Pearce Pastures: Where did I go?

[DonnaBelle]

HA HA HA, I really enjoyed your post today!! You sound like a strong woman to me, a take charge disaplinarian. I have a daughter like that. She keeps everyone whipped into shape at her house, with a firm but loving hand. The great thing is, she gets results.

I don't know what to tell you about the junk hoarding husband. Mine doesn't pick stuff up on the side of the road, but he is getting very forgetful about what he has where, and is constantly buying a new one of something he already has, but can't remember where he put it. LOL.

Anyway, I loved your post, just wanted to say you made me laugh out loud.

DonnaBelle

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Some pics from today's adventures. Got a lot done but still a lot more to go. Tomorrow is going to be booked!

The back barn before we tear into it ....oh boy And this is after we cleaned out a truckload of junk and took a bunch of stuff to the curb.

DH trying to look sweet as he sorts through the scrap metal we are taking into recycle in the morning.

The Black Copper Marans rooster my son bought today with his birthday money...we named him "Javier" because he just seems like a suave Latin guy.

The new breeding/brooding pen with two candidates checking it out. The made themselves cozy and even laid eggs in it. More to come on that front because I don't know much about the whole breeding our own chickens thing.

And our main chicken coop that we built in January when I was getting stir crazy...I don't sit still very well, not even when it is a blizzard out.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

HA HA HA, I really enjoyed your post today!! You sound like a strong woman to me, a take charge disaplinarian. I have a daughter like that. She keeps everyone whipped into shape at her house, with a firm but loving hand. The great thing is, she gets results.

I don't know what to tell you about the junk hoarding husband. Mine doesn't pick stuff up on the side of the road, but he is getting very forgetful about what he has where, and is constantly buying a new one of something he already has, but can't remember where he put it. LOL.

Anyway, I loved your post, just wanted to say you made me laugh out loud.

DonnaBelle

Thanks for reading

 

[Symphony]

That is one awesome Chicken coop design. It made me want to be one of your Chicken's for a moment. The roosting design is ingenious and the front is a great use of recycling.

 

[Southern by choice]

great stuff in your barn!!! Maybe have a barn sale!
If I lived closer I would buy the windows (all of em) in the corner and the doors too!
I'd like to make a small greenhouse out of old windows!
Someone down the road has a stack of windows up against a really old outbuilding, I always want to stop and ask about them.... they are just a sittin' there with vines growin' over them...
BTW love your journal so far

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Aw thanks! I so so wish you were closer to take those doors Originally, my husband was collecting doors and windows he took out of other people's homes when he installed new ones (he worked for a door/window place). He thought he might make a greenhouse or a outdoor porch but that was 5 years or so ago. The he worked installing garage doors thus all of the rollers, slide locks and panels. Love that man

 

[Southern by choice]

Too funny!
Me- OCD my husband- Einstien with ADD!
I gut clean everything every 6 weeks.... so he hs learned to put stuff he wants to save in really strange places! Like somehow I'm not gonna find it and pitch it!

Still trying to get my family to understand that feathers need to be picked up at least 2x a month! They are always everywhere... our chickens range EVERYWHERE, so feathers are never ending! I asked hubby to make me a feather vac. since it annoys everyone to pu feathers. The man holds 2 patents, can build anything(mechanical NOT buildings-haha) and still no feather vac!!!! Waitin' on my plucker too! Other than that, he is pretty much perfect.......

 

[Goatherd]

I asked hubby to make me a feather vac.

If you're tired of waiting you might consider a leaf blower/vac. The I have a Toro and it has a bag and it "sucks up" just about anything. Would definitely work for feathers.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Still tired from yesterday and now I am sipping coffee and trying to get motivated for more today.

Started the day by giving my daughter a bath to wash off all of the marker she and her brother had colored her face with. Note to self...do NOT forget to put away the markers. We took a family trip to drop off the first load of scrap (got a nice bit of money back to put into savings), then TSC and the grocery store.

Got home and went right back to cleaning the back barn. I got one side completely cleared out so we could start planning the layout and pen sizes. I want at least three and I think we may have room for five but I will probably hold off and add those later if we want them. We will be using the raise meat birds in two and show birds in the third. I got so lucky and in my hunt for people with Black Copper Marans found a couple just 5 minutes from me that have both meat chicks and show-worthy birds. I think we will get some of the chicks from her to gt us started since I don't even have a hen sitting on eggs yet---gonna be awhile before we have our own and will probably be a little trial and error.

Very excited about another prospect that came up yesterday...

My mom and dad built a house across the street from us five years ago (I really wanted her to move out of the city to be by us and then the property around us went up for sale. The land was broken into 8 acre parcels and it was getting snatched up quickly. Mom was kind of interested but going back and forth until one day, I saw someone with a realtor looking at one of the nicer, remaining lots just across the way from us. I called mom again and said, "Seriously, you should make an offer because it will be too late soon enough" and she said okay but what about the people out there looking at it right now---that is the lot we wanted. So I threw on a sports top, ripped up jeans, bandana, turned up my stereo as loud as it would go on the most obnoxious station I could find and then walked out to get my mail---looked genuinely trashy!! Guess they didn't want me as a neighbor They left. Mom and dad bought it. The end.)

Then yesterday, the people who bought the parcel of land just next to them called them up to ask if they wanted it because they decided to stay in the city and can't afford the payments. So excited because if they do buy it, we will be able raise our own steer in addition to having our own chicken, eggs, milk, and veggies. We will see.

 

[Bridgemoof]

This is great reading, Pearce! I really enjoyed it.

I just LOVE the chicken coop you built, it looks fantastic. And hopefully the money you guys got from the scrap metal will be motivation for hubby to get rid of more stuff. You will have no problems at all breeding your own chickens. Ours just do it at will here now. NO prompting necessary! One week in July we had 26 chicks born out in the barn. Once they get that brooding bug, well! We had an incubator going, too, but not much success with that. Rotten eggs+incubator, disaster!!! Good luck!

I look forward to reading more about your adventures.