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[cheryl98117]

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I think that this is THE one single best rule that I picked up from my mother in-law. The person who cooks, does not touch a dish to clean it. Works wonderfully, especially on hollidays.

We have that same law, but now that my Mom is in her 70s, she sits out the clean up anyway, queen's rights !

Wether she cooks or not.

As it should be!

 

[Chickielady]

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Yay! Isn't it wonderful! I so got tired of carrying buckets of hot water down to everyone. Not just the chickens but horses too and they drink a lot.

I had to carry buckets to 4 different groups/flocks of chickens, 2 groups of goats, and a yak. Their waterers dried up FAST too.

Until we get our well going, we have to do this every day, all year round.

A shower is a 3 gallon pot heated up on the stove, poured into a 5 gallon bucket, add cool water if necessary, haul it to the shower stall, and wash.

First we have to haul in rainwater we collect...and if it freezes like it did 2 days ago, we have to load a 55 gallon drum in our van, and go to town and get water at a service station.
We then have to get it home, pour it into smaller jugs, and bring it indoors or if left in the van it will freeze.
We are at the present time, getting DH's hand dug well (the one we drilled) going, as 12 gallons an hour is way better than having to haul it from town !!!

I am way too old to be doing this, I am sore, and beat to a pulp everyday.

 

[Chickielady]

Just a note of rant

concerning the chicken coop fires, and my news says there has been 4 in Portland, and several "Urban coop fires" in the Seattle area (not all make it to the news..) But it seems to me that it should be ILLEGAL for those companies producing the coop lights, to include a clamp with it.
It also has zero instructions on its operation...The brooder lamps sold at the Hardware stores here have much stronger sheilds and wire and come with NO CLAMP...but some do come with a calmp (like the crappy ones at Home Depot), and it is always someone that will use it as such.
There is few if no instructions on the boxes, never do they say to set a thermometer on the floor of the coop to test the heat level...or to use sand under it instead of flamible substances...or to use a safety wire in case it is knocked off it's attachment...and what about a smoke detector ?

and if you ask me further...why do they make the cheap clamp lights, and the ceramic brooder light, capable of handling a 240 watt heat bulb...but you cannot get a 60 watt bulb (especially a flourescent) in a ceramic brooder lamp.
Bass Ackwards there.
The brooder lamps should handle it all, and the cheapo clamp lights should be disfigured as to not accept anything bigger than a 60 watt bulb.

OK, so much for now.

 

[Chickielady]

First Olive Eggers fart eggs...so cute, great color !!!

3 top right are Cuckoo Marans, 1 & 3 on top left are Blue Copper Marans, sandwiching a white wyandotty egg...

Great color !

Black Java eggs, monsters !!

Jumbo, heavy, beautiful Java egg !!!

So what kind of eggs is the Rustler looking for ??

 

[T Hi]

OOOOOOO!!!! Cool eggs!!!

Got up at 2:30am this morning! The twins wanted to hit Target and Fred Meyer and just see what they had! I hate it when they babysit and have money in their pockets!!! Nevertheless, we had fun and made it home by 7:30am. Just in time for one of them to go babysit for the day!! I immediately went right back to bed!!!

I am getting to old for this stuff! Keeping up with soon to be 16 year olds is hard!!!

Hope everyone is recovering from their turkey hangovers!

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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I think that this is THE one single best rule that I picked up from my mother in-law. The person who cooks, does not touch a dish to clean it. Works wonderfully, especially on hollidays.

Not sure if that would work at our house here everyone helps out with the cooking.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I need to see a pic of that olive egger. Gotta make sure I am getting the right chicken.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Just noticed your sig, congrats on your soon-to-be baby girl! She certainly won't have a problem with 3 big brothers watching after her.

 

[Illia]

Golly Chickielady, you make me want to come over to your place and point my finger, then ZAP, a nice well appears in your yard. That's horrible!

Here's how my eggs are looking lately. I'm a few months behind having Olive colored eggs.

 

[Chickielady]

Very pretty eggs Illia !
And where is everyone ?
Stuffed and snoozing or out shopping like crazy ?

DH and I will put the well back together today...and then we will be able to go out and get water from our hand drilled well, when we need it.
We will not have it plumbed into the house as the house is not yet built.
But right now we have raintanks and it is plumbed into the mini barn 'cabin' here, cold running...and if it gets really cold those tanks freeze, but so far for 2 years now, they do not crack !
The pipes at the on/off manifold will freeze and we do not think the tanks should be totally full or the expanding ice may pop the top of te tanks, but they are tough stuff !
Golly Gee whiz it is so cool to have olive eggs.
My Ameraucanas should start laying now too, the OEs and Ams were hatched at the same time by my big Fluffy Butt Brahma.
Incidently, the brahmas just underwent a massive moult, and now 2 years old, and when their new feathers came in, their entire backs are darkly penciled

Anyone know why ?
Is thei normal for a light brahma to get darker every moult ?
Or a sign of a hatchery bird ?
I do not breed them, they are brooders only.
Clarence, and his cochin girls are having a blast on green grass.
Clarence looks like his head cold is getting better.
He does not have an infection that I can tell, he just got too cold.
He is spectacular !
A shimmering bowling ball of a bird.
I can take photos today...where is everyone ?