Utah!

[Cynthia12]

Here's the plan that my hubby is working with for the feeder Doughie..


http://www.woodworkingcorner.com/feeder.php

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Oh heck ya! I bet you are right! They look really similar, and that perfect lacing would explain it, the sebrights are soooooo pretty. I hope that is what they are. My son loves the black and white ones, there was a gorgeous one at Chickenstock he was drooling over. But we just don't keep bantams. Unless they are SG or silkies to make SG. I am obsessed with those. (Thank you Cynthia for starting that haha!)

 

[sillycmoy]

Here's the plan that my hubby is working with for the feeder Doughie..


http://www.woodworkingcorner.com/feeder.php

And if he makes them, how much is he going to be charging for orders. They look so neat.

 

[Cynthia12]

WOW, was off for a couple days and came back to tons of posts.

FIRST: Congrats to Cynthia on the new babe!! Beautiful!! What a lucky grandmama you are!!

SECOND: Lil, feel for you with the feet problems.... totally understand!! Been there with broken feet, had surgery and again have other problems which need to be addressed when time and money allows.... good luck and hope you can get them healed up!!

THIRD: Red, hope your little chick strengthens up!!!

FOURTH: Silly... sounds like you have a hand full...lol.
FIFTH: I'm sorry if I've forgotten anybody however my memory is dead, dead and gone.

SIXTH: Casa- want to start off by saying beautiful pics of your babies!!!!!


Nap, nap?

WARNING- THIS IS A HUGE VENT!!!! PLEASE SCROLL DOWN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ!!! LOL.


I finally became so exhausted I just gave up for a couple days, and intently prayed that minions would mysterious appear to do my bidding

, or at least haul me off to another world. I was getting so discouraged with everything.... chick sells have fallen since Cal Ranch's Chick Days and autumn arriving, although I have orders for future chicks in Sept and have been filling guinea keet orders like crazy (two women with multiple desert properties want guineas to control bug and snake populations. Hope the guineas keep laying...ugh!!) Started more fencing on the other property but the roll is 330 feet long and I just can't man-handle that roll without getting severely bruised, pulling muscles, and worn out quickly, plus the heat...ugh!!

Tried to work on the grow out/freezer pen which is now greatly needed... a horribly depressing, sad thing (have a bunch of gorgeous Barred Holland cockerels that haven't sold which are going in plus some beautiful, returned older pullets who have over-crowded my quarantine coop. I picked them up due to a suspected illness which they had/have not exhibited in my presence either before or after the sell... has changed my whole plan of selling older pullets and near-laying hens throughout the year, which will now force more unsold chicks into the freezer pen or my hatching minimized, thus less sells and less profits to keep my SQ chicken hobby breeding endeavor going. DH and his daughters are amused at my frustrations and the fact that I'm literally wearing myself out with my attempts). It has become obvious they are hoping I fail, and just give up. DH's first 3 wives were gold diggers and fake, something he is more comfortable with, it seems. Since he no longer has his business because of IRS problems, you would think he would realize he has no money anymore and change his attempts at acting like he still has any, and just be happy with a wife who isn't afraid of hard work and doesn't need a new color hair every month, nails done, lypo, botox, new boobs, a tummy tuck, expensive looking jewelry, a new vehicle, etc. Don't have a clue why he married me, since I'm far from gold digger and am not a fake/plastic person!!!! I just wanted a nice man to go to church with, and someone to build a new life with, which is what he presented himself to be, at first. Me going to church now just causes major conflict between the two of us. Eh!!! The bishop has been no help since DH is a good 'ole boy who has been part of the community forever!! The bishop makes excuses for everything DH does. If my body was found in the desert, somehow it would be considered justified, I'm convinced.

