My New Barn

[Muggsmagee]

That looks GREAT! Congratulations!

 

[Hawkeye95]

turkeys!!! YAY!!! Love turkeys! What kind? My Royal Palm is just the sweetest and tamest bird.

 

[AK Michelle]

I have a Royal Palm, a midget white and 7 blue slates.

I'm new to turkeys but they seem to be thriving so I must be doing something right

It was a struggle getting eggs this year so I thought I would winter over a few so I have eggs to incubate in the spring.

Wish me luck!

 

[Hawkeye95]

apparently they don't want to always lay in a box- mine hasn't laid yet, but I think she's getting really close, and she's the right age. she's been digging holes in the ground and sitting in them. She's a REALLy good digger! Geez.

Right now, she's made two different 'nesting holes' and depending on the heat of the day decides which one she sits on. I'm really curious what she'll do once the coop is done and she will have real nesting boxes. I've been told, they will still prefer to dig a hole. But I hope not! The blue slates are beautiful turkeys! How fun! Are you planning on butchering turkeys?

 

[AK Michelle]

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That's the general idea, keep 3 or 4, the rest go in the freezer. Haven't decided on timing just yet, for now, I have room to house them all and I'm too busy to make process them.

The barn is coming along nicely. This weekend we are doing all the trenching for the natural gas, water and electric. It's going to be a long hard weekend.

 

[sparkles2307]

Its so amazing Chelle!

 

[AK Michelle]

This 3 day weekend was anything but a vacation! Over the past week, we painted the inside of the coop. Pretty easy work with an airless sprayer, I think it took longer to tape the windows than it did to spray the paint but now it is all a nice clean off-white. We just used the remainders of 5-gallon buckets we had of miscellaneous interior paint. The bare plywood soaked it up so we ended up double coating it.

Once that was done we turned the barn into a workshop. H2B used the table saw to make sheets of blue foamboard insulation into strips which my talented assistant helped me glue into channels. These insulation channels go in the trench, then we lay 3" PVC in the channels before adding a blue foam "lid" to the channel. the whole contraption is 4' underground and with the help of a circulating pump, should keep the water lines from freezing

My talented and dedicated assistants, I couldn't do it without these guys

The channels we made

My faithful assistant abandoned me as soon as the heavy equipment arrived

Our next project was to move the pile of downed trees that were laying in the path of the water lines.

For this, I called in my daughter, known to some BYCers as Cereal Girl

Riding my trusty dusty steed round the bend - one more time...

Meanwhile, the boys were playing with their toys

I couldn't bare to watch so I went to check on the eggs I put into lock down (one had pipped) when I heard drilling and thumping in the mechanical room.

Turns out the holes in the house were just a diversion to allow my dear BIL2B more time to finish trashing my backyard

But, it's all for a good cause. There will be no hauling water this winter

Our inspector showed up to give us her approval

We lined the trench with the blue channels we had made, and started by running the PVC into the hole in the house, then we worked our way down the trench, connecting a bazillion pieces of PVC together using this goopy glue that makes my hands look just lovely

For our final act of the day, Cereal Girl and Greek Boy laid trace wire and foam lids over the whole contraption using a bit of dirt to weigh things down and hold them in place.

 

[ll]

oh my goodness

 

[GA_in_GA]

Should I pm you with my flight number and arrival time? That is one spectacular new barn. And I'll even have running water!

 

[AK Michelle]

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