The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

I do not know which is worse, your relative sent to prison as a witch or you being sent to the cold North!

I know right?

 

[CapricornFarm]

@superchemicalgirl
What intricacy on those stones!!
What can you tell us about how those carvings, some almost 300 years old, have survived when some of those you have been restoring are barely or no longer legible?

Probably a more durable type of stone.

 

[microchick]

I agree, it has to be what they are using as headstone. Marble VS Granite possibly.

I haven't used Oxine. Read about it. I generally just clean and sweep down the walls and ceilings regularly. Spray once a year with a strong bleach water mix. I was actually thinking at one point that maybe I was trying to keep them TOO clean. The Amish farms around us do virtually nothing for their flocks except offer food and whatever shelter they can find in the barn. They butcher regularly but still in all their flocks seem healthy and flourishing. Weird.

 

[getaclue]

Not last time, but the time before that, I sprayed Oxine on the eggs, before putting them in the incubator, and they did REAL well. I should have used it last time I hatched too, but didn't. I clean my incubator with it too. Yes, I spray my coop, especially the ground, with it every so often. No, I don't add the citrus to it, just use it in water. The gallon, goes a LONG way, so it's not overly expensive to use.

 

[ronott1]

Not last time, but the time before that, I sprayed Oxine on the eggs, before putting them in the incubator, and they did REAL well. I should have used it last time I hatched too, but didn't. I clean my incubator with it too. Yes, I spray my coop, especially the ground, with it every so often. No, I don't add the citrus to it, just use it in water. The gallon, goes a LONG way, so it's not overly expensive to use.

Still see people on the hatching threads that insist on not washing eggs. It is odd since washing is listed as a good thing to do on hatching guides. Commercial hatcheries all wash eggs and you know they have good hatch rates.

When I post that dirty shipped eggs should be washed, I get blasted by some telling me that the eggs will never hatch! Like you posted, they hatch better usually.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I get 0 hatch if I do not wash the eggs... Morning I have never seen Mareks pray to heavens I never do... I am so sorry that is happening

 

[Alaskan]

I thought the fungus was connected to rye bread.

oh...was that it? well....fungal whatever.

Not sure, yet. The puppy will be born any day now, so we have to make a decision, soon. I think the disturbance to my life will not be worth it. I'll have to let it out (or worse yet, because the land isn't fenced except the various runs, will have to walk it in extreme cold). There's also the 3 cats to think about and how they'll feel about a puppy.



If you give me names and locations, I'll see what I can do. A group of 4 of us chose these 6 sites because of the old graves and the slate carvings.

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great photos! When I have a minute I will look up who is closest to you.

Also, the old ones, once they blew through the fence, they didn't get shocked again until they tried to come home, the new ones will keep shocking them at intervals until they are back inside the perimeter so they don't get relief from the shocks until they do the right thing and go back in the area.

Yeah, first time we used one the dog learned that trick....keep running.

It made it useless for us. Nice to know that the new ones have a feature to prevent that.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

@superchemicalgirl
What intricacy on those stones!!
What can you tell us about how those carvings, some almost 300 years old, have survived when some of those you have been restoring are barely or no longer legible?

Probably a more durable type of stone.

Give the lady a gold star.

The old dark stuff is slate stone. The ones I've restored are mostly marble. Slate tends to last much, much longer. Marble seems more porous, it's eaten more by acid rain (if you touch it it feels like a sugar cube). Slate can break and flake, but the marble, sandstone, etc are awful for erosion.

 

[ronott1]

Give the lady a gold star.

The old dark stuff is slate stone. The ones I've restored are mostly marble. Slate tends to last much, much longer. Marble seems more porous, it's eaten more by acid rain (if you touch it it feels like a sugar cube). Slate can break and flake, but the marble, sandstone, etc are awful for erosion.

Thanks for the lesson!
Is acid rain as bad as it used to be?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Give the lady a gold star.

The old dark stuff is slate stone. The ones I've restored are mostly marble. Slate tends to last much, much longer. Marble seems more porous, it's eaten more by acid rain (if you touch it it feels like a sugar cube). Slate can break and flake, but the marble, sandstone, etc are awful for erosion.

Yay, i got a gold star! I guess my college geology class taught me something!