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Finally took a day and got some stuff done around the house since the weather cleared up Picked up the last 14 posts from the farm supply this morning and unloaded them since my guy with the skiddy, auger, and driver is supposed to be here before the month is out Aired up the tires on the lawnmower, then tested the deck and proceeded to break the tensioner spring and almost snapped the belt  Then got my little brother's truck torn down (everything except the rocker boxes and heads anyway). It's getting new head gaskets and reman heads, and I'm redoing the high pressure oil system and cooling system while it's apart Cut up the ash tree that fell a few weeks back and hauled most of it out. I'm hoping the one that's still standing will fall on its own- they both needed to come down but I didn't want to do it  Going back to the farm tomorrow, hoping to cut and drag out poles for my shed going up this summer. Have to make time to haul the ole Farmtrac 60 over to the house before I put the posts up though |
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Originally Posted By 67Firebird: The goats just looked at it, and then it went under the straw. I was outside the pen, and had tried to catch it, but it went in there to get away from me. When I see one, I find it hard to resist picking them up and holding them for a while. I had a lot of mice in the coop/run sometimes, so when I'd catch a snake I'd put it over there to help with the problem. Here's two that I released right by the coop. A Rat snake; https://i.postimg.cc/RVkRXsvR/2016-6-10-Me-Western-Rat-Snake-2.jpg A Racer; https://i.postimg.cc/J7dbqBs1/2016-4-9-Me-Blue-Racer-1.jpg I caught this one inside the coop; https://i.postimg.cc/4y0ym1f6/20170415-BRS-4.jpg Sometimes for them to eat mice, you also have to pay them with a few eggs; https://i.postimg.cc/Wz74hmMg/2017-4-15-Rat-Snake-1.jpg We also put snakes around our garage and henhouse. I'd rather have the snakes than the rodents. I know, though, when the hens start avoiding the nest boxes, that I need to move the straw and look for a snake. |
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Originally Posted By Nobody69s: Did a little splitting today and built a Vtac shooting barricade over the last couple days. Fun little project. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/413870/IMG_0529_jpg-2783494.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/413870/IMG_0530_jpg-2783495.JPG Wow. You cut that out of steel? And...that's a lotta wood! 
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Wow. You cut that out of steel? And...that's a lotta wood! I'll probably need to get another couple cords before winter. I have OCD about filling my woodshed completely even though I've never gone through it all in one winter haha. |
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Crazy busy last few days here! We needed to move our bee colonies after I discovered a monstrous white oak who's base is starting to rot. Had it come down, it'd have taken out all four hives AND the fruit trees I planted last week. The trees are still in the ground, but we moved the hives Friday night - what an adventure that turned out to be! LOL Yesterday was mostly landscaping; transplanting/planting flowers and spreading mulch, but today I added an 8X16 section to the garden bed in my front yard and we ended up having to split both our over-wintered bee colonies (another adventure LOL)! At least one of the colonies looks like I should be split again, so we'll probably have SEVEN colonies by mid-week after having only two last year (our first foray into beekeeping)! We've got lots of stuff ready to move into the garden beds, too. Sadly, either we were late and didn't notice them, or our asparagus let us down this year. It's the third year, so we expected to get some nice bunches, too. Alas... Shit be crazy, yo!  Attached File Attached File Garlic is doing great, RHS of pic! |
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Originally Posted By 67Firebird: Are the hives anchored to those blocks, or do they just sit there? Guessing they just sit there. They get HEAVY. |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Guessing they just sit there. They get HEAVY. Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Originally Posted By 67Firebird: Are the hives anchored to those blocks, or do they just sit there? Guessing they just sit there. They get HEAVY. They are, yes. And they do! LOL |
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Originally Posted By Former11BRAVO: Crazy busy last few days here! We needed to move our bee colonies after I discovered a monstrous white oak who's base is starting to rot. Had it come down, it'd have taken out all four hives AND the fruit trees I planted last week. The trees are still in the ground, but we moved the hives Friday night - what an adventure that turned out to be! LOL Yesterday was mostly landscaping; transplanting/planting flowers and spreading mulch, but today I added an 8X16 section to the garden bed in my front yard and we ended up having to split both our over-wintered bee colonies (another adventure LOL)! At least one of the colonies looks like I should be split again, so we'll probably have SEVEN colonies by mid-week after having only two last year (our first foray into beekeeping)! We've got lots of stuff ready to move into the garden beds, too. Sadly, either we were late and didn't notice them, or our asparagus let us down this year. It's the third year, so we expected to get some nice bunches, too. Alas... Shit be crazy, yo! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/111577/20230416_191554_jpg-2785504.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/111577/20230416_170026_jpg-2785505.JPG Garlic is doing great, RHS of pic! |
