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You rascal!! 
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Alaskan
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I was successful!!!You rascal!!
I impressed myself... doing it all at the same time....
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Between random snow falls it is trying to spring...
And our goose pen with way too many geese is a mud pond, even inside their coop! Yep, standing water in the coop.
I keep standing there wondering how to fix it.... all fixes I can think of take either way too much money or work.
The goose pen is a little lower than ALL surrounding land! So, I would have to make a trench... 50 feet or so long to drain the water. 50 feet of trench, by hand...
Or.... buy fill....
I am worried about tossing in a pallet, them making a nest on the pallet, and then at hatch goslings getting stuck under the pallet.... And I wouldn't want to move it after they start nesting... they look like they want to start nesting....
I am starting to think that maybe I should move the entire coop? It was built in parts that were screwed together.... but then where do I move it to?
Thoughts thoughts, thinking out loud.
And our goose pen with way too many geese is a mud pond, even inside their coop! Yep, standing water in the coop.
I keep standing there wondering how to fix it.... all fixes I can think of take either way too much money or work.
The goose pen is a little lower than ALL surrounding land! So, I would have to make a trench... 50 feet or so long to drain the water. 50 feet of trench, by hand...
Or.... buy fill....
I am worried about tossing in a pallet, them making a nest on the pallet, and then at hatch goslings getting stuck under the pallet.... And I wouldn't want to move it after they start nesting... they look like they want to start nesting....
I am starting to think that maybe I should move the entire coop? It was built in parts that were screwed together.... but then where do I move it to?
Thoughts thoughts, thinking out loud.
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Exposed dead grass at the church...
And eggs sitting in fresh snow
And eggs sitting in fresh snow
Mini Horses
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Love those dark shells!
Maybe add boards to pallet to delete the slatted holes ??? Then no fall thru
Maybe add boards to pallet to delete the slatted holes ??? Then no fall thru
SageHill
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Kinda my thoughts as well. Besides getting a trencher or backhoeLove those dark shells!
Maybe add boards to pallet to delete the slatted holes ??? Then no fall thru
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Yes... fixing up a pallet and tossing it in.. probably best and easiest...
Maybe this summer I can strong arm myself into doing more run/fences fix-up.
The goose coop was a great duck coop... as a goose coop it is too small...
I am having trouble thinking through how to make it bigger with little work....
I tried to do new fences last summer.... but with zero cost...
Not surprisingly... my redone fences, made with crap... are... crappy.
So... I think this summer I must SPEND MONEY and buy fence posts... because the free ones I used, well... were more rotted than I realized... duh...
If I bought some actual from the store un-rotted lumber, I could get a couple extra feet of depth in the duck/goose coop.
If I bought fence and posts... I could have a bigger poultry yard...
Hummmmm
Maybe this summer I can strong arm myself into doing more run/fences fix-up.
The goose coop was a great duck coop... as a goose coop it is too small...
I am having trouble thinking through how to make it bigger with little work....
I tried to do new fences last summer.... but with zero cost...
Not surprisingly... my redone fences, made with crap... are... crappy.
So... I think this summer I must SPEND MONEY and buy fence posts... because the free ones I used, well... were more rotted than I realized... duh...
If I bought some actual from the store un-rotted lumber, I could get a couple extra feet of depth in the duck/goose coop.
If I bought fence and posts... I could have a bigger poultry yard...
Hummmmm
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Oh... yeah... crazy dark, especially since she is from McMurray Hatchery. Black Copper Marans.Love those dark shells!
Maybe add boards to pallet to delete the slatted holes ??? Then no fall thru
Baymule
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Leave old goose coop like it is. If you are going to spend money on a goose coop, move it to higher ground. You will continually battle mud where it is. Raising the elevation at the present site with wood is doomed to rot.
I battle water here, the sheep pens become poop soup and are gross. I brought in dirt to at least raise the level in their shelters so they have a dry place to lay down. I plan on starting a barn in a couple of months. First thing will be dirt to raise it above grade.
So instead of putting more work and money into a bad location, move it. If you are going to spend money, time and work into a coop, make it worthwhile.
Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, but if they do, then the wine skins burst and the wine spills out and the wine skins are ruined. But people put new wine into new wine skins and both are preserved.
Matthew 9:17
I battle water here, the sheep pens become poop soup and are gross. I brought in dirt to at least raise the level in their shelters so they have a dry place to lay down. I plan on starting a barn in a couple of months. First thing will be dirt to raise it above grade.
So instead of putting more work and money into a bad location, move it. If you are going to spend money, time and work into a coop, make it worthwhile.
Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, but if they do, then the wine skins burst and the wine spills out and the wine skins are ruined. But people put new wine into new wine skins and both are preserved.
Matthew 9:17
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Good points!
Yes, move and increase the size of the goose coop....
But.... if I am tearing down and rebuilding fences... that means I have more options!
WHERE do I want to put things??? Hummmmm.
Yes, move and increase the size of the goose coop....
But.... if I am tearing down and rebuilding fences... that means I have more options!
WHERE do I want to put things??? Hummmmm.
