Daydream thread continues.....

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Pulling out a length of garden hedging....(privet, some honeysuckle (might stay) elder and bramble and a clematis (which if I can find the base of in time might get saved...does anyone know if it would move? )

Anyway....by hand or call a digger man? We think we are going for one half of the frontage in bareroot yew this year, so need to get onto the prep very quickly. Besides clearing the ground we think we will use a weed membrane, most arduous part likely to be elders and soil improving/digging.

But time is of course tit, if we are to get bareroots in a couple of weeks....

Yep, agree with Dave - a digger.
I've frequently moved clematis & honeysuckle without paying too much attention to when I did it. It either worked or it didn't :rotfl: but most times it worked.

alfie_1

CTC...wadya buy...wadyabuy ???? :j

alfie_1

LIR......
BAD NEWS..
IM NOT SAYING THESE GF ARE A TAD WILD BUT THE KEEPER IS STILL TRYING TO CATCH EM ...........:rotfl::rotfl:

GOOD NEWS..... NO BODY WILL BE ABLE TO NICK EM...:o :rotfl:

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR......
BAD NEWS..
IM NOT SAYING THESE GF ARE A TAD WILD BUT THE KEEPER IS STILL TRYING TO CATCH EM ...........:rotfl::rotfl:

GOOD NEWS..... NO BODY WILL BE ABLE TO NICK EM...:o :rotfl:

Oh dear, that's quite funny. I have never known very tame ones, but these sound something else. Keeping in for a few weeks to get used to the milking parlour roosting sounds like a good idea.

I would like them to lay somewhere I occasionally find an egg at least! Tbh, ATM I quite fancy keeping guineas and just the lawn chickens, if we good get enough guinea eggs.


I think ctc must have bought half the sale stock......she is too busy to tell us feeding all these creatures.


Lotus eater was right, chickens are great for ground elder, Dh and I started weeding and mulching and where the hens have been in the border there is not one bit of ground elder left...just a few milk thistles, ivy and the occasional nettle and couch grass. Sadly we are getting up to the less favoured end last, so the task will get harder! We also had to pen them off the boarder for now as Attila the blind hen is wandering like crazy and needs to be more confined.

Davesnave

Our friend heard of our plans for the two cockerels last night, so there will be a visit to Hatherleigh market with hers and ours on Tuesday. :rotfl:

I still think the end result will be the same!

Pete was given 6 guineas. Five he still has, but the sixth was a wild one. It shot through his legs & out of the holding pen, spending the time since about a mile away on the nearby estate. :rotfl:

lostinrates

We have a cockeral to dispose of too. No breast meat on it yet though so......

He is really beautiful, but he is not purebred so chance of selling him is zilch. We were going to deal with him yesterday but just couldn't face it tbh.

The rain is promising to hold off till later. We got a heap of poop cleared from the field, and now dh is clearing some of the nettle forest in the back garden to check on the biodisc.......there is a very worrying odour this morning.

alfie_1

LIR....... keeper did say he can give you plenty of eggs if you get a broody hen ???
are you on the look out for a decent small coup/pen??;)
i know where one may be lurking...:rotfl:

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

We have a cockeral to dispose of too. No breast meat on it yet though so......

He is really beautiful, but he is not purebred so chance of selling him is zilch. We were going to deal with him yesterday but just couldn't face it tbh.

The rain is promising to hold off till later. We got a heap of poop cleared from the field, and now dh is clearing some of the nettle forest in the back garden to check on the biodisc.......there is a very worrying odour this morning.

:eek::eek::eek::eek: i fink i will be come a home for the "unwanted due to no fault of thier own".............:o might as well, IM ONE ! :rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR....... keeper did say he can give you plenty of eggs if you get a broody hen ???
are you on the look out for a decent small coup/pen??;)
i know where one may be lurking...:rotfl:

I am always o the look out for coops/ pens.

I don't have any broodies . What about incubating gf eggs though? Can keep them under lamps through winter..I often give my hens lamps I had no luck with peacocks, are guineas more likely? If I have few tame ones then any wildies might be more easily convinced.

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek: i fink i will be come a home for the "unwanted due to no fault of thier own".............:o might as well, IM ONE ! :rotfl::rotfl:

You want him? You are welcome to him!