Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

[NanaK]

Still building the greenhouse - it should be done by spring, when it won't be needed

You may still use it in summer. You or the wife have anything in pots? The greenhouse is a great place to stash plants out of the wind during hurricanes.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

You may still use it in summer. You or the wife have anything in pots? The greenhouse is a great place to stash plants out of the wind during hurricanes.

We are going to do the aquaculture in there, maybe try hydroponics, definitely move some tropicals in. So yes, I was being (a little) facetious.

by screening it, I'll be able to minimize the bugs able to consume the veggies, too.

 

[NanaK]

My windows are screened so are the coop windows.
The do get dusty. I use a shop vac maybe 2 times per year.
It really helps keep the bugs off the plants and me. I detest mosquitos and biting flies! It has also stopped huge snakes from getting in the GH.
I like my screens.

 

[fuzzi]

They manage well on their own, mostly.

Which is good, because I know less about goats than I know about chicken diseases (which isn't much) - but as we started w/ two, have eaten three, and now have ten... they must be doing something right.

Hormones make a way...

My mother used to say that love was two sets of hormones screaming at each other.

 

[fuzzi]

Yeah I was thinking about a couple ... until I met a bottle baby .
I have enough trouble harvesting turkeys. I would be hip deep in goats.

I still have tentative plans for a couple goats, for encroaching growth control, but not a breeding pair at first. I figure a wether and older doe might be sufficient.

Initially.

 

[Molpet]

I still have tentative plans for a couple goats, for encroaching growth control, but not a breeding pair at first. I figure a wether and older doe might be sufficient.

Initially.

Yes that's what I wanted goats for. I also like goat meat but don't think I can keep emotional distance

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Between 20* and 30* outside. Should be above freezing before noon.

Everyone, and everything is fine.

at some point, my blood got REAL thin.

Its COLD out.

(with apologies to my fellow, more northern, posters! Much respect, don't know how you do it)

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I admit. Baby goats ARE cute. Even adult goats have their moments. Bigger issues are time and size. Taking down, then breaking down, even a small goat (as goats are measured anyways, we don't raise the big breed meat goats) - is essentially an all day affair for me.

Watched two guys do it on Youtube in a little over 15 minutes as a continuous camera shoot...

 

[fuzzi]

I admit. Baby goats ARE cute. Even adult goats have their moments. Bigger issues are time and size. Taking down, then breaking down, even a small goat (as goats are measured anyways, we don't raise the big breed meat goats) - is essentially an all day affair for me.

Watched two guys do it on Youtube in a little over 15 minutes as a continuous camera shoot...

I think I would have to be very hungry to eat one of my chickens...

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I think I would have to be very hungry to eat one of my chickens...

takes all kinds.

I am somewhat lacking in the normal allotment of human empathy - not that I'm uncaring, rather that I find my way to necessity easier than most. I care enough to ensure its swift and cleanly done.

My wife absolutely could not do it. But has no issues eating the results, even animals we've named. I know that naming, for some, is the line they can't cross.