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Originally Posted By 67Firebird: Cool. Looks like they'd just blow off, but I've never lifted one. Those larger boxes, full of honey, can weigh 100 lbs apiece. The first thing to give out on a beekeeper is his/her back. |
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Originally Posted By Nobody69s: Approx how much honey do you get from one bee box? That varies widely depending on how industrious the bees are (meaning usually how big the hive is) and the year, and how the queen is laying. If there is brood in the box, you don't get as much honey, etc. Normally those main brood boxes keep the honey and the beekeeper takes the honey from more shallow (smaller) honey supers. In those, you can get maybe 30 lbs of honey. In the bigger boxes like in the photo, (we call those deep boxes) you can get 60-70 lbs of honey in a good year. |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: That varies widely depending on how industrious the bees are (meaning usually how big the hive is) and the year, and how the queen is laying. If there is brood in the box, you don't get as much honey, etc. Normally those main brood boxes keep the honey and the beekeeper takes the honey from more shallow (smaller) honey supers. In those, you can get maybe 30 lbs of honey. In the bigger boxes like in the photo, (we call those deep boxes) you can get 60-70 lbs of honey in a good year. |
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Originally Posted By Nobody69s: That's quite a bit of honey! Yes. A big, active, healthy hive will make a couple of hundred pounds of honey easily, that can be taken, plus more for themselves to make it through winter. BUT...that's not ALWAYS the case of course....and a big, active, healthy hive isn't the easiest thing to get, nowadays. |
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Originally Posted By Rifleman_556: https://i.ibb.co/mFMMykj/20230423-182927.jpg Making some white chicken chili at the farm since it was a chilly day- below freezing last night and the wind has been cold all day. Going to get some paperwork from the DMV tomorrow, have to F tag 2 trailers and permanent tag another before the July deadline That looks really good.  What is an F tag? |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: That looks really good. What is an F tag? Right now VA has 2 types of farm tags: the cheap unregistered ones available at farm supply, etc. and what the DMV calls F-tags, or permanent farm vehicle (and trailer) tags. We normally just used the unregistered tags as the trailers don't get much on-road time, but in July the unregistered tags become invalid |
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Originally Posted By Rifleman_556: Right now VA has 2 types of farm tags: the cheap unregistered ones available at farm supply, etc. and what the DMV calls F-tags, or permanent farm vehicle (and trailer) tags. We normally just used the unregistered tags as the trailers don't get much on-road time, but in July the unregistered tags become invalid Gotcha. I don't have to register my trailers. Mine are small though. Like 7 X 12. I assume if the trailer gets big enough, it would have to be registered, but I haven't every had to do that. |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Gotcha. I don't have to register my trailers. Mine are small though. Like 7 X 12. I assume if the trailer gets big enough, it would have to be registered, but I haven't every had to do that. OH!!! @Rifleman_556 Recipe for the white chili! 
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Gotcha. I don't have to register my trailers. Mine are small though. Like 7 X 12. I assume if the trailer gets big enough, it would have to be registered, but I haven't every had to do that. Thanks to the NOVA farmers whining about non farmers using the tags (which I agree needs to stop, but don't support their solution) all trailers will have to be tagged. We have 10 (I think) trailers in total, ranging from 4x4 single axle to 9x22 triple axle. About half of those are road worthy, so we're adding lights, fenders, etc as needed and tracking down titles and bills of sale to get the larger ones legal |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: OH!!! @Rifleman_556 Recipe for the white chili! @Kitties-with-Sigs I don't do much measuring for stuff like this, just whatever I have on hand is what goes in the pot Chop onion, mushrooms, celery, green pepper and saute in a stockpot with butter Add shredded chicken, garlic, a can of green chiles, and I cheated and used a can of cream of chicken soup. Season with chili powder, tumeric, and oregano, and simmer for an additional 15-20 minutes. If you want cheese I add cream cheese, not sure if there's a better option but I normally keep some in the fridge |
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It sounds wonderful! Cold day here. Wind high enough that it makes outside kinda miserable. |
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Originally Posted By cowboy: Warm out today. Warm yesterday. Even warmer today. [/rockingchair] Went outside Saturday to admire the fields where I grow my https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/61763/cows-2802233.jpg They wandered up from a "neighbor" about 2 miles away as the cow walks. Clearly they need to refill their reservoir of said f****.
