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[Ksane]

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Where is June at?

 

[upcdayz]

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Cute little chicks! Can't help with identification of the one in question, but it looks like others have helped.

What kinds of wood chips are those in the bottom of the pen/box? If they are cedar, you may want to consider using pine instead. Cedar can be harmful to them because of the fumes. You can buy large bags of the pine shavings at TSC or other farm store for a reasonable price.

 

[Kassaundra]

I've almost conquered the mountain of okra. I have whittled my 5 gal bucket plus 3 full walmart sacks down to one walmart sack. And when I harvest now it's basically one walmart sack instead of an overflowing 5 gal bucket.

 

[old*cowboy]

Hi all. Settin in yukon in the shade waitin to get a rental vehicle at enterprise. Brought my tablet cause it will be after lunch before i can get one. Had a ride over so took advantage of it. Figured this way i could catch up on the internet. NN those sure are good lookin chickens. I have more for sale if anyone is interested. Although the rest of them may not be house broke like the shamo lol. I need to sale a few more to cut feed cost and help come up with deductable money to get truck out of shop. I have more large fowl shamos, asils,madagascars. Will also sale one or two pair of ko shamo. These aint going to be at blanchard or newcastle auction price. But will be priced reasonable.

 

[jcatblum]

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Digging down isn't full proof either. Dh had used small field fencing burried it what we thought was good enough. With our sandy soil it had already begun to get dug under. Had a coon (I think) kill 3 guineas & tear one up Saturday night. Sunday we dug WAY down & burried some leftover used sheet metal about 18inches deep. Did the guinea & peafowl cage already so we have 2 more permeant pens we plan on doing today & maybe tomorrow. Rolled out of bed today & found lots of sore muscles!!!! Both of those pens are 28x28 so that was enough digging & dirt pushkg for one day!

I do use chicken wire with my movable pens & have never had a loss, but honestly any critter could easily get in those since our soil is effortless to dig up. I have 4 empty cattle pannel style pens right now & I will only use them for quarentin or breeder pens. I love the idea of birds always being on fresh ground, but movable pens are not safe enough where I am at.

I have personally torn chicken wire with my own hands& wouldn't consider myself super woman. I would use hardware cloth-- the birds won't stick there heads through it & little birds can't escape it.

 

[jcatblum]

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Do you think you will plant 100 ft of okra next yr???? I know I bought several bushels of peaches 2 yrs ago. Canned them until I was sick. Doubt I will ever do it again! Apples are much less work. Will be canning apple stuff this wk-- waiting until the cold weather comes then I will be a slave to my kitchen.

 

[old*cowboy]

Does anyone now the name of the grain elevator and feed mill in harah

 

[Sooner]

I don't think anything is fool proof on the pens. This is just what has worked for me. I know for us alot depended on what we already had on hand most times. I have some 8' gates that make up one side of a pen.

 

[sjarvis00]

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Digging down isn't full proof either. Dh had used small field fencing burried it what we thought was good enough. With our sandy soil it had already begun to get dug under. Had a coon (I think) kill 3 guineas & tear one up Saturday night. Sunday we dug WAY down & burried some leftover used sheet metal about 18inches deep. Did the guinea & peafowl cage already so we have 2 more permeant pens we plan on doing today & maybe tomorrow. Rolled out of bed today & found lots of sore muscles!!!! Both of those pens are 28x28 so that was enough digging & dirt pushkg for one day!

I do use chicken wire with my movable pens & have never had a loss, but honestly any critter could easily get in those since our soil is effortless to dig up. I have 4 empty cattle pannel style pens right now & I will only use them for quarentin or breeder pens. I love the idea of birds always being on fresh ground, but movable pens are not safe enough where I am at.

I have personally torn chicken wire with my own hands& wouldn't consider myself super woman. I would use hardware cloth-- the birds won't stick there heads through it & little birds can't escape it.

If you will build the movable pen so that a cattle panel can be attached to the bottom of the pen. Use a panel with smaller openings. So long as the bottom is the width of the panel and length is no more than the panel that would work well.
Option 2 place some 18 inch 1x1 or 1/2 x 1 welded wire around the edges of teh pen like an apron, the varmits will not be able to get close enough to easily dig in.

The big thing that ussually causes the varmits to dig in is eggs left in the pen or a bird that does not like to roost as they will find a corner and tuck in tight. This is very common with young birds even if they roosted before in another coop they may not roost in the new coop until they are more comfortable with the other birds and teh roost pole.

 

[faerielady]

old*cowboy :

Does anyone now the name of the grain elevator and feed mill in harah

Guthrie Grain? http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM9BM7_Guthrie_Grain_Harrah_OK​