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[broodytood]

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I don't know anything about the fused toes so I hope someone here can answer. Your chick pics are adorable! Now I'm even more excited to get my eggs set right after the Stevenson show. It will be my first time. I hope it goes well!

Congrats on the new cuties!

x2!

Thanks!

 

[Eagle2026]

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Congrats!! That's EGGsciting!!!!

I know you've posted pics here and there, but do you have a pics compiled somewhere that I could see? I definitely want these two potholders, but I'd like to see what else there is so if there's more I want, I can just place one big order...

Thanks!!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=287732&id=669579612&l=4150a76d27

i do not all of the ones i have made... when mom visited i had sent everything i had made home for her to store for selling at farmers market or the fruitstand.

i do have supplies to make more totes (pink, blue and brown feed bags) and i will upload new fabric. i have one of the most awesome chicken potholder fabric sitting on my table back at the dorm to take pic of... those potholders will cost more because the fabric was$15 for a yard. my target sized for potholders are 8x8-9x9..

yeah i need to get photos of that other fabric... you will drool. seriously. it would be one large print of a very colorful rooster. with yellow/tan on the back.

All that and now your incubator is home, I knew you were taleted when I met you @ the Monroe Farm Supply. Have you seen it yet?

Good lookin' crafts, keep it up! I always like to see people excell!!!
Mike

Ps, I want to see a pix of that incubator when you get it set up, please?

 

[Chickielady]

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My entire Cuckoo Marans flock is going~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oh and the Ameraucanas and OEs will have what is called a "pea comb"

But I thought you LOVED your CM? That you were working with them... I distinctly remember a very involved conversation you and I had back in the beginning of winter about your CM's... lol

I do love them.
BUT I have to build a house, buy a van, and alot of other stuff.
I have to downsize, and make a spot for meaties, and Java and Rocks.
I will be getting more Buckeye too.
I have to trim to no more than 5 breeds:
Meaties (don't count as a breed but do require housing with the Dark Cornish Cocks.
Buckeyes
Buff Rocks
Partridge Rocks
Barred Rocks
Black Java

All else goes.

As it is with 5 breeds, it will still be a few breeding pens & brooding pens going, and Cayuga Ducks.

 

[Chickielady]

Hi guys, DH and I have been running around like crazy, to the dump, to my Parents to drop off eggs, to Home Depot (lumber for the unfinished coop), to South Bend (to pick up our building permit

) to the grocery, to all 3 feed stores to post flyers for chicks for sale & birds for sale...and in general do not have any time for BYC back pages, sorry friends...so if anyone needs to talk to me, I will not be on line much, so, PM Cheryl98117, Chicken Rustler, T-Hi, or Zgoatlady, or Eagle2020, all have my phone number & call me !!
Thanks!!!!!!!!!

P.S. It is freezing 40 degrees here & foggy/misty

like November everyday~~~~~~~~~garden doing OK, starts & Toms & tomatillos great, pumpkins great...chicks growing & fantastic, duck eggs incubating & pheasant eggs going in tonight.
Different incubator.
I hope you ALL are doing well...STUMP FARMER~~~ I am serious about pork & beef prices, and what do ya get in a half?
And what do ya get in a quarter?
Can I switch, mix & match what we prefer?(such as more chuck roast & less steaks ?)
The order will be split amongst us & a few relatives...call me and I will let the freezer level recede

Cheryl, hope YOU & yours are OK, and you bag the creepy guy~~~~~~~~~

Toni

Zgoat...

hope son & DiL is OK & out of hospital...and

Eagle2020, eggs are perfect, on schedule & will set in a little while.

 

[Chickielady]

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Cockeral.

But watch it's comb, etc.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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What, no bungie cords? My chicken tractor clear weather-proofing is mostly held on with bungie cords so I can change it with the wind. For the permanent run I'm going upscale with greenhouse-grade tarp material.

It's my patrimony: What was our milk barn, and now is dry storage and bottle-baby calf pen, was built about 44 years ago of used concrete forms held together with 40p spikes, the floor of raw-milled 6 X 10s framed on recycled telephone poles and the roof on unpeeled fir poles. It's still standing fine, even though a claustrophobic yearling bull once pushed his way out the corner and it had to be pulled back together with a comealong.

(See "Stumpfarmer")

hahah~~yes yes.. bungies--I DO have some of those too--

lol
See, the strength of your dry storage/bottle baby pen--it's a testimony to what we redneck farmers can pull together and make last!

yay us!

heehee! where are you getting the tarp stuff?? I had one of the costco tarp garages that I have since repurposed some of the walls into wind blocks on the cochin tractors.. It seems to work well. I also have a little thingey that I can put grommets in plastic.. I might actually put real grommets in that garage tarp.. it will last another hunnert years I think... Right now it's just stapled, but they come out. and I hate looking for staples in grass..

