The Front Porch Swing

[Triple Willow]

@rrrmamma... congrats on the new coop!!!

 

[Windy Bay Farm]

I HOPE you come bringing pictures!!! I am glad you're back and they didn't keep you. So they have removed the restrictions on travel to Cuba? I bet it was very beautiful.

I'm in Canada so no travel restrictions for us, and unfortunately no, they have not removed the travel restrictions for US citizens... So ridiculous considering Cuba hasn't been a threat to the US in years ! But let's not get started on a political rant

Had to check your location knowing that no US citizen can vacation in Cuba. So stop it with the description of how lovely it is! MAYBE some day the ****s in D.C will figure out that Cuba ceased to be a threat to the USA when the Soviet Union fell and the embargo isn't doing anything useful. Any pictures of their Cubalayas? I'd be interested to know how they compare to the ones we have here. And yes, the males are astoundingly beautiful, no roos at my place though. These are my Cubalaya girls from Ideal Fae, the bottom one, has laid a couple of 50g eggs this spring. Pretty darned big for a little chicken! Same size egg as my Faverolles and Partridge Chantecler lay - ALMOST USDA medium. Bruce

Unfortunately I didn't get close enough to take any detailed pics of the Cubalaya's but those birds you have there look stunning and they're feathering/shape is very comparable to what I seen in Cuba !

Welcome home!!! Rest up and send some pictures our way! GUESS WHAT??? 32 years ago my husband and I tied the knot!! Lisa

I will definitely get some pics up the first chance I get and congrats to you and your hubby, what a wonderful milestone !! God Bless !

Welcome home! We missed ya! Nah, nuthing important. Leslie discovered the cure for the common cold, Bee finally cracked the genetic code for my OCD, and Deb solved the mystery of how to get men to Mars and and back without them aging on the trip. (We're still arguing the merits of making it a round trip.) Other than that, been just the same old, same old!

I sure missed you all as well ! So glad to be home and back on the Porch where life is simply beautiful and you people are all a blessing to me each and everyday !

Oh, we soooooooo need to see some pics of that sand and water, WBF! I'm so very glad you had a wonderful time....did you eat any great foods? We missed you!

Will be posting pics as soon as I can sort though them all Unfortunately didn't eat anything to great but it is a well known fact that Cuba is known for their not so great food. They eat tons of rice and pork and some fish. The best things I ate were a pork and rice meal at the farm we visited and one evening at the resorts buffet they had lobster, not the lobster (Maine/Atlantic Lobster) that we are used too and not as delicious, but still not bad. They have a Caribbean lobster that has no claws so all the meat is within the body. I sure missed all you folks as well and it's good to be back on The Porch !

 

[Blooie]

I've been following a thread on getting chickens to roost....because mine wouldn't. But tonight I got a surprise. I cheated here and just copy and pasted my last post on that thread. Here ya go....

TADA! Just went out to check on the girls (and Charlie) and guess what!! They are roosting!! Well, 'cept not on the nice, carefully placed roost we provided for them - even though we followed all advice on placement, size, height - all of it. They have chosen to roost on the 2x4 cross pieces in the coop framing. Yep, scattered all over the place on short little framing pieces against the sides of the coop like bad chicken wallpaper. There were a couple on the frame above the east window, a few more on the frame above the south window, some on the cross pieces above where the nest boxes will go - all tucked into their chosen bits of framing just as content as can be. How in the world do you put a poop board under every framing cross piece in the entire coop?

I repeat....my chickens did NOT read the chapter on roosting in the Chickens for Dummies book.

 

[BCMaraniac]

Sort of. I have a "condition" called POTS. It means I'm in bed most of the time, because when I'm upright I don't function well and make myself ill. It's a long story, and I've found that trying to tell it tends to invite a lot of "helpful" comments that read to me like, "get over it." Even simple things like brushing my teeth are a really big deal.

I'm sorry you have those difficulties.

I hope and pray you have a good physician who is treating you....POTS is a nasty thing.

 

[RachaelS]

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Had to check your location knowing that no US citizen can vacation in Cuba. So stop it with the description of how lovely it is!

MAYBE some day the ****s in D.C will figure out that Cuba ceased to be a threat to the USA when the Soviet Union fell and the embargo isn't doing anything useful. Any pictures of their Cubalayas? I'd be interested to know how they compare to the ones we have here. And yes, the males are astoundingly beautiful, no roos at my place though. These are my Cubalaya girls from Ideal




Fae, the bottom one, has laid a couple of 50g eggs this spring. Pretty darned big for a little chicken! Same size egg as my Faverolles and Partridge Chantecler lay - ALMOST USDA medium.

Bruce

Bruce, I have Cubalaya's also!!! The boys are from a breeder that used to be on BYC named Jungleexplorer, the girls are from Ideal. Mine lay small eggs! However, the boys were hatched from normal sized eggs, so there is hope!

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: Done it.... in Highschool..... Bwhahahah...

deb

 

[RachaelS]

You can do the susupension thing with chain or rope if you tether the ends so the whole roost dosent swing.... Moving around a little they handle quite well. especially if they start out as youngsters. My big coop partition was set up that way. I did the roosts hung from chainlink with Bailing Twine. Then formed a T shape by crossing another roost and anchoring it....

the whole structure moves in unison just a little maybe two inches at most.

Quick sketch I hope its clear enough.


I use FULL length 2 x 3 x 8s for perches

deb

I love your drawings! I wish I could "see" thing before they are built. I just don't have that.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I love your drawings!  I wish I could "see" thing before they are built.  I just don't have that.

The drawings are great! I really admire people with that skill. I know it takes practice. I can envision things, but can't draw for beans, so things get stuck inside my head ...

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: Thanks guys..... Done alot of drawings over the years.

deb

 

[Blooie]

Thanks guys..... Done alot of drawings over the years.

deb

Um, so how are you at nest boxes?