Wire Wrap and Weave Jewelry

[perchie.girl]

Hi @perchie.girl, this is so cool!
When do you move back to your place?
Any plans for chickens?

Hopefully in March I am in the middle of packing and canning food for the move.

The new poultry house will have five partitions.

I want Guineas for sure.

Some large fowl Wellsummers. Fell in love with Wellsummers with my last flock. Big sturdy birds with a quiet steady personality.

Then Muscovy ducks. Had them before and love their "speak" and tail twitching. For Eggs and Meat. "the other red meat" It can be treated like beef, cured like Corned beef and or pastrami. You can even make Prosciutto out of it.

I have the old coop which will work for some meat birds. Or even Quail. Have never raised quail but from what I hear they would be more than sufficient to meet my food needs.

The deal is nowadays I can only eat seven ounces at a time. So My meat and eggs needs are low.... I can put one whole quail in a half pint jar. Spatch cocked and frozen they will go in the freezer in a nice compact package. Plus the eggs.

So We will see how it goes. On the poultry front. Mucovys are easy to get around here. As well as Kathy has offered to help get me started.

Id love to have goats again but I need better fencing and a dedicated house or barn for them.

deb

 

[1muttsfan]

Goat's milk cheese and soap

 

[perchie.girl]

Goat's milk cheese and soap

Milking is a full time committment that I dont care to take on. But Last time I had Three Wethers and one Nanny. She bossed them all and she was the smallest. They are great browsers for chaparal... Dont care to eat grass but will if they have to.

I need hotwire both to contain and to protect them. But the land is too dry to make a good ground... in order to deliver a shock you have to do Bi Polar tape or run positive and Negative wires in close proximity to each other.

deb

 

[1muttsfan]

Usually the clay here retains moisture, but I've had that problem during a long dry spell. Had to pour water on the ground rod

 

[perchie.girl]

Usually the clay here retains moisture, but I've had that problem during a long dry spell. Had to pour water on the ground rod

I have an incredible perk rate here.... Lost three thousand gallons from a leak in a hose down a gopher hole... No mud only damp ground. We only get twelve inches of precipitation per year including snow. (At my house).

Our wells are being drilled down to six hundred feet. I need a house ground put in when i move back and we will find out how deep that will need to go ... the electricion said it should be around six feet in our area. But thats the house ground not the ground for a fence.

There is always a layer of dry between lives stock and fence... The Bipolar fencing is designed for the desert.

deb

 

[Kusanar]

I have an incredible perk rate here.... Lost three thousand gallons from a leak in a hose down a gopher hole... No mud only damp ground. We only get twelve inches of precipitation per year including snow. (At my house).

Our wells are being drilled down to six hundred feet. I need a house ground put in when i move back and we will find out how deep that will need to go ... the electricion said it should be around six feet in our area. But thats the house ground not the ground for a fence.

There is always a layer of dry between lives stock and fence... The Bipolar fencing is designed for the desert.

deb

When you consider that my well is only about 20 feet deep and ran for a month with no issues when someone broke the pluming wall and just let the water run....

 

[1muttsfan]

My well is at 54 feet, great flow - when they dug the well they had a pump in there that ran at 10 gal/minute for 24 hours and never slowed down. But I am surrounded by water up here.

 

[Kusanar]

My well is at 54 feet, great flow - when they dug the well they had a pump in there that ran at 10 gal/minute for 24 hours and never slowed down. But I am surrounded by water up here.

If you dig a post hole on my place on the wrong day you hit water.... and my place is on a hill... the creek is the next property over...

 

[perchie.girl]

sigh.... thats why we dont grow grass... or plant anything that needs deep irrigation.

I can count on one hand how many places around here that have permanent pasture... or could have permanent pasture.

deb

 

[Kusanar]

sigh.... thats why we dont grow grass... or plant anything that needs deep irrigation.

I can count on one hand how many places around here that have permanent pasture... or could have permanent pasture.

deb

Yeah, it's crazy, when the grass is growing my horses don't drink water... they have 200 gallons available, but they drink maybe 50 gallons a week between 2 regular horses and a mini... heck, maybe it evaporates that fast. In the winter when they are eating hay I put probably about 200 gallons out per week for them.