Coffee anyone ?

[Bruce]

Good size cop for 3 birds.

Soon get a text, says "she'll come home".

Not if she was harassing my chickens she wouldn't. She'd find her way to the pound.

 

[RollingAcres]

@Wehner Homestead Congrats on your new job! Skyler is a female.

@kdogg331 The people we got her from said "cattle dog" but when we saw the sire looks like Cattle dog but dam looks like a pit mix.

@Mini Horses I hope that skunk doesn't cause any trouble for ya. Every once in a while I'll smell skunks so there's one around.

 

[promiseacres]

@RollingAcres thanks. Yes am better.

 

[Mini Horses]

Skunks -- Make lots of funnel shaped holes, looking for grubs. They will eat every egg they find. They will kill small chickens...and return for more. Since black and nocturnal (mostly) use a flashlight "in case". They can climb things but not good climbers in the true sense, so they don't generally go far. We apparently have SEVERAL around here Would like there to be fewer to none. They DIG very well. Even their pee stinks!

Beyond that, not much of a threat "in general".

I'd rather have tadpoles.

 

[Baymule]

@RollingAcres the 3 year old picked the color. She loves purple. The 11 year old loves chickens and yes, she will hang out with her chickens.

We picked up Wilbur today! I updated my thread.

https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/baymules-500-pound-boar.38333/

 

[kdogg331]

@Wehner Homestead Congrats on your new job! Skyler is a female.

@kdogg331 The people we got her from said "cattle dog" but when we saw the sire looks like Cattle dog but dam looks like a pit mix.

@Mini Horses I hope that skunk doesn't cause any trouble for ya. Every once in a while I'll smell skunks so there's one around.

It'll be interesting to see what she grows up to be and how big. She looks really small right now and the ears look really unique and sort of different than either pit or cattle dog, at least that I've seen (and I haven't seen many of those two specifically), but she could have more than two breeds, especially if the mom was a mix, and she could just still be young too. Either way she's adorable and the exact breed doesn't really matter much, I just find it interesting and might love dogs a little bit too much lol I almost wonder if she isn't part Catahoula or something though. Do you have those there? Sorry, don't mean to split hairs apart here and/or overanalyze so much, I guess I'm just one of those that like has to know lol or at least really likes guessing. And might be a bit too interested sorry. Think it could come partly from my love of all things dog (and actually... any animal) and probably also partly (largely) from the OCD aha probably where the gotta know bit comes in. Anyway, sorry, now I'm just rambling here.

 

[promiseacres]

good morning! Coffee is on

 

[Baymule]

Thanks for the coffee! I have a big puppy in my lap, not much room for a laptop, LOL

 

[RollingAcres]

 

[greybeard]

I'm curious. I've seen the same design in one of your other structures (when you put interior walls in your barn) and wondered about it then and I see it in this one as well. The studs. My framing days are hopefully long past me, but it's always been conventional that each roof joist must land on the top plate directly above each wall stud or jack stud and that the only exception being if a joist lands in the middle of a double headered window frame, which is why a double header is used above a window, and any window that is larger in width than the wall stud spacing is supposed to have a substantial header above it. Your joists on the window side appears not to land in middle of the header but only owing to the fact that particular joist seems to be omitted. No?
There are no jack studs directly under the king studs that carry the roof weight down to the saddle.
I've never seen framing where the 2x4 studs were oriented as the jack (lower) studs are. Jack studs are carrying the weight of both the roof and the upper wall, and are notorious for bowing. If they bow in the direction the wall is going it's usually no big deal, but if placed as your's are, when they bow, they are apt to push the wall covering out. I understand on the gable end, where you used a single 2x4 as a sill but above the 4x4s (the 2 runners) under the long wall is there a reason the jack studs weren't turned 90º just as the wall studs were?