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[Serrin]

Hey Tim, that sounds really cool on the old hatchers. You can usually tell if they're antiques or not. They'll be built more like a piece of furniture than a piece of farm equipment. And the really old ones will be heated through an old kerosene heating unit. Most of them you see now days are to be found at the back end of the barn, covered with every bit of a half century or more of dust, cobwebs, spider nests and maybe a hornet nest or two. And they're usually stacked chest high with boxes of old junk. But every now and then you get lucky and find one that someone has lovingly restored. Those are a joy to behold. If you're good with diamonds in the rough, you may have this winter's entertainment all lined up already!

Kathy! Guess what I did today, with a little help from DH? We got the old dog house moved to the side scratch yard!!

So, tomorrow I'm going to start laying out nest boxes, roosting bar, windows and the ramp to the pop door. We also have to get it elevated a bit so that I can just reach right into there without any problems to take care of mama and the babies. Denny is under the impression that this is going to be the "Old Girls" home as soon as I have it all squared away. Shhhhh...what he don't know, ain't gonna hurt him!!

*insert diabolical, scheming woman here* Though I bet you anything, I could move the four girls into there as well and there would still be room left over. Hmmmmmm.......Anyhow, just wanted to let you know that progress, albeit slow, is being made towards getting mama and the babies up here.

Does anyone have a recommendation as to what I could bomb the living daylights out of the interior of the dog house/soon to be chicken coop with? I have fumigator bug bombs, but I think that might be a bit of extreme overkill, considering that they're meant for something like 1,100 square feet!

But I would like to kill off all of the creepy crawlies roaming around in there before I have to get in there to mount certain items for the girls. *Shudder* Y'all should have seen the fugly little 8 legged monsters we chased out from the underside of the darn thing! Ewww! Ewww! Just EEEEEWWWWWW!!! My skin positively crawls just thinking about it!

Well, time to go put the boys to bed and collect eggs. Yack with y'all later!

 

[Bassleg]

kathyinmo Are you going to keep your Dels and your Jersey when you reorganize your birds?

 

[kathyinmo]

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The plan is to keep Delawares, Barred Rocks, and RIRs. I am selling the Jersey Giants, even though they are Heritage as well. I may keep a few of the chicks I currently have (in case I change my mind). BIG reorganizing going on here.....

 

[NellaBean]

I have an idea....stick a few chickens in there for a day or two. All bugs will be gone instantly.

You wouldn't believe the massive bug infestation i used to have here.....you could not walk through one of the planters out back without spiders crawling up your legs or dropping down onto you. SO NASTY!!! Now, I haven't seen a spider in ages.....when i let the girls out in the morning, the "smart" ones aka the older girls all run to the tree line and very closely inspect the ground under it. They pretty much run the perimeter of the yard.......i guess they find all the bugs who came out or dropped down overnight. Smart ladies.

Anywho, there is my GREEN answer....CHICKENS.

 

[Cetawin]

Thanks Tim. We are meeting with a mortgage broker Friday morning...if we can get a decent interested rate mortgage, we will buy it, if not, we will rent until we find something else and she can bite me! I have literally made myself sick worrying about all this nonsense and it just is not worth it.

 

[Braclin]

Hi everyone. After last weeks hacking of the site my computer has just about been destroyed. Have a friend whos trying to help me get it back in order. It has been a major and I mean MAJOR pain!

Hope everyone is doing good! Cetawin I hope you can get everything with the homestead straighten out so you can relax !!

Kathy good luck on the reorganizing!

 

[Cetawin]

Brandon how are the peepers doing?

 

[Braclin]

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They're doing great! Pretty sure that the big lav baby is a roo,lol.

 

[Cetawin]

aaawwww well the one with the damaged wing healed up fine and is at Sarah's waiting to determine what he is gonna grow up to be for breeding.

 

[Serrin]

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And I would do it that way in a heart beat. But I have to crawl in there to make the modifications to convert it from being a dog house into being a small hen house. And I am NOT interested in having any close encounters of the eight legged freaks variety. Especially not in such close and confining spaces!

OK, now my skin is crawling again at the mere thought of it all!!