The Front Porch Swing

[wyoDreamer]

Oldmama - I hope you are safe and just having internet issues. Your are in my prayers.

Perchie - I like the new layout of the chicken coop. Is the storage area going to be all solid walls?

 

[perchie.girl]

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The one I had was Hurricane because I knew a friend who went to a Hurricane party and said they were yummy.... So I wanted to find out how much.....

The only drink I have had that was stronger was a long island Iced Tea..... A whole other story... involving my favorite dance floor a country and western concert.... and a nice stranger.

deb

Long Island Ice Tea
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz light rum
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz tequila
juice of 1/2 lemons
1 splash Coca-Cola​

Read more: Long Island Tea recipe http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink4890.html#ixzz375YUybim

And yep it does taste like iced tea. DANGER WILL ROBINSON

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As a bartender throughout college days, I really hate the name game for drinks. College town was worst because everyone is from somewhere else. I love blue Hawaiians.

I used Blue Curaco when I was in college to make a marinade for boneless/skinless chicken - I don't remember what the recipe was but it called for Triple Sec and Blue Carucao was all I had, so close enough. We called it Smurf and it was mighty tasty. Can you tell I'm an 80's gal?

I'm not a tea drinker - I have tried and tried, but just do not like the taste of tea - iced or otherwise. Closest I drink is herbal mint teas.

Try a Long Beach sometime - yummy! very close recipe to a Long Island - double the rum, skip the tequila and use Cranberry juice instead of the coke. Very refreshing after a hot day in the garden.

LOL... My mixed drink days are over... most I do is a Screwdriver or Salty dog or Gin and tonic.... occasionally and just two ingredients mixed myself. And I stay away from Tequila.... I like it too much.

For refreshing I would do a Dos Equis or Negra Modelo.... But in the heat I pretty much dont drink anything but water. Heat and Alcahol just dont mix.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Oldmama - I hope you are safe and just having internet issues. Your are in my prayers.

Perchie - I like the new layout of the chicken coop. Is the storage area going to be all solid walls?

I sent you a pm...

thanks about the layout. There will only be the Ell shaped counter top And feed bins where I can blend my own feeds therefore nothing will be overhead storage. I will be in a wheelchair eventually so the feed bins will be filled by a leaf blower mechanism. I hope to build them large enough to hold a months worth of mixed feed if necessary. With Gravity dispensing through a hopper below.

I am still working on the feed bins but they will be parked under the hopper for filling and rolled over to a feed station where the chickens will be able to reach through to eat. All feed will be dispensed without having to open the coop partition.

The ONLY time I will go into a coop partition will be to add or remove rice hulls And I should be able to do that task with a good sized shop vac for removal and a leaf blower for adding.

If I go to Fermented feed I would use the same hoppers to fill the FF container. I can even devise a portion control for the dispenser. It shouldnt be too difficult to do.

Lifting and carrying are my hurdles... I am strong enough to unload bags of feed but not actually walk around with them. same goes for hay.

When I am at home to feed and care for my horse I feed her a whole bale at a time. California hay is baled in three strand bales... which means a bale of Bermuda is approximately 110 lbs per bale. I have a hay hook that is extended so that I can hook a string and drag the bale to its destination. I have a hay ramp of sorts made of pallets so the hay doesnt drag through dirt. Then the Feeder is infront of a pipe corral gate door. I open the door drag the bale up then stand the bale on end and give it a stout push to tip it over into the feeder. My horse's feeder is an Avocado crate made of heavy duty plastic. The bale just fits if you shove it in .... I dont even have to cut the strings. When they come loose the loop spins itself into a single strand.

It takes Katee three days to eat a single bale of bermuda what this does for her is remove the worry about "feeding scheduals" Anyone who has horses knows they have to be fed on time. It also gives her a similar benefit that horses on pasture have... a steady nibble.... Horses were meant for browsing all day. Oh yeh she probably wastes a good five percent of it... but still its only costing me around six dollars per day to feed a 2000 lb horse.

The other benefit is for me... I dont have to be home "On Time" or Get up at the crack of dawn... to feed.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

OMG for those whos chickens are laying eggs while on the perch.....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/903115/perch-bombs/20

Read the whole page..... Bwhaahahahahah

especially about Kung Fu Henny....

deb

 

[jmoeller]

OMG for those whos chickens are laying eggs while on the perch.....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/903115/perch-bombs/20

Read the whole page..... Bwhaahahahahah

especially about Kung Fu Henny....

deb

Wow.. that's all ~ just wow.

 

[ducksanddoxies]

Wow.. that's all ~ just wow.

That. Was. Um. Interesting.

 

[Blooie]

Look what I just found!

 

[Alice28]

Look what I just found!

Yay!

 

[Blooie]

I'd be happier if she'd laid it in the nest, but instead she dug out a depression in the floor of the coop and laid it. I just picked it up and stuck it in the nest while I filled in the hole, then snapped a quick iPhone pic while it was there.

Interesting tidbit on the news today. Seems one of the roads in Yellowstone is melting from the thermal heat under it. Hope it's not time for the extra large Coke and family sized bag of salty potato chips with dip!

 

[Tomtommom]

We have chicks! The black fluff is a chick. I've seen three, but more may have hatched already. She's got six eggs under her.