I went through everybody who came up when I googled "plastic greenhouse cover" and ended up buying from the first google result, a place in Florida but what can ya do? I'm getting a hundred feet of six foot wide roll goods for $40 less than made up tarps of the same goods, which would be about half again the shipping because of the weight of the gromets, reinforced corners, and rope edge, and maybe five running feet less actual coverage by six to eight inches lost along the sides.

Now if I could only find a good bundle of lathe somewhere. The good that living in the future has brought in terms of the internet, cell phones (oh, how my dad would have loved cell phones: he could mow hay and talk to people at the same time!) Gorilla Glue, really good rechargable batteries, and Thai food is somewhat counteracted by the lack of hundred count, six foot bundles of 1/2" by 1 1/2" lathe and really good chicken wire.

Oh, wait, add to that "good things about living in the future" 1 1/2 inch waterproof drywall screws. I grew up on Yelm Prairie and drove way too many fence staples with rocks, to the lasting damage of my hands so anything to do with hammer and nails has been replaced with a square-battery Makita and drywall screws or, in case of heavy usage, deck screws (the teflon ones are jazzy).

My sister and I were the only children of one of those "Greatest Generation" guys who believed that one had children to get farmhands. I was the only first grade girl with her very own wrecking bar in Yelm in 1958.

 

[BoldogKennel]

Last minute offer: I am going down to the show EARLY on Saturday (be there by 8 AM) and then leaving after coop out on Sat.
I have room in my van for one non smoker (and a few chickens if need be) if you aren't afraid of pit bulls

who will sit in your lap (if you let him).
So, if anyone wants to meet me at the Pilot TruckStop at exit 99 and drive down with me (to save yourself some gas money) I've NEVER been in a wreck and don't listen to rap.

Just PM me as I can't keep up with these threads! : )

Diane

 

[ReiMiraa]

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http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=287732&id=669579612&l=4150a76d27

i do not all of the ones i have made... when mom visited i had sent everything i had made home for her to store for selling at farmers market or the fruitstand.

i do have supplies to make more totes (pink, blue and brown feed bags) and i will upload new fabric. i have one of the most awesome chicken potholder fabric sitting on my table back at the dorm to take pic of... those potholders will cost more because the fabric was$15 for a yard. my target sized for potholders are 8x8-9x9..

yeah i need to get photos of that other fabric... you will drool. seriously. it would be one large print of a very colorful rooster. with yellow/tan on the back.

All that and now your incubator is home, I knew you were taleted when I met you @ the Monroe Farm Supply. Have you seen it yet?

Good lookin' crafts, keep it up! I always like to see people excell!!!
Mike

Ps, I want to see a pix of that incubator when you get it set up, please?

it will be 2 weeks before i see it. i might go home during easter weekend and throw a batch of test eggs ( and isolate my favorite roo with some hens so they will be ready when i return) in and then while back at college i will order some eggs from the people on here. I think this is dummy proof enough that i can leave the eggs in with mom looking every day to check the temp and water.... and maybe by day 10 i can try to coach her to candle or just risk ickyness.... wait... (looks at calender) if i am home easter and set a batch in then i *should* be back home done with college by day 10....

Alright does anyone have real dewlap toulouse eggs (throw them in with the chicken eggs, i will just have them placed at the top of the cabinet where it will be warmer and more humid and will just run everything with a slightly higher humidity, it is a very dry place i live in...) available at the end of may? and Illia I will pm you in a few weeks to order some of those real araucana eggs. (once i know the test eggs go well.

The list for late may: dewlap toulouse, araucana, Marans, and pendencea's.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Just to note, I'm REALLY JEALOUS of all you who can go to this show, but until my husband is road-ready I'm stuck between the Highway 12, The Nisqually, and the Mason County line.

 

[ReiMiraa]

alright i took stock of what i have in my dorm with me. currently i only have 3 potholders but i have material to make more different ones.
the last half of the photos in the album are the new ones. please read discriptions. oh and please drool over the rooster fabrics. Good news, you can now have a rooster in your kitchen and he will not crow!
All potholders have a special 100% plolyester batting that has a metalic film in it to help reflect heat when holding hot items.
they are machine washable (i pre wash all my fabrics to shrink and soften)
I have material to make 2 blue layer, 2 brown scratch and i have 1 pink layer tote here. All are the purina chicken feed bags.

also the material for the reversible tote is also pictured... but it is not made... once i finish the materials for potholders and that one suit bag i will start on this. making totes from scratch is actually hard and i have a pattern i have modified (because making a square bottom is beyond my ability or just hard to do with my sewing machine....
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=287732&id=669579612&l=4150a76d27