Alaskan's Journal

[Rammy]

Or move the chickens closer to the house.............

 

[Bruce]

OR!!!! INTO the house! They can help heat it.

 

[Rammy]

Or come for dinner................(cough)

 

[Alaskan]

You are just going to have to buckle down and pick up the slack there Al!
Maybe you need a BIG tank near the coops that you can keep some stock tank heaters in so you don't have to tote the water very far.

Have you seen my electric bill?

I even got a outside hydrant by the coops... but it just doesn't work right, and uses way to much hand strength.

My arthritis makes my hands about as strong as a little kid's hand.

 

[Alaskan]

Or move the chickens closer to the house.............

OR!!!! INTO the house! They can help heat it.

That is what I wanted! I wanted the coop up against the kitchen wall. Open the kitchen window, toss the scraps directly into the chicken yard. And there is an exterior door in the pantry, that could open into a chicken feed room, then into the coop. Dang! With that set up there would be no hauling at all!

But first I would have to kick spouse to the curb... or uh.... I would get kicked to the curb.

 

[Alaskan]

OR!!!! INTO the house! They can help heat it.

Actually had 3 grow outs in the boy's bathroom for a month.... just got them to the coop.

 

[Bruce]

Spouses can be SO unreasonable!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Ohhh how I hated empty nest symdrone....but you get through it, suck it up and start doing more things for yourself. You will find your way, figure out what you need to do and what you may not want to do.....if you can make it up there.....YOU can make it anywhere

 

[Alaskan]

Ohhh how I hated empty nest symdrone....but you get through it, suck it up and start doing more things for yourself. You will find your way, figure out what you need to do and what you may not want to do.....if you can make it up there.....YOU can make it anywhere

Or way downsize.

Or move back to Texas.

I could have a mess of chickens in a hot climate.

 

[Latestarter]

Or move back to Texas.

Now it seems you've kinda come to YOUR senses... couple that with the previously stated option:

But first I would have to kick spouse to the curb... or uh.... I would get kicked to the curb.

Seems like a win:win, either way it goes...