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[CapricornFarm]

Making great progress on the hoop coop.

 

[ronott1]

Making great progress on the hoop coop.View attachment 1165490

Nice!

I am judging the current coop contest. A new one should start up soon so go to the contest thread and read the rules. Apply the rules to your coop article and then enter the new contest when it is announced.

This contest has an auto door opener for first prize

 

[CapricornFarm]

Nice!

I am judging the current coop contest. A new one should start up soon so go to the contest thread and read the rules. Apply the rules to your coop article and then enter the new contest when it is announced.

This contest has an auto door opener for first prize

Lol, i thought about writing a coop article but i am so busy building i don't know when i would do it.
Those automatic coop doors might be good for some folks but would never work with these guineas. I have to herd them into the run. There are always a few that are too dense to find their way in. The other coop i just leave the door to the run open any way.

 

[ronott1]

Lol, i thought about writing a coop article but i am so busy building i don't know when i would do it.
Those automatic coop doors might be good for some folks but would never work with these guineas. I have to herd them into the run. There are always a few that are too dense to find their way in. The other coop i just leave the door to the run open any way.

Keep an eye out though--the next contest may have a different prize list.

There are only about 30 this time and the contest opened in July. The last coop contest went on forever and had over 100 entered.


It was a hard and tiring one to judge!

 

[Beer can]

No no no, spray the deet on your skin, the permetherin on your clothes and accidentally on your skin, lol.

@penny1960 I love your avatar. The last year I was working clinical at Halloween I considered dressing up as the grim reaper but opted out when everyone reminded me how much paperwork I would have to fill out after all the old people woke up and saw the grim reaper standing over their beds with their pills in hand.

Beer can, you have our sympathy. Can you maybe chain the logs into rounds and then let somebody else run them through the splitter while you sit back and chill with a cold one in hand and laugh as they try to figure out how to operate the splitter without cleaving off a hand or foot? You can always keep a few rolls of duct tape handy to use as tourniquet material.

You guys would not believe how many times I have tried to scroll up or down the monitor with my finger......

Guess I read that too fast lol, so I'm going to be OK?

 

[microchick]

Yeah, you know you live in tick country when MFA has gallon jugs of Permethrin cattle spray on sale and you get excited and buy it even though you don't own cattle.

The manager at the MFA told me that if you add permethrin in your laundry at the final rinse and dry normally, the clothing will remain insect proof for something like 5+ washings.

Did anybody besides me notice that we have surpassed 7000 pages here on TOFH?

 

[ronott1]

Yeah, you know you live in tick country when MFA has gallon jugs of Permethrin cattle spray on sale and you get excited and buy it even though you don't own cattle.

The manager at the MFA told me that if you add permethrin in your laundry at the final rinse and dry normally, the clothing will remain insect proof for something like 5+ washings.

Did anybody besides me notice that we have surpassed 7000 pages here on TOFH?

 

[getaclue]

Are all these ticks in your yard, or are you going out into the woods?

 

[getaclue]

micro, I bought a USB mouse for my laptop, and use it. Now my brain doesn't have to work so hard when switching back and forth from laptop to computer.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Are all these ticks in your yard, or are you going out into the woods?

Our yard is in the woods. Plus we are all outside almost all day unless it rains. It was really bad when we first moved in. Now we have cleared a lot of brush so it is not as bad. Plus husband made trails we can drive our Mule on.