Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

Sunset is 4:35 and sunrise is 6:40 so the days are officially silly short right now.

I got T-posts set on right at 300' of the new fence and hopefully get that much more tomorrow unless I get back on to trash pickup. I got hold of a piece of carpet that was mostly buried that has been on my to-do list for when things get caught up. I was amazed at how much trash was under that thing. I looks like about 20 plus years of household trash not to mention old computer monitors and just about anything else you can imagine. I got the visible stuff picked up today and will start trying to do one truckload a week till it is mostly gone.

 

[Bruce]

Our sunrise today was 7:11, sunset at 4:12. And you thought YOUR days were silly short. Plus they only get shorter for the next ~3 weeks. Of course we could ask @Alaskan when sunrise/set is up there in AK and we wouldn't be whining any more

Don't you just have to wonder about all the stuff people just threw out in the woods or edge of a field?

 

[TAH]

Sunset is 4:35 and sunrise is 6:40 so the days are officially silly short right now.

man, I would trade ya... sunrise-8:00-8:15 and sunset at 3:30.

 

[Mike CHS]

@TAH - I actually would have thought your days would even be shorter.

@Bruce - what makes this pile of trash even worse is that I thought I had a handle on it until I used the FEL to pull that carpet off of what I thought was level ground and instead it was about 10' of trash dumped in a storm ditch.

 

[Mike CHS]

The dynamic between Maisy and Thor is proving interesting to say the least. Maisy has a tendency to get food aggressive if Thor shows too much interest in her bowl even if he isn't approaching her bowl. She has taken him down a couple of times for showing interest in her bowl and in one case when she got close to his bowl and he did a more of a wimper than a growl. Today Maisy had finished her food and had gone outside the stall where I feed them but when she came back in she approached Thor from the rear where Thor was eating. He did the wimper growl (don't know what else to call it) and she laid into him again. This time he sort of played submissive but he also had his teeth bared and was really tense. When she let him up he still had his teeth bared and was just glaring at her. I distracted him and he went back to his puppy self.

At all other times they are joined at the hip but I'm thinking to provide more separation at meal times. I stay with them when they eat since it takes the pup longer to eat.

 

[Baymule]

@Baymule How many more hours of light are you giving them? I have about 50 chickens and zero eggs right now. I have never had NO eggs.

I have the timer set to come on at 2 AM, it goes off at 8AM. Daylight is around 7, night starts around 5:30. I let natural darkness tell them it's time to get on their roost.

 

[babsbag]

That is about the same amount of light that we have here. I am going to try a lamp that brightens over time to simulate dawn.

 

[Bruce]

That is about the same amount of light that we have here. I am going to try a lamp that brightens over time to simulate dawn.

Can it also work in reverse to simulate sunset?

@Bruce - what makes this pile of trash even worse is that I thought I had a handle on it until I used the FEL to pull that carpet off of what I thought was level ground and instead it was about 10' of trash dumped in a storm ditch.

Prior owner probably decided it was more expedient to cover their dump than clean it out. What better than a large carpet? You are lucky they didn't cover it with 3" of dirt so you could "find" it with the tractor one day as it fell through.

 

[Latestarter]

Yaknow, it just dawned on me... you're cleaning out your "landfill" to deliver it to a public landfill... There must be a deeper meaning to it all somewhere...

 

[Mike CHS]

Joe - if I thought it would stay there I would just cover it with dirt but since it is a storm runoff ditch that might not be a good idea.