Our introduction to keeping chickens, the high's, the lows and pics of our journey.

[vehve]

Quote: That looks like one heck of a horse truck. You don't see many of those around here. I've seen Kyra Kyrklund's truck a couple of times, and a few others, but I think there are like 20 of those around here. I saw a nice video on youtube, it was a response to people always complaining how difficult it is to get your horses into the trailer. The guy had taught his horses to go in on command.

How is the horse (and gate) doing?

 

[Fancychooklady]

It currently carries 7 horses but we are loosing 3 bays so we can extend the living area. Our carpenter mate flew out to Hungary today so when he gets back the real work will begin. He's truckin down the Hume highway and is quite excited that it sits on 130 k , much faster than his landy.
Horse and gate are fine. Big comp this weekend.

 

[vehve]

Do you say break a leg about horse competitions too? Although that's not something you'd really want to happen.

Hungarian is an interesting language, sounds exactly like Finnish even though it's a completely different language, and has almost no similarities. The way they speak just makes it sound the same. I've been asked many times if I'm Hungarian when travelling abroad and speaking Finnish to someone.

 

[Fancychooklady]

No definately not break a leg. My hubby still has a lot of trouble understanding him but I find it peculiar that the more beer they drink , the more fluent their conversation seems to be.

 

[vehve]

No definately not break a leg. My hubby still has a lot of trouble understanding him but I find it peculiar that the more beer they drink , the more fluent their conversation seems to be.

That does seem like a universal language, beer. I was speaking fluent (in my opinion) Chinese after a substantial amount of Tsing Tao in Beijing. Problem is, the Chinese don't like to drink that much, so they weren't understanding me.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Lol, my friend is Chinese and I have Chinese heritage my kids laugh when I talk to her they say I sound Chinese. My dad was adopted his mother was Chinese and his father was American. On my mums side we have a famous Scottish poet. Us Aussies are real Heinz variety.

 

[vehve]

Lol, my friend is Chinese and I have Chinese heritage my kids laugh when I talk to her they say I sound Chinese. My dad was adopted his mother was Chinese and his father was American. On my mums side we have a famous Scottish poet. Us Aussies are real Heinz variety.

Idioms are interesting, I had to look that one up the first time I heard it. I try to deploy them as much as possible when speaking myself, but sometimes you can miss them when growing up in a non English speaking country. Was wondering about calling something a lemon until I looked that one up too.

Here a similar expression to "Heinz 57" would be "Sekametelisoppa", which is a sort of dessert made from a mixture of dried fruits (mainly prunes, raisins and apricots), cooked in sugar water and usually eaten around Christmas.

 

[vehve]

Ben, I think you need to post some more pictures of the little ones soon, I'm starting to drag your thread away from it's roots again

Plus, we need pictures.

 

[cwrite]

Sounds like what we use to call ' pig Latin ' . We used it as code to fool our olds. Just add iregy to the end of every word.

 

[Bens-Hens]

I had the chicks out today too, maybe tomorrow. The silkie is looking great and the Wylkie looks like a Coro. 5 weeks old tomorrow. We are still keeping them in for bad weather, but they go out whenever it's not raining.

We have had the lamp on in the brooder just during the nights, but as of tonight we are going to ween them off it. ANother week of nights inside and they will move house to the mobile tractor with a 'swing set' A frame run attached. Will certainly get pics of that when I get it made.

Pig latin as I grew up was different to yours, we would take the first letter of a word, put it on the end and add 'ay', so you was pronounced 'ouyay' I don't think it fooled anyone, especially since it was my dad that I picked it up from!

I grew up with a German girl all she ever taught me was how to swear.
It's been a long day , it's not 8 o'clock yet and I can hear my bed calling me. Hubby has gone to pick up the new truck and that leaves me with all his chores too. Oops I forgot to hay the cows. Oh well I'll see they get an early brekky. This morning at 4-30 am I went out to get a log for the fire and heard strange noise. I got the big torch and went to investigate.
Didn't take me long to find that ' whacko jacko ' ( horse ) had his hoof caught in a gate and was busy pulling the gate off its hinges.

Manage to get him out without damage to him or me but it took me half the day to warm up.
Here's a pic of the truck.

Now that is a nice rig, on board living quarters will be good too, no more tents!

It currently carries 7 horses but we are loosing 3 bays so we can extend the living area. Our carpenter mate flew out to Hungary today so when he gets back the real work will begin. He's truckin down the Hume highway and is quite excited that it sits on 130 k , much faster than his landy.
Horse and gate are fine. Big comp this weekend.

Have a good weekend, hope all goes well with both kinds of horsepower involved.

No definately not break a leg. My hubby still has a lot of trouble understanding him but I find it peculiar that the more beer they drink , the more fluent their conversation seems to be.

Common around the world I think.