Bruce's Journal

[CntryBoy777]

That's a nice group of Girls...ya got there....(thinking +).........ya don't need any Trouble to deal with....

 

[Bruce]

No I don't need another Trouble. But I'll be surprised if the one is a pullet. Just took WAY too long to feather up. If it is a cockerel and he behaves himself, he can stay. Heck, DD1 will be heading back to school in a little over a month and intends to stay there next summer so I won't even have to deal with her potential/probable issue with possibly fertile eggs other than the odd week here and there that she'll be here.

 

[RollingAcres]

The chicks are now 7 weeks old
The EEs
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The White Rocks Daisy and Iris .... or Iris and Daisy I can't remember which is which.
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The Austra Whites
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The Columbian Wyandottes, suspected male on the right
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They are beautiful looking!

 

[Beekissed]

Bruce, your young chooks are looking GOOD.

 

[Baymule]

I like EE's, their different colors and you never know what you'll get. I saved eggs from 3 EE's, 1 Cream Legbar, 1 Wellsummer and a EE rooster for my two hatches. They are a variety of colors, looks like I got a lot of young roos, but that's ok, I have no problem sending them to freezer camp.

I have fertile eggs, people never know it. If you gather them daily and keep them refrigerated, the "spot" doesn't grow...….

You might enjoy hearing a rooster crow, it is a farm sound.

 

[Bruce]

True but you have to (well you don't HAVE to) understand DD1. The fact that there is a rooster means the egg COULD be fertile and therefore COULD develop into a chick if given the proper conditions. Yeah, I know

 

[RollingAcres]

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Mr. @Bruce, sir,

It seems that my idea of flail mowers being somewhat fragile was quite mistaken. After all, you posted your short clip of you mowing your pasture with no problem and this YouTube video shows this guy not have any problem:

Of course, I did not see where he tried to run over any wood-type bushes or trees, but he wasn't afraid to go in the woods where limbs were on the ground.

Please let us know how the flail mower works for you. And thank you for posting about your chickens. (For some reason, the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" is going through my head.)

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[Bruce]

Seems to be cutting stuff similar to what I was doing. Looks like he was occasionally using it to level the ground He was cutting pretty low. I have mine on the highest setting which is supposed to be 4".

If you are wanting to make trails through the woods I think a bush hog would be the better choice but once they are cut a flail would maintain them. Definitely shortens the overall length of the tractor since my 5' flail is about 2' "long", a 5' bush hog would be closer to 6'.

 

[farmerjan]

One good thing about a bush hog is that you can back up to places and use it to get under branches of trees that you can't go forward to get to. Used a bush hog many times to clear back crappy weedy growth by backing up and using it to cut off vines and such. Have never used a flail mower. We use spacers on the hydraulic arm to control how low we let ours down to. With all the uneven ground here, and rocks, you could not even think about it running that low to the ground.