Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

[Molpet]

Honestly, people had anonymously donated PFMs to me in the past, and I asked the Powers that Be to simply apply it to their operating budget or re-donated it to another member.

This time, I was in a position to buy one for myself. Seemed more "honest"?

So do you return Christmas gifts too

 

[U_Stormcrow]

So do you return Christmas gifts too

Yes? (but not always - its a small circle of givers - and largely equivalent exchange)

I'm not a very good human. Not wired right.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Sorry, meant to label the above. One of two new turkey hutches (they need to be raised higher of course). SO far, my turkey hens have walked circles around them and looked inside, then walked away. Several roosters have checked it out, and made a pair of hollows, one hen settled down, but didn't lay, and several ducks tried to get in (but its too high).

Dimensions are 32" by 32". Walls are 24" high at the sides, about 30" at the top. Two sheets of 2' x 3' corrugated on top - 1" overhang in the back, 3" in front. Center four Vs are overlapped. Won't support a goat, should support a turkey.

Brown water-based exterior solid stain (2 coats), green Krylon on the roof (so we don't get glare off of it when we are lookign over the pasture). Plywood is 4 ply 1/2". 1 sheet per hutch.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Sorry, meant to label the above. One of two new turkey hutches (they need to be raised higher of course). SO far, my turkey hens have walked circles around them and looked inside, then walked away. Several roosters have checked it out, and made a pair of hollows, one hen settled down, but didn't lay, and several ducks tried to get in (but its too high).

Dimensions are 32" by 32". Walls are 24" high at the sides, about 30" at the top. Two sheets of 2' x 3' corrugated on top - 1" overhang in the back, 3" in front. Center four Vs are overlapped. Won't support a goat, should support a turkey.

Brown water-based exterior solid stain (2 coats), green Krylon on the roof (so we don't get glare off of it when we are lookign over the pasture). Plywood is 4 ply 1/2". 1 sheet per hutch.

I really like it.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Front opening may well be too wide. Could use more overhang. Anyhow, when I get the second painted and roofed, I'll set them both in the air at more reasonable height. Likely put roosting bars between them. and if not roosting bars, then those planters you put on porch rails. Something to add some color/interest and hopefully go to seed.

(MAYBE)

Not sure, in spire of the very wide entrance, that the turkeys will jump into one if its much higher. I've got big breasted bronze birds, even the hens are "big" - which is why I made a 32" hutch in the first place.

 

[Sally PB]

What is in the background, to the right side? It looks like a giant compost pile...?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

What is in the background, to the right side? It looks like a giant compost pile...?

I use the tractor to pile small trees (youpon holly, short pines, etc) wild grape vines, other stuff from expanding the pasture into a bulma (I think that's the right word) around the duck pond I dug. It slows the runoff into the pond, improves the clay soils, provides a very "uncertain" surface for the goats to prance on, and also offers me a way to plant things that the chickens can't immediately dig up, which then grow up around and thru the piles of downed trees.

Like so much else I do, its a work iin progress w/ a long time scale payout.

 

[Molpet]

Front opening may well be too wide. Could use more overhang. Anyhow, when I get the second painted and roofed, I'll set them both in the air at more reasonable height. Likely put roosting bars between them. and if not roosting bars, then those planters you put on porch rails. Something to add some color/interest and hopefully go to seed.

(MAYBE)

Not sure, in spire of the very wide entrance, that the turkeys will jump into one if its much higher. I've got big breasted bronze birds, even the hens are "big" - which is why I made a 32" hutch in the first place.

Most of my turkeys prefer ground level.

If she can't see me I can't see her

This has been the most popular option

 

[U_Stormcrow]

"BOMA" not bulma. Bulma is apparently a cartoon character from a popular anime.