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[Minniechickmama]

My new Dark Cornish from @Minniechickmama have been sleeping in a nest box all huddled up at night and pooping all over in it! If they don't start using the new low roost I built for them I will have to start blocking the best boxes at night. Little turds!

Sorry about that! They roosted here. I don't know why they would start doing that to you now. Maybe they are skeerd of the new flock they are in? But if you have to block the nests, after a few nights they should catch on, I would think.

 

[Minniechickmama]

My MIL is in charge of distribution/circulation at the local paper here. At lunch I went over to their garage and took away a whole truck load of pallets, scrap wood, and old doors plus there is probably another truckload worth there. She is happy to get it out of their storage space without having to get a dumpster or something plus she knows that I will get really good use out of it on the farm. They also have a large 6' x 15' metal sign that she thinks she can get rid of too that looks like it would make a good prevailing wall of a coop/run

one door is going to become the poop board of a new roost layout coming to my corn crib coop this weekend.

That big old sign could be the roof to a CRX tractor! What a find you have! You can make all sorts of things with the pallets, either as a whole or broken down. You have lucked out, man!

 

[KlopKlop]

Sorry about that!  They roosted here.  I don't know why they would start doing that to you now.  Maybe they are skeerd of the new flock they are in?  But if you have to block the nests, after a few nights they should catch on, I would think.

Oh, I didn't mean to make you feel bad one of the dark girls gets up on the high roost on her own. The WLR and one dark go in the box, the last hides in the corner.

They are all very skittish still and only one has been brave enough to venture out into the yard. I think they are still getting acclimated. I may block the boxed for the next few evenings just so they don't get set in their habit

 

[KlopKlop]

That big old sign could be the roof to a CRX tractor!  What a find you have!  You can make all sorts of things with the pallets, either as a whole or broken down.  You have lucked out, man!

Oooo I hadn't thought of that! The reason I did hoop tractors instead of Salatin style tractors is because the cost of a tin roof for it

 

[Minniechickmama]

Oh, I didn't mean to make you feel bad

one of the dark girls gets up on the high roost on her own. The WLR and one dark go in the box, the last hides in the corner.

They are all very skittish still and only one has been brave enough to venture out into the yard. I think they are still getting acclimated. I may block the boxed for the next few evenings just so they don't get set in their habit

The WLRs were in a pen without a roost. I don't give them one until they have moved into a big tractor or the big house. And those two are still in the freak out age. If you walk in the pen more with them, they calm down a bit, but as long as they are out running around, they won't be too keen on letting you close to them. I forgot to mention, some of my DC hens are the broodiest birds I have. Surprise! You wouldn't think they would be with being so tight feathered, but they are good broodies and mommas, I have read. I don't let any hens brood eggs for me though.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

@Rhetts , does your trail cam have a video option? Mine shoots in 15sec intervals and then has to be retriggered. Takes up a lot of SD card space, but worth it.

 

[Rhetts]

The prints left from the animal in the first picture were a little over 4 inches. DNR came out that morning to look things over and took a copy of the picture. The prints from the second were for sure coyote. Tiny. Not even remotely close to the behemoths left the other times.

DNR said to set out a meat buffet for them and set up the cameras to get good shots of them. I have done that but they haven't been back yet. The cameras are borrowed so I am not sure how to use them. But the in laws are really good about helping set them up. I have them taking pictures every 15 seconds I think.

Klop you scored big time on your wood and sign!

I love the idea of community building get togethers!! Think of how much we could accomplish with eachother.

 

[ejb3810]

Rhetts, what type of firearm did they suggest for the shots?
Ralphie, it is my understanding that in the vicinity of Togo coffee is brewed in a big pot. An egg is required and bringing to a boil with allowing to settle so the grounds are on the bottom of the pot.
Then you have Northwoods coffee that is fit for a Lumberjack or any other miscreant.

 

[scandiafowl]

Alas! My coffee maker is on the fritz! It would only brew about half a cup of coffee in one go and it took twice as long as a whole cup usually takes i think the pump is pooping out in it. It is the smallest keurig model and has served its purpose. I might try running vinegar through it to see if it is just plugging with hard waster crud. Hopefully it will last a little longer

Other than losing a chicken that has got to be my worst nightmare.

 

[duluthralphie]

Rhetts, what type of firearm did they suggest for the shots?
Ralphie, it is my understanding that in the vicinity of Togo coffee is brewed in a big pot. An egg is required and bringing to a boil with allowing to settle so the grounds are on the bottom of the pot.
Then you have Northwoods coffee that is fit for a Lumberjack or any other miscreant.

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I am not a fan of egg coffee. That is the way the old timers around here use to make it. By old timers I mean people that have been gone for 40-50 years like my Grandparents and the rest of the old swedes and Norwegians. I have not had egg coffee in ages. it just seems wrong to crack and egg into coffee.

When I get served "lumberjack" coffee I thankfully accept and drink it. if it is too bad I put a little salt in it to help mellow it.



BTW the Togo bar makes great coffee, but why would anyone drink coffee there? It would be like going to a Chinese restaurant and ordering spaghetti and meat balls.