Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[crazyhen]

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Yeh!!!

I love my wood stove. The electric heat very seldom comes on here. We do have to buy wood but it is reasonable. The heat it puts off is great and sooooooo warm. I keep an evaperator enamel pot on top with water in it and it helps to humidify the air. I also set a kettle on it part of the time and I can have hot tea when I like. Do you make the chicken back protectors. I would love to have a few of the denim quited ones for my big old orps. Also some buff colored ones for the buffs. I have what I think is another splash roo and if so I will try to keep him but I will sure need the protectors. These fellows get hugh. Gloria Jean

 

[rancher hicks]

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Well you know everyone here is pulling for each other, so I'm sure we're glad for you good fortune with the stove. He is an ever present help in times of trouble.

Rancher

 

[rancher hicks]

caption #1. UH EXCUSE ME, I THINK MY CHICKEN IS A LITTLE UNDERCOOKED!

caption #2 YOUR NOT FUNNY MOM!

caption #3 IF THIS THING POOPS ON MY TRAY I AIN'T EAT'IN NO DINNER!

caption #4 UH, I LIKE MY CHICKEN FRESH, JUS' NOT THIS FRESH!

 

[ca]

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Lol! "she" are cute!

 

[fowlman01]

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Yeh!!!

I love my wood stove. The electric heat very seldom comes on here. We do have to buy wood but it is reasonable. The heat it puts off is great and sooooooo warm. I keep an evaperator enamel pot on top with water in it and it helps to humidify the air. I also set a kettle on it part of the time and I can have hot tea when I like. Do you make the chicken back protectors. I would love to have a few of the denim quited ones for my big old orps. Also some buff colored ones for the buffs. I have what I think is another splash roo and if so I will try to keep him but I will sure need the protectors. These fellows get hugh. Gloria Jean

Wood stoves Rock! They always feel warmer than other heat sources.

Walt

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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Oh my goodness that is adorable!! Look at those chubby cheeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The chick is cute too...but that sweet face, and what an expression

I love this pic!

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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Yeh!!!

I love my wood stove. The electric heat very seldom comes on here. We do have to buy wood but it is reasonable. The heat it puts off is great and sooooooo warm. I keep an evaperator enamel pot on top with water in it and it helps to humidify the air. I also set a kettle on it part of the time and I can have hot tea when I like. Do you make the chicken back protectors. I would love to have a few of the denim quited ones for my big old orps. Also some buff colored ones for the buffs. I have what I think is another splash roo and if so I will try to keep him but I will sure need the protectors. These fellows get hugh. Gloria Jean

Wood stoves Rock! They always feel warmer than other heat sources.

Walt

Walt we had wood heat when I was a kid, and I loved it then too.

Gloria Jean...I am not very talented at sewing, that is one of the things I want to work on, but right now...I doubt I could sew much of anything. I got me a book to try to self teach it, and I have a machine. My mom was a seamstress all her life. She worked in a sewing factory up until last year....I don't know how I never picked it up. Mom never had much patience for teaching sewing though. Come to think, my grandma was a lifelong seamstress as well, but she went blind from a rare genetic degenerative eye disease when I was still young is the reason I never learned from her. Most everything I know is self taught though, so maybe in a year or so I could be making wedding dresses

 

[HorizonSon]

Taken on the 10th. Look at those tail feathers coming in

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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Cute chickies!!

Well ya'll I have not had opportunity to get started on the sprouting yet. Little niece has been in the hospital since Thursday morning

She is getting better now though, and may be able to come home tomorrow. When it rains it pours

Hoping to finish getting the wood stove installed and some sprouting started TOMORROW! I needed my Sunday day of rest

after this week we have experienced!! I'll try to get around to posting some pics of the sprouting project this week once it gets going good

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend!!! BLESSINGS TO ALL!

 

[Serrin]

NOTHING beats wood heat! Cindi, look on Craig's List for free wood listings. Most of the time it's scrap wood from construction sites, or someone has torn down and old cedar fence or some such. But it's almost always good clean kiln dried wood, and you can't beat free! Even if it involves the pulling of some nails. In the days when we had more time [pre house building era

] we used to grab up all of the old wood being offered for free like the aforementioned. We'd have to pull nails, but once that was done, it was a simple matter of running it through the chop saw to cut it into perfect lengths. And it always stacks a heck of a lot easier than chord wood!

If you have state or national forest areas anywhere within about a 2 hour or less drive from your house, check with your state or federal agency that oversees each area. Often times you can get a permit to cut wood for little or no money. We used to go up to the mountains near Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helen all summer long, cutting windfall trees for firewood. The cost of the permit for the National Forest lands was a ridiculously low at $5 per chord!

Of course, that was also nearly 25 years ago. But I think it's still pretty low. A lot lower than what commercial cutters are asking for a chord of firewood.

If you do go out to harvest state or national land firewood, be sure to look for the trees that fell on their own. If the needles are brown [coniferous trees of course] then it's been dead for awhile and therefore well seasoned. You can burn it right away. DO NOT burn green [unseasoned] wood. Not only is it a big no-no ecologically speaking [lots of particulate emissions] but it also accelerates the creosote buildup in your chimney pipe. This can cause a chimney fire if not kept cleaned. And believe me, that is one scary event if you've never witnessed one before. Not to mention the fact that it can burn down your entire home!

OK, I'm gonna step off of my soap box now.

Congrats on making such a great buy on the wood stove Cindi. I'm keeping you and DH in my thoughts and prayers.