Our Mixed Flock Journey!

[Ribh]

Let's just hope it stays extinct...we don't want to see any of this... We live 2.5 hours from Mt Rainier & Mt St Helen's! I remember the ash fallout when St Helen's blew her top in 1980! I was in Portland, Oregon at the time. My husband lived in Moses Lake, WA & they really had a lot of ash dump there!

Well, it's been extinct a long time... We're more likely to get ash & ember when the big island to the east of us burns ~ as it tends to do each summer. There are no roads in the centre of the island so it's just allowed to burn itself out.

 

[drstratton]

Well, it's been extinct a long time... We're more likely to get ash & ember when the big island to the east of us burns ~ as it tends to do each summer. There are no roads in the centre of the island so it's just allowed to burn itself out.

That can be miserable by itself...sounds like you have plenty of volcano experience!

 

[cavemanrich]

Well, it's been extinct a long time... We're more likely to get ash & ember when the big island to the east of us burns ~ as it tends to do each summer. There are no roads in the centre of the island so it's just allowed to burn itself out.

How big, is big??? and if it burns each summer, what regrows to burn next summer. ? and..... are there many animals there??
I looked on map of Australia, and wondering if you are referring to New Caledonia as that island.

 

[Ribh]

How big, is big??? and if it burns each summer, what regrows to burn next summer. ? and..... are there many animals there??
I looked on map of Australia, and wondering if you are referring to New Caledonia as that island.

Minjerribah. It is 275.2 sq Ks & the 2nd largest sand island in the world. The indigenous people hold the land rights to most of it. Most native Australian species need fire to burst seedpods & regrowth is fast. Most trees will put out new shoots within weeks of a fire unless it is extremely hot. Fire rarely kills native flora out here. It just looks like it has. A lot of wildlife can swim between the islands ~ & does ~ plus there are a couple of lakes in the middle. Fire is necessary to our flora.

 

[BY Bob]

How about one of those patio umbrellas?

Good idea. Pound a piece of PVC pipe in the ground and put an umbrella in it. Instant cover. It might look like a beach but it would be cover.

 

[BY Bob]

When Welsummers are a day old, you can tell them apart by the intensity of their coloring. (The striping). I read this.
So, when I got mine, I looked for this and picked two girls! They were being sold as straight runs. (You know TSC wasn’t going to know the difference).

Well done!

 

[BY Bob]

@drstratton
Rene, Bob's post reminded me of a FL lady I used to chat with...she improvised some knee-high tables for her flock to have cover. The tables she made were basically just 4 legs with some sort of scrap(?) top. She did it for shade but that would work well for your hawk protection too.

Yes it would. Good idea.

 

[BY Bob]

It really does depend on location, we see the same thing here in WA!
Yeah, it makes us feel good...I just wish the desire to be closer to us, was enough incentive for them to not move so far away...lol

You are right about that. They could stay a little closer. Both sides right!

Both of my daughters moved to other states. I have one in Virginia that is over 4 hours away and the other in Michigan over 7 hours away. They went where the jobs were. They are close enough to visit, better than Oklahoma and Washington but it could have been worse. They had to go where the jobs were, that simple.

 

[BY Bob]

Our island is part of an extinct volcano. For all intents & purposes we sit on a volcanic rim.

Sounds safe.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes it would. Good idea.

A patio umbrella and a low table sound like perfect things to make the area nice for chickens and people. I am filing those ideas away for my chicken garden which I intend to plan over Christmas so I can get started on it in the spring.