Rebuilding my Farm

[Farmerboy16]

Pipes, bricks and lots of half rotted wood. I have to dig through the weeds to find any stuff that I need, I had found a bunch of 2x6, but half of them were in a bad shape, but some are usable, and will be able to finish the other half of the roof.

I was so glad that I had enough of the red roofing metal to complete one side.

I have found lots of the green ones, bunch of odd ends of color like white, cream, blue, silver, tan, and brown. I will use the green one first, then when I run out of it, will use the next color group and so on. The coop will look interesting when its done.

 

[Avalon1984]

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It all works! Bad 2x6 = great roosts

Little wide roost granted but good roost.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Farmerboy, it is looking great! Congrats on the new birds. [Isn't Wynette the sweetest?]
How about when you get done there you come help with this fencing?

Just kidding. Since it is supposed to be fairly nice maybe we will get it done this weekend.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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here is a photo Farmerboy16 placed on the Crossroads thread. So glad he was the one who got the Chocolate Pied Muscovy.

 

[Farmerboy16]

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here is a photo Farmerboy16 placed on the Crossroads thread. So glad he was the one who got the Chocolate Pied Muscovy.

http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g458/Farmerboy88/chickens583-1.jpg

Yep, that is the duck that I brought from Jim. Great guy, Jim is.

I had finished 4 pens, and separated the birds that I got from crossroads.

The Longcrowers in their own pen-

Muscovys pen-

5 Icelandic roos and 2 Lemon Cuckoo splits Orpington roos. The roos were part of the raffle at Crossroad, and no one won them, and Jim had no room to take them with him, so he asked me if I could take them. I looked at my mom to see what she would say about that, and she was fine with that. So that is how I got 7 roos and 2 cages for free.

The Orpingtons are direct from Greenfire farms.

Got more progress done on the coop.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

 

[NonnasBabies]

I'm so sorry for everything you went through and so glad to see your building it back up!! Takes lots of courage not to give up!!

 

[Farmerboy16]

Thanks Barred Babies.

I got the other half of the roof done! This time I did it by myself, as my sister had to go to our future sister-in-law's bridal shower.
The roof is a bit dirty, by spring time, it should be clean from the weather.

Inside-

Now, I can start working on the peafowl/turkey roof.

Update on the silkie eggs-
None lived to lockdown, for the breaker that the incubator was plugged in, popped out, causing the incubator to shut off. I did not know that had happened until I was going to move the eggs into lockdown, and saw the temp was 45 degrees.

The eggs were stone cold, but put them in lockdown anyway for hope that they will hatch. They were due yesterday, but still no sign of life. I will give them until tomorrow to toss the eggs.

Last night I put 11 True Araucana LF from Yvonne37894's auction in the incubator. I will check the incubator 2 times a day, to make sure that the 'bator is running. Hope that I get a good hatch!

 

[Farmerboy16]

I finished the outside of the main coop!

Now I can finish the turkey/peafowl section.

I brought this as used two years ago- It can hold 3000 lbs of feed.

My family and I are going to get some steer calves, and I will put the calves in the chicken coop, and keep them there, until we build them a shed in the spring.

Here is some of my chicks That my SIL took pictures of, and other pictures too-

3 1/2 month old male peafowl-

Me holding the peafowl-

One of the Icelandic roo-

Lemon Buff Orpington roo with Icelandic roo-

I had to help deliver a calf at work last night, you can read it here- https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=601194

One of my toms that I use to have, sold him as a meat bird.

I miss my turkeys.

After talking to my parents about getting turkeys again, my dad does not want me have them again unless I can prove on paper that I can make a profit from breeding turkeys. So, after doing some math, and looking around for breeders that sells poults that are MG free. I found Porter's turkey farm, and have been emailing back and forth from Kevin the owner of Porter's turkey farm. He sells poults that are MG-FREE!

He also gave me a feed formula for the breeder turkeys, so I can give my turkey the right kind of feed, I will give the peafowl, guineas, geese, and muscovys the same feed, and the chickens will have their own breeder mix. Kevin also told me how much turkeys eats in a day, that will help me with estimating the cost of feeding in a year. I plan to order 15 Bourbon Reds, which that is a minimum to order, and keep 4 hens and 2 toms, and sell the rest as breeders to help cover the cost of buying them, and feed, so I can make profit next year breeding. In order to have turkeys, I have to drop 2 breeds of chickens off the list, so here is what I have on the list now-

Icelandics
Turken
Coronation Sussex
Splash Marans
Rumpless and Tufted Araucana
Light Brahma
Tomaru Longcrowers
Buff Orpingtons

Guineas

Bourbon Red Turkeys

Peafowl

Muscovies

White Chinese geese

Now, I am waiting the jury of my parents regarding getting turkeys again.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Sounds like everything is working out for you. I'm so happy. Sending good vibes your way that your parents will allow the turkeys. Here's hoping.