Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Davesnave

lucielle wrote: »

I can't afford to make a hen pen, so do I wait for them to depart or help them on the way so i can use the veg beds?
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I assume these unproductive hens are eating some regular chicken pellets, or whatever?

If they are, then you might ask yourself if the scarce resources of the planet should be 'wasted' on them.

Alternatively, you might decide that they have earned their 'pension,' by being productive in the past.

Those are the two ways of looking at it.

If you decide the hens ought to go, it doesn't make it any easier to choose how to do it.

A friend here 'liberates' her unwanted stock (cockerels) in the local woods. I bang mine over the head with a blunt instrument. The result is much the same, but my way is 100% guaranteed to be quick and painless. It's just harder on me.

No easy answers on this one!

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

New gaff?...........:think:

Don't get too excited yet....


She's changed the chicken sheds about since I was last there and is having a shed clear out. :rotfl: Its actually been a fair while since I was at Alfie's gingerbread house now.

DH wanted to know if we should wear suits and take clip boards :rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

After that beautiful day a horrid night again . DH is having to coerce the dogs to go out. Dog dog is trying to get behind the wood burner to avoid going out into the shocking weather. .


The cake is now full and going to need pumping urgently. . Oddly our ditches out front, normally full most o winter are still just puddling mud mainly.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Don't get too excited yet....


She's changed the chicken sheds about since I was last there and is having a shed clear out. :rotfl: Its actually been a fair while since I was at Alfie's gingerbread house now.

DH wanted to know if we should wear suits and take clip boards :rotfl::rotfl:

well........ depends wether you are qualified, in anything, in fact a cse would be a big jump from mr pratt

if its a white coat then please be gentle when you sedate me and put me in the shed ....

2014 is clear-out time

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

After that beautiful day a horrid night again . DH is having to coerce the dogs to go out. Dog dog is trying to get behind the wood burner to avoid going out into the shocking weather. .


The cake is now full and going to need pumping urgently. . Oddly our ditches out front, normally full most o winter are still just puddling mud mainly.

cake overflow/soak away's not blocked somewhere ? also may be up stream from the ditch ?

lostinrates

Ugggggggggggg

More fence down and a beech in the field boundaries.

We are steadily losing beeches. We took down lots of dead ones standing when we arrived but live ones have since gone. I think we have some sort of beech disease. . . On the plus side the ash jus over our boundaries in several places seem fine. I'm reluctantly going to tell neighbours we'll be needing to remove an overhanging branch next year. I would mind so much but I know they'll want the wood back, lol..

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

cake overflow/soak away's not blocked somewhere ? also may be up stream from the ditch ?

No over flow or soak away :eek: we have to pump....something we really need to rectify.......


Now imagine how planning are going to take that:eek::eek::eek:,

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

I have never owned chickens and I keep posting here :rotfl:

Years ago, when the DDs were kids, they had a computer game called 'Theme Hospital.' The idea was to build, equip and run a hospital, subject to financial constraints and the inevitable wild cards of epidemics etc.

It was the only game of its type I liked, especially the little bits of humour, like the psychiatry department which had to deal with numerous people wandering around dressed as Elvis Presley.:rotfl: It also taught you to look after the basics, like cleaning, or else there would be an outbreak of patients vomiting everywhere. Bit real, that! :eek:

Anyway, wouldn't it be good if one of the games companies brought out a game called 'Theme Farm.' Then, anyone could have a virtual experience of keeping chickens.

Rummer

Hmmm I have ordered some pea and bean seeds so we will see how they go.

Been thinking this evening how I can make our day dream a bit more of a reality in this house. My maternity leave has started and I have a few months to get things organised and live a simpler life (ok clearly in denial about the newborn :rotfl:) The first few weeks will be spent recovering and adjusting but once I have found my feet I want to get the house and garden working harder for us.

rozeepozee

Davesnave wrote: »

Years ago, when the DDs were kids, they had a computer game called 'Theme Hospital.' The idea was to build, equip and run a hospital, subject to financial constraints and the inevitable wild cards of epidemics etc.

It was the only game of its type I liked, especially the little bits of humour, like the psychiatry department which had to deal with numerous people wandering around dressed as Elvis Presley.:rotfl: It also taught you to look after the basics, like cleaning, or else there would be an outbreak of patients vomiting everywhere. Bit real, that! :eek:

Anyway, wouldn't it be good if one of the games companies brought out a game called 'Theme Farm.' Then, anyone could have a virtual experience of keeping chickens.

you are joking, aren't you? Either that, or you really don't use Facebook.