PLUS DH's daughter, who has a dance studio in our shop, has been jumped on by zoning. Of course me, my chickens (and horses) and our three neighbors were blamed by her, and now by DH, who believes anything his daughter's tell him. Just what our new marriage, and our little neighborly lane needed!! Didn't matter that this is in the remote country, with our place being on a dirt road and that she refused to get a business license and recognize this location was not conducive to a dance studio, nor did she seek any approval from the few neighbors, or even care that her studio would conflict with my lifestyle, someone who just was recently married to her father. Her father/my DH, jumped on her ego train, refused to obtain a building permit before he transformed our shop into a dance studio, and also ignored my desperate pleas that my disability (massive head injury which caused brain damage and left me extremely introverted and has caused extreme anxiety/ depression issues, demanding some hospitalization from intense attacks) would be heightened by a huge influx of 'self important acting' people. Our neighbors the entire length of our little county road HAVE NOT liked the idea of the increased traffic (usually 20 cars or more dropping off kids and picking them up throughout the day, daily, year round... young parents in their 20's to early 30's who DO NOT observe any speed limit!!) and our three close neighbors have very young children who are now feared for because of the huge increase of traffic on our previously quiet dirt lane. This lane had only resident traffic previously.... 6 vehicles total of residents going to work in the morning, and returning at night. Zoning has demanded separation from her 'area' vs mine... which I also now have been blamed for. Since my activities were here before her, I'm thinking her and DH's open negative acts, verbal complaints and comments about my activities to each other, her dance studio people and their friends who are maliciously vocal , is just cruel and unfair. Her dance studio people, unknowing the full story treat me as public enemy number one. So unfair and just plain mean!!! PLUS, she absolutely WILL NOT tell her dance people to stay in her designated dance area and parking, and out of 'my' chicken areas. Several times I have caught children in the coops and even throwing eggs. When I approach the parents they become openly outraged that I have the nerve to even LOWER THEM TO SPEAKING TO ME, and explain this is a private residence and a licensed poultry hatchery and that they and their children really need to stay up front at the dance studio, where it's deemed safer not be wandering around the poultry, horses, breeding stallion and the outbuildings. They then complain to DH's daughter who runs to Daddy.

. This is a 26 year old woman, married with three children whom she frequently pawns off to family (won't pay a babysitter!!!!). Her husband is as selfish as her!! UGH!!!!!

I already realize this is DH's doing, that his daughters show no kindness or friendship towards anyone unless it's an individual that they can use for gain... he should have stepped in from the first and demanded they respect his new wife, and anyone older and wiser than they!! Thus the total contempt I feel towards myself, for being in the position I placed myself in, having faith in the promises he made.

Actually, so comical.... me, who attended Skyline High School and my first vehicle being a used Cadillac Coupe De Ville (which I proudly can say I purchased myself from money I saved, cleaning my Dad's business from the age of 12, selling night crawlers at the gas station to fisherman heading up Parley's Canyon, and baby sitting) being now treated like white trash. I put myself through school on scholarships and was a former model and flight attendant who purchased my first home, with no help, at the age of 24!!! Someone who had an extensive corporate career in finance/taxation until a head injury ended it. Someone who took in homeless people and aided them until they were on their feet, and someone who donated continually to those in need, and had time for the elderly. Now treated like trash.

I'm only tooting my own horn to ensure that I can validate myself as a hard worker, that deserves to be treated better, and just trusted another to be as honest as I.

Such is what my life has become. So absolutely, beyond believability, ticked off at myself for allowing it.... for believing in a person who just seemed too good to be true.... for wanting someone else in my life to share activities with. Grrrr!!!!!!!!!

Oh Scotty, just beam me up!!

. PLEASE!! SO, I work, and work, and work, until I drop.... my particular coping mechanism.

I have realized that only time (and money that my business should bring in since my disability deems me unemployable) will allow me the options I need. Sometimes people are TRAPPED until resources allow them the ability to change.... this is what I have realized and have accepted (although grudgingly).



On a good note- I hired an artist, who is on sabbatical, to do my business card design. She just went through a divorce where her husband tried to take everything she had before they married. Nasty divorce!!! She sympathized that I too had lost all my life's work to an ex, while going through chemo years back. Made the mistake to sign a Power of Attorney when the docs claimed I wouldn't live past Dec 2009. He stole, liquidated and sold everything I had while I was 'fighting for my life' and was also mourning the loss of my only child, then ran off with a Vegas stripper.

