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[poultryand bees]

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My birds are doing better than I am - I like the idea of NanaKat to use fabric as shade cloth. I have bolts of it that will never get used otherwise. I do plan to attach "professional" shade cloth to the tops of some pens tomorrow. We already have tarps on the ends of pens to help provide sun block from the West. It is still 98 degrees here - at 8:30 in the evening!

I made rings from bailing wire that would pierce thru the fabric and could be tightened with a pair of pliers. I used a 1/2 inch dowel, wrapped the wire around the dowel. Slipped the spring off the dowel and cut the rings with a pair of wire cutters....each ring was a wrap and a half....carry over from my jewelry making days. The rings were cut at an angle so the ends were sharp. Worked like a charm.

Great information on making attachment rings. I hadn't really thought about how to attach the fabric. I wonder if D-rings, like you use in building cages, would work. The advantage of the "professional" shade cloth is that it is knit so it won't ravel out.

 

[artsyrobin]

for a laugh..... gotta love ducks! spent all afternoon getting them a new cooler pen... so i am locking up the chickens and it is getting dark, and around the corner marches the goose herding the ducks into their old pen....

wonder how he got them out !!! oh well, guess i can use the other pen for some of the chickens! it will be way too hot this weekend to work on it...

 

[poultryand bees]

We went out to Pat Drew's poultry auction in Harrah this evening. It was so hot that there were only about 30-40 people there and only about that many cages of birds. We bought an air compressor, cage, and some fencing, then left before the birds began selling.

There won't be an auction at Cement tomorrow night.

Who is planning to go to the Newcastle auction?

 

[poultryand bees]

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guess the gander had other ideas about bedtime for his water fowl

 

[michaeldaugherty]

old*cowboy :

Michael you going to Mary's tomorrow. Be awful hot. Talking about beagles. My son just lost his today that we got him when he just turned 6. He is 18 now so he had her for 12 years. We just noticed a couple days ago she was starting to have trouble seeing. He made an appointment to take her to vet today and went out to get her she was dead. I hope when he gets out of college he gets another, we killed a many a rabbit over those beagles while he was growing up.

No im not going to hot for me. Had a few call's from peep wonting bird's but not nuff to go..Macy has a black & tan beagle she got wen she was 7 an it's ben the best chicken dog ever. He went down alot in the last yr a pit got on him an put his i out ...When you walkd out with the gun he would hit the wood's an Tree anything from a possum coon house cat an a few bobcat ..Or bay thim diller's in a HO..He ran rabbit's wen we first got him but after shooting coon an pos out to him. He stopd ..You dont have to tel him something but one time an he would do it ..He act more like a cur dog than a Beagle..Last yr i bot some rabbits at Blanch that Lightfoot brot in an wen some got out he killd thim
I got on to him one time an he never lookd at thim again.. He got hit or ahold of some posion a few yrs back an thot he was going to die macy went out to tel him good by an he couldnt stand up just layd ther..The next day she went out to check on him an he was fine..Iv had lot's of beagle but not manny bark up a tree..The rabbit's are few around hear. You still looking for some dif breed's of bird's. Iv had lot's of peep ask about that brassy back roo you have an wish they had him iv lookd on other sight's an never seen any​

 

[michaeldaugherty]

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ME !!! It must be nice having a sale so close to you,, No one brot rabbit's in this heat did they . Thank's for the info on the sale i ges that's alot for being as hot as it is..

 

[nnbreeder]

That shade cloth is tough. In '99 we built a couple of temporary lean-tos out of landscape timbers and 2x6 then covered three sides with shade cloth for the horses. When we got the winds on May 3rd it took the shelters out of the pastures, pulled the 16d ringshanks out of the frames but the cloth did not even rip. It was still attached to the posts.

When we bought it at Lowes it said it was 1.00 a foot which I took to mean per sq. foot. Got to the register and had 4 10x10 pieces and got charged for running feet, or 40 dollars for 400 sq feet of 90% shade cloth.

 

[michaeldaugherty]

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One time i sit some Muskcovey egg's an it took thim about 35 day's to hatch..I alway's had better luck hatching thim than anyother breed...GOOD LUCK on thim

 

[michaeldaugherty]

I need to check around an get me some shade tarp's for a few of my pen's . Iv never priced any ...

 

[old*cowboy]

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