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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Ah, Mr. Sherlock, I don't drink the glass with the fish in it though.....See...I'm pretty smart. Never drink a glass of water that has fish swimmin in it. This is my "Ah-Ha" moment.

But do you know (for sure) that there have never been fish in that water before it went in the glass??

BTW did ya get the PM's ???

Well, my water comes from a well in my back field that is some 200' deep, but I have been told my pump is practically sitting in a river that runs under the ground....so you are right...there could have been some underground fish back there.....LOL.

Yes, I did get your PMs...I responded. Did you get them?

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Crud!!!!! It Is Snowing.

 

[Ogress]

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Nice coop! What areyou going to do to the ground in the run? When I could no longer move my chicken tractor due to the weather, I piled woodchip about 6" deep and set the run on top of that. I thought it would keep clean, but the darn hens scratch everything up so much, that it did not take long for it to become a muddy mess. Even though the run was covered, enough water ran through with the squalls that come through up here that it was just days before everything was mud. Now the new covered run is where my kids had their old play-set. It is also on about 5" of woodchip, but under the woodchip is a water permeable weed barrier, and even with all their digging and
scratching, the hens so far have not managed to tear through it. We did woodchip only so we would not need to go out and buy anything. When this gets nasty (and I have piles of wood chip to use), I will replace it with sand - I'm a bit worried about getting mites in the woodchip.

Thank you!There was a tme when we actually had more grass in the back yard, then we got our active golden retriever and the constant play and ball chasing wore the grass away. No matter, I know the chickens would gave made short work of any grass left anyway. From what ive been reading so far, I'm leaning toward all purpose sand in the run hopefully to keep it a little cleaner. Had orinally thought straw, but I don't think that will be enough in that area.

My lawn looked nice once as well, then I got chickens. They were fine in the summer, but I doubt anything has grown back since October, so now my lawn is very sparse and extremely muddy. It's not just the chickens fault - hauling all that lumber for the new coop across the lawn did not help matters any.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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AHHH I think so Will have to go back and look. Things are moving a bit fast. It would be easier for me if ANYBODY sending anything like designs or pics could please E-MAIL them. I haven't figured out how to manage my PM's very well yet. But in email I can do a lot like save them in a folder print etc. Thanks.

It was just a PM. I posted the pictures on the thread.

 

[Ogress]

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Here too, but it's not sticking - I got really depressed until I noticed that because a few tiny patches of grass are starting to show through all our snow, mostly where the kids ran across the lawn. Where we walk frequently, like to the coops, it is a path of packed snow and ice.

 

[DuckLady]

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Here, too!

 

[cheryl98117]

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Here, too!

You guys can keep it. lol

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Here, too!

Okay, Terrie....No disrespect to the thread administrator and I do hope that I am not kicked off forever and red marked and blocked and etc, etc, etc.....but BOO HISS BOO HISS BOO HISS BOO HISS.

Down with snow...ick. Spring is suppose to be in 8 days...come on already. My parents try to tell me that this is a "rotter"....I think that that is wishful thinking on their part.

Ogress, it is sticking here and I have a loaner car...don't trust it.

Well, I gotta get to work. I guess I will wait and see if I am able to access BYC tonight and I have not been "black-balled" by certain ones.....
(Terrie did I mention how nice you were looking today)

 

[RonB]

Hey Rob, I've been good. as you can see I get behind on reading and posting here. I read a couple times a day. just don't have much to say. I'm not into hatching my own eggs. don't have the time or the space. But sounds like you guys have a lot of fun doing it.

I'm going to get another 10 chicks next week. that will bring me up to 23 girls:cd

. Not sure where they are ALL coming from

. Maybe I need to close my car door when I'm at the feed store

. must be hopping in to the back seat

I see Keri hasn't posted the pictures of the bell you made for me

she has a full time teaching job now and still working a couple nights at Petsmart. so she has been one busy girl . she is the one that posted the cupcake eggs

 

[Kaneke]

I wonder if a microfiber cloth would work better than paper towels ? paper towels, after all, are micro-scratchy -- found this out when I was going to clean up some plexiglass --- and I am really impressed with the way the microfiber cloths clean everything from eyeglasses to vinyl records to computer screens --- without any need for moisture

ETA -- a word missing which made it not make sense