The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[Leahs Mom]

Now I just need to arrange a civilized hinged "back door" for the washer & dryer.

Wait...... Your chickens do laundry? I want some hatching eggs for those birds!!!!!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Peeps and pipping in my still air hatcher.

Also DH started stetting up two more brooding boxes that can be easily cleaned and reused. If I can get enough brooder boxes in the basement, I'll be able to stop changing light bulbs and just graduate the chicks from one box to the next. The joys of winter brooding. I keep telling myself the eggs will come sooner, the eggs will come sooner. And the chicks look cute too.

 

[Scott H]

What's a SAHM?

Stay At Home Mom?

Single and happy man?

 

[Leahs Mom]

Quote: Single and happy man?

Only if his chickens do the laundry.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

and mop the floors

 

[TeaChick]

I'm going to have to beam you over to Indiana so you can make me some of those!

Here's a nice little article that talks about the "bullseye"...And I first heard how to tell here on this thread I believe

I didn't think of beaming! You're a genius!!! Beam her here, when she's done for you!!! =D

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Wait...... Your chickens do laundry? I want some hatching eggs for those birds!!!!!

No, but they do make their own bed in the morning, which is better than the humans housed here do ...

I've made a LOT of changes to their dorm room since this video, but ... meh.

 

[ChickChickChicky]

I agree! There are certainly plusses to a Kindle (my daughter is an avid reader and loves that she can take hundreds of books with her on a trip without having to carry them all!), but there's just something about holding a real book.

I keep thinking the same thing about all my pictures, too. Since 2001, I've been moving to digital, and now have no "real film" photos. On my to-do list is to use a software program to make photo albums with my digital photos (not just squash them on a page, but do more of a scrapbooking type album like I used to do with my Kodak prints), print them out, and bind them into real albums, so I have something physical to hang on to and pass down.

The funny thing is that my 72 year old mom LOVES her kinde - in fact just got a Paperwhite for Christmas, and hardly ever uses DTBs now (dead tree books). She even makes fun of us for not being more electronic in our reading habits!

Wow, so cool!!

I'd love to have a Kindle, but agree with lazy gardener about trusting the "cloud" for storage. Does anyone know, can I put pdf files (or any file formats) on a flash drive and then use that in the Kindle? I already keep MANY papers and websites in pdf format, so if I could use a flash drive with the Kindle I'd be sold.

 

[TeaChick]

whatever I build will be from scratch. currently I have milk crates sitting on the floor under a shelf. but they're a PITA to get eggs out of since I don't bend so well anymore.

What if you moved the crates onto the shelf, then you wouldn't have to bend to collect. I guess you'd have to fill in under the shelf; they'd probably keep laying there.

I really appreciate the links too. Guess I need to go scrounge up a bucket with a lid...I've got plenty without! LOL!

You could put a hinge (or two, whatever) and latch on a piece of plywood (or something).....
I know what you mean about having buckets but no lids. ;-)

 

[TeaChick]

Stay At Home Mom?

Instructions for what?

The sprout bag.
I'm taking forever to catch up. =(

What's a SAHM?

Stay At Home Mom

That's the female half of the genetic material.

Oooohhhhh. I see.
Thanks.