the daydream fund challenge thread

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

We noticed yesterday, but isn't the white horse filthy atm!

He looks like he's been enjoying himself with a darned good roll in the mud

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

He looks like he's been enjoying himself with a darned good roll in the mud

Rotfl.

Will tell grey owning client that tomorrow. Too funny.

rozeepozee

Great suggestion about the en suite boot room, Maggie. We were thinking plus loo, but a shower makes a lot of sense.

I'm getting a little envious at the thought of a meet up. I've often thought how lovely it would be to see you guys in the flesh (well, not literally, even after today's escapades) but I'm constrained by thechildren these days. One day, they will be weaned and I'll be able to leave them for a night...

We're coming up with a plan of sorts for the fencing and static siting. It's likely to involve the local quarry man and his digger, the local farmer & my OH as a spare pair of hands... We'll see. It sounds as though fencing is something not to scrimp on. Fortunately most of the field has good hedges. We need a really wide gate to get the static thru!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rozee....that was a good idea from maggie...if you are outside working and it rains, you get coverd in mood etc, you can take your boots off, strip off and have a nice shower, and if you had a laundry room next to your boot/shower room, you can put your wet/dirty clothes straight in the wash, without them going into the main house...

Well i finally bought some chicken eggs on fleabay last night:D, so this will be the first time in well over a year one of our incubators will be on..

I bought chocolate pekin eggs, with a frizzle gene in there..

they were expensive, BUT....they do look lovely birds

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180807677884?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649


so fingers crossed i get a good hatch rate...

will have a look for another seller of choc pekins, so i can see if i can get my own breeding strain going, ( if there are some nice ones worth keeping in there)

I must admit i am really 'egg'cited about hatching some eggs out, flip have i missed it......


In the end i didnt end up maing some bags:cool: i had bought some things ages ago that i was going to re-cover in welsh blankets, so yesturday i re-covered a 1960's wicker sewing box, never anything like that before so on the whole it is ok. but some finer finishing points could have been better, then when i was lining the inside, i run out of ribbon ( for the edging) so ordered some more last night.. I allway like to use the wast of india cotton ribbon, its really nice cotton woven type ribbon...so as soon as the ribbon arrives i can finish it off

should have done a before and after pic, but if i remember i will take some pics to show you

also got a brass/wooden log box with a padded lid to re-cover too

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

@Dave - Anything out of the normal dimensions or needing to be made to order it is always worth trying these people. Across the years they've made all sorts of things for us from gratings to stainless steel posts.

That's a good company to know about. Thanks! We have to do some structural repair on the barn at some point and steels might be the way to go.

lucielle wrote: »

My plan is to cover it with the matting and roll it back as and when I have anything to plant. I'm trying not to have as much weeding to do and just to keep up with it. L

Excellent idea. I say that 'cos we are doing the same in a couple of places! :rotfl:

lostinrates

Good luck ctc, exciting.


I really want ro get some hatching eggs this year, but don't feel i can cope with the disruption in the house with builders. Also, the dusty environment probably isn't great for tiny chicks. At the end of the mopneth i might consider it. I could put some out in the feed room under a light maybe, when its milder.

rozeepozee

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Rozee....that was a good idea from maggie...if you are outside working and it rains, you get coverd in mood etc, you can take your boots off, strip off and have a nice shower, and if you had a laundry room next to your boot/shower room, you can put your wet/dirty clothes straight in the wash, without them going into the main house...

Well i finally bought some chicken eggs on fleabay last night:D, so this will be the first time in well over a year one of our incubators will be on..

I bought chocolate pekin eggs, with a frizzle gene in there..

they were expensive, BUT....they do look lovely birds

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180807677884?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649


so fingers crossed i get a good hatch rate...

will have a look for another seller of choc pekins, so i can see if i can get my own breeding strain going, ( if there are some nice ones worth keeping in there)

I must admit i am really 'egg'cited about hatching some eggs out, flip have i missed it......




also got a brass/wooden log box with a padded lid to re-cover too

Oh, CTC, that post has relly fired me up. The kids will love hatching eggs (what am I talking about, I will love hatching eggs :rotfl:). I need an incubator - another addition to the wish list.

Or do I just get a broody hen first?

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

Oh, CTC, that post has relly fired me up. The kids will love hatching eggs (what am I talking about, I will love hatching eggs :rotfl:). I need an incubator - another addition to the wish list.

Or do I just get a broody hen first?

What sort of chooks do you want? Purebreds, homebred mongrels? Egg producers? What is your plan for excess boys if you are worries about eating them?

Choose you chickens, then decide what your plans are, then decide whether you want to let a broody hen rear sme of her own eggs or to buy an incubator. Either way you will end up with some boys....so need to have a plan. If you want to keep less than say a dozen hens eventually a broody will probably keep you well enough stocked, but it will be at her pace.

Davesnave

Isn't it funny how in a batch of hens there will often be a 'character?'

Lir was talking about her ex-batts, and how one of those was immediately brave. So it is with our RIRs, because there's one that has 'talked' to us right from the start and enjoyed being picked up. As soon as she got in with the other hens, she was confident, took no nonsense from them and jumped up to perch with them straight away. Her whole attitude was, "Hey, I'm one of the gang now!"

She's not a true RIR either, because although her colour's right her leg length is too short.

Have a good look through articles about hen breeds and see what you fancy rozee. There are certainly traits which are common to breeds, like our Vorwerks, which are all very inquisitive and active, but then within the breed there will sometimes be the 'characters' too.

I wouldn't get too many of one kind to start with. Our Welsummers were a mistake, but we could always sell them on....probably at a small loss.

lostinrates

I hVe a welsummer. I like her eggs, but don't feel she is particularly someone i know well.

I love my sicilian buttercup.....she is hilarious. Totally wild mind you, and flies about like a gardne bird, but very pretty none the less, tiny eggs. I do love the cream legbar hens. They are meant to be flighty, i do not find mine so, rather friendly...one of mine is another real chracter.

I will always adore the cochins. I think they are superb birds, friendly, not too fragile, beautiful. We have never had a bad cochin hen, and the roosters have pretty much all been gentlemen.

Alfie and my dh both like our kraienhoppe..almost certainly spelt incorrectly here! She isa dramatic looking bird. Very confident and independant. Unusual loookng, unusual eggs, and nice to have a rare breed.