The Front Porch Swing

[Ray_n_Debi]

 

[krazykat0373]

LOL!

 

[smccuen]

lol...well be careful what you say rattlesnakes are protected too. You might get a lecture....Believe it or not....you have to have a permit to kill them, also.

no way - really? Thanks for letting me know.

 

[krazykat0373]

Quote: yup...it's true.

 

[smccuen]

night y'all - it'll be better in the morning.

 

[flocksalot]

Late night with chores tonight and I'm tired. Alex and I were building a 4 x 10 A frame chicken tractor today. Hubby had cut the plywood for me, but I had to haul all the 2 x 4s up the hill to the house and then down the basement where the miter saw is. I needed an angle at 60 degrees, but the miter saw only does just a little over 45, so I kinda winged it by holding the wood at the angle I needed. Hubby kept telling me he would do it, but my patience ran out, so I figured it out myself. We got the frame done so tomorrow I need to see if hubby is hiding any 4 inch screws that I need for the door. Hey if he already has it then its free right! So far everything we used was scrape or leftovers from building the house. I'm cheap! Not afraid to admit it either.

Now we need to decide what to use on the outside. I'm thinking metal might get too hot and it only seems to attract wasps, and we don't need another stung lower lip. It's funny once, but then it's just sad. I think the kid would agree! Since Alex will be the one going in and out of it we need to figure that one out. Hopefully we have it completed tomorrow. I'm not much for painting, so that will not get done. I think Alex learnt quite a bit while helping. The plan is for me to cut all the next one and than assist him in putting it together. Of course the next one will be small sized for one broody. That will be a scrap house too. Then we will start on a much larger one for meat birds or young turkeys. Haven't made up my mind who will get it.

Time to destinkify myself in a cold shower. It's so muggy!

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

yep...hence the .22 and not the 12 gauge

I got a 30 30 or a 308 that could do the job very well

.. On a serious note I am always learey of shooting up nin the air because you never know where it will land, a 12 gauge isn't going far and as high as most hawks stay you ain't going to hit them anyways, just scare them. I have a friend that had a Marans rooster kill a hawk once. Rattle snakes are very protected also, but I still hate them.

 

[flocksalot]

Morning everyone!

It's hot it's muggy and I have a chicken tractor to finish and need to start cutting the next on too! Kid is chomping at the bit to get going, but first I must drink my coffee.

 

[tdhenson86]

Morning everyone!

It's hot it's muggy and I have a chicken tractor to finish and need to start cutting the next on too! Kid is chomping at the bit to get going, but first I must drink my coffee.

Be careful! It sure is hot out there!

 

[pysankigirl]

I hatched out 9 barnevelders this past winter and struggled to tell which ones were girls and which were boys. 7 of them developed combs a little faster so I thought those were the boys and was kind of disappointed. Then a guy that had agreed to take my boys from me as (eventually) food lost all his laying hens to a predator attack so when he took the boys I threw in the two girls just because they were all raised together and I felt sorry for him losing all his chickens.

He called yesterday. They’ve grown and it turns out they were all girls. Every single one of them. that’s why I couldn’t tell them apart. Who’da thought I would hatch out 9 girls???!!!??? He is thrilled.