The Old Folks Home

[getaclue]

Sept. is usually our worst month here.

 

[perchie.girl]

we just started fire season here.... Generally in the nineties... fire pops up and Whoosh four hundred acres in an hour.

they got it out I belive... but dang

deb

 

[microchick]

Ouch Cap. Don't tell me you are applying for membership in the BYC Klutz Club?

It's just been plain miserable here the past few days, also. Temps in the mid 90s and humidity in the mid 50-60% range. The chickens don't want to come out of their coop and prefer staying inside and laying in front of the fan. I have two fans going for them during the day and one at night. The roosters just want to stand around with their wings hanging on the ground. If I had wings I'd be droopy also.

We decided to work on the back of our house. Being Amish built meant they used their worst siding where you couldn't see it from the road. Since we have turned the north side of the house into the front (it overlooks deep woods and our pastures)and since they put 5 different colors of siding on it , we figured it was time to do something about it. So our plan is to take off all the old metal siding and since the insulation in the house is marginal at best, we are going to tear off the house wrap, lay in insulation, replace the wrap and reside it with metal that is all the same colorWe spent the day measuring so the siding could be ordered. We'd go out, work for a half hour, race back into the AC, drink a bottle of water and head back out again.

I've still got to put a new roof on the old coop and get fencing up for the broodies and their chicks. I keep hoping the heat and humidity will settle down so I can get some outside work done. I also need to work on the inside of the old coop, upper and lower levels. The upper level is going to remain the bachelor pen and the lower I'm going to make into a little coop for Lucky and her two little friends. Those little pullets just aren't growing and are still smaller than my OEGB/bantam mutts that are the same age they are. I'm going to have to get some new pictures of them but there is no way I can even let them loose with the standards and the little hens or with the bantam roosters. I'm beginning to wonder if they aren't crosses. I read somewhere where hatchery Japanese bantams were seldom pure Japanese bantam but Jap/OEGB crosses. Either way, I want to put them in their own pen with a few smaller bantam hens and in the spring when I get my Egyptian Fayoumi chicks, get a couple of roosters that I know are pure OEGBs to go in with them.

Aren't we silly humans though as far as the weather is concerned. When we have cold weather, we want hot and when we have hot, we long for cold.

We deserve whatever ma nature wants to hand us, LOL

 

[ronott1]

Ouch Cap. Don't tell me you are applying for membership in the BYC Klutz Club?

It's just been plain miserable here the past few days, also. Temps in the mid 90s and humidity in the mid 50-60% range. The chickens don't want to come out of their coop and prefer staying inside and laying in front of the fan. I have two fans going for them during the day and one at night. The roosters just want to stand around with their wings hanging on the ground. If I had wings I'd be droopy also.

We decided to work on the back of our house. Being Amish built meant they used their worst siding where you couldn't see it from the road. Since we have turned the north side of the house into the front (it overlooks deep woods and our pastures)and since they put 5 different colors of siding on it , we figured it was time to do something about it. So our plan is to take off all the old metal siding and since the insulation in the house is marginal at best, we are going to tear off the house wrap, lay in insulation, replace the wrap and reside it with metal that is all the same colorWe spent the day measuring so the siding could be ordered. We'd go out, work for a half hour, race back into the AC, drink a bottle of water and head back out again.

I've still got to put a new roof on the old coop and get fencing up for the broodies and their chicks. I keep hoping the heat and humidity will settle down so I can get some outside work done. I also need to work on the inside of the old coop, upper and lower levels. The upper level is going to remain the bachelor pen and the lower I'm going to make into a little coop for Lucky and her two little friends. Those little pullets just aren't growing and are still smaller than my OEGB/bantam mutts that are the same age they are. I'm going to have to get some new pictures of them but there is no way I can even let them loose with the standards and the little hens or with the bantam roosters. I'm beginning to wonder if they aren't crosses. I read somewhere where hatchery Japanese bantams were seldom pure Japanese bantam but Jap/OEGB crosses. Either way, I want to put them in their own pen with a few smaller bantam hens and in the spring when I get my Egyptian Fayoumi chicks, get a couple of roosters that I know are pure OEGBs to go in with them.

