The Front Porch Swing

[Triple Willow]

I found a bunch of pieces of old cast iron in one of the barns ... likely from one of my great grandparents. I use it all the time. Love it. The big pots with the flat tops can be used like ovens if you put hot charcoal on the top.

Oh wow! What a find! I bet there was a lot of good food cooked in those pieces.

 

[Triple Willow]

Your Munchkin with the hat.....cutest ever!!!   

I agree!

 

[Lacy Blues]

I would like to take a 40 by 80 fenced area and do half chickens and half garden. The idea is to swap sides every fall so everything except the perimeter has to be moveable.

I'm planning on doing one large pen for the egg flock. Three med pens (Boys, girls, and grow out). Then several breeding pens.

One idea is to use panels or field fencing supported by t-posts and possibly covered by chicken wire or hardware cloth. Has to be covered and tall enough to get inside. We have red tail hawks, owls, raccoons, squirrels, and the neighbor's dog.

Why not keep everything stationary and do something like this? You'd have two chicken doors (one on each side) and for one year you let them do their thang on one side, the next year you switch. In the middle, between the garden/run areas is a place for composting.

Men, they just can't help it, they must use and then promptly lose tools...

LOL! Yep, ducks seem to be pretty dirty.

And then they blame everybody in the house for not putting things back where they got them... except of course, you know who.

You gotta be smarter than the box. I am a computer field service technician, and have to unpack and install a lot of equipment. Sometimes it's hard to figure out how to get it OUT of the box.

That's when I turn the box over and let everything gently slide out. Sometimes you have to shake them a little but they generally slide out fairly easily.

Maybe at the library. I checked Amazon for Texas gardening and they were expensive. I'm so close to Texas it's not even funny.

You can also look up alibris.com They have used books and many times, their prices are better than Amazon, sometimes not. It's worth looking for though.

 

[lindz8504]

It looks like those nest boxes are going to be pretty high. Are you going to have a board outside them for the birds to jump onto before going into the nest?  Is it normal to have nest boxes 4 feet up?
I don't have chickens yet, so I guess I never really considered how high to put the nestboxes.
The cabinets look like a pretty cool idea.

There will be a roost on the outside in front of the nests. I may also put a small ladder up top the roost as well.

 

[TexasLisa]

Why not keep everything stationary and do something like this? You'd have two chicken doors (one on each side) and for one year you let them do their thang on one side, the next year you switch. In the middle, between the garden/run areas is a place for composting.

That is a really cool design!!

Lisa

 

[Windy Bay Farm]

I've seen a lot of dog and cat shaming photos... But this is by far the best !!

 

[enola]

OMG! ! ! gotta love it

 

[Searsmom]

Texas Gardener!

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange has a great website - one of their listings is "What to Grow through Very Hot Summers" http://www.southernexposure.com/what-to-grow-through-very-hot-summers-ezp-154.html

 

[TexasLisa]

Texas Gardener!

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange has a great website - one of their listings is "What to Grow through Very Hot Summers" http://www.southernexposure.com/what-to-grow-through-very-hot-summers-ezp-154.html

THANK YOU!!

Lisa

 

[Faerie]

I've seen a lot of dog and cat shaming photos... But this is by far the best !!

That is hilarious!!