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[RonB]

I get the utility sand from McLendons. 60# bags.

Kim why McLendons???? how much. ? I get the 60# utilitly grade too but from Home Depot its $3.45 a bag

 

[KMHunter]

I get the utility sand from McLendons. 60# bags.

Kim   why McLendons???? how much. ?  I get   the  60#  utilitly grade too but from  Home Depot  its $3.45 a bag

It is probably the same, but at McLendons I don't have to pick it up or load it. I just tell them at the counter what I want and then drive around and they load it. Easy peasy!
I don't recall how much it is. But I think it's around $3.60 a bag.

 

[TerrorBird]

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I suppose we're lucky that ours shows absolutely no interest in the chickens. In fact, my newest Belgian Marmalade likes to try to bully him. She runs at him and tries to stare him down. He just wanders away. She will charge after him, and he'll stop and turn around to look at her. She pretends that she was just picking around at random things right behind him. He's not allowed into the chicken yard; we're guessing he just finds the rats when they're in the gardens around the chicken house and does his job there.

 

[Hinotori]

My GSD takes care of the rats and will eat the little birds if she catches them. My EE's used to go after the little birds when Athena was a puppy and they'd complain if the bird got through the wire. I swear they'd tell her she needed to get them on the outside, because it got to the point they'd work together to try and get the little birds. The chickens are safe with her. She normally ignores them unless I ask her to help me find one. She's quite willing to help herd them into their pen one at a time.

The chickens can take food right out of her mouth and gather around her if she'd digging for something. They know that usually means she smelled a rodent nest underground and they don't want to miss out on the treat.

My heeler/aussie mix stays out of the chickens way. He's pretty certain they could kill him. He still thinks the kittens are plotting against them and only recently would stay in place if they laid down next to him.

I know I lucked out with these two dogs. My schipperke would have eaten every chicken out there if I turned my back. These two just run off into the weeds and play.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I get the utility sand from McLendons. 60# bags.

Kim   why McLendons???? how much. ?  I get   the  60#  utilitly grade too but from  Home Depot  its $3.45 a bag

It is probably the same, but at McLendons I don't have to pick it up or load it. I just tell them at the counter what I want and then drive around and they load it. Easy peasy!
I don't recall how much it is. But I think it's around $3.60 a bag.

HD will load and unload for you if you ask; it's a good thing because otherwise I can only get sand when I have a hired hand, and even then I have to have somebody unload it here.

I unloaded a sack of Layena today and my ribs are complaining about it.

 

[mikeyb]

I usuall just let it gently fall into a well placed wheelbarrow and take (feed/seed) to the coop. There I lift it to the top step, then up into the coop.
Open the bag put my feed container (small trashcan) upside down on top of the bag, gently lower the can with the feed bag to the floor. Tip the can up and pull the bag off and voila!, feed is in the can. No danger of hurting one's back, or getting a hernia or straining anything. I take it slowly, ain't no way at my age do I do things in a hurry anymore.

 

[Totalcolour]

Yeah, well: I'm trying to have blue, blue egg-laying, spangled chickens, which means I have a plan to funfill. Also I'd like enough eggs to do one day a week at the Market by the time my DH retires.

ETS 1: And Malvina has convinced me that BAs are indubitably great chickens.

ETA 2: the charcoal grill and briquettes are for unfreezing the pipes under the house; my cousin has the responisbility of the pressure tank, so he has that problem to solve. The fact that we're on a well with an electric pump is a whole other world of trouble.

Me too on the blue eggs - they are nice in the box and my customers love them.

Ah Malvina - I'm so glad she's working out for you. We can't have broodies here - the hawks and crows eat all the babies, and she was rather a nice chicken, too nice for the stock pot!

And, when I went down to give the chickens their jam sandwiches (yup, afternoon tea for the ladies, don't none of you dare laugh) I found the gusher, shut it off and we have water again.

I got all these lovely sourdough starters from around the world for Christmas, but since I'm trying to lose about 50 lbs, I can't eat all the stuff I make, and himself can only eat so much, so the girls get most of my kitchen experiments. I did however indulge tonight - I made 2 really nice Italian sourdough breads; one with cheese, onion granules and herbs, and one with mustard, olives and sausage; both are dynamite and it's going to take an extra week on the treadmill to work it off)
Off now to finish the bunny legs for dinner. Night all!

 

[TerrorBird]

And, when I went down to give the chickens their jam sandwiches (yup, afternoon tea for the ladies, don't none of you dare laugh) I found the gusher, shut it off and we have water again.

That's nice! Lucky girls.

 

[KMHunter]

I usuall just let it gently fall into a well placed wheelbarrow and take (feed/seed) to the coop. There I lift it to  the top step, then up into the coop.
Open the bag put my feed container (small trashcan) upside down on top of the bag, gently lower the can with the feed bag to the floor. Tip the can up and pull the bag off and voila!, feed is in the can. No danger of hurting one's back, or getting a hernia or straining anything. I take it slowly, ain't no way at my age do I do things in a hurry anymore.

Luckily at this point I have a healthy DH and two strong sons to help me if I need it.
And we have a riding lawn mower that has a trailer type attachment that we can haul heavy bags of sand up to the coops.

 

[Greg Richardson]

4 60lbs sandbags (Mill Creek)

Date: 2013-01-03, 7:09PM PST
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I have 4 60lbs sandbags that I don't need any more, good for weight and snow.