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[Latestarter]

SCG... I beg to differ with you. You so do not suck! It's nice to know that there is something with quilting/sewing that you are having trouble succeeding at. Everything else you've shared so far has been outstanding. Hope someone can help you... If I could, I gladly would. Glad you are feeling better and your little dog too!

Micro... you could always let some of those roosters "escape" and become feral... I'm sure the local predators would be most grateful Of course it might add to the number of predators close by as a result. But you have a fort knox coop(s) right?

 

[drumstick diva]

Maddy's dentist did a beautiful job.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I do greatly enjoy my goats... BUT, I still haven't managed to get a fence to hold the little one (half Nigerian dwarf). The only thing that has kept in the bigger ones is their night pen in the barn.

Everything else they bust put of.

I had a great horse pasture.. almost 2 acres... fenced in electric rope... 4 horizontals.

I then tried to weave more electric wire on the fence. ... do more horizontals, close together... etc. etc.

giant fail

I tried a fence made out of pallets. ... lasted maybe 3 days.

I HAVE finally gotten the Orchard fence and chicken yard fence sturdy enough so that they don't bust in (unless a kid forgets to securely latch the gate).

Luckily I have trained the goats to not wander .... they stay around the house and barn and parking area. Once the ground thaws some more I am going to try again with fencing.

My goats would mash down the fence trying to get leaves on the other side of the fence. When it was supper time and i called them, they all came running. Finally i started using barbed wire along the top of the fence and hot wires. That worked. They were big meat goats.

 

[pennyJo1960]

well darn went to the auction collect on 4 pullets I took ended up leaving with two easter eggers the one lays blue layed nice size blue right there take photos later one light color the other dark probably about 8 months

 

[CapricornFarm]

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.

Maybe put up a sign for free meat roosters?

 

[microchick]

Yeah, no symptoms at all. They are hale and hardy and fighting tooth and nail with one another.

I got to watch the bachelor pen while I was working on netting and they are a riot. They aren't really causing any damage to one another, just pulling out feathers and chasing one another around. This is for the most part the first breeding season they have experienced so they are all hormonal. It dawned on me that these are second generation so if they survive past this August, they will be one year old.....if I don't stuff them in Amish buggies as they pass by or separate their stupid heads from their necks.

I have one rooster that I moved over to the Buff O/Welsummer coop as he is large enough to breed the bigger hens. He spends most of his time, running up and down the fence, trying to pick a fight with one of the roosters he used to live with in the bachelor pen. So I put him back with the bachelors who immediately jumped on him like a duck on a June bug and I had to rescue his sorry tail. Put him back in with the Buff Os and Wellys and he immediately started trying to pick a fight with the bachelors again. Totally insane each and every one of them.

I'd have to run pretty fast to toss one of the boys in the back of one of those buggies. They have to come up a pretty steep hill to be even with our house so the horses are trotting right along. Then there is a another incline so they keep them in a fast trot.....yeah, I could run that fast.

 

[CapricornFarm]

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.

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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.

You do not suck and that sounds difficult to do. Been wanting to do a Capricorn Farm sign like that.

 

[ronott1]

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.

That is a very good idea! Borrow some goats!

I have heard of them being rented out here to weed fields

 

[MrsMistyReal]

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good night Misty. Pleasant dreams!