Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[SillyChicken]

No Silly, it's the plastic poultry fencing that you can use to make moveable pens. Real pita when you don't realise there is a gap and a SF cockerel who is totally freaked out gets out, runs like hello into the woods at CS, making people chase him down... LOL How is that rotten jerk BTW? The bite mark healed up nice. LOL

I'll post pics of the job when I am done. I don't think I ever took a pic of what I did last year. I might have pics... hmmm... Ok... it was from back when I needed life rafts, but you can see what I meant, there was still a green section up. I was starting to take the plastic sheets down when the rains hit... and kept raining and raining....

LOL!!! The little rotten jerk is still flighty, spastic and bitey as ever!

 

[Amy PT]

Quote: When I saw the crop of apples my mother in law had coming this year, I bought this for $20. It was a good investment.
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/1/3/apple-peeler

 

[SillyChicken]

our coop mod project - was a "bus stop" (im guessing). will add 2nd bucket for egg nest & havent added poop board yet - will see if i have room to hang water & food on the right side & will add hardware cloth to window in back
This will be for our IowaBlues



its not the prettiest coop on the block, but the birds prob wont mind - should be functional & provide good shelter & safety

nice digs!! If you can get a scrap of vinyl flooring it'll make clean up super easy!

 

[SillyChicken]

oh yeah speaking of apples........... my brother has a few trees that are LOADED with apples... I'm going to go over and try to pick a bunch this week. Never seen so many apples on a tree before!

 

[SillyChicken]

When I saw the crop of apples my mother in law had coming this year, I bought this for $20. It was a good investment.
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/1/3/apple-peeler

Thanks for the link Amy, does it work good?

 

[RaZ]

? did you add any extra vents in the garage where you cooped the girls.

No. It already had adequate ventilation. I used lattice left over from another project.


And of course the girls helped.

 

[mara1]

Thanks the pics give me a better perspective. My ceiling is mostly drywall but the garage is about 20 wide x 40 long. and I'm using about 1/4 of it.

 

[gladahmae]

Well I don't think I'll ever be overrun with eggs again! I have a cousin who raises grass fed beef, pastured pigs and used to have chickens, but she got a job that requires her to be gone more so she gave her chickens to a friend or hers. Well she still has customers wanting eggs, and I'm getting almost a dozen a day. Woohoo!!! The girls might manage to pay for their feed this year!

 

[Amy PT]

Thanks for the link Amy, does it work good?

The first time I used it, I was almost jumping up and down because it saved me so much time. The vacuum isn't awesome on this, but it's not a big deal to hold it down with one hand and crank with the other.

 

[mara1]

Well I don't think I'll ever be overrun with eggs again! I have a cousin who raises grass fed beef, pastured pigs and used to have chickens, but she got a job that requires her to be gone more so she gave her chickens to a friend or hers. Well she still has customers wanting eggs, and I'm getting almost a dozen a day. Woohoo!!! The girls might manage to pay for their feed this year!

I think I'm gonna have 40.00 roasters and 20.00 eggs they way I'm feeding.