Michigan

[chicken grandma]

Fuzzy - please come to M.S.U. with us next Tuesday! I would like to hear what the vets there have to say about managing the health of our back yard flocks and I would love it if you were there also.

I just love chickens. I have only had 13 of them and I have doted on every one. The last hen I had was the sweetest thing ever. She was a little one and a half pound Belgium D'Uccle. She contracted chronic respiratory disease and it broke my heart. You can bet that we would have spent any money to save her. But we were told that not only would she never be completely well but she would be spreading the illness in the community if we kept her in our backyard. So I hugged her good bye and they put her down. I wanted to bury her under our tree but she had to be incinerated first. So I have her ashes and am waiting for Spring to bury her.

Anyway - I am for the chickens and the people who love them. But I am not for people who are thoughtless (none of you) about animal care or other farmers/poultry owners. We must take care of the animals and take care of each other.

Nova- Happy for you!

 

[M.sue]

Ya,ll should be proud of me. I saw all them little chicks and ducklings and I didn't bubba single one! Nope. But I wanted to. Oh how I wanted to...I would have had to go on up to Nancy's and get all her stuff! Lol. Think would have to go steal a new coop. And then... And then... Lol.
got taxes paid! Got propane ordered. Man is it nice to have those taken care of. I have 200 left from my taxes...- I could buy wood for a new coop... Sure I could...

You're one strong gal......I'm staying away from TSC for as along as I can because I know I wouldn't be able to walk out of there empty handed.

 

[RBahmer]

THAT'S A LOT OF CHICKENS!!!

Yes it is and that is what I told her. Her hubby has a business with them. I told her he was lucky he was married to a vet LOL

 

[RBahmer]

I guess old age has set in

. I'm not too coordinated anymore. Yesterday I was carrying a heat lamp shield and somehow managed to slice the end of my thumb almost off. Ouch, sore thumb. Today I was hammering a nail and smacked my other thumb. Now it is black. So here I am with two sore thumbs and there goes the texting for awhile.

 

[b737drvr]

You're one strong gal......I'm staying away from TSC for as along as I can because I know I wouldn't be able to walk out of there empty handed.

It's easy for me to walk out empty handed, because I always walk in empty-pocketed!

 

[Opa]

I guess old age has set in

. I'm not too coordinated anymore. Yesterday I was carrying a heat lamp shield and somehow managed to slice the end of my thumb almost off. Ouch, sore thumb. Today I was hammering a nail and smacked my other thumb. Now it is black. So here I am with two sore thumbs and there goes the texting for awhile.

After 50 years in the construction industry I have managed to pick up a few pearls of wisdom. While the phenomena is not totally understood, once digit is injured it become magnetized. Once that happens a hammer attempting to hit a nail will be drawn to the injury site. Avoid hammers like a plague.

 

[b737drvr]

Nova, glad you got your tax refund. I have been turbotaxing all day. I hate doing taxes, but I guess if they have to get done, today was a good day to do it as it has been crumby weather all day. It is always more complicated when you have to file two different state returns. Hopefully next year it will be easier. I am just about ready to file...that will be a load lifted and then I will be able to move on to more important stuff like coop building!

Another question relating to coop construction - The interior of the coop has just natural exposed boards. Is there any reason or need to paint them? I am hoping to do something on the poop boards to make the poop come off more easily, but what about the rest of the floor and walls?

 

[swampducks]

What? You don't run a tab like the rest of us?

It's easy for me to walk out empty handed, because I always walk in empty-pocketed!

 

[b737drvr]

What? You don't run a tab like the rest of us?

That would entail me having some collateral for them to come after if I didn't pay up...the only thing they could come after me for is a partially constructed chicken coop!

 

[RaZ]

Another question relating to coop construction - The interior of the coop has just natural exposed boards. Is there any reason or need to paint them? I am hoping to do something on the poop boards to make the poop come off more easily, but what about the rest of the floor and walls?

No need to paint it. Unless you want to make it pretty.
Melamine coated boards work for poop boards, or look for counter top laminates in the over-run areas at the big box stores.