The Old Folks Home

[Nomadicus]

This old man has about wound down like an old clock that runs on a spring. Got to wait for the last round of meds before bed and I have to wait until it time. These pain meds are not Tylenol but in a few weeks I will be able to sleep without them once again.

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

Got to wait for the last round of meds before bed and I have to wait until it time. These pain meds are not Tylenol but in a few weeks I will be able to sleep without them once again.

So sorry you're having to go through all this! May you heal well and quickly!

 

[Nomadicus]

Goodnight Old Folks. The roosters will have the sun up soon.

 

[LaurenRitz]

I got rid of a rooster yesterday! He now has a bunch of new hens, and four acres to free range on.

I'm going to give the girls a few weeks to recuperate before I release the boys from their bachelor pad.

 

[Nomadicus]

Good morning old folks. Don't let the hens sweet talk you into to many treats and the roosters talk you into turning your back to their shenanigans.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, OF - frost on my rocking chair.

 

[Sally PB]

I need the heavy duty kick in the butt kind of coffee today.

Or to go out and get some sunshine. Or, even better, both.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Old Folks dry few days suppose to be here.

 

[bruceha2000]

The only all flock I can get around here is crumbles.

I buy a local brand of chicken and alpaca feed - Poulin (though I saw a truck down in PA I think when we came back from DD1's wedding in VA). Now that I have a rooster I don't feed layer anymore. Poulin doesn't have an all flock so I'm feeding grower. It isn't called pellets but "crumblet", they seem to be about the same size as the layer pellets though.

Found this in my Mom's cookbook.

Looks about right. Which kid is you?

 

[ronott1]

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.

Yesterday I cleaned out the little run I have for the Hens. I moved quite a few buckets out. It did get to be tiring after awhile!

The hens are much happier now but I do need to get some more straw now.