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[ClovisMan]

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Yep, used treated wood for the base that will be touching the ground. These are for door/window/nesting box framing and for roof rafters. All the stuff that will be protected from the weather. I'll prime and paint the T1-111 so it will last long enough. The thing about treated wood is how had the stuff warps. I hate twisty boards.

 

[hungnguyen]

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You just use the straight pieces and pass the curve one to me. My chicken don't mind a little gap on the roof. They love to see the full moon and sing "raindrop falling on my head"

 

[TexasLisa]

Do you use the blacksmith shop? If you were to use it, it would make the girls and eggs rather warm.

Take some pic. It would be interesting to see.

I don't use the smithy, but my DH does. I will try to get pictures of them setting.

Quote: FUNNY MAN!!! You have the wrong song. Try this one if you want eggs....sigh.....

Lisa

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

Well, it took forever, but finally, FINALLY, Trouble has sorted herself out it seems. This morning I let them all out to run the yard for an hour, then had to put them all away, and didn't think about it till I was already gone to get my marriage license, that I hadn't separated Trouble. I came home expecting to find bloody birds and everyone was fine. They were scratching together, eating out of the feeder together. The only one by herself was big momma, but once I moved her to the ground all was well. I also got my first egg from big momma yesterday, and it was a double yoker! I was so excited! I tried to bey my hubby that it was one but he wouldn't do it. I could have got ten dollars haha. I am happy to be able to take that giant dog crate out of my coop.

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

Well, it took forever, but finally, FINALLY, Trouble has sorted herself out it seems. This morning I let them all out to run the yard for an hour, then had to put them all away, and didn't think about it till I was already gone to get my marriage license, that I hadn't separated Trouble. I came home expecting to find bloody birds and everyone was fine. They were scratching together, eating out of the feeder together. The only one by herself was big momma, but once I moved her to the ground all was well. I also got my first egg from big momma yesterday, and it was a double yoker! I was so excited! I tried to bey my hubby that it was one but he wouldn't do it. I could have got ten dollars haha. I am happy to be able to take that giant dog crate out of my coop.

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

So sorry for the double post!

 

[granthamkk]

Well, it took forever, but finally, FINALLY, Trouble has sorted herself out it seems. This morning I let them all out to run the yard for an hour, then had to put them all away, and didn't think about it till I was already gone to get my marriage license, that I hadn't separated Trouble. I came home expecting to find bloody birds and everyone was fine. They were scratching together, eating out of the feeder together. The only one by herself was big momma, but once I moved her to the ground all was well. I also got my first egg from big momma yesterday, and it was a double yoker! I was so excited! I tried to bey my hubby that it was one but he wouldn't do it. I could have got ten dollars haha. I am happy to be able to take that giant dog crate out of my coop.

Yay! So glad things have calmed down. I love the name Big Momma!

 

[lovingmyhens]

Six degrees of separation and the Texas BYC forum.

I've been in contact with a woman on this list and through our conversations by PM we discovered we shared similar family backgrounds. I shared with her a story about my grandfather being lost in the Arctic in 1929 on the first mining expedition north of the Arctic Circle. I did a quick Google search to give her a short synopsis of the story, but when I read the articles I was confronted by the difference between what I read (brave, courageous, self-sufficient white men) and what my grandfather told me (ill prepared, arrogant and idiotic white men saved by the Inuit at great personal cost to the tribe). So, I searched a little deeper.

I found that a book has been recently written about the search and rescue of the expedition. The author's grandfather had been in charge of the search and rescue operation. She started her book as a way of recording the story for her family. She went up into the Northwest Territories in Canada and asked people if they could tell her anything about the expedition. She was told to read my grandfather's diary that was published the year after they were lost, and it would tell her all she needed to know. The author used the diary of her grandfather and my grandfather to put together both sides of the story. I knew only the lost expedition's story. She knew only the searchers' story. My grandfather was the editor (and owner) of the largest mining newspaper in the world and went on the expedition as a reporter, so his diary would have been written from a reporter's perspective.

Through all this I have found a copy of my grandfather's book--which must be pretty rare since I doubt many were ever published--and this new book. I'm in the process of buying my grandfather's book and ordered the new book on Amazon. I've been in touch with the author who will be sending me photos she has that I don't have. I don't think there will be any photos of my grandfather because, as the reporter on the expedition, he took all the pictures. Still, I'll have a bit of my family history that I didn't have before.

All because of this group. Thank you!

http://www.kerrykarram.com/books/four-degrees-celsius/

That is a really cool story!!! Thanks for sharing

 

[lovingmyhens]

Quote: he's sooo smart!!!! and funny too

 

[lovingmyhens]

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he's really expensive!