Where did they come from???

[Kusanar]

On the topic of repurposed firewood, my dad made some neat little stools for their front porch last year. He took slabs of log, about 3 inches thick and about 2 feet diameter and bolted them to the bottoms of big plastic flower pots. The flower pot is upside down and the log chunk sits on top, looks pretty cool.

 

[pennyJo1960]

On the topic of repurposed firewood, my dad made some neat little stools for their front porch last year. He took slabs of log, about 3 inches thick and about 2 feet diameter and bolted them to the bottoms of big plastic flower pots. The flower pot is upside down and the log chunk sits on top, looks pretty cool.

what a fabulous idea we use tires in the garden have about 15 in two's I am able to plant in now but left a good 15 pots maybe sell the darn things

 

[cavemanrich]

what a fabulous idea we use tires in the garden have about 15 in two's I am able to plant in now but left a good 15 pots maybe sell the darn things

On the subject of tires getting a second chance, my neighbor uses them to grow potatoes in. Potatoes need to be mounded in the fields since they would not do very well on flat ground. The tires allow potatoes that above ground feeling as well as good drainage.

 

[pennyJo1960]

ours do fabulous in the tires yes

 

[BantyChooks]

He has feathered feet. It looks like a broken blood feather maybe. If that's all it is, it's nothing to worry about unless you see everyone picking at it.

Late to the party, but x2. That happens quite a bit with my extra feathery birds; isn't a big deal. I don't do anything with it.

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

Late to the party, but x2. That happens quite a bit with my extra feathery birds; isn't a big deal. I don't do anything with it.

Crap...I forgot to post an update on that. Yes, all is well with King's boo boo. Can't see it at all now. It must of been one of those feetie feathers. I just worry about them getting hurt.

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

So yesterday at lunchtime, I head to the coop. I (as well as the chickens) enjoy my lunch. I go to fill the water thingy ( *!#* idiotic design...more on that later) and Bashful flies over my head and out the coop. Holy crap! Now what??? I'm only on lunch break...I don't have hours to spare. She didn't go far...thank God!

So I go fetch some crack cocaine for chickens...aka sunflower seeds. I come back and start trying to woo her with the seeds. Yeah...not even paying one iota to the seeds. So...I block off the run from the coop as the others are running around the fence perimeter in the run chasing Bashful...who is running around the perimeter of the run on the out side. I prop open the coop door...take a deep breath and say a little prayer to Sweet Baby Jesus.

At this time Bashful is jumping up on the fence poking her head through the chain link holes trying to get back in. Ugghh... I'm trying to tell her she won't fit...and see, the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence! She's fast...she's a paranoid mess (this was the straggler from the rescue that I couldn't get the first night)...and she won't let anything get near her.

So I approach her from the opposite side in hopes she'll keep working her way down the fence, (still poking her head through the fence) until she gets to the big wide open door....

We got to the corner...just a mere 3 feet from the coop door...and...**swoosh**...up in the air she goes again! I start the ritual again...as it did sort of work...just have to get her around the corner to see the big wide open hole to go in... The second shot, she FINALLY found the open door.

Ugghhh...these dang chickens are going to be the death of me!

* * * * * * * *

Now...about those plastic automatic water dispenser thingies.... I'm not an engineer but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express a few times... Why in the name of God's green Earth did they not just put the dang fill hole on the top of the freakin' dispenser???? What purpose...does the fill hole on the bottom serve? Why the need to have to flip the darn thing upside down to fill it???? Oh....and while I'm on a "female dog" fest...why have only an 18" cord????

Needless to say...after soaking myself a couple times...I will be revamping that dang thing to put a fill plug on the top...where it stinkin' belongs!

 

[BantyChooks]

Now...about those plastic automatic water dispenser thingies.... I'm not an engineer but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express a few times... Why in the name of God's green Earth did they not just put the dang fill hole on the top of the freakin' dispenser???? What purpose...does the fill hole on the bottom serve? Why the need to have to flip the darn thing upside down to fill it???? Oh....and while I'm on a "female dog" fest...why have only an 18" cord????

Needless to say...after soaking myself a couple times...I will be revamping that dang thing to put a fill plug on the top...where it stinkin' belongs!

You've now discovered why I give my birds water in 1gal rubber feed pans.

 

[SueT]

So yesterday at lunchtime, I head to the coop. I (as well as the chickens) enjoy my lunch. I go to fill the water thingy ( *!#* idiotic design...more on that later) and Bashful flies over my head and out the coop. Holy crap! Now what??? I'm only on lunch break...I don't have hours to spare. She didn't go far...thank God!

So I go fetch some crack cocaine for chickens...aka sunflower seeds. I come back and start trying to woo her with the seeds. Yeah...not even paying one iota to the seeds. So...I block off the run from the coop as the others are running around the fence perimeter in the run chasing Bashful...who is running around the perimeter of the run on the out side. I prop open the coop door...take a deep breath and say a little prayer to Sweet Baby Jesus.

At this time Bashful is jumping up on the fence poking her head through the chain link holes trying to get back in. Ugghh... I'm trying to tell her she won't fit...and see, the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence! She's fast...she's a paranoid mess (this was the straggler from the rescue that I couldn't get the first night)...and she won't let anything get near her.

So I approach her from the opposite side in hopes she'll keep working her way down the fence, (still poking her head through the fence) until she gets to the big wide open door....

We got to the corner...just a mere 3 feet from the coop door...and...**swoosh**...up in the air she goes again! I start the ritual again...as it did sort of work...just have to get her around the corner to see the big wide open hole to go in... The second shot, she FINALLY found the open door.

Ugghhh...these dang chickens are going to be the death of me!

* * * * * * * *

Now...about those plastic automatic water dispenser thingies.... I'm not an engineer but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express a few times... Why in the name of God's green Earth did they not just put the dang fill hole on the top of the freakin' dispenser???? What purpose...does the fill hole on the bottom serve? Why the need to have to flip the darn thing upside down to fill it???? Oh....and while I'm on a "female dog" fest...why have only an 18" cord????

Needless to say...after soaking myself a couple times...I will be revamping that dang thing to put a fill plug on the top...where it stinkin' belongs!

Lol....
're gravity waterers, there is no hole in top for a reason----there has to be an airlock to keep all the water from running out.

 

[rjohns39]

I hate those waterers with a passion. I like these with a five gallon bucket higher than it and outside the run.