The Old Folks Home

[ChickenCanoe]

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We haven't had a Trick or Treater since we moved here in 1988. They aren't willing to come up the driveway through the woods to get here.

So, they like spooky, just not that spooky. Sounds perfect.

The pen and coop are on a sand gravel base... Also with FF and the style of water bucket I use the duck mess is minimal... Lastly it will be too cold for a pool soon, so I will be removing those... I think the wetness is minimal... Defiantly worth some thought though... Oh and the pen and coop have lots of " shelves" for the chickens to get up on.

The big issue I have is humidity and potential frostbite. It's always humid here. If I don't have huge ventilation, humidity in the coop hangs in the upper 90s.

Some of the Grandchildren live next door so they get Halloween treats but not on Halloween evening. My youngest is my avatar. She says that she is spoiled and she loves it. She owns the chickens and I am the caretaker. She now wants both Black and White silikes.

I made a good trade yesterday morning. I gave a co-worker some eggs and he asked if I wanted an incubator. It has automatic turners and a guail egg adapter. Now I can use the money that I was going to use for an incubator tp buy eggs. Is that chicken math.

That reminds me of that scene in Dances with Wolves.
"Good Trade". A knife for a jacket.

Wow, with all the wet/mud troubles you all have, I am NEVER going to complain about all our glacial sand again! It can really pour here but if we get a puddle one of us is going "hunny, come here and look!". Our only time we have a flooding/mud problem is in spring when we get too much snow melt before the frost comes out of the ground but even then that's only in the low spot in the yard north of all the critter areas and the one at the end of the driveway where it meets the road. That turns into quite a lake and that part of the driveway gets really soft but we just schedule trucks, etc. around it for a couple days. I'm sure Alaskan can relate to that.

Usually it isn't soupy here but if it rains for days on end I sometimes have to slog through a couple inches of water on some of the yard.

 

[ronott1]

Some of the Grandchildren live next door so they get Halloween treats but not on Halloween evening. My youngest is my avatar. She says that she is spoiled and she loves it. She owns the chickens and I am the caretaker. She now wants both Black and White silikes.

I made a good trade yesterday morning. I gave a co-worker some eggs and he asked if I wanted an incubator. It has automatic turners and a guail egg adapter. Now I can use the money that I was going to use for an incubator tp buy eggs. Is that chicken math.

What is the incubator?

It might need a digital conversion.

 

[hennible]

The big issue I have is humidity and potential frostbite. It's always humid here. If I don't have huge ventilation, humidity in the coop hangs in the upper 90s.

Winter air here is dry... Usually 20% humidity outside... I will keep that in mind.... Thanks

 

[ronott1]

Jason (@Hangtown Farms ) did not get snow at 3400 feet. He said it was 40 at his place. Lots up the mountains though.

 

[Alaskan]

.... I think I lost another hen.... My favourite hen and best layer.... Marshmallow a lovely EE....

I am SUPER sorry!

Okay opinions please....
I have two flocks of chickens and four ducks one of the flocks of chickens lives with the ducks...
Given my recent losses to mysterious predators I have been thinking about combining the flocks in the pen that's up against the house... There's a small pen (couple hundred square feet) and a coop 80 odd ft.²... Would be two roosters and one drake, 3 duck hens and 12 chicken hens....do you think they could live together?
It would also cut down my winter workload
Which of course I'm all for.

I agree with all the other opinions. They should be fine together. Especially with different levels. Do make sure you have at least two feeders and two waterers, to cut down on any potential bullying problems.

Wow, with all the wet/mud troubles you all have, I am NEVER going to complain about all our glacial sand again!  It can really pour here but if we get a puddle one of us is going "hunny, come here and look!".  Our only time we have a flooding/mud problem is in spring when we get too much snow melt before the frost comes out of the ground but even then that's only in the low spot in the yard north of all the critter areas and the one at the end of the driveway where it meets the road.  That turns into quite a lake and that part of the driveway gets really soft but we just schedule trucks, etc. around it for a couple days.  I'm sure Alaskan can relate to that. 

Totally. Also, a big it is snowing in a major way right now. The kids are sweet though, they told me "it is linting, lots of dryer lint out there, just lint"

One more Halloween funny......I carted the kids all over, to the hospital, the haunted house...and then the carnival... Where I went to the restroom, and noticed that my pants were TOTALLY unzippid. Luckily, I had dressed up as Doctor Who (I have the awesomest Doctor Who scarf...the first scarf), so lets pretend that the coat covered my fly, and I wasn't flashing the entite town.

 

[chickisoup]

A pervert Dr Who!!!! I love it!!!
(I am a huge Who fan BTW)

 

[perchie.girl]

I wish (there I go again) that it had not happened. I was trying to avoid it until he is bigger. Both of my goats will butt the dogs if they can. They butt each other ALL THE TIME! They are the grouchiest goats I've ever seen. I had a few goats, years ago, and there was one nanny that would do that, but the others ignored the dog I had back then. The nanny would only hit him if he quit paying attention, but she never took her eyes off him if he was nearby. I saw her do it several times. She watched him from a few feet away until he turned his head to look at me, then she hit him like a freight train! He got to where he would stay outside the fence and watch me feed from there.

I'm hoping they will get used to him eventually and not be so hyper-vigilant around him. They are not so quick to butt the big lab, I think they are intimidated by him. They watch him, but he ignores them. They will blow and stamp when he's in their pen, but they only try to butt him if they think he is getting too close, or if he is facing away from them. They will go after the little house dog in a heartbeat. Once Biscuit is grown, he should be able to fend for himself around them.

Things will improve when he gets bigger than they are.... But from what I can understand the goats too need to grow up with a LGD.... so there may never be a real connection with your older goats... I am going from memory of something I read.... so it may be totally wrong....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Are you getting rain Ron? Is Jason getting snow today?

We got rain.... Woo hoo... or at least the puddles along side the road indicate it... Last night. Everything else in the sun is dry now....

But the Big Puffy water laden clouds are still hear gently marching by.....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

FYI I started a thread for stories and discussion of horses


Regarding the horses in our lives

deb

 

[casportpony]

Enough rain here to settle the dust and make the poultry miserable.

-Kathy