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Clearly they need to refill their reservoir of said f****. Bless their hearts... If I'm thinking of the right place, they came from an overgrown 5 or 6 acres. Then stumbled upon my 50 acres of well manicured hay grass and weeds. They probably thought they were in cow heaven. |
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Originally Posted By cowboy: Bless their hearts... If I'm thinking of the right place, they came from an overgrown 5 or 6 acres. Then stumbled upon my 50 acres of well manicured hay grass and weeds. They probably thought they were in cow heaven. You call the owner? |
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Originally Posted By cowboy: Warm out today. Warm yesterday. Even warmer today. [/rockingchair] Went outside Saturday to admire the fields where I grow my https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/61763/cows-2802233.jpg They wandered up from a "neighbor" about 2 miles away as the cow walks. Looks like T-Bone, Rib-eye, and Hamburger. The neighbor and I just dropped off a couple of steers at the butcher shop. In a few days it will be back to prime steak and juicy hamburger again.
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Originally Posted By Former11BRAVO: Crazy busy last few days here! We needed to move our bee colonies after I discovered a monstrous white oak who's base is starting to rot. Had it come down, it'd have taken out all four hives AND the fruit trees I planted last week. The trees are still in the ground, but we moved the hives Friday night - what an adventure that turned out to be! LOL Yesterday was mostly landscaping; transplanting/planting flowers and spreading mulch, but today I added an 8X16 section to the garden bed in my front yard and we ended up having to split both our over-wintered bee colonies (another adventure LOL)! At least one of the colonies looks like I should be split again, so we'll probably have SEVEN colonies by mid-week after having only two last year (our first foray into beekeeping)! We've got lots of stuff ready to move into the garden beds, too. Sadly, either we were late and didn't notice them, or our asparagus let us down this year. It's the third year, so we expected to get some nice bunches, too. Alas... Shit be crazy, yo! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/111577/20230416_191554_jpg-2785504.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/111577/20230416_170026_jpg-2785505.JPG Garlic is doing great, RHS of pic! @Former11BRAVO Are your beehives made by Hoover Hives? They look just like mine. |
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Well, sad day here. Found an injured hen this afternoon. One of our two remaining Golden Comets, and the sweetest of the bunch. I don't know if something tried to get her last night, or if the rooster hurt her during mating. It's bad. I am treating but I don't think she will be alive in the morning.  |
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Originally Posted By SixpackinOk: Looks like T-Bone, Rib-eye, and Hamburger. The neighbor and I just dropped off a couple of steers at the butcher shop. In a few days it will be back to prime steak and juicy hamburger again.I’ve got a little bull of my own I need to catch and cut and get penned up. He’ll be ready to go this fall. Just in time for a Christmas prime rib! |
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Man. Turning out to be a crummy day. I just found out that Gordon Lightfoot died. One of my earliest and most powerful musical influences. Used to sit around our kitchen table when I couldn't climb on the chair by myself, and I'd sit there quietly listening to my (much older) brothers and sister, all with guitars, singing this man's songs. It's a lot of what made me who I am.   Gordon Lightfoot - Early Morning Rain |
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This chickie does not want to die. Giving her antibiotic and treating her wounds. She has holes in both sides, but she eats, drinks, and poops, so  
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: This chickie does not want to die. Giving her antibiotic and treating her wounds. She has holes in both sides, but she eats, drinks, and poops, so https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/118038/Injured_chickie_May_2023-2803742.jpg ETA: I decided to add an addition onto the current chicken run to give them more sun during the day and more room for when I decide to get more. Had enough random lumber laying around for it. It won't be the prettiest of runs but the chickens won't care haha. Started digging the trench around the outside of it today for some hardware cloth protection from digging chicken killers. Will get pics when it's done. Woodshed is almost full for next winter! |
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Originally Posted By Nobody69s: How's the chicken doing? ....snip.... She wants to know when dinner will be here. 
