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[blueducklings]

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I have a blue roo in with black hens that I could collect for you, or if you don't care about color, I also just put my lavender roo back in with the lav girls the other day, so you might get pure lavs, or they would be blue / lav splits....

Neat. I still heve her number. I'll pass it to you.
How is the pea in the pod??

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I have one 1/2 Arab. The other 1/2 is Andalusian.

I bought her as a rescue horse back in 2000. I trained her for a college class and sold her at the end of the year. In 2008, I bought her back. She's Polish Arab and has her moments (like any horse). She is overall a great horse, though. She is very smart but very lazy. She will spook but usually it's when she's tired or bored and not really scared.

Here is she when I bought her:

And right before I sold her:

The most psycho horse I've ever owned was a Paso Fino. She was spoiled rotten. I traded a lady for one of my Peruvians. The yearling filly I got was just horrible. Ran over the top of you, went through fence, kicked, bit, just a brat. After having her for a year and getting her somewhat under control--I sold her to some "horse whispering" person in CA to use in their demonstrations.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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LOL I had insane Arabs. Smart, and SUPER athletic, just crazy!! LOL My last one was still a bucker at age 20!

let's see.... were they Egyptian by any chance?? lol!

LOL Gee....how'd ya know??

 

[Ogress]

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You have no idea how long I pondered the orientation of the rafters. Like, two days. Seriously. The snow we get here in Yakima is almost always "champagne powder", or less than 6". I'll test the roof when I'm done, and that will help me know when I need to pull the snow off the roof.

Yeah....my DH over-builds EVERYTHING....but so far, so good. Oh and you might want to slope the roof the other way in the future...my DH sloped the roof backwards on the newest "sniper tower'' coop...so the snow slides right off into the runs.

However, we changed the pop holes to be in the floor--so the chickens come out the bottom of the coop and then out the sides into the runs. That way, they're not blocked in (or out) of the coop by snow when it slides off the roof. We get 4+ feet here every winter.

My house (not my coop) has the roof sloped wrong - it all slides off and makes a HUGE mountain in front of my garage bay! DH, who has a different garage than me because he keeps the garage such a mess that I won't share one with him, almost always has a clear spot in front of his garage beccause of the wind. I have to keep shoveling throughout every storm, especially when it has warmed enough to rain some into the pile, because if I don't knock the pile down by nightfall, I'll be using a pick-axe in the morning, carving my way through a solid mountain of ice! (Once I tried taking it down partway, then accelrated backward with all the power I had to try and get through/over the ice-mound. Got the back-end over okay (I sometimes hear a rattle and feel a shimy, but the mechanic can't see a problem); but I tore the front CV boots and broke the CV joint nearly clean through! It was barely hanging on ... I limped to Less Scwab, the car was shuddering the entire way (I thought it was the new set of chains I put on before I backed out) They displyed the destoyed CV joint in their shop for weeks.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

RFF AWESOME after pics. Very nice looking even if she is part ....

 

[Ogress]

RFF - I LOVE your new hen, she's gorgeous! I've got to stop looking at pictures of chickens though, or I may end up with more! (or maybe some ducks!).

I saw some photos of lemon millefleur sablepoots - luckily I can't find any in this country.

 

[Ogress]

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LOVE this photo!

(I'm skipping around trying to catch up from last night. Not reading posts in any particular order)

 

[Ogress]

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That little piggy looks like he's planning his revenge!

 

[Rainwolf]

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Oh another idea--turn the roof rafters on edge. That adds more support for the snow load...which I know isn't what we get up here....but it never hurts to overbuild something...only if you under-build it.

X2, and as such will require easier blocking in between the rafters, sections of 2x4.

My new coop has about 3 feet under it in front & runs up to the back, sunk in concrete on posts, and I have turned flocks loose in the pasture when we built it, and they all hung out underneath.
DH was worried they would be inside pooping on his tools.......

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The rafters should be on edge for support but also to prevent sagging as a board flat will warp/bow after a while.

 

[Rainwolf]

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omg!! cornish cross are truly pigs with feathers!! I am not kidding!! mine are just crazy!!! I feed them a lot and they are still looking for more!! they are so cute at that age!!

Wait till you feed Japanese quails other wise known as coturnix.... them things are true piggy birds!