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[Chickielady]

We have lots of shopping & feed store to do today, and may cruz Elma's poultry show this afternoon..everyone have a great day!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

You know what's funny? I just looked at the gate into the orchard and realized I didn't follow my own advice- or rather, couldn't change the hinges once it was installed: there's a 60p sinker above the top hinge to keep it from being lifted. I had a whole lot of gates installed wrong by the same people who also:

1. Put in a mile of pasture fence with the little holes up.

2. Set fence corner posts and gate posts in cement, sloping the top inward so that the water stayed and they all rotted off at cement level.

3. Enclosed my back porch with greenhouse panels that drain onto the porch floor.

4. Insisted on giving me "picturesque" front porch steps which varied between nine and a half and eleven and a half inches, which had to be replaced with standard 6" risers before my husband could be released to come home after back surgery.

5. Took it upon himself to burn about 200 strips of cedar that I'd split ongrain to make plant labels with, and was just throwing a perfectly good for farm use half-sheet of plywood on the fire when I came down and fired his crazy butt, leaving behind a jumble of old barbed wire and improperly stacked fenceposts which is what I meant when I sent him down the hill to clean up.

6. Stripped most of the trim off of the SW corner of my house in preparation to replacing it with a "more picturesque sort-of-Victorian only Japanese" and more weatherproof design, and then promptly moved to Rhode Island.

The two of them left me with a determination never to hire anyone who wasn't related by blood or at least two generations of friendship.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Wow, that is great!

My mom is the yard saler.....she called me about it. I could not get out there until my lunch at 1:15 to look at it. Hemm/hawed for a few minutes...looked and then decided that yes...this was a good buy and I needed to purchase it. I left. Found out that not 5 minutes after I left, a woman came with her husband and truck to buy it. Whew...that was a close one.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I have been looking and buying chain link and that is a very good buy!!!

do you need more??? I have 20-30 feet of 4'

 

[hallerlake]

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Not having a truck sucks sometimes. I would have loved to take advantage of deals like that on Craig's list.

 

[hallerlake]

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I miss having bees around; my cousin with the chickens had several (like 10+) hives until a combination of windstorm and very bad weather got them, and he hasnt been willing to deal with the heartbreak of Apian health since.

A friend of my sister in Sedro Wooley decided that hives are designed for California. He made a few adjustments, and has had his hives doing really well in the couple of years since.

 

[hallerlake]

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Wow, that is great!

My mom is the yard saler.....she called me about it. I could not get out there until my lunch at 1:15 to look at it. Hemm/hawed for a few minutes...looked and then decided that yes...this was a good buy and I needed to purchase it. I left. Found out that not 5 minutes after I left, a woman came with her husband and truck to buy it. Whew...that was a close one.

She should have paid for it before she went home for the truck, or at least put something down to hold it. That's a beginner's mistake.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I miss having bees around; my cousin with the chickens had several (like 10+) hives until a combination of windstorm and very bad weather got them, and he hasnt been willing to deal with the heartbreak of Apian health since.

A friend of my sister in Sedro Wooley decided that hives are designed for California. He made a few adjustments, and has had his hives doing really well in the couple of years since.

I would be very interested in what changes he made. Any chance you could find out for me?

 

[hallerlake]

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A friend of my sister in Sedro Wooley decided that hives are designed for California. He made a few adjustments, and has had his hives doing really well in the couple of years since.

I would be very interested in what changes he made. Any chance you could find out for me?

I can try.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I miss having bees around; my cousin with the chickens had several (like 10+) hives until a combination of windstorm and very bad weather got them, and he hasnt been willing to deal with the heartbreak of Apian health since.

A friend of my sister in Sedro Wooley decided that hives are designed for California. He made a few adjustments, and has had his hives doing really well in the couple of years since.

I'm waiting for my cousin to run a few incubators full of my eggs before he gets hooked on bees again; on the other hand I need to watch carefully for signs of dwindling interest because historically his next phase after chickens is pigs. I'm happy with the pigs being a mile and a half down the spur line at my BIL's place. If they have to be anywhere.