Utah!

[Desert Springs]

Desert, I am upset with you young lady. Here in Spanish Fork, and you don't even come and see me. WHAT?! I say...What?! Bad girl.

What?! Desert was in Spanish Fork and didn't visit you? I swear I've been living there with all of the house showings I've been doing there. Whee!

Yep!! I am so tired anymore I'm not thinking straight. Stayed at Brian's even too long for what I needed to accomplish today. The thought crossed my mind half way home. I truly apologize!!!

I've been so tired lately I almost had to stop and take a nap.... started looking at the scenery too long and almost became part of it, a couple times. Just can't drive far anymore with how exhausted I am. Winter is just around the corner and I have a ton to do on both properties, plus the hatchery and horses...ugh!!

I had to get home and finally get up a grow out pen

. Plus had the horse shoer scheduled, which I had to reschedule due to feeling like the walking dead.

Hoping to have the opportunity to meet soon. Again... I apologize Cynthia. Please forgive me.

 

[Cynthia12]

Somedays i feel like a child in a candy store with mom standing behind me saying "NO YOU ARE NOT GET THAT!"

LOL...

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[Sphinx]

my Brinsea mini advance is very small. Definitely easy to hide. Smaller than a crockpot.

 

[6KidsFarm]

Does anyone have a source for cheap grit? Or what is eveyone using for grit? I just don't want to pay the price for these small bags at Cal/IFA.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Does anyone have a source for cheap grit? Or what is eveyone using for grit? I just don't want to pay the price for these small bags at Cal/IFA.

I have never used grit. Maybe I should? But I never have. And have had not any related problems that I am aware of

 

[sillycmoy]

OMG, I just had the biggest scare of my life. I came home and of course its all dark, before I left tonight I closed the girls up so they can't get down the side yard, which their old coop currently is. But there is a 6 foot chain link fence separating them. I came home to no chickens anywhere. I literally thought I was going to start crying. I found 6 of them all the way up my like 30 foot pine tree, 2 where up on the fence, and the 2 Silkies and Japanese Bantam was down in the side yard in the ceramic molds. Which I thought was odd, because the Japanese Bantam and Silkies still have their original coop and they could have gone to bed in that if they still wanted too.

Needless to say, they are all out of the tree, off the fence and out of the ceramic molds and in the new coop. I think tomorrow night everyone is getting locked in at 6:30 because I have to be at a soccer clinic till about 8:30.

Now since they figured out how to get up in the tree, please tell me that they won't keep doing that, I have large prey birds in my area, plus we have a barn owl that lives in my other pine tree in the front yard. The branches are at least 6 feet off the ground, you can walk under it without ducking.

 

[Sphinx]

I've never bought my birds grit either. It was my understanding that if chickens have access to dirt outside, they'll eat that as needed and don't need grit. That grit is primarily for birds that are kept in cages and never see the ground.

Silly, that is so scary! I think they're going to continue doing that. I remember when I was in college, the neighbors had a rooster. he would roost about 8' up in a tree, right under my window. He'd start crowing at 5am every morning. LOOOOOOVED that as a college student. I was so excited when his family ate him.

 

[sillycmoy]

Geez thanks, If they keep getting up in the tree, I'm going to have to hang poultry net on the tree, because I don't want them jumping into either of my neighbors yard. Both have outside only dogs. I was just hoping it was a freak thing because they were scared since it was getting dark, and their coop is down in the side yard and they were locked out. Now how the Silkies and the Japanese Bantam got all the way down the side yard is the mystery. Usually they never adventure that far, plus their original coop is still back there, and they could have went in there. As well as the other girls, they usually all hang out in there some time during the day.

Side note, Wendy, I have 2 unused coops right now, just in case I need to separate for a few days.

 

[themadchicken]

Does anyone have a source for cheap grit? Or what is eveyone using for grit? I just don't want to pay the price for these small bags at Cal/IFA.

Home depot. All purpose sand. Poor in a pile and let them find what they want. Better yet, go to a sand pit and get a coop gallons fulls. Dont look for the sand but for the big grit.