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[hallerlake]

I understand not wanting poop on the deck...but it isn't going to be much fun to keep them contained to the back of the yard. We (kids and I) like to see them come up to the house and check things out. They watch DD as she plays in the sandbox. Their antics are part of the reason for having them!

Put a fence around the patio.

 

[NovaAman]

Ok, There is no way I am going to try and catch up with 244 past posts... AND just from over the weekend! Yikes.

Anyway, hope your weather is getting back to normal. Ours is, which means cold... That freak heat wave here in Michigan sure did a number on the plants that are already growing and blooming, and we are now expecting temps around freezing over night for several nights. Looks like will have to put burlap over flowering shrubs...ect... Even my strawberries have gone crazy and grew rapidly for that week. I am starting to see the beginnings of the fruit.

Enjoy your Sunday...

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I' finished the roof and frame of my EE coop yesterday, but today there was a funeral up Yellum and so I won't get much done. Which is bad, as I have chickens laying little green eggs in my house.


I had my hired hand in on Thursday, but she had to leave and meet her husband in the ER after he dropped a limb on his head.


Yesterday my cousin waylaid my sister and gave her 18eggs: this is a clear violation of the chicken-keeping social contract, I say, just because his sister doesn't live anywhere near here doesn't mean he gets to give eggs to mine, right?


Just sitting down to rest my feet, need to go make popovers, will pop in at another time I'm sure.

I won't be using my incubator anymore.Anyone want to buy a Brinsea mini advance for $100 obo? I will also be selling my brand new Birnsea brooder.

So sad.

I wish I could say I'd buy them, but right now things are tending toward cutting expenses rather than buying anything. I'm sure you'll have them sold before I could possibly scrounge that kind of money together.

I am so angry this is happening to you.

 

[mikeyb]

Anchor points like trees stumps.

I thought that's what you meant, just wasn't sure. The only thing I could use would be my truck, a 77 Ford with a dry weight of 4200#. You thinking come-along?
That's what I was thinking but as we started to take off the sheathing we ran across rot at the bottom of the studs/plate. No ventilation and not weather tight resulted in a mess. The only reason I'm not tearing out my hair is that I didn't build it. (that's another story for sure)

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Anyway: spent too much of yesterday standing up and talking and am pretty pooped, but still have to do everything I usually do on Sunday plus the things that got scanted yesterday. And, as a special bonus attraction, the 20 year old Kwikset lockset on my back door needs replaced before the plastic inards finish falling apart and I have to take the steel skin door off the hinges to get the doorknob off. I HOPE that I can get a crappy mobile-home grade lockset at Home Depot, because I in no way have time to go to Grand Mound to the fake-house store to find one.

Onward and upward, I guess. Excelsior!

 

[mikeyb]

Anyway: spent too much of yesterday standing up and talking and am pretty pooped, but still have to do everything I usually do on Sunday plus the things that got scanted yesterday. And, as a special bonus attraction, the 20 year old Kwikset lockset on my back door needs replaced before the plastic inards finish falling apart and I have to take the steel skin door off the hinges to get the doorknob off. I HOPE that I can get a crappy mobile-home grade lockset at Home Depot, because I in no way have time to go to Grand Mound to the fake-house store to find one.
Onward and upward, I guess. Excelsior!

Have you tried the Kwickset lock set. I had to replace entry locks several times, this house and the one b4 it. I ain't a big fan of kwickset but they seem to fit rather well in the two houses I've had.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Anyway: spent too much of yesterday standing up and talking and am pretty pooped, but still have to do everything I usually do on Sunday plus the things that got scanted yesterday. And, as a special bonus attraction, the 20 year old Kwikset lockset on my back door needs replaced before the plastic inards finish falling apart and I have to take the steel skin door off the hinges to get the doorknob off. I HOPE that I can get a crappy mobile-home grade lockset at Home Depot, because I in no way have time to go to Grand Mound to the fake-house store to find one.

Onward and upward, I guess. Excelsior!

Have you tried the Kwickset lock set. I had to replace entry locks several times, this house and the one b4 it. I ain't a big fan of kwickset but they seem to fit rather well in the two houses I've had.

I'm replacing a Kwikset with a Kwikset; this one lasted a long time mostly on the basis of not being opened and closed as often as the inside ones, I suspect. I just hate their nylon parts, and replaced the ones inside with better brands long ago- the one in my bedroom after the thing broke with me inside and the phones and my tools all out in the rest of the house, which made getting out a trick. It's why I've never thrown out my damaged pocket knives and keep them with my not-quite-worn-out nightgowns.

The thing I like least about Kwikset locksets, though, is that they don't have a strike plate on the door, and when you have a steel-clad door with a steel frame drilled for a round latch and no strikeplate you can't get out the chisels and make a countersink for a strikeplate to fit in.

If I were rich I'd replace the door with something drilled to take a better lockset and an integral screen, but I am so very very not rich right now.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Nope thinking winch or truck and a block in line. That way the truck only has to pull 1/2 the load.

 

[RedReiner]

Hi everyone. I don't live in Washington State. I live in Indiana. Don't chase me away!!!

My husband may be getting a job in Seattle. And my biggest reason for being afraid of the move isn't leaving my friends behind. It's leaving my rural lifestyle and not being able to keep chickens anymore.

Are there any rural areas within an hour's drive of Seattle? We would love a home with small acreage (we currently only have 1.5 acres), but I'm wondering if we will be able to afford land in Washington. I have never been to the state, but it seems pretty citified around Seattle. This scares me!

Sorry to bother you all. I was not sure where I could post and I'm feeling panicky about possible life changes.

 
It depends on how much time he wants to spend commuting. I've been looking into this too. We moved here (from Indiana!) a year and a half ago. We're currently renting in Lake Forest Park, which is one of the first suburbs north of Seattle. Many people have small city lots (or in our case, a relatively large city lot - not many are this big in Seattle proper) and have chickens. But to have an acre or more, you're likely going to pay $400,000+ and/or have a very long commute. Downtown Seattle is only 20 minutes or so for us when it's NOT rush hour, but during heavy traffic times, it could take up to an hour. I would like to go a little further away and have more space, but I don't think my husband is going to go for it. To get anything approaching rural, you're going to have to go considerably farther. On the north end, this might be Snohomish or Woodinville (more east). I didn't look into the south end (of Seattle) much - others live that way, so maybe they will (or have) said something about it. I think there are more rural-ish places on the east side, but everyone told us when we moved here that it was best to live on the side of the lake where you intend to work. 

if your buying in LFP then yeah that expensive. Monroe, Snohomish and all the rest of the cities and towns are much cheaper and still an hour or less to Seattle. I bought 13 acres here for 280k , the neighbors house is going up for sale, dont know what it will go for but 5 acres with 5 bedroom two story remodeled house, barn and stand alone 12x12 buildings (7 of them) on 5 acres has a tax value of 196k right now. maybe my mom will buy that... but property is NOT that expensive as long as you do not buy pretty much in the city.... I would still stay out of king county. taxes taxes and rules and regs and etc etc...

 

[KMoran]

Hey guys I know this isnt chicken related but I was wondering if anyone knows where I can buy a calf hutch or a polydome. My husband and I are seriously considering buying a few goats and I would really like a dome for housing. I just dont wanna have to pay an arm and a leg for shipping. Thanks so much