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[bruceha2000]

Happy weekend, Everybody!
What are y'all up to?

Hazardous waste day, get to remove the old oil, rags, filters from a couple of years of oil changes on the cars and the garden tractor. Also getting rid of DW's computer printer. It stopped working after only maybe 15 years

Oh joy what fun! I've not gone before, they have 3 a year and this is the first this year. Could be real busy depending on how many people have such stuff.

We are probably going to do it but need to get the stall built in the barn, and a paddock.

Does electric fence work with them or do you have to use wire fence or barbed wire with a hot wire?

I would suggest proper knotted fencing (welded is weak, can't be stretched very tight or the welds will break and they will break with animals "working" the fence) with wooden H-brace corners. You want the fence strong.

You are right that you should get at least 2 as they need a friend to form a herd.

Enabler (though correct of course).

Maybe you should venture on over to BYH as there are a lot of really good goat folks over there.

You beat me to that suggestion @Latestarter!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Happy weekend, Everybody!
What are y'all up to?
More yard work than I care to admit happening here. Alas, thriving on careful neglect is not recommended for a tidy garden.

Stitching my flames down

Gotta check my seedlings, and probably take the dog for a walk at some point, and go to town to run some errands.

Trying to be quiet right now, BF has been on late shift and call all week, and got called at 0500, he finally got back to sleep.

 

[perchie.girl]

a tired good morning All... feeling achy and didnt sleep well

day 3 was a non event...

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

Scg your project is looking great!

Y'all have fun working in your gardens. Dh is going to put my blocks in place for my new raised bed we are putting in for the glads and dwarf cana lilies. I will add some annual flowers as well.

 

[pennyJo1960]

a tired good morning All... feeling achy and didnt sleep well

day 3 was a non event...

deb

You know you have our support and Love got up late woke up didn't want to get up
hard thing for BF his Wife passed in the night but have my coffee will pull it together
Widen your prayer circle again there Misty I will widen mine also

 

[bruceha2000]

I presume that is EX wife?

 

[Bunnylady]

We are probably going to do it but need to get the stall built in the barn, and a paddock.

Does electric fence work with them or do you have to use wire fence or barbed wire with a hot wire?

I have had goats go charging right through electric fence, when they felt strongly enough about something.

What has worked for me is welded wire to keep them in, and a hot wire to keep them off the welded wire.

 

[microchick]

We are still weighing the pros and cons. Don't know if we will do it this summer or wait. We are also considering getting one of our neighbors to 'loan' us their goat flock and let them graze certain areas of the property that need grazed down and cleared out. We are getting a lot of florabunda roses, the wild type with really really wicked thorns on them. DH was chaining wood this morning and I was walking the parameter of the work area cutting down rose brambles.

I worked out in the coop area this afternoon doing spring cleaning, fixing roost bars, repairing net. Today was graduation day at the nearby Amish school so there has been a steady stream of buggies and carts going down the road. Seriously considered putting up a toll booth and making everyone take a rooster home before I allowed them to pass. DH thought it was a good idea also.

I swear, I stood there at one point, looked at them all fighing and squabbling with one another and asked them why they weren't dying. I really expected to loose a bunch of them this spring, which is one of the reasons I have so many roosters at this point in time. For the past two years, I've had roosters dropping like flies to Marek's so when I started seeing an increase in roosters being hatched, I logically decided that having extras would be an idea worth pursuing. Then the deaths stopped which I was very glad about but now I have about 18 too many roosters to deal with and I don't know whether to laugh or cry....or give them to unsuspecting Amish in passing, LOL.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Anyone have the ability to design said rocker patch for me easily and quickly with a program I probably don't have?

I am flunking out of design school.

I just need it to say in a cool looking (but not necessarily the font above) font... I can blow it up, but I've spent 2 hours wanting to scream.

THE MORINS
EST 2018

And I suck.

 

[bruceha2000]

Then the deaths stopped which I was very glad about but now I have about 18 too many roosters to deal with and I don't know whether to laugh or cry....or give them to unsuspecting Amish in passing, LOL.

I guess that means you have achieved non symptomatic roosters!

They don't run those buggies too fast right? You could certainly sneak up behind them and stick a rooster in the back!