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Originally Posted By ZW17: @Former11BRAVO Are your beehives made by Hoover Hives? They look just like mine. Originally Posted By ZW17: Originally Posted By Former11BRAVO: Crazy busy last few days here! We needed to move our bee colonies after I discovered a monstrous white oak who's base is starting to rot. Had it come down, it'd have taken out all four hives AND the fruit trees I planted last week. The trees are still in the ground, but we moved the hives Friday night - what an adventure that turned out to be! LOL Yesterday was mostly landscaping; transplanting/planting flowers and spreading mulch, but today I added an 8X16 section to the garden bed in my front yard and we ended up having to split both our over-wintered bee colonies (another adventure LOL)! At least one of the colonies looks like I should be split again, so we'll probably have SEVEN colonies by mid-week after having only two last year (our first foray into beekeeping)! We've got lots of stuff ready to move into the garden beds, too. Sadly, either we were late and didn't notice them, or our asparagus let us down this year. It's the third year, so we expected to get some nice bunches, too. Alas... Shit be crazy, yo! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/111577/20230416_191554_jpg-2785504.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/111577/20230416_170026_jpg-2785505.JPG Garlic is doing great, RHS of pic! @Former11BRAVO Are your beehives made by Hoover Hives? They look just like mine. Bee Castle and Hoover, yes. As an aside, the GF just went out and got the better part of a giant swarm 20' up in one of our trees. She taped a box to a telescoping window-washer we have and knocked the bees from the branch into the box - then, put them in an empty hive with a frame of honey. She didn't see the queen, but hopes she'll be "notified" of the sexy new digs available..! LOL |
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Originally Posted By Rifleman_556: Front fell off! https://i.ibb.co/7RS5YJT/20230513-095051.jpg https://i.ibb.co/zGdg1x8/20230513-095111.jpg Not mine anyway  Holy Peach Pancakes Batman! What did you do to that thing?
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Update on the hen. I thought for sure this chicken would eventually die. She was in bad shape, to my eyes. Went through an entire bottle of amoxidrops, sprayed her with Vetericyn twice a day, and still...last Thursday her entire right side was dark, almost black and hard...like a dried out hide (best analogy I can make because my dad was a trapper so I know how dried out skin feels on fur-bearing animals.) Plus she had a bit of greenish color skin down low on her right side. I kept spraying her. Saturday night I pulled her out to spray her and her skin was fresh and new. Sort of pinkish. Still a couple of holes in her side, but these are small compared to what were there. I don't know whether the black skin was a scab of some sort, and fell off, or if some Chicken Angel came and healed her. Saturday evening she laid an egg (she hadn't laid an egg since she got injured. I assume everything she has was going to survival.) She has laid an egg each day since. It's the darndest thing I've ever seen. Still spraying her. I'm now about $130 into this chicken between the Amoxidrops and the Vet sprays. Never been more surprised in my life. Had one survive a coon attack, but those injuries were small compared to these.  <---Chicken AngelETA: In other news, got out the dremel and we trimmed the rooster's spurs last night. |
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Originally Posted By Nobody69s: Quite the recovery! Good job fixing her up. Honest to goodness I don't know what fixed her skin. I still don't understand it.  Skin was so hard the spray just ran right off of it.POOF. Like new overnight. 
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Update on the hen. I thought for sure this chicken would eventually die. She was in bad shape, to my eyes. Went through an entire bottle of amoxidrops, sprayed her with Vetericyn twice a day, and still...last Thursday her entire right side was dark, almost black and hard...like a dried out hide (best analogy I can make because my dad was a trapper so I know how dried out skin feels on fur-bearing animals.) Plus she had a bit of greenish color skin down low on her right side. I kept spraying her. Saturday night I pulled her out to spray her and her skin was fresh and new. Sort of pinkish. Still a couple of holes in her side, but these are small compared to what were there. I don't know whether the black skin was a scab of some sort, and fell off, or if some Chicken Angel came and healed her. Saturday evening she laid an egg (she hadn't laid an egg since she got injured. I assume everything she has was going to survival.) She has laid an egg each day since. It's the darndest thing I've ever seen. Still spraying her. I'm now about $130 into this chicken between the Amoxidrops and the Vet sprays. Never been more surprised in my life. Had one survive a coon attack, but those injuries were small compared to these. <---Chicken AngelETA: In other news, got out the dremel and we trimmed the rooster's spurs last night. Glad to hear your chicken is better.  I never would have thought of using a dremel tool for roosters spurs, that was a good idea!
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Originally Posted By SixpackinOk: Glad to hear your chicken is better. I never would have thought of using a dremel tool for roosters spurs, that was a good idea!Not mine. I found it on youtube. There is a tiny bit of blood, but not nearly what happens with the other methods--pliers, etc. And watching what happens with dog nails and other bird talons, etc, I know there is a nerve in there, with a blood supply. The dremel kind of cauterizes it because of the heat of the little cut off wheel. So best I can tell it's the least painful way. The only thing I wish I had done was switch to a grinding stone and "eased" the edges of the cut spurs (you leave like a half inch or an inch when you do it this way--not too close to the leg) and so the cut still has sort of an "edge." I should have buffed that off a little. |
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Well-behaved women rarely make history~~Marilyn Monroe