Finnie- Finally A Journal

[Mini Horses]

I'm sure "too much white" is for meeting standards but, I like them! And the last pic
That one looks like it's roosting on a hot wire what a hairdo.

Have fun on your trip.

 

[Finnie]

I'm sure "too much white" is for meeting standards but, I like them! And the last pic
That one looks like it's roosting on a hot wire what a hairdo.

Have fun on your trip.

Thank you! Looking forward to seeing the grands, helping them move to a purchased house instead of a rental, and taking a day trip to the coast.

@Mini Horses If you saw the ones with less white and a good amount of gold and black lacing, you would see how the “too much white” ones are not as pretty. And the white just increases with every molt. Covers up all the prettiness. Although I agree, they aren’t ugly. Pretty enough as a mostly white bird.

As far as standard goes, I’m not too picky about that, as long as I hopefully keep them looking somewhat like a Polish. All I have to work with is substandard culls from other people. My plan is to hatch out a ton (50 so far) to raise up and evaluate, and then hope that some of them are better than their parents. Then I will have a ton of substandard ones to sell to other people. But really, the people who buy chickens from me don’t care about that stuff at all. They just like cool looking chickens, or they just want eggs and don’t care what the birds look like.

 

[Finnie]

OMG - I had a tree just like. Same looking apples - and they were ready this time of year as well.
When we first moved out this way I was watching the trees. About this time I looked and thought WOW those are going to be huge come fall! they rotted on the tree. I forget what kind it was other than some heirloom.

Yeah, when I was looking them up, it seemed like all the early bearing ones were heirlooms.

 

[Baymule]

I love the Tolbunt Polish! Some day I’m going to have some. I’ve been thinking about rescuing my chicken trailer out of the middle field where Cooper the ram uses it for a running post and putting it in the yard. Maybe a few hens? Or maybe just get it away from Cooper before he does damage. LOL If you ever come to Texas, I’m ordering some chickens to bring with you!

 

[Finnie]

We’ve had a lot of rain lately, and then I guess Monday night there was a wind storm. Knocked one of our pine trees over. I think because the ground was so soft.

So lucky! It did not hit the garage, the grill, the dumpsters, the fence, the electrical utility box, my car, or my garden wagon. The only thing it landed on was my $75 electric poultry netting that I scored from Craigslist. No big loss, but I bet it’s not even broken.

 

[SageHill]

WOW!! Really lucky on that one. Just a bunch of clean-up. Chainsaw party anyone?

 

[farmerjan]

Once you get it cleaned off, I think you will be able to salvage the poultry netting. It was definitely a very lucky "fall" of the tree... How often would that happen for everything to be where it was and the tree not damaging anything. WOW... just wow....

 

[Baymule]

You sure dodged that one! Better a little crumpled chicken wire than a smashed house or anything else!

 

[Finnie]

Yeah, it was pretty amazing how it fell in probably the only way that it could have to avoid all that stuff. When we saw it, we both had a brief thought that maybe it could be saved if we got it propped up. But frankly, it was the last tree in the row and it was always smaller than the rest. We think it got stunted by the really big one that was next to it. So even if it could have been “replanted”, it wouldn’t have been a good idea.

So, yesterday I burned up our 1 1/2 year old brush pile since it was about to get doubled in size.

And DH went to work with the chain saw. He took 3 pickup loads of green branches and piled them up on my glowing embers.

(That’s just one truck load worth.)

And then all that was left was this:

I thought it would be a multiple day job, but he got it done in just a couple of hours. Those logs are all on the burn pile now.

 

[Baymule]

Great job on the clean up!