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[Okla-doodle-doo]

Morning folks! Cold here! Rained all night and still doing it,Supposed to rain all day thru tomorrow! Only in the fiftys today!.

Michael,those geese in that pic are beautiful! Do know how much they sold for?

Sounds like you all are cooling down too,sure wish I could share some of this rain.

Well gotta go out and check on the critters,Hopefully I won't melt or float away!lol

 

[sshavney]

Morning folks! Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend. I have not been through the cold with my chickens yet, at what point should I put a heat lamp in the chicken house or should I put one in at all? I know I kept my new chicks in the house this morning. I felt it was too cold for them outside.

 

[Sooner]

If your chickens are fully feathered out they shouldn't need a heat lamp.

Anything not feathered out needs a place to be completely out of the wind & depending on the age would determin if they needed a heat lamp at this point.

 

[averytds]

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My regular machine has been a White 955 for about the last 12 yrs. Only thing I'd change would be a drop in bobbin, but not that big of a deal. Has a needle threader, one step button hole and can go through several layers of denim. Was around $300 then from a dealer. I'm more into apparel, so I use a Husqvarna overlock just as much. The White has an overlock stitch, but I like the serger better. Repairs, I usually just grab the White, making new I set up and use both.


Better get back out and working. Brrr!

 

[upcdayz]

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My regular machine has been a White 955 for about the last 12 yrs. Only thing I'd change would be a drop in bobbin, but not that big of a deal. Has a needle threader, one step button hole and can go through several layers of denim. Was around $300 then from a dealer. I'm more into apparel, so I use a Husqvarna overlock just as much. The White has an overlock stitch, but I like the serger better. Repairs, I usually just grab the White, making new I set up and use both.


Better get back out and working. Brrr!

I have an old Sears Kenmore that my mother gave to me years ago. Don't know the age of it, but remember her using it when I was a kid. Still works great! It does button holes and zig zag, and it makes beautiful applique stitches. The only problem with it is that it doesn't do well on some of the stretchier fabric types we have now. I tried to hem up some slacks with that type of material recently and the stitches wouldn't "catch," leaving a loose stitch. Those pants had to be hand-hemmed. Otherwise the machine does fabulously and rarely has to be worked on.

 

[old*cowboy]

Well we went to Dodge City to the M&M southwest livestock chicken, goat, sheep and pig auction yesterday. It started promptly at 5pm as advertized. Largest chicken auction I ever been to. You take birds in a crate, crate goes with the birds. If they was 1 bird or 20 in crate, it all went together, was no choice, take a bunch of time to come pick out one chicken, then sell again etc. Even with that said, and auctioneers going rapid fire it took 3 hours to sale the fowl. I saw big roosters go higher than any place before. I sold 4 for 10 apiece, but some cages of them fetched 13. I sold hens for 12 and top hens went for 18 if I remeber correctly. Everything went high and they had a lot. Bet there was 300 young guineas total and probable averaged 7 apiece. The only thing that didnt seem to go high was water fowl. Friend I went with took some ducks and they brought 2 apiece I think. He said he wasnt buying anything on the way up

Seen how little the geese were bringing and .. well just look at the top picture. I went to buy a young dairy bred doe goat. Had hundreds of meat goats, market is down. A few wore out milkers , then they run in Miss Kitty (had to name her that because of Dodge City...Duh) Any way she is yearling nubian that was a 4H show got. Gentle and leads like a well trained puppy. Very well mad. You can see her looking out her little goat crate on the way home and wondering what she ever did to deserve being stuck in a pickup full of geese. I will get a better picture of her later. I know several of you will see the pickup picture and automaticly think of Teach. He did come up and we swapped a couple birds and got a good visit in. He fixed me up with 3 nice asil bantam pullets. Well I should go, got little sleep last night. Need to do a few things and maybe a nap is in my future today. Two thumbs up for the Dodge Auction.

 

[Sooner]

Looks like you made a haul! It looks like you both had fun?!

 

[Kassaundra]

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Gary still hasn't got anything in that direction, but I'll let you know if he does this week.

 

[Kassaundra]

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She lives in the "bachlorette" (sp) pen w/ the others, but she comes and goes out of her run when ever she wants she is the only one to learn how to get out and back in her run. I really should clip her wing, but she has never even attempted getting over the fence that would hurt her (in w/ the dogs)

she sounds like my Dot, a free spirit.... she hangs out near the banty run alot and tells me all about her day

Yes, free spirit indeed. I just can't bring myself to clip her wing, seems like it would be like "clipping" Amelia Earhart's wing.

 

[Kassaundra]

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Fully feathered they really do much better w/ cold then heat.