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[Hollowoakfarm]

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Are we dating ourself?

Scott
P.S. you might want to hide the hand axe!
LOL...I've always been fascinated by her. And how she did it, if she really did it. And the name rhymed! But I'll remove the hand axe from my purse before I see you again.

And Good Morning, Everyone!

I now have a friend emailing me insisting that we hide Bob before the turkey testing.

Although I will seriously hate to lose Bob if the turkeys come up positive, I also do not want carriers around so that I end up losing half my new flock to the dang disease. Nor do I want to pay the $500 fine or do jail time for breaking the law. I have tried to explain this to her, and she won't listen at all. City girl who not only has never kept poultry, but since she's on the edge of town her pasttime is feeding foxes.

Yes, you read that right. Feeding foxes.

She actually has a fox feeding station, and has fed them for so long, they now bring their young ones to eat even when the humans are outside! And she's an artist, not a fellow biologist, so she doesn't understand about poultry disease. She is beginning to be angry with me because I won't "save Bob".

At least the testing will be over on Wednesday, and we'll know soon enough after that what the verdict is.



I'll be heading off to another fiber festival this coming weekend. This is the biggest southeastern festival (for now), and it's in Asheville. It'll be fun, and I"ll be exhausted.

I did not get lab results back on Jake yesterday, so I guess I'll be waiting until Monday on them.

Have a great day everyone!

 

[crazyhen]

Hollowoakfarm,
Two yrs ago in Franklin we had the hardest snow of the winter on Halloween. I had over a foot here. The rest of the winter was fairly quiet. I did well with the wood heater . I also still had electric but didin't use it unless I just did not want to keep the heater going. I love wood heaters. I keep a keetle on it all the time for hot water and can have hot anything in seconds. Its a soothing heat. Whereas my electric , even when it says 72 will freeze me to pieces.
Its a nice fall here, 38 last nite and it will be in the 70's today. Actually perfect weather.
When it comes to chickens I will not knowingly keep a carrier. I get so attached to my flock that it is awfully hard to let any of them go. Even the growouts from each yrs. hatching. I know how many I can keep realistically but hate, hate so bad to see each one go. I always miss them. I gave 5 to a lady nest door but I still miss them. She treats them like I do and spoils them silly but their not here with their individual quirks. sigh.
If I could afford it I probably would feed and dr. all the animals around. My common sense says no so I don't . I just keep the bird feeder out front. I get squirrels, coons, possum in it. Plus lots of beautiful birds like the grosbeaks. We get the Rosebreasted here.
Have a wonderful safe day everyone. gloria Jean

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Hollowoakfarm,
Two yrs ago in Franklin we had the hardest snow of the winter on Halloween. I had over a foot here. The rest of the winter was fairly quiet. I did well with the wood heater . I also still had electric but didin't use it unless I just did not want to keep the heater going. I love wood heaters. I keep a keetle on it all the time for hot water and can have hot anything in seconds. Its a soothing heat. Whereas my electric , even when it says 72 will freeze me to pieces.
Its a nice fall here, 38 last nite and it will be in the 70's today. Actually perfect weather.
When it comes to chickens I will not knowingly keep a carrier. I get so attached to my flock that it is awfully hard to let any of them go. Even the growouts from each yrs. hatching. I know how many I can keep realistically but hate, hate so bad to see each one go. I always miss them. I gave 5 to a lady nest door but I still miss them. She treats them like I do and spoils them silly but their not here with their individual quirks. sigh.
If I could afford it I probably would feed and dr. all the animals around. My common sense says no so I don't . I just keep the bird feeder out front. I get squirrels, coons, possum in it. Plus lots of beautiful birds like the grosbeaks. We get the Rosebreasted here.
Have a wonderful safe day everyone. gloria Jean

Yeah, I grew up with us heating the house with the wood-burning cookstove. It was lovely! Unfortunately, we don't have one of those here, and even if we did it would no longer work for us. We do have a good fireplace insert, but we can't use that to heat the house with either. Well, when hubby is home we can, but I can't carry firewood, nor even put it in the fire if he leaves the woodbox full. I need to have that furnace fixed! He came yesterday, and thought he'd gotten it working again, but it's not working this morning. Sigh. I just keep reminding myself that it's the best time of year to find out there's a problem. January would be far worse!

