God bless
Mike
My work car is not in a good spot.
My new chicken tractor, roofless.
The old chicken tractor, roofless.
The kids' trampoline had fight with the clothes line, still not sure who won.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
That Was Close
Our current home remodeling project almost expanded greatly overnight. Nature has a way of testing our patience, especially when we are right in the midst of making things happen. We are currently finishing up the improvements to our home that Julie mentioned in a previous post. Additionally, I have just completed a new chicken tractor and had it in service for about a week. We are about to make some changes to our barn to accommodate a new milk cow coming from Tn FarmGirl. All this and we wake up to the pictures below. The area we live in has extreme wind storms about 7 or 8 times a year and last night was the worst we've had since we moved here. Wind gusts near 100 mph. Oh well, I need to get to cleaning up, and wait for the insurance adjuster. More to follow.
God bless
Mike
God bless
Mike
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Laura,
We do use them through the winter. Believe it or not, we typically don't get extreme cold temperatures. We will get periods usually in Jan. and Feb. that have temps in the single digits, but is usually short lived. In the event that we have a stretch of really cold weather, we'll place a heat lamp in the enclosed house with an extension cord coming from the barn.
We are constantly looking for better ways to do things. We have to plan things around the high winds we experience and are currently looking for better ways to house our chickens. We ideally like to free range the birds and house them at night, but that has proven very difficult with the layout of our farm.
One idea we've been considering is a large portable coup on skids that can be moved with the truck, and keeping a yard fenced off with electric poultry netting. This requires more dollars than we care to spend at this point. Any ideas you come up with, we'd be happy to hear.
By the way, my wife and I grew up not far from where you are. We are originally from a little area just north of Bowling Green, KY.
Mike
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