North Carolina

[Hollowoakfarm]

[COLOR=008000]Good morning folks [/COLOR]

[COLOR=008000]what a pretty day it is through the glass........but it is a kite day for sure [/COLOR]

[COLOR=008000]Hollow........I have feathers for your DS and beards too.......[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]we processed 3 turkeys yesterday for us and friends soooo.......[/COLOR]

[COLOR=008000]a neighbor came by to get some eggs as we were finishing the[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]first one and she was chatting as she watched......fascinated.......[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]and we explained as we went along........when we got out the next turkey[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]to go she made a hasty retreat down the road........the killing part is[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]the hardest part of all in it and many folks don't deal well with it.........[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]even I have my moments but I managed.....the rest of it is easy enough.[/COLOR] :/

[COLOR=008000]hope everyone is having a good weekend[/COLOR]

Yay for feathers and beards! RF says you are working Wednesday. I'm not. I can meet you anywhere or you are welcome at the house, of course! Monday I have to pick Levi up from surgery right after work, and Tuesday is my long day so that won't work well. Whatcha think?

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Yay for feathers and beards! RF says you are working Wednesday. I'm not. I can meet you anywhere or you are welcome at the house, of course! Monday I have to pick Levi up from surgery right after work, and Tuesday is my long day so that won't work well. Whatcha think?

RF is wrong......no work on Wednesday for me. We can work something out.
I'm sure he will more than enough to make lots of lures and some left over
for any crafts anyone wants to try a hand at making.

 

[lknmomma]

Hey everyone! I am in the lake Norman area and have a couple of ? About winterizing our coop. I have 10 hens and 2 never leave the coop, they are very silly. My waterer is a hanging unit in the run and feeder is in coop.

I was planing on opening the two high vent windows at the top ends of coop and leaving door open. The rest of windows would be closed. Pine shavings on flooring and straw in boxes. Is this enough, should we add sand and then shavings and straw? Thanks is advance for any suggestions!

 

[dutchbunny83]

Cold. The breeze is cold. Tonight will be real cold. I'll spend today moving birds around. Most of the young ones are moving back indoors. Sigh. Thought I was done with indoor brooding, but nope. Gotta protect the babies.

Making a huge feed run to TSC today, with my handy-dandy 10% off coupon. Filling up everything.

Levi has eye surgery again tomorrow. Poor guy. He'll be miserable for a week, but then hopefully there will be a permanent improvement.

Enjoy your day. Be a penguin.

I did the same thing with my TSC coupon, still ended up spending $120 (and I don't have that many animals)!

You think chicks will be okay as long as they have a heatlamp? I just moved all of mine out and scrubbed the bathroom floor to ceiling. I really don't want to bring them back in if I can avoid it. They're big enough to fly out of the tub and poop all over the floor! Mine are like 6 weeks old, mostly feathered, but still have a little fuzz on the head and a couple spots on the chest, not sure what's taking them so long. I have an infrared heatlamp in the coop with them....

 

[Banriona]

Good morning folks!

Anyone have any experience with living fences? I'm considering doing one at least for my garden, and if it works out maybe expanding to a larger area for the chickens and future goats to pasture in. Something along the lines of these:

http://greengardenblog.com/2013/01/...at-appeltern-gardens-bellewood-gardens-diary/

or:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/imag...b=1367j43r6&sigi=12itq98sh&.crumb=Mh80Ynd9QYd

Not planning on keeping in anything bigger than a Nigerian Dwarf - and not planning on keeping out anything bigger than a large dog. I'll be adding hardware cloth at the base for an apron if I decide to do this to pasture chickens - and probably at least 2' up the base as well. Just throwing ideas around. Thinking of Spring and planting keeps me warm in the winter. I'm wondering if the goats/chickens would eat the fence? Obv. they wouldn't have access to it for at least 3-4years so it could get good and established but after that? Same with deer trying to get into my garden with that around it?

 

[jtbass2756]

Sorry, I don't live near. I have only 4 ladies. 2 RIR, 1 wyndotte, 1 brahma. The are all supposed to be "cold hardy" and good layers during the winter. Even during the cooler weather we are starting to have, mine have slowed down. I get 3-4 eggs a day. Most of the time, 4. I read a lot about chickens before I got these because I knew I wouldn't be able to get but a few...(LOL)...and I wanted EGGS!!! Good luck with your hunt. I wish you lived closer. My source probably has some good layers of all ages..mostly less than 1 yr.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

I did the same thing with my TSC coupon, still ended up spending $120 (and I don't have that many animals)!

You think chicks will be okay as long as they have a heatlamp?  I just moved all of mine out and scrubbed the bathroom floor to ceiling.  I really don't want to bring them back in if I can avoid it.  They're big enough to fly out of the tub and poop all over the floor!  Mine are like 6 weeks old, mostly feathered, but still have a little fuzz on the head and a couple spots on the chest, not sure what's taking them so long.  I have an infrared heatlamp in the coop with them....

Yeah, just dropped nearly $400 at TSC, but that'll last a good while.

I'm leaving the feathered chicks in JDC, but the younger ones are all coming back in. Working on setting everything back up. Sigh.

Good morning folks! 

Anyone have any experience with living fences?  I'm considering doing one at least for my garden, and if it works out maybe expanding to a larger area for the chickens and future goats to pasture in.  Something along the lines of these:

http://greengardenblog.com/2013/01/...at-appeltern-gardens-bellewood-gardens-diary/

or:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/imag...b=1367j43r6&sigi=12itq98sh&.crumb=Mh80Ynd9QYd

Not planning on keeping in anything bigger than a Nigerian Dwarf - and not planning on keeping out anything bigger than a large dog.  I'll be adding hardware cloth at the base for an apron if I decide to do this to pasture chickens - and probably at least 2' up the base as well.  Just throwing ideas around.  Thinking of Spring and planting keeps me warm in the winter.    I'm wondering if the goats/chickens would eat the fence?  Obv. they wouldn't have access to it for at least 3-4years so it could get good and established but after that?  Same with deer trying to get into my garden with that around it?

If you plant a living fence and put goats in it, they will eat it. But they will be happy!

One deterrent for deer getting into a garden, if you have enough room, is to lay scattered concrete block outside the garden. Then roll out field fence flat on top of it. The block put it up where the deer can see it. They don't want to walk through it, and it makes it more difficult to try to leap across. Let the weeds grow through it and it's even better. My dad did this one.

On the other hand, we never have deer because we double-fenced the garden. Our "chicken moat" runs all the way around it. The chickens patrol for insects, and we can let them inside for clean-up at the end of each season if we want.

 

[ChicknsRock]

Good Afternoon folks!

I am so far having a wonderful day and so are my chickens! if anyone is looking for a chat thread to join please join mine!

It's a wonderful chat thread called ChicknsRock and ilovemysilkie's chat thread. I just wanted to share some information with y'all about hypericum and copper sulfate. Hypericum helps with marek's ( go to the St. John's Wort thread to find out more about it) and copper sulfate is just a mineral supplement that if it is used wisely can help chickens a lot ( go to my copper sulfate thread to find out about it). I hope everyone has a good day!

 

[dutchbunny83]

ooooh what's a chicken moat???
sounds cool!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

ooooh what's a chicken moat???
sounds cool!

Just a run that goes all the way around the garden, like a moat around the castle! So we call it the chicken moat! They also have a pophole through the gate to the pasture. If I want them to stay inside the moat, it's easy enough to close off. Mostly it's open, unless I have young ones or someone coming to pick up birds from back there.