NY chicken lover!!!!

[JLaw]

Well if you come this way next year, you can go to the Annual plant sale at the Trinity Church near me, buy a few plants, get chicks/chickens from me, go to the Burnett Park Zoo and see the Penguins , and then to the Destiny Mall. They've got some new resturants and bumper cars and I think Laser Tag and Some rope climbing thing for the kids. If the weather is nice we can do a cook out. It's raining today. Yuk.

oh oh can we all come? Look everyone rancher is going to host picnic next year.

for the

. (yah for the old man).

I need to find stuff to do with my kids they getting to age where they want to do a lot more but I don't know much around here. I thought of asking to see some peoples set ups with them but you all live too far. I cant wait for the fair this year I think they will really like the farm animals now that we have chickens.

jlaw

 

[JLaw]

Are you an entomologist? What is the significance of that type of moth?


Thought I would share the Wild turkey encounter with the flock...

I watched a tom cross the field into our lawn and snuck out on the back porch to see what Buddy the roo would do with him. He took off like a little (compared to the turkey) airplane at the tom and boy did he lack in speed. It was so funny to watch, the turkey was running scared from this smaller bird gobbling all the way up the hill as he ran. I wish I had gotten a video of it!

Usually the wild turkeys and the flock will hang out, but I'm sure this tom was looking for a little somthin' somthin'! Tis the season.

LMAO I love this we get turkey's around us I hope they don't cause trouble next year when my chickens are bigger.

jlaw

 

[rancher hicks]

I would say a saw use a sawzall. I googled and came up with someone doing just that after thinking it woot.

is what I came up with. Have you thought of turning them in to planters? We are going to do that this week. Wash them, dry them, prime/paint them then plant in them. it's nice cause no weeds to start out with. and its raised already. And while talking about it I just thought that you could take some screws with washers and run some hardware cloth around out side to keep rabbits and stuff out. no need for sticks to support it unless you go tall but figure a foot or two should hold fine on it's own.

You can use a razor blade to cut the inside rubber will be a littler harder but dueable. Hard part is the steal belts where the tread is for cutting. So if you do planters you can open the top of the planter up some by cutting the bead and sidewall off some.

hope this helped some.

jlaw

I don't really have the use nor like the planters and I've far too many tires. I was thinking a Hack saw would go through it. I will also try a Jig saw with a small blade. I don't have bolt cutters.

 

[Cooped Up Chick]

Rancher, another possibility for some of the tires, not for the use you mentioned tho, is a trick my husband wants to try. I guess they stack up a tire and put soil, and plant potatoes in it. as the plant grows place another tire and more soil and continue. He said the one he saw was at least 6 tires high. To harvest I guess they knock the stack over and the plant will have grown potatoes all the way up the stack. Seems like you would get quite a yield per plant that way.

*edit* oh I see you said you don't want to use them for planting. Oops.

 

[JLaw]

Ah ok. A hacksaw should work, not sure about a jigsaw blades kind of skinny and tire jiggling might bend them.

I like that potato idea there cooped. Imay try that depending on how many tires my wife uses.

Wish I could find some big tractor tires around me for free. Kids want a sand box and I want some bigger planters.

Jlaw

 

[marquisella]

Made the decision to let my blue copper Marans go as well. I really need to cut back my numbers...
$20 each. I have been getting a decent amount of eggs from that coop. 10 hens. I'll throw in the roo for free if you buy 3 hens. I have a lot of roos!

These are straight from Bev Davis.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Afternoon all! Busy day at work and not very nice people. I was very glad to come home and play with the tots. I sold two of the silkie babies today to a very nice family who lives south of me. The boys were thrilled to each get one and the parents were very happy with the quality of my babies. They were the ones who bought a sick silkie chick at the tailgate and it died. Anyways, we had a wonderful conversation about chickens and they got to see all of mine, both silkies and terrorists. They have some marans and she had just made coq au vin the night before with a particularily mean rooster. It was her first time doing so and they loved it. I told her its always tastier when you eat the really mean ones.

She does go on byc and I told her she should look up the ny thread. Very nice people they were and it was so nice talking to a fellow chicken enthusiast. She took pics of Little Man and his women to put in the boys scrap book as the parents.

She really liked my heritage rir tots as well. I told her I would be hatching them out next year. Anything worth while takes time and effort and that is finally paying off with my birds. Its a great hobby.

So Rancher---whatever happened to Fonzie? Did he have a pal named Ritchie?

Lots of rain today but thats good because we needed it. Now I can plant my free bushes I got without breaking my foot trying to dig a hole. Terrorists and divas are mad that they are locked up but until the grass has greened on the neighbors newly planted lawn, they stay that way.

Going to go eat some delicious egg salad now. Maybe bake again. Blackberry crumble coffee cake sounds really good.

 

[featherz]

ok, this broody thing is getting ridiculous. I get home from the auction to collect my eggs and what do I see? (lousy cell pic alert):



There were two before and now I have three in that box and one in the box next to it.. all in a coop badly suited for babies.. then there's two in my middle coop and two in my back coop (rehomed two of the other broodies). Gack! I try to tell them I don't need any more chicks but they don't listen.

 

[miquwid]

They weren't marked and I don't know what they are but they were so pretty. Mark you calender and I'll let you know for next year. I got all these for $19. Lily of the Valley, Woodland Hyacinth and some Vinca.

Got this too.

That is super cool I'm so jealous. Rock on!!! You gotta take and send me some pics of your garden soon. I'm a newbie at all of this first home garden chickens, but I'm learning and getting the hand of it. I will post the start of my pumkin and sunflowers soon.

ok, this broody thing is getting ridiculous. I get home from the auction to collect my eggs and what do I see? (lousy cell pic alert):



There were two before and now I have three in that box and one in the box next to it.. all in a coop badly suited for babies.. then there's two in my middle coop and two in my back coop (rehomed two of the other broodies). Gack! I try to tell them I don't need any more chicks but they don't listen.

um so I lost count of all the broodies LOL wow

 

[Cass]

Onions and asparagus is in the garden. Let it rain. Fresh compost from the town is very very dry and my shoulder hurts to much to drag the hose that far.

Went to Lowes twice today. The second trip I slipped off the curb and fell under the truck. Ray started the truck and man, was I scared he was going to run over me with the front tire. So, now, not only do I have a bruise from impact with the curb but scrapes from scrambling to get out from under the side of the truck.

My chickens have been out parading in the rain. Silly birds.

The new chicks are half the size of the week old chicks. I knew they grew fast, but wow, doubling in size in one week?

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.