the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

not much to report really, my serama's a laying like its no tomorrow, so we are going to set up our smaller incubator and start hatching them out... and use our middle size incubator as a brooder...so you never know we might have chicks born on christmas.....
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Good luck! They are such attractive little birds. I bet the eggs would be amazingly attractive picnic fodder/''foodie'' purchase if pickled. I'm pickled egg obsessed ATM as I've recently done it for he first time, and made pink pickled eggs. I've never eaten one either, but DH pronounced mine ''very good'' after two days in the vinegar and the few people who have been in have all commented (they are still on my kitchen bench as I like the look of them).


Cats ARE earning their keep as heaters this morning.

alfie_1

i used to use top end of a good fluffy feather duster as a "mummy" when i hatched tiny bantams [plus heat lamp!]. keeps em cosy !
i have just spent a fortune at scats ! now have post traumatic stress !! last time we had snow, a lot of feeds were not available due to deliveries not able to get through from the midlands etc so thought id be clever and stock up now for ALL critters! my hand definatly shook as i parted with my dosh ! i walked out to see them loading my van with a mountain of sacks...... i was mentally trying to work out how long it would all last then divided cost by weeks and nearly drove off the b****y road when i realised what they all ate/cost....... and not an egg in sight

Rummer

I was tramping round the garden in the snow today while feeding the beasts mentally planning where everything is going to go!

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

i used to use top end of a good fluffy feather duster as a "mummy" when i hatched tiny bantams [plus heat lamp!]. keeps em cosy !
i have just spent a fortune at scats ! now have post traumatic stress !! last time we had snow, a lot of feeds were not available due to deliveries not able to get through from the midlands etc so thought id be clever and stock up now for ALL critters! my hand definatly shook as i parted with my dosh ! i walked out to see them loading my van with a mountain of sacks...... i was mentally trying to work out how long it would all last then divided cost by weeks and nearly drove off the b****y road when i realised what they all ate/cost....... and not an egg in sight

How long ahead have you bought for? TBH, in very worse casescenario our horses would be ''ok'' with all our hay and no feed, but two would struggle a lot We have a winters worth of grass pellets in, but not sugar beet as no one has it when I go. A winter's worth of shorts would be horrid cost.

The chooks I tend to buy a monthish at a time, the dogs three weeks ish, an the cats two-three months (buy online for them).

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

How long ahead have you bought for? TBH, in very worse casescenario our horses would be ''ok'' with all our hay and no feed, but two would struggle a lot We have a winters worth of grass pellets in, but not sugar beet as no one has it when I go. A winter's worth of shorts would be horrid cost.

The chooks I tend to buy a monthish at a time, the dogs three weeks ish, an the cats two-three months (buy online for them).

trouble is they all have different in the winter...[summer just grazing mainly] corn and layers pellets [ha ha] for 4 weeks. sheep mix for 3 weeks,minis..mix and speedi B, TB;speedi beet, condition cubes, barley rings,plus mix, joint juice,. 3 weeks. ruby similar plus hay 3 weeks, doves, 4 weeks, geese,4weeks. pot pigs mix 3 weeks, MABEL sow rolls 3 weeks, dogs 4 weeks, cats 4weeks, wild birds 4 weeks !!! oh plus aviary birds.....
see what i mean , if i drank id have a whisky. :eek:

alfie_1

yehhhh!! snow......

this is what i woke up to this morning [view from my bedroom window] so the "witch in the woods" got it just right with the feed stocks....makes the bill more bearable...:T:T

alfie_1

love it !!

lostinrates

Oh its so pretty Alfie!

We've had more here too, but its ok. Roads are passable, or would be if I had a car here. Even so I can't get a taxi to take me to the garage to collect the car because drivers don't want to head out of their towns.

alfie_1

i really must "grow up" !! but i do love snow, its falling still here too. going to set off to feed/see to all animals now... dogs took one look and got back on the sofa!
LIR hope you get yr transport sorted !
the roads here are not good but will give it a go...if nobody hears from me for a while im probably a*s up in a ditch full of snow....

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

i really must "grow up" !! but i do love snow, its falling still here too. going to set off to feed/see to all animals now... dogs took one look and got back on the sofa!
LIR hope you get yr transport sorted !
the roads here are not good but will give it a go...if nobody hears from me for a while im probably a*s up in a ditch full of snow....

Be safe. I remembered to take my phone out with me this morning in case I fell or something. It would take DH about four hours to get here, but better than waiting till friday night! my dogs love it...scampering about and wriggling with delight.