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[Chicken Rustler]

Yeah - you knew I was j/k, right CR?

Wasn't sure but wanted to try to put your mind to rest. While I no longer hunt I am not against it BUT to harvest that calf would be a low move. IMO

 

[hallerlake]

OK I JUST couldn't resist. I found Arnold on the Serama thread and just had to share.

now this pic just strikes my funny bone, one of the roosters from June, mr SUPER Serama...

 

[hallerlake]

Hey guys! Just checking in....been really busy....

Audrey is growing like a weed! Slept through the nights twice now this month (in the last two nights) and I gave her a pinch of brown rice cereal in her bottle, too. Here she is laughing!

DH started his master's degree (online) and between him having to do schoolwork 2-3 hours a night, Audrey, the farm in the middle of the winter and just life itself--it makes for not much BYC time!

I am still trying to thin my flock. No one seems interested in buying anything right now, though....quad of Sussex (light/split/coronation), a pair of MFC bantams, a pair of Houdan bantams and my flock of Crevecoeur.

I'm still looking for a bantam SLW roo, pair or trio. Decent (better-than-hatchery) quality stuff.

I was just thinking about you.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Not to be confused with RFF. I wonder how Heather and Audrey are doing?

I know gets a little confusing RFF, RRF, RR AND RH. Lets see did I miss any of the "R" ladies?

 

[hallerlake]

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Will they give us back email and links to people's BYC pages?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Will they give us back email and links to people's BYC pages?

I don't know about e-mail but I know somewhere I have seen pages just can't remember how I got there.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Fifteen months, a partly dislocated hip and broken rib ago:



The last gravel job: turns out that laying pea gravel on top of the snos/ice works better than shovelling.

(I think maybe this photo makes the driveway look friendlier than it is, too).

yes it does make it look much friendlier than the reality

it's a steep, narrow, rutted, bumpy, overgrown, potholed, exhaust-pipe-wrecking track

very good for keeping invaders away

fine for an off-road or all-terrain vehicle, or an older sturdier high-clearance vehicle

NOT looking forward to trekking our building materials up it, one by one, in our little hot hands

I do have the F250 here, so we can transfer things to the truck and take them up the hill the sane way, you know. Or the wheelbarrow (pictured) if you only want to be semi-sane.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

This is the only place I hang out online where you can't delete duplicate posts.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Fifteen months, a partly dislocated hip and broken rib ago:

The last gravel job: turns out that laying pea gravel on top of the snos/ice works better than shovelling. (I think maybe this photo makes the driveway look friendlier than it is, too).

It doesn't show the big dip to your left.

Note to people who have not been here: my dad's brilliant idea of making it cheaper to dig a well (and pay for the expensive parts by selling the sand) was to excavate a hole that started out being 40 feet across and about thirty feet deep, using nothing but his trusty John Deere 350 cat. The power pole to the left of the driveway does not have a unique (and illegal) ground-level meter box: in fact, the meter is a standard 56" from the ground. The west edge of the driveway is about six inches from a four and a half foot sheer drop. I had planned, several years ago, to move the driveway to the other side of the well-hole, but when we started to clear the vegetation we found a huge deposit of broken canning jars that would have to be excavated, disposed of, and the hole filled with clean fill (because it's about 50feet from a domestic water supply well) and which would have to be done by hand because the power and water supply lines run through it, so we didn't. When I was young and strong and not under medical orders (reinforced by all kinds of no fun at all when I violate them) not to bend over I used to spend a couple of hours a week keeping the driveway in trim, not to mention two or three festivals of redimix and recycled broken concrete trying to slow down the erosion. I've got no ability to maintain it, no money to hire it done, and yet it is our only way in and out. There's a reason I call it the family curse (since it's been eating time, money, pitrun and black rock for four generations now).

 

[Kaneke]

Fifteen months, a partly dislocated hip and broken rib ago:



The last gravel job: turns out that laying pea gravel on top of the snos/ice works better than shovelling.

(I think maybe this photo makes the driveway look friendlier than it is, too).

yes it does make it look much friendlier than the reality

it's a steep, narrow, rutted, bumpy, overgrown, potholed, exhaust-pipe-wrecking track

very good for keeping invaders away

fine for an off-road or all-terrain vehicle, or an older sturdier high-clearance vehicle

NOT looking forward to trekking our building materials up it, one by one, in our little hot hands

I do have the F250 here, so we can transfer things to the truck and take them up the hill the sane way, you know. Or the wheelboarrow (pictured) if you only want to be semi-sane.

LOL -- of course you are right -- I am NOT going anyplace until this rotten virus that afflicts me, is entirely defeated == I asked DH to go check at the local lumber yards to see if they have any scrap or odd sized plywood, but he has been "too busy doing other things" ...

with any luck, there will be sufficient pallets and other wood over in the J&I scrap bins, to put together a 3-months' temporary coop ..

I'm thinking to put it up on some pier blocks, so the run could extend under the coop; set it up so one side of the coop is hinged to open so you have decent access in there --- somewhere out in the hangar I think we still have a sliding glass door (glass and frame) which would give you access to the run AND be predator proof; not sure how much fencing wire is left but probably enough to give them a similar sized run to what they have here