the daydream fund challenge thread

COOLTRIKERCHICK

choille wrote: »

I don't have a bath. I wouldn't worry if it was blue, brown - black even!

CTC - That place is really cheap £130K that's a lot for your money.

choille it went to auction on friday, and it went for 170k

Just done a mega clean out of the main chicken shed, and they have had nice freshly cut hay. We normally put straw dowm ( i think as it was easier to get hold off before now) I love their reaction to their new clean home..... every time.....

choille

£170 isn't bad if you say it quick, but I don't have it, so it's loads I suppose.

Watch the hay with hens as they can eat it & have probs with crop - I think. But I don't know if it's true - something I read somewhere.

I use paper shreds but the Orps started to eat it so I had to stop that for them, but still do with the Scot's Greys. The Scot's Greys roost & the Orps don't - probably can't as they're so heavy.
I have my SG chicks advertised but no takers so am repeating the ad - hope I sell some as I have some more eggs in the cooker & am inundated with chick chicks everywhere

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

Radon = Aberdeen. They blame the granite.

Maybe I mentioned a couple splitting up & animals needing housed - racoons etc. Well he took his own life on Mon evening in a very shocking way. So all a strange & very extreme week, HOWEVER I have some progress & photos to show - ta ra - http://wildwritingfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html

WOW!! you are going great guns with the build...looks amazing...WELL DONE U 2

alfie_1

EVENING ALL

LIR... i hope the goosegogs are settling in a bit more. they are used to children feeding them so probably you may need to re educate thier diet !!

may i add that on collecting the above geese, how did i manage to also come away with 2 pensioner chooks ???? oh, the words,"theyve seen better days and need to GO" may have done it ....!!:D they must see me coming....
i think i will start a retirement home here.....:) the greenhouse is filling up...

i must get my taller fence finished as the others miss roaming around, perhaps tomorow if i feel better. i have a syrinx in my spine and its horrible when it plays up, usually caused by me doing too much

anyway im so pleased to see CHOILLE is getting closer and closer to having her very own BATH !!:T i expect to see a pic [a carefully taken one!!] of choille lounging in deep bubbles with a glass of champs in the not so distant future....:rotfl:

has anyone else noticed that after informing us of her teenagers impending party we have not heard from BOTTLEBLONDE ??? NOW IN MY WARPED IMAGINATION I COULD THINK SHE JUST DIDNT SURVIVE IT AND IS RESIDENT IN THE PRIORY AS I SPEAK !!:D

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Hey Davesnave, remember this one?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34062746.html?premiumA=true

I certainly do! That was the place where I vastly underestimated the likely price, due to having no idea about the area.

The A 303 killed it for both of us.

Looking at the ad, (my favourite agents - not!) I thought, "Well there's a new kitchen, but not much else, and the asking price is much like what it fetched at auction over 2 years ago..."

Then I noticed, it had 'lost' about 30 acres! :rotfl:

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Watch the hay with hens as they can eat it & have probs with crop - I think. But I don't know if it's true - something I read somewhere.

We have hay in the nest boxes. Ours is old hay, so maybe not that palatable.

On the floor we use wood shavings, which come from my FIL's woodworking machines. He's been making a lot of posh doors recently from tulip tree wood, but the hens don't care about that!

We finished the main polytunnel foundations today and celebrated with a gigantic fish & chip supper, eaten in the car, as we used to do in house hunting days.

On the way, we had a look at the A'lorps our friend hatched earlier this year and chose a cockerel who'll be joining our mixed flock soon. He is going to be a handsome boy. Such a shame the ladies we had lined-up for him won't be joining them for a while. Both those birds are happy now, but the one that was sneezing blood at one stage won't improve a lot further IMO. Her respiratory system must be pretty shot.

Next year, we will go for hatching our own Australorp chicks.

John_Pierpoint

lostinrates wrote: »

our horrid, limescaley bath is an least a sort of ''oatmeal'' colour. A paler oatmeal since I bleached it.

The ''brass'' on the taps has worn away in lots of places though.

Are you sure they are not "gold" plated the height of luxury in the 1960's and killed off some decades later by the air of Essex chavdom about them?

Mind you 9 carat gold is only 37.5% gold, leaving plenty of scope to add all sorts of other metals - so perhaps "brass" is the best description.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Watch the hay with hens as they can eat it & have probs with crop - I think. But I don't know if it's true - something I read somewhere.

No, its true I believe, and its more likely to get mould spores than straw in a bedding situation (partly because of sorfter less glossy stalks, partly because its a denser stalk, so less ventilated ) and is prone to being dusty (many horse people have to dip the hay in water to ''hold'' dust to the hay so it reduces the impact of COPD, the same copd as humans get)....so not ideal for sentive poultry lungs.

That said, if it were what I had, I'd use it for a short term solution.

I use wood shavings in summer, mainly to coat the floor so that it can simply be sweapt, not as a thick ''bed''. One day I'll get linoleum of cuts, ideal to brush out. (but admittedly another nook for the red mites to hide in). In winter I prefer straw thickly for warmth, but in honesty I doubt it does any thing at all.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Then I noticed, it had 'lost' about 30 acres! :rotfl:

And, presumably, its main benefit, with that off road acccess to the bridleways behind.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

We have hay in the nest boxes. Ours is old hay, so maybe not that palatable.

But dustier! Might benefit from a rethink when the newcomers join the flock?