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[ByN8ureHomstead]

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I'm wondering how the metal applique would effect the function of the bell; that's the kind of think that can keep the metal from actually ringing!

dunno, I did not ring that bell in a store full of people.

I would have rang it.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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I have mine hanging from the chain with separate " S "hooks at the top and bottom.

S Hooks! That's it! You can tell I don't know my way around the workshop very well.

A new question. My three girls are fairly young, hatched in April and May. They did not have roosts at their previous home, so will they just learn how to get up on ours by themselves? It is 3 feet high (they are large girls, Sussex and Orp). Is that too tall for them? Would it be better if we had a couple older girls to show them how to roost and where to lay (when they are ready)? I am thinking about getting two more hens, who are already laying, who could show them the ropes....what do you think? Uh oh, chicken math strikes again!

My orps and sussex roost is at 4 feet. none of them have a problem with it being that high.

 

[SadieSue]

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My friends bought one of his coops and all 6 of their original hens from him. There wasn't much to the coop and it wasn't anything I was interested in. They ended up enclosing it in plastic and Jerry rigging some kind of rickety pop door on it to make it a little more secure. They joked about it cuz it did look something awful after, but it was a quick and easy set up at the time. To my relief they set up a shed coop this summer and may either get rid of the other or use it as an isolation coop.

I would not get birds from there however. A reference has been made about a chicken trader as opposed to a chicken lover. My friends bought a cuckoo Marans hoping for dark eggs, but they have never been anything but a very light brown. The "Americana" of course was a pretty Easter Egger who also has only ever provided light brown eggs. My friend finally bought a couple of hens from CGG so she could get nicely colored eggs and a little more variety in her egg basket. I would only ever get eggs and/or birds from someone I know or someone else here has experience with because of what happened with my friends. The hens lay okay but eh, I'm not so impressed otherwise.
Love my WA and OR BYCer source eggs and birds. No disappointment here for me.

 

[SadieSue]

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That sounds wonderful! Thank you for the invitation, but I'll still be working my show that evening. It doesn't close til the 25th. I hope you get a good turnout - post pictures!

 

[Illia]

Anyone out here actually can LOCALLY grown figs? Anyone know of a local fig source?

 

[Mia_]

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I could bring some eggs for Helaine to put under HER broody ....

oh and possibly I could pick up Julia (Stumpfarmer) if she can go whatever day you pick

That would be wonderful; lately I've been considering a week that I actually get the the Oly Farmer's Market a rare treat!

Julia, 2011: the summer I didn't go anywhere.

I would love to meet y'all. Wednesdays work for me.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

Rare Feathers Farm in the last photos of your DD I was amazed that she has so much hair. Here is our DD at 8 months and her lack of hair.

 

[Rainwolf]

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That would be my back yard... Dessert kings and we jam them.

Other then that I dunno anyone else who has fig trees....

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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They sometimes show up at Farmers' Markets- there was one Kitchen fig tree in somebody's yard on Johnson Point that, in good years, contributed a couple of hundred pounds of wonderful fruit to the Oly Farmer's Market in days past, but whoever owns it now either uses all the fruit or has otherwise ceased the supply. I don't think anyone in the area grows them for market as a regular thing.

I'm infinitely saddened by that fact.

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

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That would be my back yard... Dessert kings and we jam them.

Other then that I dunno anyone else who has fig trees....

My daughter and I keep talking about getting one.
I need to come over and check yours out.
Love figs!