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[artsyrobin]

i love those!! do you write down your plans? or maybe i can draft you some day!

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[artsyrobin]

I guess now I'm in the market for more blue and black cochins.

hey okie, do you have a dog you can let run at nite? that has solved alot of our predator problems-

dawned on me this morning i can block access for the chicks that will be hatching from going outside in the run, and the mamas can still go in and out- gosh i can so complicate things!!

 

[Kassaundra]

Ha! I just like building stuff. Here's the loft bed. I had to take the ceiling fan down because it was too high.



I built our dining room table too.



Then I scrounged some old desk parts from a private school that closed down and threw stuff out. Bought a recycled door at Habitat for Humanity and made a new desk.



Next on my project list is finishing the new coop, building a bookshelf for our bedroom, and building a half-scale TARDIS cat tree.

I know what a TARDIS is but what is a tardis cat tree?

 

[tgperg]

i love those!! do you write down your plans? or maybe i can draft you some day!

No, I don't write them down. I always intend to though! I suppose I could be drafted. I actually do have plans written down for the big coop I'm building. When I get it done I'm going to make a coop page.

 

[tgperg]

I know what a TARDIS is but what is a tardis cat tree?

Oh my gosh! You haven't seen the TARDIS cat tree??? You're missing out! Here ya go! http://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=cacgk76rd2mjsjifo83piq7lf6&topic=3032.0

 

[NanaKat]

So tgperg, Where are you going to store your brooder when you aren't hatching? That's really big and probably heavy! I have to build outside or in the barn...or the project won't fit thru the door....

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Finished my brooder yesterday. Well, last night, really. Yep, I'm a wild child, party animal, up till ten pm every weekend building chicken pens!

It's 7 feet by 4 feet. I built it out of a shipping pallet that our neighbors gave me. They put a ginormous stained glass window in their bathroom when they did a remodel. (Personally, I like my brooder better than their stained glass window, but to each their own, right?) It's sitting on a base that I made out of 4x4 redwood posts and 2x8 lumber left over from another project.... I put plastic sheeting underneath the brooder and it slants from the sides to the middle, and from left to right so the poop falls through the hardware cloth and rolls down into the bucket on the right. (I hate changing litter. Hates it!)

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Originally Posted by OkieT

Went to the sale at Perkins yesterday and it was pretty sad. Chicks were only bringing from about $.30 to $1.25 for bigger ones fully feathered for standard breeds like barred rocks or rhode island reds. Marans brought a fair amount, but not nearly what I've seen them sell for. Big roosters only brought between $1 and $3.50. It was not a good day to sell.

Something got into one of pens last night and killed 8 of my youngsters. One of them was completely torn apart, but the rest were all intact. When I went out this morning I thought the rain had did them in because there were a couple laying out in the pen. But, when I checked in their little coop, there about 5 in there and that's where the torn up one was. The opening into their "box" is only about 6 or 8", so it couldn't have been anything big. Of course, whatever it was got some of my best LF cochin chicks. I had one that was a beautiful dark blue and its feathers were all laced almost black. Prettiest blue cochin I've ever seen and it was definitely slated for the breeding pen. Of course, it was one I lost. I felt like sitting down and crying, but tears have never solved anything that I could see. I just can't figure out what it could have been. All of my pens are inside a bigger enclosure with 6' chainlink fencing with solid metal sheeting around the bottom. I have shade cloth over the top, but I guess whatever it was could have climbed over and squeezed between it and the fence. I just don't know what would have torn only one up like that and left the rest. I am totally bummed right now, at any rate. I guess now I'm in the market for more blue and black cochins. .


OkieT...so sorry to hear about your loss....could the varmit have been a ferrett or a skunk...either one will do some real damage and enjoys killing.

 

[tgperg]

So tgperg, Where are you going to store your brooder when you aren't hatching? That's really big and probably heavy! I have to build outside or in the barn...or the project won't fit thru the door....

It's actually not heavy at all, surprisingly. The brooder can be turned on its side and carried outside the sunroom to rest on its side in the garage during the winter. The big table won't fit outside, but I'm going to actually build some grated panels for it and use it to plant greens in the sunroom during the winter.

 

[Oakieridge]

I love this rain but it is putting a crimp in my guinea pen stalking, lol. Been going out every 30 mins, found one egg (they laid it up on their roost shelf, goony birds!) but not a one in their nest they have been laying in. They have been raising a ruckus at times and of course I go out and nothing, I think they like to see me come running outside! I did manage to candle the eggs we took from the guinea hen that was running wild, all have squiggly little babies in them still so hopefully within the week we will have keets hatching. Also candled guinea eggs in the incubator put 28 back in the incubator they were going well. Took out 14 they were either clear or early quitters.

 

[Cjarvis]

The gardens all needed the rains I'm sure.. but it's really slowing me down today. I feel about twice my actual age today and not real motivated to move, it just doesn't feel good to get up. I had intended to build another A-frame or two today but that will be put on hold yet again. Maybe the boy's can get that done when they get out of school later this week. That will buy me the extra space I need short term and the breeder pens for next year in the long term. wow I cut back and need more pens great math huh.

 

[Kassaundra]

Oh my gosh! You haven't seen the TARDIS cat tree??? You're missing out! Here ya go! http://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=cacgk76rd2mjsjifo83piq7lf6&topic=3032.0

OHHHHHHH I SOOOOOO NEED ONE OF THOSE!!!!!!