Rain is supposed to move in tomorrow between noon and 1. That may be what is making things hurt that I don't have anymore. I've got to find an easier way to fill feeders.
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It would be hard to lift feed bags with broken ribs!
No its not hard, It's impossible. I have some feed in the van with the opening end facing out. Then end of the bag can be opened laying on its side into a 5 gallon bucket. I/2 bucket at a time with only my left arm. Once I can get back on the John Deere I can fill 5 buckets at at a time and haul them to the coops that way. I filled a bucket half full today with scratch that way and threw that out for the layers. Those girls were bust a gut full and still cleaned up the scratch. They eat so much they are going to need belly bras. They wobble worse than ducks now when they run after making pigs of themselves.
I think I just might get my helper to build a 6-8 panel hoop tunnel and hang community feeders in one end of it along with watering fountains and put roosting facilities in the other end and leave the ends open so they can come and go as then need to. A place to get in out of the rain when needed. Our weather is good enough that we don't need cold wind protection 364 days a year. They cab rough it on day a year. I might have sympathy and put up a canvas door on the ends to stop a bad draft from howling in when the temp falls below 30° a few nights a year. And then again by the time I get up in the morning I may scrap this idea all together.
It's either a brainstorm or a brain prolapse... Maybe I can build a feed storage room out of pallets. I'm gong to inquire about some I've seen stacked up for a long time where I buy feed. An 8x12 mouse tight and water tight feed room with a tin roof will hold a ton of feed at a time. 3 sheets of 3/4" thick plywood for the floor and some 2x4's and a little country boy engineering might be just what I need. I now I will not spend upwards now of 3k for a store built fancy storage house made to suit some kind of HOA rules in the city out here in the boonies. The only real rules for me is a septic system has to be approved. Got no problems with that.
I think the way a feed room could be built out of pallets could be a very strong one against normal run of the mill wind storms as with summer thunderstorms. I will check on those pallets tomorrow before some one else needs them all.There must be over a hundred stacked up just waiting for some one to haul them off.
That is hilarious.
You ain't seen nothing yet, "Hold my tea".
Oh, the sun is up.
Morning everyone in the Old Folks suburb.
If you do, please post pictures in this thread! Lots of great projects and ideas pop up here.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/show-me-your-pallet-projects.1541562/page-197
Good morning, OF>
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