Aren't we silly humans though as far as the weather is concerned. When we have cold weather, we want hot and when we have hot, we long for cold.

We deserve whatever ma nature wants to hand us, LOL

My Wife is in Missouri until the 22nd. She said it is terribly hot and humid.

Next week I get to hook up a sink, change three bathroom faucets, change the inside of a toilet--flushing system--and patch a ceiling where I installed an exhaust fan.

I will try to stay out of the heat here--got some 108 days coming up

 

[microchick]

Our new neighbors are from North Dakota. I haven't seen them throwing their belongings in vans and trailers and heading back north yet but then it's still pretty early in the season. Hasn't hit 100 yet.

5 years ago when we went on grid we were putting our wiring in when the temps were hanging around 107. We were up in the attic at 6 AM when it was only broiling hot instead of blazing. We would dig the trench to the pole using the mid soil buster and the tractor and then go to work with shovels. At 10 AM we were sitting in our shop with the generator going full tilt and a fan blowing air on us. We were so glad for the 8 inch deep concrete floor in the shop.

The first thing we turned on when they threw the switch for us was the AC. God bless whoever invented air conditioning.

 

[ronott1]

Our new neighbors are from North Dakota. I haven't seen them throwing their belongings in vans and trailers and heading back north yet but then it's still pretty early in the season. Hasn't hit 100 yet.

5 years ago when we went on grid we were putting our wiring in when the temps were hanging around 107. We were up in the attic at 6 AM when it was only broiling hot instead of blazing. We would dig the trench to the pole using the mid soil buster and the tractor and then go to work with shovels. At 10 AM we were sitting in our shop with the generator going full tilt and a fan blowing air on us. We were so glad for the 8 inch deep concrete floor in the shop.

The first thing we turned on when they threw the switch for us was the AC. God bless whoever invented air conditioning.

I need to connect a ducting pipe in the attic too! That will be Saturday morning...I am not going into the attic after 10am.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My Wife is in Missouri until the 22nd. She said it is terribly hot and humid.

Next week I get to hook up a sink, change three bathroom faucets, change the inside of a toilet--flushing system--and patch a ceiling where I installed an exhaust fan.

I will try to stay out of the heat here--got some 108 days coming up

Wow lot's to get done there I bet.... We had our monthly grocery shopping trip today
left at like 10:30 got home by the time I had a month of food bagged separated and put to away it was 7 fed the dogs the we went to dinner at our local tavern quiet night there we and one other where the only ones there tonight best dam burger as there is a dam here at lake Mayfield by Tacoma power that also made Riffe lake in Mossyrock here although we are 50 miles Tacoma thankfully

 

[pennyJo1960]

My friend gave me the White frizzle Joey she hatched she kept a black and white one
but he is really sweet I will get his photo tomorrow

 

[Alaskan]

Deb, fire out is GOOD.

Remember how I said I moved the babies out to the green tractor because their little home collapsed? Silly chicks haven't yet figured out the ramp.

I forgot to ask a child to lock them up....so yep, grown up person that I am, I was all hunched over, crawling around in the chick poo, picking up chicks to pop them in the top.

 

[Alaskan]

With the kids gone....and currently truck-less

And

Weather here in Homer has been horrid... I have only seen one field get baled... (and of course I couldn't get any...see above )

1.5 weeks before I have strong kids home... 1.5 weeks before I have the truck back.....

There is worry that either hay will be baled now (and everyone that I could bribe to help me is working full tilt...it is summer in Alaska..)

Or that hay will not get baled at all this year...weather just hasn't been cooperating..

So...



I looked at what it would cost me to buy non-local hay.

All frigging what hoozits!!

A jump from about $7 a bale to $16!!!!

Sixteen for ONE square bale of timothy or brome!