I can meet at I-Hop Saturday morning, if we can do it at 6. The Expo opens at 7 and I'll need all the time I can get to take care of my show and sale birds. Would love to see as many people as possible!
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I-Hop at 6:00 sounds great! I will be there.
I finished sewing little undershirts and found premie jammies at Wal-Mart, so the Christmas piggies are ready to go into boxes for wrapping. I've got an antique piggy sculpture on its way here, and I plan to use it as a model to make a mold for next year. I think I'll make a different piggy each year until DD or DGD's lose interest. The duck in the photo is a stocking stuffer: not one I made.
I finished sewing little undershirts and found premie jammies at Wal-Mart, so the Christmas piggies are ready to go into boxes for wrapping. I've got an antique piggy sculpture on its way here, and I plan to use it as a model to make a mold for next year. I think I'll make a different piggy each year until DD or DGD's lose interest. The duck in the photo is a stocking stuffer: not one I made.
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They turned out awesome, ............................... psycho walmart lady eat your heart out!!!!
They turned out awesome, ............................... psycho walmart lady eat your heart out!!!!
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Grab a couple of those solar yard lights you stick in the ground. They charge in sunlight during the day. Before I had night lights in the coops that's what I used. Stick them in there right before dark and it lights up the coop. By morning they go out and need to be put back out in daylight to recharge. The birds are drawn to the light and go right in their coops at night.
Mike, I remember that bird with no feathers you posted! Amazing to hear she's a healthy girl now. Great job.
There are already lots of those solar yard lights out there around the coops. So many, in fact, that my friends say it looks like a bird runway. It hasn't helped in the past, though, to lure the chickens to their coops, but it looks cool!
Grab a couple of those solar yard lights you stick in the ground. They charge in sunlight during the day. Before I had night lights in the coops that's what I used. Stick them in there right before dark and it lights up the coop. By morning they go out and need to be put back out in daylight to recharge. The birds are drawn to the light and go right in their coops at night.
Mike, I remember that bird with no feathers you posted! Amazing to hear she's a healthy girl now. Great job.
There are already lots of those solar yard lights out there around the coops. So many, in fact, that my friends say it looks like a bird runway. It hasn't helped in the past, though, to lure the chickens to their coops, but it looks cool!
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Grab a couple of those solar yard lights you stick in the ground. They charge in sunlight during the day. Before I had night lights in the coops that's what I used. Stick them in there right before dark and it lights up the coop. By morning they go out and need to be put back out in daylight to recharge. The birds are drawn to the light and go right in their coops at night.
Mike, I remember that bird with no feathers you posted! Amazing to hear she's a healthy girl now. Great job.
There are already lots of those solar yard lights out there around the coops. So many, in fact, that my friends say it looks like a bird runway. It hasn't helped in the past, though, to lure the chickens to their coops, but it looks cool!
No, I mean put them inside the coops and turn off all the other lights. If there's that much light outside their coop the way you have it they probably don't want to venture inside a dark coop. But if the coop's the only thing lit up, they'll go right in.
Grab a couple of those solar yard lights you stick in the ground. They charge in sunlight during the day. Before I had night lights in the coops that's what I used. Stick them in there right before dark and it lights up the coop. By morning they go out and need to be put back out in daylight to recharge. The birds are drawn to the light and go right in their coops at night.
Mike, I remember that bird with no feathers you posted! Amazing to hear she's a healthy girl now. Great job.
There are already lots of those solar yard lights out there around the coops. So many, in fact, that my friends say it looks like a bird runway. It hasn't helped in the past, though, to lure the chickens to their coops, but it looks cool!
No, I mean put them inside the coops and turn off all the other lights. If there's that much light outside their coop the way you have it they probably don't want to venture inside a dark coop. But if the coop's the only thing lit up, they'll go right in.
Good morning Okie's!
I am late getting here, had to do a few things this morning. I was coming looking for the Okie weather report.......I miss the days when there were so many of us that you could track the weather across the state.....
Love the piggies POCO!!!
I may have run into a snag for Shawnee, I hope it works out but will let you guys know later in the week.
I am late getting here, had to do a few things this morning. I was coming looking for the Okie weather report.......I miss the days when there were so many of us that you could track the weather across the state.....
Love the piggies POCO!!!
I may have run into a snag for Shawnee, I hope it works out but will let you guys know later in the week.
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I looked at a lot of antique doll heads online, and I found that many had a ceramic breastplate or ceramic shoulders. Some just had holes for stitching through stuffed shoulders, so that last option seemed the best for the piggy heads. I stitched a ring of fabric around the base of each head, and then inserted each head into firm shoulders and stitched the shoulders to the fabric ring. They seem secure, and none of the piggies has a floppy head. Now I need to find boxes big enough for each piggy. I want to wrap them in fancy paper so that the boxes will help build anticipation for my granddaughters. DD already knows she's getting another piggy for her collection, but she doesn't know any of the details.
I looked at a lot of antique doll heads online, and I found that many had a ceramic breastplate or ceramic shoulders. Some just had holes for stitching through stuffed shoulders, so that last option seemed the best for the piggy heads. I stitched a ring of fabric around the base of each head, and then inserted each head into firm shoulders and stitched the shoulders to the fabric ring. They seem secure, and none of the piggies has a floppy head. Now I need to find boxes big enough for each piggy. I want to wrap them in fancy paper so that the boxes will help build anticipation for my granddaughters. DD already knows she's getting another piggy for her collection, but she doesn't know any of the details.
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I looked at a lot of antique doll heads online, and I found that many had a ceramic breastplate or ceramic shoulders. Some just had holes for stitching through stuffed shoulders, so that last option seemed the best for the piggy heads. I stitched a ring of fabric around the base of each head, and then inserted each head into firm shoulders and stitched the shoulders to the fabric ring. They seem secure, and none of the piggies has a floppy head. Now I need to find boxes big enough for each piggy. I want to wrap them in fancy paper so that the boxes will help build anticipation for my granddaughters. DD already knows she's getting another piggy for her collection, but she doesn't know any of the details.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34274_stuffedshoulder.jpg
It sounds like you found a way to make it work. They sure are cute. I'm sure your granddaughters will love them.
I looked at a lot of antique doll heads online, and I found that many had a ceramic breastplate or ceramic shoulders. Some just had holes for stitching through stuffed shoulders, so that last option seemed the best for the piggy heads. I stitched a ring of fabric around the base of each head, and then inserted each head into firm shoulders and stitched the shoulders to the fabric ring. They seem secure, and none of the piggies has a floppy head. Now I need to find boxes big enough for each piggy. I want to wrap them in fancy paper so that the boxes will help build anticipation for my granddaughters. DD already knows she's getting another piggy for her collection, but she doesn't know any of the details.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34274_stuffedshoulder.jpg
It sounds like you found a way to make it work. They sure are cute. I'm sure your granddaughters will love them.
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I'll give that a try, however I'm not sure that the lights that are in the ground now will come up without breaking. I have some more solar lights around here that I can use inside the coops. They may not charge up much today since it's so late in the day now, but should be fully charged tomorrow evening.
I'll give that a try, however I'm not sure that the lights that are in the ground now will come up without breaking. I have some more solar lights around here that I can use inside the coops. They may not charge up much today since it's so late in the day now, but should be fully charged tomorrow evening.
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