Michigan

[NovaAman]

I am having a devil of time getting rid of roosters... AND I only want to get rid of Silkies... I mean, I'd just eat them, but I just can't... Its not like they have meat on them anyway, but they are just to not eatable. I am sure they are, but not for me! lol BUT I cant seem to just give them away!

Anyway. I have enjoyed the lovely weather. I was a bit cloudy here today, but was still quite a nice day. I wish it would stay this way a few more weeks... But only days I see. Oh well.

Here is my tip for winter... FILL YOUR PROPANE! LOL. I have LP here, and we have a not electric start wall unit that we use in the basement. Its great, cuz if the power goes out, the furnace goes out, but this wall unit does not and will keep the house warm enough. LOL.

Thats my only tip. Yup.

 

[Stacykins]

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'tis a good tip! Unless you are one of the folks that heat your house on something else. We have a bajillion cords of hardwood (ok, more like twelve split and stacked and then ten more cords whole logs waiting to be cut, split, and stacked) and about three tons of coal. Yea, all that coal is in the basement too, so we don't have to go outside to fuel the furnace! Furnace eats both hardwood and nut coal. I like starting it out on hardwood, then changing over to coal in the evening since coal can go a LOT longer without stoking.

 

[Jenerva]

Hi Fellow Fowl Festers!

 

[chickendales]

 

[NovaAman]

Cute kiddo.

When I lived on the other side of town, we had natural gas, and had a wall unit installed there to do the same thing.

I was really thinking of getting a pellet furnace, but don't know if they are any good. This house used to have a wood burning stove, and the pipe hole is till in the wall, just kinda closed over, and so it wouldn't be to hard to put one back in, but, again, I don't know if thats good idea. Save on the gas...

 

[yorkchick]

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Well, that would explain why Penelope keeps breaking into choruses of Kum Ba Yah and demanding S'mores!

 

[Stacykins]

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My parents have a pellet stove and it didn't take long to pay for itself in fuel savings. But the main problem: if the power goes out, the auger that feeds pellets into the little burning pit doesn't work. Fine if you have a generator to feed it juice, but yea, useless in a power outage otherwise. The wood/coal furnace I run relies on power for the blowers that send the warmed air around the house, but since it is in the basement, it heats just fine when the power is out and keeps the entire house toasty through simple convection and physics. All the hot air rises through the vents still to warm the house.

 

[yorkchick]

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I'll have to try that. I thought at least they might start honking in the morning as I come to let them out their Upscale Luxury Gated Community, as I call it (they insist on referring to it as Goose Jail). No, they just keep up a soft chatter which clearly says "hurry up, you're so slow, we've got places to be," but in an oh-so-polite manner. The three days I work they only see me in the dark now. Penelope in particular is quite suspicious of the flashlight. Seems a little startled every time the beam of light comes close to her. But they are getting quite used to the routine of going into Protective Custody, I mean their Gated Community, every night. The last two nights I have just had to walk behind them and not even use the herding sticks--they walked right in. And they are all eating the grumble quite happily now.

 

[babigyrl22]

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The chick tshirt is awesome.

 

[babigyrl22]

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Well, that would explain why Penelope keeps breaking into choruses of Kum Ba Yah and demanding S'mores!