NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

Well I just chased that same black squirrel away. I'm ready to get a cannon and blow the forest to smithereens.

Rancher Hicks - Mighty Squirrel Chaser - watch out Squirrels !

 

[rancher hicks]

 

[Gramma Chick]

So What are we looking at ?

 

[rancher hicks]

So What are we looking at ?

You are looking at this tree resting on a fence post. If not for that post it would be laying on the chicken run. An inch the other way and it would be. I can't figure out how to cut it down without dropping it on the run.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: that is a puzzle ..can you move the coop ?
can you cut a little off the tip at a time ?

 

[boskelli1571]

that is a puzzle ..can you move the coop ?
can you cut a little off the tip at a time ?

Rancher - do you have a tractor/4x4/pick-up truck?? My thought would be to throw a rope over the tree and pull it sideways away from the coop. Some relatively gentle force should move it if it's not attached at the base.....just a thought,

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: Or a wench

 

[Beer can]

WOW! Rancher you got LUCKY! Hope your luck doesn't run out. I have a 1964 Case 530 backhoe for situations like that, you live to far away for me to give you a hand though. I'd try supporting it a little better until you decide what to do. That would suck to have to move the coop to drop a tree. What ever you try, play it safe.

I'd get a young skinny teen to shimmy up it with a small arborist saw. A gas one that hooks to your belt. Tie the chunk he is going to cut to the tree, cut it foot by foot, tying each chunk as he goes, lowering the chunk after cutting each one, block by block until he gets to the safe zone away from the coop. Just joking but I have watched a guy do a huge old tree by a house that way once, climbed around in it like a monkey and fell every piece in a ten sq ft circle while we loaded it in a dumptruck. Until he got to the main trunk that was six ft round then he got out the monster chainsaw.

 

[Kinmera]

Or a wench

Ok this made me

Wench: a girl or young woman, esp a buxom or lively one: now used facetiously --- I'm not sure Mrs. Rancher would appreciate a wench around helping Mr. Rancher move that tree

He might be better served by this:

Winch: A stationary motor-driven or hand-powered machine used for hoisting or hauling, having a drum around which is wound a rope or chain attached to the load being moved.

 

[Kinmera]

Ok so i'm on again for what have become my rare visits.... I miss hanging with you folksies....


So I have an odd problem for December ..... I have too many eggs!!!! I'm getting approx 2 doz eggs a day. My primary source of egg sales (a local farm produce store) closes from December to May). I'm hesitant to hang the eggs for sale sign out because the store wants up to 10 doz eggs a week during season.... and the sign would have to come down again .....


I did start up the incubator though. I'm collecting all orpington, white rock, sumatra, bantam wyandotte, and freedom ranger/orpington cross eggs that get laid right now. I have decided I need to investigate stocking 3 - 4 incubators & hatchers to be able to track which chicks come from which parents from birth. I've even looked at adding dividers into the hatching incubator to help track that because I can easily label the eggs collected. I have something like 12 heat lamps at the moment so setting up several small brooders isn't a problem until I can get them toe punched.

I also find myself with some spare cockerels (imagine that....)

I have 1 white rock cockerel and 3 splash orpington cockerels. All are less than 1 year old. I can get $5 each for them from the local Amish - but I thought I'd see if anyone here was interested first. There may be a few more orpington cockerels - I need to get them divided out to see what I'm keeping. If the chickens continue to cooperate - I'll have eggs and chicks both available this year for the first time.

My daughter also has 3 sumatra cockerels she'd like to sell for $5 each. They are beautiful birds - but the combs would be DQ'd at shows so we're not keeping them at all.