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[Stumpfarmer]

Went out a little while ago - it was, wait for it. . .

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

SUNNY and over 50 degrees!

What happened to winter?

Oh, it'll be back. Remember the last week of February/first week of March last year?

Last year, we had some lovely mild weather in early February. I went out and clipped back, and cleaned up the garden. Then came late February. I lost my Mexican feather grass. I'm not going to make the same mistake this year.

Yeah, last Feb/March I lost three tender plants I'd been babying along for decades, and at least one rose (Sombruiel) that I should have replaced, but who had time? Everything hit too hard and fast for me to cover the Zone 8 stuff with wet sheets (which are windproof when they're frozen and don't cook plants like plastic when the sun comes out) even if it wasn't calving season, with four calves born on this place the worst three days of the cold snap, and even if I hadn't been walking around with an open tooth waiting for the extraction appointment*. It was not my favorite week ever, although at least the lights stayed on.

The hired had showed up yesterday and took the garbage to the dump, so that's settled at least. Got the sheep pen moved- I can do it myself ot not have it collapse under snow or rain, I guess. The lesson learned about plastic and wire construction after the non-collapse of the Hamburg run and the catastrophic failure of the sheep pen is that big chuncks of plastic are more vulnerable to overload than small ones and the closer to straight, flat, and horizontal on a roof the worse off you are. Of course, a hoop house for the sheep would not be portable, unless it was framed on 3/4" pvc and therefore light enough for the sheep to move it, and that's no good.



*Yeah, yeah, yeah, should have had a root canal and replaced the old crown, but it was a case of having had a BG of way below merely scary with a half-hour of the crown prep to go and not being up for another long long session in the dental chair any time soon. One must make choices, and I'm never going to choose something guaranteed to blow my diabetic control to tiny bits the way two big lows in a week would do.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Good morning everyone =)

I have a mini fridge that no longer works and someone could have it for free if they come and get it! It's located in Seattle, or I could bring to my house on the Eastside.

Does anyone want this? Going to the recyclers next week.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Ah - calcium! That makes sense - I do put out a mixture of egg shell and oyster shell since we have a mixed flock. Thank you!

Still wonder why she is laying on the roost! Only twice...but still twice!

CL - My Juno lays nice, big, brown eggs however dark they are! They are always the first to get used. She was a JG chick from my pet chicken. I know for sure these are Junos; as we've only had three precious eggs from our Marans so far. One started laying - then snow - now nothing Sad.

Good news is we got a normal egg from Juno yesterday! (Still waiting for the Marans!)

CL its got color looks like a layer of calcium over it. Some Marans do that too...

 

[KMoran]

Good Afternoon everyone

I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on my babies... Its been one week since I picked them up from the post office and after loosing 2 within the first few days the other 23 are going strong.

My cornish crosses have more then tripled in size where as my Rhode Island Reds are still as tiny as can be. I hope everyone gets a chance to get out and enjoy the sunshine. I am on my way out to clean up the yard and move some garden boxes. Well I hope everyone has a wonderful day.

~Kristina~

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

Ah - calcium! That makes sense - I do put out a mixture of egg shell and oyster shell since we have a mixed flock. Thank you!

Still wonder why she is laying on the roost! Only twice...but still twice!

CL - My Juno lays nice, big, brown eggs however dark they are! They are always the first to get used. She was a JG chick from my pet chicken. I know for sure these are Junos; as we've only had three precious eggs from our Marans so far. One started laying - then snow - now nothing Sad.

Good news is we got a normal egg from Juno yesterday! (Still waiting for the Marans!)

Mine are new layers, only been laying for a couple of weeks now, and I regularly find an egg under the roost in the morning. It appears it's the Brahmas and the EEs, based on egg color. And this morning I found my first soft-shelled egg! Really off-putting, I have to say. Normally the girls give me eggs that are multi-colored, very hard-shelled and delicious. I'll post egg pix later

And is it just me, or is this site really slow and cloogey today? I really have to slow down my typing so the words show up where they're supposed to and come out spelled correctly.

 

[SadieSue]

Oh, that reminds me. I have been planning on getting over there to Vino Aquino next trip over the bridge and need to co ordinate a time when Dana will be there. I am only 20 minutes from there.

Dana, What days are you usually at the shop?

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I saw the label earlier this week. It IS really cute! Sorry I'm going to miss you today CL. I'm seldom at work on Fridays.
CGG, typically I am in the shop Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11 AM - 3 PM. Next week though I'm covering for my cousin who is going to be vacationing at his sister's in AZ so I'll be at the shop Mon-Friday, but only until 2 PM on Tuesday and Friday. I leave early on Friday so I can start getting ready for the play at TLT since I have to set my hair in sponge rollers a few hours every night before I go onstage.

Let me know what week you'll be coming in and I'll give you an updated schedule so I can see you!

 

[SadieSue]

FINALLY able to post again after not being able to for 3 or 4 days due to my logging off like a dumbhead on the desktop computer and then not remembering my password. I asked several times to be able to change my password and each time I received the link received an "ERROR" message saying my request had timed out even though it only been seconds since they sent it to me.

Frustrated, I sat and typed in every various combination of caps, numbers and words that I thought it might be and finally was able to log in with my old password! Now to determine just exactly what it was that I typed...

 

[Kaneke]

one way to "save" the eggs laid on the roost, look for what several people have installed under their roosts to catch the poo, I think they were calling it a poo cradle or roost cradle .. in any case, a length of fabric or plastic with 1x1 or PVC on the two long sides (as long as the roost is), with those supports set a hen's tail length on either side of the roost, and wide enough to fall in a U shape

some put sand in this, others painted or coated the fabric; some sleeved the fabric or plastic so it could be slid off the supports, removed and washed

but basically a catch-all suspended under the roost to keep the poo and eggs off the coop floor

 

[Kaneke]

FINALLY able to post again after not being able to for 3 or 4 days due to my logging off like a dumbhead on the desktop computer and then not remembering my password.  I asked several times to be able to change my password and each time I received the link received an "ERROR" message saying my request had timed out even though it only been seconds since they sent it to me. 



Frustrated, I sat and typed in every various combination of caps, numbers and words that I thought it might be and finally was able to log in with my old password!  Now to determine just exactly what it was that I typed...

next time you log in successfully, remember to check the box that says Remember Me, right near your log-in box

 

[pettec63]

Hi everyone!!

Got back very early Thursday am, everything went well coming back, except I cried all the way to Billings, cause I miss my kids! Got to LoLo pass, weather was bad, had a jacked knifed rig, but, thank god the police use their heads and let the few cars, skinny their way around, so it didn't slow me down too much!! Got to 4th of July pass, it was a bit hairy but, got through that ok obviously.

to all the newbies, this is a great place to learn, lots of good peeps!
I tried to catch up on the 225 posts and only caught a little bit, thanks for the info on TMJ my daughter has it and has been trying to find out how to deal with it.
CL! nice Elk!!! Congrats to the hatchers and new chickies!! Came home to pretty much no snow and 50 degrees!! Yea!!! My son called yesterday, he is doing well, they moved him to a half way house and he's getting his resume together to get a job, ect. Anyway, glad to be back and hope everyone is doing well, and that your weather holds for ya!! Thank you to all that responded to my post about my son! I think he's gonna be ok!! As for me, I will be going up to Seattle on the 9th, and seeing the VA doc on the 10th, hopefully we will get some answers!! Now gotta catch up cleaning coops and goat pens!!, Catch ya later!!

Glad T HI was able to get a washer, that's a start!!