Michigan

[NovaAman]

No Snowflake, I take them to Kapenga Farms. Just the basic, they butcher, I bag, is $2 a bird. They bantams use there bags, $2.75. I needed the weights on them so I paid the extra $.75. I did ask if they teach how to do it, he said it'd have to be something they'd think about.

 

[keyt1969]

sure hope we get a good rain soon, the farmers up here are really hurting. first the frost and now the drought. Pray for rain

They're hurting everywhere, especially here. At least half of them are a loss because they haven't grown. Although I do find it interesting how we go down a road and one side is all burnt up and the other side is the way it should be and it's the same farm. It's all about soil!

I dread the thought of what our feed bills will be since the majority of the country's crops are hurting. My boyfriends mom burnt corn in her pellet stove last year. She obviously won't this year! Our pellet stove is older we can only burn wood pellets. We did try mixing in small amounts of cherry pits but that messed up the motor so Aric is going to try to fix it. Although we are looking at getting a wood stove if we can afford one. We see people on craigslist giving away massive amounts of wood that we could use in a stove!

 

[RaZ]

Love it, never thought of hooking several carts together....YOU ARE SO CLEVER,,,, I don't know why your neighbor is having such a problem, she should be thrilled that you are so ambitious and making so many improvements to your yard...are you going to show us the finished project?
If you ever run out I have lots of work that needs to be done on my yard

A few years ago, my ex-SIL wanted to see what a Master Gardener's yard looked like. I told her that it is NEVER finished and is always in flux. She was kind of surprised because I "finished" several projects for her Mom up North. I suppose that family comes first, then customers and then if there is any time left over, I'll get to my stuff.

Hooking the carts together is nothing new. When I was a kid, I worked on my uncle's farm and when we mowed hay, we had a cutter, a baler and 2 or 3 hay wagons all in tandom behind the tractor. I'm just doing it on a mini scale here in the city.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Attempting to show Olive her cuteywiddlecuddlypie and Snookums..

The one is the back has the yellow spot on his feathers.

 

[snowflake]

Quote: this is what I built Tuesday between running grandson to and from camp. New roost for the chicks DD and grand daughters raised this spring
I put bedding from the floor on the poop board makes it easier to clean and I don't have to paint it

 

[snowflake]

Attempting to show Olive her cuteywiddlecuddlypie and Snookums..

The one is the back has the yellow spot on his feathers.

sweet!!!! look silver

this is what I built Tuesday between running grandson to and from camp. New roost for the chicks DD and grand daughters raised this spring
I put bedding from the floor on the poop board makes it easier to clean and I don't have to paint it

just noticed how green that patch of grass is, the only green in my yard. right off the pack in the shade

1 muttsfan, your Basque are doing very well the hen is afraid of every one runs if we or other birds come near her.... roo will come up and eat out of my hand but is still cautious grabs a treat and backs off...I am hoping as the roo gets a little less standoffish the hen will warm up some

 

[fuzzybutt love]

To get rid of all those coons, you need to get yourselves some coyote pee!!! It works!! I can't say if its sold in any stores. You can order it online.... predatorpee.com

Hmmm. I wonder if that works better than man-pee..................lol.

I'll stand behind this since I live in the country and was an avid trapper in the 70's/80's ( so I 9think) I know my fur targets). Anyway, it's tru that a den can support the type of problem some of the folks have. I just believe that unless the food source is there they will find something else. If I put out a food source the coon and possums will show up. Like I stated - until my corn comes in they stay away. I think my heeler helps a little too, sort of like predator urine. Here's a tidbit: when I used to trap coyotes I used a hole set with rabbit meat. I caught more rabbits than dogs becase the rabbits were attracted to rabbit scent. Nothing to do with coons though. If I get a coon problem I'll make tree sets with conibears so I don't waste ammo or catch non-target animals.

Aaaaah. Dog. Big dog pee, at that. Therin lies the difference, having birds without dogs is a Huuuuge difference. Nothing really to scare them. I have mine locked up like fort knox in a metal coop, no food or water near the coop, and still they come............ Don't take any special skills to tell they are frequent, sand tracks are easy to read! Though DH's uncle next door's chickens and rabbit are dead, he has been trapping and DH has dispatched 3-4 in addition to uncles 3-4, and those chickens have been dead and gone for most of a month now!

Also, in the 70's and 80's coons were trapped extensively, almost to the point of being hard to get according to other hunting folks i know. You would be surprised at how many there are now..............Just no money in it so no-one keeps up anymore.

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: aahh, how tasty cute!

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: UUUM! you do realize that these are "chickens", right?

(for eating)

 

[RaZ]

UUUM! you do realize that these are "chickens", right?

(for eating)

Uggets on the hoof!

Where is my dipping sauce?