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Devonviolet

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Our property isan odd shape. Almost house shaped. When we were putting our fence in we realized the old fence was on the right of way ( we own the land, but, can't fence it ) so then we had to bring the entire fence in so that the road crews had access without us putting in a gate.

It would have been nice us they had flagged while they are surveying, but, that's the way they operate around here. :barnie:idunno

Edited because my phone never knows what I am saying...
LOL, my phone is the only way I can access BYH. It has a mind if it's own! I can type a word correctly and watch the phone change it to another unrelated word! Ooorrrr, uninteligable words are typed because the stupid keys are so tiny & close together I keep tying wrong letters! :barnie
 

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It was a gamble on our part but I had met the neighbors and they showed me that the original survey on our place fit with ours so we didn't have another one till after we bought. Half of our place is bordered by a railroad that also runs UNDER our driveway but I'm going to put an interior fence several yards inside the property line and have a separate fence on the perimeter. I'll use that as an alley to go to the different paddocks and make it easier to maintain. That's the plan anyway. :)
 

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when we built our shop, we had to have the property professionally surveyed in order to get building approval, but DH had found all the stakes beforehand and the surveyor just confirmed it.

@Devonviolet- not sure if this would work but can you run a string line from one corner pin to the other as a guide- maybe that will be too much string line :idunno
 

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That was going to be my suggestion as well Hens. What many professional fencers do is actually set the 2 corner posts and pull a single strand of high tensile wire to delineate the boundary line. Then just go down the line and sink posts/T-bars at whatever spacing is required/desired. After that, go back and do the H sets at either end, then run the fencing. If you plan it out right and place the wire correctly, it could become your top/middle/bottom hot wire after the fence is complete... kill 2 birds with one stone so to speak.

Mike, you have a railroad running under your driveway? :barnie:thHow often do trains go by? That's gotta be loud! Not to mention the vibrations that must affect the house... I hope not at night. My last place I rented was about 1/4 mile from tracks right outside of town and between the trains slowing/speeding up and whistles for siding swaps and traversing the town and such it made for very loud nights.
 

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Ours are slowing down lately. We have gone from 11 down to 4-5 a day.

We had electric brought to the coop, so we could put lights in the coop and run shelter. DH now needs to run wiring, inside the coop and run, for the lights.

I am in the same boat with the eggs, but make it 0 from about 50 chickens.:barnie I was just talking to the feed store owner yesterday and he said that customers are having good luck with feeding higher protein during the winter to get eggs and that they don't adjust the lights. He was out of the feed so it must be a common practice. I will be trying it when he gets the feed in again, it is 22% protein and he said to mix it with the normal 16% feed. He felt that the lights don't help all that much. :idunno

I have never had ALL of them stop laying so this is the first year that I have really cared, but no eggs is cramping my breakfast style.
 

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@Devonviolet- not sure if this would work but can you run a string line from one corner pin to the other as a guide- maybe that will be too much string line :idunno
We are on the same page @Hens and Roos. We bought a 500 foot roll of bright pink nylon string. We have the corner, by the road marked, but the back corner is not visible, for two reasons.
1. There is a lot of brush & trees blocking the view. We have cleared to a little less than half way back.
2. There is enough of a hill about half way back, the road can't be seen, from the back end of the property.

There is one point, about 100 feet, from the road, that the surveyor marked to segregate out the well house, because the sellers gave it to their son who owned the property next door. We measured the width, of the property (150 feet) as a reference point. We put a t-post there and have used it to create sight line, as best we can, to the mid point, where we want to put the cross fence. It isn't perfect, but hopefully it will be straight enough.
 

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Mike, you have a railroad running under your driveway? :barnie:thHow often do trains go by? That's gotta be loud! Not to mention the vibrations that must affect the house... I hope not at night. My last place I rented was about 1/4 mile from tracks right outside of town and between the trains slowing/speeding up and whistles for siding swaps and traversing the town and such it made for very loud nights.

The tracks are on the far side of the property from the house and we insulated enough that we don't even notice them anymore. I grew up right against a railroad so it isn't anything new. It literally does run under the driveway. The tunnel was built back in the late 1800's.
 
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I am in the same boat with the eggs, but make it 0 from about 50 chickens.:barnie I was just talking to the feed store owner yesterday and he said that customers are having good luck with feeding higher protein during the winter to get eggs and that they don't adjust the lights. He was out of the feed so it must be a common practice. I will be trying it when he gets the feed in again, it is 22% protein and he said to mix it with the normal 16% feed. He felt that the lights don't help all that much. :idunno

I have never had ALL of them stop laying so this is the first year that I have really cared, but no eggs is cramping my breakfast style.
I have read about the higher protein increasing winter time laying. I've also read a lot about increasing hours of light from roughly 9 to 13-14. We will be doing that as soon as DH can find the time.

We are also going to try fermenting our feed in a 5 gallon bucket. One of the things we will add is Gamebird starter, because it has 28% protein. The goal is 20% protein for the whole batch.
 

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