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[Flaming Chicken]

My dog woke up blind after getting ivermectin when I wormed my horses. Thankfully he fully recovered.

LakeBird, if your Aussies have any drug sensitivity you may want to be careful if you worm your flock with ivermectin, I've heard of dogs with MDR1 getting very sick from eating poop from horses that were wormed with ivermectin products.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

double post

 

[itsren]

Trish - I just love this picture! What a cutie. I keep seeing it and it makes me laugh every time.

 

[itsren]

Well, the littlest boy and I got a lot done on the 2nd coop... ahem... run today. It looks cute! There's a chance it may turn out as cute as our first coop/run. Even DH complemented us on it. Then he told us "that's not a run, that's a coop - and I know what you're up to".

Funny... it's designed perfectly to fit both brahma's or silkies. Crazy how it just worked out that way.

Sadly - it's no longer a free coop. I had to buy screws. Bummer. Oh well, I'll have to buy hinges and latches anyway.

I'm enjoying building. Putting it together is like trying to design and put together a puzzle.

I pulled the plywood off the top of the "real" run today and installed hardware cloth. We looked at the smoke colored translucent roofing and it looks flimsy. I decided to put hardware cloth down first as predator protection. I need to paint the run anyway - I'll do that, then we'll put that plastic roofing over the top of that.

I'm tired, but it feels great to get so much accomplished.

 

[justbugged]

Quote: They sell very similar stoves here in Enumclaw at Work, Sports, and More.

 

[itsren]

I'll take the free wood

LOL! It's getting used. Yay! I need to swing by my friend's house tomorrow and see what else she threw out there. She's finishing her 2nd floor and the builders are putting the scraps outside. The builder's told them to burn them, but she offered them for free to me instead, since so many of the pieces are large and could be reused. As soon as I saw the scrap pile, visions of a 2nd coop started dancing through my head.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Quote:
Oh I just read through 8 pages from today (been gone all day and busy!) and this pic made me giggle every time someone quoted it! So adorable! You remember Men In Black and how they would "flashy thingy" the people to erase their memory? My first thought for captioning this pic was "Why you flashy thingy me?"

 

[itsren]

Renee,
It just so happens that when I put on my J Lo-Destiny's Child Pandora station, David goes outside and starts building chicken coops.

Maybe J Lo and Beyonce can help with all your free wood.
(insert sinister laugh)

LOL! I doubt it. I don't think I could come up with anything that would make my DH want to build chicken coops - and heaven knows... I don't need him off and building a dog run!

 

[justbugged]

Well, the littlest boy and I got a lot done on the 2nd coop... ahem... run today. It looks cute! There's a chance it may turn out as cute as our first coop/run. Even DH complemented us on it. Then he told us "that's not a run, that's a coop - and I know what you're up to".

Funny... it's designed perfectly to fit both brahma's or silkies. Crazy how it just worked out that way.

Sadly - it's no longer a free coop. I had to buy screws. Bummer. Oh well, I'll have to buy hinges and latches anyway.

I'm enjoying building. Putting it together is like trying to design and put together a puzzle.

I pulled the plywood off the top of the "real" run today and installed hardware cloth. We looked at the smoke colored translucent roofing and it looks flimsy. I decided to put hardware cloth down first as predator protection. I need to paint the run anyway - I'll do that, then we'll put that plastic roofing over the top of that.

I'm tired, but it feels great to get so much accomplished.

We used some of the clear plastic roofing like what you mentioned over our covered run. Surprising it holds up better than one would think it should. It would still be doing it's job after 3 years, if the boys hadn't dropped chunks of trees through it. We had 2 willow trees in the run it's self. This past winter's ice storm broke big limbs on them, so I finally got around to removing them. One of the trees had a fungus/rot thing going on with it, and every year it would loose it's first batch of leaves. It was ugly a good portion of the year. The chickens have been missing the shade that the trees provided at this time of year, but I am no longer worried about whether or not they are getting enough vitamin D any more.

 

[itsren]

I added a post and changed the theme. It's really super easy - and a blog can easily look like a normal web page.
http://dawninseattle.wordpress.com/

If you're trying to sell - that's different - but if you're just advertising a blog would be fine.

I use both. I'm not trying to sell anything... yet. If I finish writing a book, I may. My blogs are goofy - just toys to dink around with, or a place to store weblinks in (like my garden blog listed in my footer). For my website, I use an object oriented application called Joomla. When I worked at Boeing and Microsoft, I used to code everything - now I have kids... I no longer have time for that! My website is: http://www.reneeclark.me/ I rarely update it (or my blogs) because I'm too busy living life. If I get my book done, of course, I will actually have to promote the book more.