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getaclue said:
It's been staying in the mid to high 80's here. Cools off down to the low 70's at night. My older birds are in molt.

I got my truck back this afternoon. Everything is working fine.

The spare refrigerator quit working last night. If it isn't one thing, it's another. I bought it used, about 7 years ago for $300.00, so it's not really worth fixing. I will get another used one.
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It is a struggle to keep things working sometimes!
 
microchick said:
@dsqard, great pictures. I especially like the birch trees also. Very striking. I love stuff that leaps out and grabs your eyes.

I spent the morning out cleaning out the nesting boxes and doing some updating. I spent days building wooden nesting boxes for them but the little ingrates would rather lay their eggs in cat litter buckets. I have about 9 or 10 set up for them and there always seems to be a pileup out on the roost bar for one to empty out during the day. I have to say it does make cleaning and dealing with the hens a lot easier. Just pop a bucket out of the line, dump it out, make sure it's clean and add fresh bedding. When the hens are broody and about to hatch I just pop the nest out, bucket and all and set it in the pen for them to transition. Plus with 5 cats we are never at a loss for buckets.

No sun here today so it's coolish and acts like it's trying to make up its mind whether or not it wants to rain. Wish it would decide.

A lot of folks here heat with electricity. I don't understand why in all honesty. We have a slightly shorter winter here than we did in IL with less snow but we still have our fair share of both snow and cold. Enough that I sure wouldn't want to give our money to the power company any more than I would want to give it to MFA Agri to haul LP out here.
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Your place is just off of the ideal zone for a heat pump. They are energy efficient in temperate zones for heating. In not temperate zones, geothermal heat pumps(just means they bury pipes to run water through to keep the coils at a steady temp) work well. I saw a chart that showed a very low monthly cost to use them in both summer and winter. Sadly they are a bit pricey to install but I bet that the pipes can be installed for less as a DIY
 
penny1960 said:
The BR that was hiding in the nest box for 2 days this morning I walked in she had passed these are over 5 now lost two of them :he
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So sorry Penny. :hugs

I have to keep reminding myself that in a species with a life expectancy of 5-8 years, 3-4 is elderly.

What to do with a one year old rooster, nice boy, very quiet and introverted for a rooster, who won't be a rooster? He hides and poops in my nesting boxes. I drag him kicking and screaming out of the boxes multiple times and he just runs around trying to find a place to hide. The other roosters hate him and are the main reason he is hiding all the time. The hens ignore him. But he won't assert himself with either the hens or even the smaller roosters. This poor bird is about two-three pounds and my little SWD roosters better him!

It's just weird. I've tried everything but this poor little guy just isn't living a 'quality' life at all. For that reason, since he's never had a chance to 'live life' I resist ending his life but how do you get a rooster to......man up and be a rooster?
 
Yeah, he has been and he does fine. His name is Cowboy. Last summer when he was a walking hormone, he was always being beat up by the older roosters so I tossed him over into the 'big bird' pen just to give him a break. I went to check on him and found him riding around on the back of one of the Welsummers trying to have his roosterly way with her. He was so small that she just ignored him and kept on scratching around for tidbits. I just said 'ride em cowboy!' thus the name. He wasn't this way with the big birds.

Undoubtedly he's scared out of his mind but I only have one coop right now and he's been this way since I integrated him back into the main flock this past spring.
 
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Getting the run work done.
 

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