This artist, a woman in her 60's, has known how exhausted I am and how frustrated with my life I have become. Visited her last night and her, not being active in the church, fixed me a beverage which I was not able to tell immediately was not just punch!!! Sleep like a baby last night.... thinking more clearly (except have a headache!!). Seems I'm just ticked off at the world right now...lol. Sorry for the venting however guess my mind is still tired and wants to ramble!!

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Love all my chicken friends

Love these pics!!!

Oh my goodness! All I can say is..prayers going your way. Don't stop going to church! It's the one thing that no one should be able to take away from you. It will help you through all of this ~ stuff ~ I won't use a word that they may sensor..

Don't use too many of those any way.

 

[chickchk]

Hey so I'm up in North Ogden, looking into raising backyard chickens. I found this forum when I was looking into chickens suitable to Utah... I've read probably half the posts since its beginning! Anyway, I found the city rules (6 hens with distance requirements) for my area, I've done research on what kinds I want (so many to choose from! I always thought a chicken was just a chicken... Silly me!). I'm looking into options for a coop. I have a million questions I was hoping maybe you kind friends could answer a couple for me.
1. What coop do you recommend? My husband is fairly handy and we could make most of it with wood we already have, even if someone has plans they have liked. Is there anything in particular you have found to come in handy inside or in the general construction of your coop? I have looked into pre-made coops and they're just so darn expensive.
2. I want to be a responsible owner, so if this is a deal breaker, so be it. I have two beloved chihuahuas. They are really good, as far as the breed reputation goes. They're not yippy or aggressive.... Not to people anyway. I am afraid that cohabitating with chickens in the backyard won't work. I read about some people using shock collars on their dogs, but they don't make any for my size of dog (they're both 4 pounds). Does anyone else have experience or advice?
Thank you so much for your help! I'm feeling incredibly excited and overwhelmed at the same time.

 

[sundancenbare]

Hey so I'm up in North Ogden, looking into raising backyard chickens. I found this forum when I was looking into chickens suitable to Utah... I've read probably half the posts since its beginning! Anyway, I found the city rules (6 hens with distance requirements) for my area, I've done research on what kinds I want (so many to choose from! I always thought a chicken was just a chicken... Silly me!). I'm looking into options for a coop. I have a million questions I was hoping maybe you kind friends could answer a couple for me.
1. What coop do you recommend? My husband is fairly handy and we could make most of it with wood we already have, even if someone has plans they have liked. Is there anything in particular you have found to come in handy inside or in the general construction of your coop? I have looked into pre-made coops and they're just so darn expensive.
2. I want to be a responsible owner, so if this is a deal breaker, so be it. I have two beloved chihuahuas. They are really good, as far as the breed reputation goes. They're not yippy or aggressive.... Not to people anyway. I am afraid that cohabitating with chickens in the backyard won't work. I read about some people using shock collars on their dogs, but they don't make any for my size of dog (they're both 4 pounds). Does anyone else have experience or advice?
Thank you so much for your help! I'm feeling incredibly excited and overwhelmed at the same time.

Build a coop and a run that is covered so the chickens can;t get out. If you want them to free range lock your dogs up. After they get use to seeing them in the run they may not be agressive if they are loose. If you see agression when they are looking at the chicks in the run correct them sharply. When building a coop make sure the doors are big for access and easy cleaning, a 4x4 would work for 6 chickens if you have nest boxes out separate. you can have it off the ground so it provides shelter underneath. The bigger the coop and run the better

 

[sundancenbare]

Sensored do tell I must have missed something.

 

[canebeds]

Hi Kids, Another dumb question for you regarding incubators. You place the eggs small pointed end down and then you turn them ever 8 hours. Okay, I got that. However the surface inside the incubator is flat ..... how do you keep them in position?

 

[sundancenbare]

HAD a great visit with Gary aka Mad Chicken tonight and also had a funny chick round up trying to catch his two silkie chicks that were running loose in my yard. They were much quicker and smarter than we were but we finally managed to round them up. It was really funny. But now Gary has two babies out of cotton. I have been grounded to the house due to air quality so it was nice to have a bit of fun outside,

 

[sundancenbare]

egg trays. I also have a hovabator with an automatic turner for sale if anyone is interested