fuzzi's "Gardens and Chickens...and Goats? Oh My!" Journal and More Thread

[Baymule]

Great little supervisor ya got there!

 

[fuzzi]

I gave my flock some leftover cat food:

Reminded me of this old toy:

 

[fuzzi]

A storm front arrived just as I was leaving work. The local weather issued a warning about 80mph gusts. We apparently got a strong one at home, as this sheet of metal was leaning against the shed, held there by two heavy metal clothesline poles, one with the concrete base still attached.

You can see them lying on the ground.

The metal was blown at least 20'. Yet an empty whipped topping container was still sitting on the driveway, left over from feeding the cats before work.

Go figure.

The coops are fine as far as I could see. My sitapon bags blew off the nesting boxes.

Gardens look okay. Squash is up!

The fencing is for cat discouragement.

And the clematis are blooming.

We're supposed to just have rain for the rest of the evening, hopefully nothing severe.

 

[Baymule]

Cat discouragement !!!!! Hahaha! We once lived next to an old lady cat hoarder. I don’t know how many she had in the house, but 50-60 showed up every evening in her driveway to eat. Then of course they had to poop, and where better than my garden that was in my front yard? I stuck plastic forks in the ground, tines up, to poke their tooties when they copped a squat in my garden. The cats also sprayed urine on my front porch and corners of the house. I was so glad when her sons showed up and took her to Oklahoma. They had to clean up the house, it was rented, and it was nasty. A couple of NEUTERED cats are nice. 50-60 spitting out kittens and cat fights under my bedroom window were a terrible nuisance. By the way, the forks worked!

 

[fuzzi]

Cat discouragement !!!!! Hahaha! We once lived next to an old lady cat hoarder. I don’t know how many she had in the house, but 50-60 showed up every evening in her driveway to eat. Then of course they had to poop, and where better than my garden that was in my front yard? I stuck plastic forks in the ground, tines up, to poke their tooties when they copped a squat in my garden. The cats also sprayed urine on my front porch and corners of the house. I was so glad when her sons showed up and took her to Oklahoma. They had to clean up the house, it was rented, and it was nasty. A couple of NEUTERED cats are nice. 50-60 spitting out kittens and cat fights under my bedroom window were a terrible nuisance. By the way, the forks worked!

I just have the two TNR "ferals", they love a freshly turned and planted raised bed.

(see the discouragement fencing?)

But since they keep pregnant queens away and the rodent population under control I can adjust a little to prevent kitty damage. They're good hunters.

 

[fuzzi]

A storm front arrived just as I was leaving work. The local weather issued a warning about 80mph gusts. We apparently got a strong one at home, as this sheet of metal was leaning against the shed, held there by two heavy metal clothesline poles, one with the concrete base still attached.
View attachment 116789You can see them lying on the ground.
View attachment 116790The metal was blown at least 20'. Yet an empty whipped topping container was still sitting on the driveway, left over from feeding the cats before work.

Go figure.

The coops are fine as far as I could see. My sitapon bags blew off the nesting boxes.
View attachment 116791

Gardens look okay. Squash is up!
View attachment 116792
The fencing is for cat discouragement.

And the clematis are blooming.
View attachment 116793

We're supposed to just have rain for the rest of the evening, hopefully nothing severe.

Found a "before" picture. I thought those two poles would have held it.

 

[rachels.haven]

Cat discouragement !!!!! Hahaha! We once lived next to an old lady cat hoarder. I don’t know how many she had in the house, but 50-60 showed up every evening in her driveway to eat. Then of course they had to poop, and where better than my garden that was in my front yard? I stuck plastic forks in the ground, tines up, to poke their tooties when they copped a squat in my garden. The cats also sprayed urine on my front porch and corners of the house. I was so glad when her sons showed up and took her to Oklahoma. They had to clean up the house, it was rented, and it was nasty. A couple of NEUTERED cats are nice. 50-60 spitting out kittens and cat fights under my bedroom window were a terrible nuisance. By the way, the forks worked!

I feel you there. We just did that in TN...except we moved. Ewie for you to deal with.

 

[Baymule]

View attachment 116808
Found a "before" picture. I thought those two poles would have held it.

Laid flat on the ground with those poles with cement shoes would have held it down. But leaned against the wall created an air pocket for liftoff.

 

[fuzzi]

Laid flat on the ground with those poles with cement shoes would have held it down. But leaned against the wall created an air pocket for liftoff.

And the wood panel stayed up, leaning against the hoop coop with nothing securing it. Tells me a lot about the wind direction.

 

[SageHill]

Wind can do strange things.