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[CapricornFarm]

I keep my goat hay in the garage. BF built a loft in the goat house, but it's easier to just stack it in the garage and bring a flake out twice a day as I head out.

Our garage is too small, we store the Mule in there , and my metal cans of feed. Plus all the car maintenance supplies, etc. It is a 12x20 storage shed. The other shed, the same size is my workshop and is full of tools, workbench, wood etc. Never enough space around here.

 

[Parront]

Our garage is too small, we store the Mule in there , and my metal cans of feed. Plus all the car maintenance supplies, etc. It is a 12x20 storage shed. The other shed, the same size is my workshop and is full of tools, workbench, wood etc. Never enough space around here.

You can say that again! Here x2!

 

[ronott1]

So excited to have the site basically cleared out for my new hoop coop. Found a good spot in the woods and cut a trail to it. Started hauling materials down. I pounded in 3 t-posts, and figured out where the coop would go. I cut down any brush that was in the way. So the building has started!
Also the contractor started building the goat shed today! We decided to have him add a hay loft . I pointed out that i need a lot of hay for the goats and the rabbits, whose numbers are bound to increase. Where else could we store it? I told the contractor i would be done before he would. Trying to speed him up some.

That is great news!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yes, i love working on projects. And i love it even more when i finish a project! I need to finish this coop asap so i can get the guineas moved. My other birds need more space. They are growing fast.

 

[ronott1]

Guinneas! Of boy.
Winter is coming too. I need to fix the lid on a hutch before it rains so that I can get some blue egg layers out of the garage. They are much happier now that the cockerels are gone

 

[CapricornFarm]

I need to buy more tarps and building materials tomorrow. My bunny hutches could use a bit of winterizing as well. I did add a plywood flap on a hinge to one end so i can open or close it depending on the weather. I want to put boxes in for them to stay warm in as well. More tarps to block wind from blowing up under the cage. I hope the weather stays mild another month...prob not.

 

[microchick]

Still fighting this stupid stomach crud that I managed to catch a second time. I cheered myself up this evening by taking a bowl of Spaghetti (I always make extra for the critters) out to the chickens. The standard girls and roosters left their roost bar to mob me and the the bantams went bat you know what crazy, one of them even trying to swallow my finger in their zest to grab the last morsel out of my hand.

Nothing funnier than watching the sheer joy of chickens oinking out on spaghetti, running around the coop with strings of it hanging out of their beaks, doing that happy call that they make that is almost an egg song, running all spraddle legged.

 

[ronott1]

Still fighting this stupid stomach crud that I managed to catch a second time. I cheered myself up this evening by taking a bowl of Spaghetti (I always make extra for the critters) out to the chickens. The standard girls and roosters left their roost bar to mob me and the the bantams went bat you know what crazy, one of them even trying to swallow my finger in their zest to grab the last morsel out of my hand.

Nothing funnier than watching the sheer joy of chickens oinking out on spaghetti, running around the coop with strings of it hanging out of their beaks, doing that happy call that they make that is almost an egg song, running all spraddle legged.

It is very funny to watch them eat spaghetti noodles for sure!

I hope you get over the stomach but soon too.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Feel better soon, Micro!

 

[microchick]

Thanks, me too. Thought it was IBS rearing it's ugly head but started running a fever today so it's more than likely the Missouri crud again. I'm so lucky.....not.