Today I have to sort all my fleeces to take to the processors next weekend. The only fleeces left here will be on the backs of the sheep! Yay!

 

[The Howards]

Today I have to sort all my fleeces to take to the processors next weekend. The only fleeces left here will be on the backs of the sheep! Yay!

Hollowoak
where can i get info on this or a web page you can suggest that i can read up on? i have been extremely interested in having sheep for fiber and making it for a long while now. hopefully we will have room to do it sometime but i would love to learn as much about it before hand as possible.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Which information do you want? On having it processed? I'm testing the waters here myself. I used to do all my own processing, but no longer can. Well, processing into batts for spinning, anyway. This time I'll be having it done into yarn, and then will only need to dye it all. I tried out a processor last year and actually had my best fleece stolen. So I'm trying out two different ones this year. I'd be pleased to give you any sheepy info you want. Pm me and I'll give you my phone number.

 

[crazyhen]

Which information do you want? On having it processed? I'm testing the waters here myself. I used to do all my own processing, but no longer can. Well, processing into batts for spinning, anyway. This time I'll be having it done into yarn, and then will only need to dye it all. I tried out a processor last year and actually had my best fleece stolen. So I'm trying out two different ones this year. I'd be pleased to give you any sheepy info you want. Pm me and I'll give you my phone number.

I have just got to where I can again pick up the fire wood. The brace is off of my right wrist and arm. That was one bad break and dislocation I had. Getting older and sickness makes me angry sometimes. I'm not very patient with myself. Gloria Jean

 

[Mimiko]

I'm not in the country. I've been looking thru ordinances and can't find anything that says I can't but nothing that says I can. I'm not worried about the rooster, he will be gone tomorrow, I'm worried that people just come onto the property thru a closed gate and no trespassing signs. If I had been home it would have been ok but no cars we there and my GF was home alone......just makes me feel funny. The bank wouldn't give me the loan on the country house so we had to stay in city limits and I had to take a loan out from my father to get the house we're in now.

My boyfriend and I grew up in Fayetteville and my BF's mother still lives there (my folks moved to Greenville, NC recently after over 30 years in Fayetteville). She sent us an article from the Fayetteville Observer from Easter time (Weekend Edition or the insert they put in regarding gardening/crafts/etc). The article was regarding raising chickens in Fayetteville. Apparently, you can have up to ten hens (no roosters, though) in the city limits as long as appropriate accommodations are made for their care. I moved to Montgomery County (Troy, NC) in 2004. I love it here. We only have 4 acres but our chickens love it. Our two roosters crow every morning and all day in response to the rest of the roosters that all the neighbors have. Nobody complains. Good luck with your homestead!

 

[jdeoliveira74]

My boyfriend and I grew up in Fayetteville and my BF's mother still lives there (my folks moved to Greenville, NC recently after over 30 years in Fayetteville). She sent us an article from the Fayetteville Observer from Easter time (Weekend Edition or the insert they put in regarding gardening/crafts/etc). The article was regarding raising chickens in Fayetteville. Apparently, you can have up to ten hens (no roosters, though) in the city limits as long as appropriate accommodations are made for their care. I moved to Montgomery County (Troy, NC) in 2004. I love it here. We only have 4 acres but our chickens love it. Our two roosters crow every morning and all day in response to the rest of the roosters that all the neighbors have. Nobody complains. Good luck with your homestead!

jealous... i want four acres... Luke Thats what they make bullets for!! Stupid people that think it's ok to just walk on other persons property...

 

[ramirezframing]

I would rather the man told me in person than through cops or animal control at my door with tickets/ fines

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Hiya folks

hope everyone is having a grand weekend.

Meg...........hope you have a good trip and
can find a fair processor for your fiber.

Luke........just me but I would prefer my neighbor
came and talked to me about problems than
having them just call animal control and have to
deal with those folks......may be a good
opertunity to get to know your neighbors

NH......hope those new biddies work out for you
and I'm sure the other hens will get back to laying
.....mine seem to take off a month or few during
the molt and cooler temps as well as less daylight
.......my hens will start back laying well by Feb-Mar.
......maybe even sooner, so just wait....they will lay again