it clean for a bit. Tea tree and goose tape seems to be working so far.

Thanks. No flock yet, only the dream of one. We HAVE decided to start with Doms though so I chose a file pic. Being a native Ohioan I also want a flock of Buckeyes. I do like the thought of furthering an endangered breed as well. Makes it all the more enjoyable.

Hopefully Spring will see some chicks in our as yet unborn brooder & coop.

 

[Tnic]

thanks! I love the color....I love all color. Thankfully my hubster is trained pretty well and lets me do just about whatever I want ie: hun I just ordered 28 chicks and his response was...where do you want the coop? *snicker*

Sounds like my wife when I wanna order more ammo. "ok"

 

[Tnic]

Nice coops. Our building supplies are being delivered today! I just came in from moving piles of rocks to make way for the delivery truck. Moving the big rocks to the front of the property to add to an existing "farmer style" rock wall. Pulling as much of the "duff" as I can off the rock wall before putting down the new rocks. That will be combined with the rotting trees and limbs that I gather to make a small experimental hugelkulture mound for fruit trees. Saving all the big flat rocks to make a walk way from the back door to the new coop. It seems so very wrong to be loading the wheel barrow full of rocks and trundling them to the front yard, then loading the flat ones from the front yard, and trundling them to the back yard. Only in Maine!

Now, you know that dead headin the barrow is really wrong. Ya dun good! Never run it empty.

 

[Marcy54]

Hi, I live in Shapleigh so we are practically neighbors.

 

[liquidequis]

Rock farming! a fabulous term thankfully we didn't have to do too much of that here...propped the coop off the ground with pavers, it took us about 3 hours to get them level. Made the coop itself out of pallets so most of it was free lumber. I have 3 doms and they are fabulous little pullets, they are the friendliest of the bunch, they are much more agreeable to be held than the others.

 

[ashandvine]

Thanks. No flock yet, only the dream of one. We HAVE decided to start with Doms though so I chose a file pic. Being a native Ohioan I also want a flock of Buckeyes. I do like the thought of furthering an endangered breed as well. Makes it all the more enjoyable.

Hopefully Spring will see some chicks in our as yet unborn brooder & coop.

Both breeds are considered at risk. There is a woman here who raises Buckeyes, nice woman too. PollyC. If you come to the Windsor show on Oct 5 you might find someone else with Doms there.

Geese.... they are too smart. They find a way over, under, through and now around fences. I have got to thinking maybe I should fence them in at my neighbor's so they will want to be over
here.