Good Morning! <=2017

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:41 pm

Lol OC my dogs act like it's stalking them and trying to suck their brains out. Happy on the other hand follows it around like it's a theif in the house stealing his gold. I've tried to get him to ride it but no way.

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 3:05 pm

Phew! Anyone else outside on Jan 21st sweating in a sweat shirt getting a head start on spring clean up?

Only about 100 hours left of raking to go. I really really love all my trees, but man they are impossible to keep on top of in the fall.

Now to go wrap my blistered hands and back at it tomorrow.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 3:11 pm

yup busy cleaning out pens and repairing the rv coop roof. sweating, temp in the shade is 13ºC. ttul!

Post by **WLLady** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 5:43 pm

I wanna be doing spring chores!!!!! i wanna be cleaning up the paddocks and raking the lawn!!!! alas, i only managed to walk to the mailbox and back (yes! the whole way there and back again!). and now i'm sitting with a heating pad on a very angry quads muscle that the nerves still haven't woken up to yet. sigh. no raking yet. i desperately need to take a shovel and a hose to the spots where the sparrows are roosting (and yes, nesting now) in the barn. the bird

is unbelievable and a little dismaying. when i was out there all the time i would keep on top of it....but i tried to lift the shovel, and well, nope. not yet. but i also walked a half mile on the treadmill...so i actually did do something today. and i did go to the barn twice, and get things set up for my hubby to move the feed out of the truck so i can make up more "horse dinners" in the ziplock baggies so that my hubby can feed the horses easily.

our internet has been up and down last night and most of the day today...guess they're doing work on the tower we ping into or something.....it's good because our service was pretty slow.....

couldn't care less about the inaguration. honestly. not my country, and no way that i can do anything to control it, so let's see what it is.....watch and wait....
ancient chinese curse: may you live to witness interesting times. or something like that. i have a bunch of american friends that think this is great, and a bunch of american friends that think it's very not great. so, who am i to have any opinion. it's done, it over and is what it is......(and we live in very interesting times). personally i prefer major back surgery to any politics (and i should know, having experienced both now)......i just hope that our economy is walking and talking in a year or two, and that i am still walking in a year or two...LOL

took the dogs with us on our walk to the road. had to hose them off when we got home! the muck is unbelievable!!!!! but given it feels like spring we are bbqing steak for dinner. seems appropriate!

so i see on the poll that ceramic mugs and t-shirts are the "in the lead items". if you haven't gone and voted, please do....this year has the potential to be a special year of things here at PTO, and if you want to have your input-now is the time!!!!
have a wonderful rest of the weekend folks!

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 6:51 pm

JimW wrote:QR_BBPOST Hello from the road... stopped for a quick break from driving thought I would say hi.

Oh well got to get back to driving and get birds home.

Have a good Saturday.

JimW

You tease, had time to stop and didn't mention what you got?

JimW · Post by **JimW** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 10:20 pm

Man I wish it was plus 13 C, I was happy with our plus 3, but that is ending soon and we will be back to normal temperatures.

OC,

I just picked up a couple birds to increase the diversity of the breeds I have, nothing new or exciting. I got a couple Bielefelder hens, which I am very excited about I have 2 pullets from this summer and 2 young roos, plus 2 older hens, who don't lay much any more, so 2 new hens will be great.

I got a trio of cuckoo malines, to go with the 2 roos and pullets I have. One of my malines roos and the 2 pullets I got with him back in the summer, have a few faults, so I will probably not breed them, so glad I found this trio.

I also picked up 1 rooster and 5 Cream Legbar hens, I already have 3 roosters and 5 hens, so these new birds will give me another unrelated breeding group of Legbars, I even got an egg on the way home, I ate it for dinner, it was fertile!!

Lastly, okay I lied I got a few birds of a different breed, as a last minute decision I picked up a few Black and Blue Ameraucana pullets, I will use these to make a few Olive eggers with my BC marans rooster and I am toying around the idea of breeding a black ameraucana hen with one of my Ayam cemani roosters.

Well that is the end of road trip number one!! Many more to come in 2017 I am sure.

JimW

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 10:44 pm

Right On Jim!!! sounds like a great trip!

plus 13 is not good! im furious with our warm weather. everything is a mess. the ground is trying to suck my boots off. its soo incredibly saturated, it better freeze back up soon! I'm worried about maple syrup season!

I sealed up the front half of the roof on the rv coop really well and it should definitely not leak anymore, the other half dosent leak but im guna do that one as well. I cleaned out one pen in there and holy crap, ever tried pushing a full wheel barrow through 6-8" of mud? it sucks! so I have a new compost pile close to that coop.

and I have the red pullet I have entered in the show in there so she will stay clean and not be bothered. I cant wait for the show and finally fulfill my promise to Stephane, I just wish I was bringing more! tommorow I shall clean the other half of the rv coop and move on to the big coop next weekend.

have a great night all!

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 5:33 am

Ooooh Jim that last mix sounds pretty interesting!

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 9:11 am

JimW wrote:QR_BBPOST Lastly, okay I lied I got a few birds of a different breed, as a last minute decision I picked up a few Black and Blue Ameraucana pullets, I will use these to make a few Olive eggers with my BC marans rooster and I am toying around the idea of breeding a black ameraucana hen with one of my Ayam cemani roosters.

Well that is the end of road trip number one!! Many more to come in 2017 I am sure.

JimW

as I suspected......

Flat Rock Farm · Post by **Flat Rock Farm** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:16 am

on the road trip Jim, sounds like you got some nice birds :wink:

Wished it had gotten to +13C here yesterday, was totally foggy all day and looks like today is going to be a repeat. My sister was in Windsor for the weekend visiting brother-in-laws family and she was sitting out on a Muskoka chair with her pant legs and sleeves rolled up basking in the sun she said it had gotten up to 14C!!

I just wished it wasn't so damp! I am off to clean out some pens, with this dampness and a couple of pens the rooster's and their randiness keep tumbling over the water bottles so it has made them a damp, moist , ammonia mess

. So have to get that cleaned out, so at least there is no snow on the path to the compost pile

Going to leave the doors open and try and air it out.

Happy Sunday!! :wink: