Hope everyone has a wonderful day! I have five days till my first hatch date! I am so eggcited!
[COLOR=800080]Well, I'm convinced that as the snow melted every inch of it made it's way through my yard to form a lake around the coops, lol! My boot kept getting vacuum sucked into the mud and coming off of my foot while I was walking. Thank God, no tarps for me to drag. I fill contractor bags and Ray puts them on the back of the 4-Wheeler and dumps them up in the woods.[/COLOR] [COLOR=800080]This all especially sucked because I just cleaned my coops 2 weeks ago because they had gotten wet and soggy inside.Where did your snow go? ours is still here! I was slip sliding on it dragging tarps full of shavins down to the dump pile! But I see you have mud like we have where we walk ha ha ha[COLOR=800080]Thought you would think this pic was funny... Worked my rear off today too, and made a huge mess while doing it. Gutted every coop, then took a leaf blower to it to get in every crack. Dumped a pile of Sevin dust in each coop, closed doors and blew the heck out of it with the leaf blower. THEN went back in and doused each coop with DE. Dusted every bird. I am ashamed at what I found on some of my birds vents. I really would encourage everyone to turn your girls upside down and inspect the vent. EVEN if they appear fluffy and beautiful. New shavings. Next Saturday I'll dose with Ivermectin. Please no yelling at me for my over use of chemicals...this case of mites was extreme (I definitely won't be eating the eggs for a looong time). I wish we'd had time to start on tearing down the half torn down dilapidated runs, but the mites took precedence. Next weekend I'll start on tear down/rebuild. Did I mention the 3 inches of mud that had to be tromped through for 5 hours while doing this?? My legs got a workout! I did wear my mask though Sally, lol. I'm exhausted but I feel accomplished, A Good Day![/COLOR]I got work done today
Worked
Cleaned the lower level, and the garage.
FINALLY got the chicks out of the closet and into the garage,
cleaned the big grow out and serama shed, and now I cant breatheto the point I may have to break out the kids nebu I really need to where a mask when doing coops. When does one learn?I told Ray, I don't understand how I got this...I clean my coops a lot, I dust a lot...I clean out the nest boxes almost every day!!! WTHeck![/COLOR]
just shipped some eggs today
We also took advantage of the warner weather (40s) to do some barn spring cleaning yesterday. Mucked out the doe pen and prepped the kidding pen & supplies. Was going to tackle the coop today, but I think a recovery period is needed.[COLOR=800080]Thought you would think this pic was funny... Worked my rear off today too, and made a huge mess while doing it. Gutted every coop, then took a leaf blower to it to get in every crack. Dumped a pile of Sevin dust in each coop, closed doors and blew the heck out of it with the leaf blower. THEN went back in and doused each coop with DE. Dusted every bird. I am ashamed at what I found on some of my birds vents. I really would encourage everyone to turn your girls upside down and inspect the vent. EVEN if they appear fluffy and beautiful. New shavings. Next Saturday I'll dose with Ivermectin. Please no yelling at me for my over use of chemicals...this case of mites was extreme (I definitely won't be eating the eggs for a looong time). I wish we'd had time to start on tearing down the half torn down dilapidated runs, but the mites took precedence. Next weekend I'll start on tear down/rebuild. Did I mention the 3 inches of mud that had to be tromped through for 5 hours while doing this?? My legs got a workout! I did wear my mask though Sally, lol. I'm exhausted but I feel accomplished, A Good Day![/COLOR]I got work done today
Worked
Cleaned the lower level, and the garage.
FINALLY got the chicks out of the closet and into the garage,
cleaned the big grow out and serama shed, and now I cant breatheto the point I may have to break out the kids nebu I really need to where a mask when doing coops. When does one learn?
Great packing job!
I have a chick!
They were due tomorrow night. This one is early, went to check temps and there it was!
We also took advantage of the warner weather (40s) to do some barn spring cleaning yesterday. Mucked out the doe pen and prepped the kidding pen & supplies. Was going to tackle the coop today, but I think a recovery period is needed.
Great packing job!
