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POM » 26 May 2024, 7:34 pm » wrote: ↑

26 May 2024, 7:34 pm

NO

Beakman is @nuckin futz  
 
 @Cannonpointer

Lol - no wonder he is image obsessed. Nuckin was an unrelenting poster of porn!
 
 

POM » 26 May 2024, 7:34 pm » wrote: ↑

26 May 2024, 7:34 pm

met the whore ex wife there?

Had Natural Selection just seen the real you, she might have furnished someone willing to germinate your seed....

Will you post pictures of your trip to Brazil? You going to make it to the Amazon forest for a hike?

Cannonpointer » 25 May 2024, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

25 May 2024, 10:59 am

My chickens are being looked after by my sister and brother in law, who are my apprentice chicken ranchers.

Bless you my man........Orthodox Christian prayer for travel....

O Lord Jesus Christ our God, the true and living way, be Thou, O Master, my companion, guide, and guardian during my journey; deliver and protect me from all danger, misfortune, and temptation, that being so defended by Thy divine power I may have a peaceful and successful journey and arrive safely at my destination. For in Thee I put my trust and hope, and to Thee, together with Thine Eternal Father and the All-Holy Spirit, I ascribe all praise, honor, and glory, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

 
 

Cannonpointer » 25 May 2024, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

25 May 2024, 10:59 am

My chickens are being looked after by my sister and brother in law, who are my apprentice chicken ranchers.

ENJOY YOUR VACATION!

POST SOME PICTURES OF HOT BRAZILIAN WOMEN IN BIKINIS

 

righteous » 26 May 2024, 9:00 pm » wrote: ↑

26 May 2024, 9:00 pm

ENJOY YOUR VACATION!

POST SOME PICTURES OF HOT BRAZILIAN WOMEN IN BIKINIS

         
 

Blackvegetable » 26 May 2024, 7:55 pm » wrote: ↑

26 May 2024, 7:55 pm

Had Natural Selection just seen the real you, she might have furnished someone willing to germinate your seed....

your daughter hates you. She told me so   
 

HillaryClinton » 25 May 2024, 11:18 am » wrote: ↑

25 May 2024, 11:18 am

You should just stay there. And get off the internet.

Looks like someone wants more time in the drawer...
 
 

POM » 27 May 2024, 5:00 am » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 5:00 am

your daughter hates you. She told me so 

She would have to know him to hate him. She likely wonders about him. 

*rippy38 » 25 May 2024, 4:11 pm » wrote: ↑

25 May 2024, 4:11 pm

You've visited Brazil while your sister and brother in law looked after your chickens?

Amazing... absolutely amazing.

Who would have guessed huh?

They're not too bitter. My brother in law helped me build a rather magnificent chicken coop.

Okay, okay - **** it. So my brother in law build me a rather magnificent chicken coop.   

10x10 on a solid foundation - salvaged treated 4x4s up on salvaged blocks underpinning 2x4s that support two overlapping 3/4" sheets of quality plywood - everything weather treated. The entire thing is framed and roofed, has an automatic solar powered, photo-sensitive door, windows guarded by construction cloth, roosts for about 60 birds (I have 39 right now). Classical music is piped in, solid watering system and electrical outlets for heat in winter and a fan in summer that is built into the walls, pointing outward. It's a real beauty, and perfectly situated so that their free range points downhill and away from the road that is at least a hundred feet away uphill on the reverse side of the coop from their ingress and egress.

The plywood double-floor is upholstered with plastic and covered by a 10x10 tarp which can be hauled out to dump the cedar-shavings/pine-shavings floor-covering as needed, then replaced and covered with fresh bedding material. Every bird has plenty of roost space, and no bird can roost under another to become a **** magnet.

It is a well-planned coop fashioned from lessons learned by previous experiments with chickens. If this coop is everything I hope for and predation can be kept reasonable, I plan to add about 30 hen chicks - likely golden comets - next spring (even earlier, if feasible). 

I will say this: raising hens is like buying a boat. The expenses never stop. They MIGHT pay for themselves over time, in the very long term (several years of chicken ranching, running at least 50 beak of hens) - but it's not very likely. The venture is not intended for that - it's about producing one's own food in an economy/food-delivery system in which one's trust is (on good evidence) diminished. Even with most of the building materials being free, I would say that I am about 1300 dollars into 39 chicks, almost half of which are cockerels - and that is with a borrowed incubator. Feed, ground cover, automatic door, the coop lumber I could not salvage and had to purchase, tarps, hardware (nails, brackets, etc.), heat lamps - just a myriad of penny here, penny there expenses have stacked up to the point that I would guess I am into the venture - ignoring the cockerels - about 75 bucks per hen. Now, that CAN be absorbed over time, as adding hens will not add to the infrastructural costs - just maintenance costs. And mind, this only counts the dollars - not the labor. Feed costs won't be too high moving forward, as my hens will free range.

At the end of it all, I have the beginning of a nice flock - all mixed up and multi-cultural for the present, though I will transition over time to either barred rocks or golden comets with a bias toward golden comets and time to sort it as I continue to learn. Golden comets go as high as 330 eggs per year under good conditions (which I have), and the eggs tend to be quite large, often double yolkers. The dangers come from coons, foxes, weasels, coyotes, hawks and owls. I am working on getting a good coon hunt up on the land, which brutal mass-murder will quell every one of those quadrupedal species for a good year. The aerial threats I hope to allay with old CDs strung up strategically to confuse and confound the hovering horrors. If that does not work, I have some DDT I'll put out (kidding, kidding).
 
 

Cannonpointer » 27 May 2024, 9:16 am » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 9:16 am

They're not too bitter. My brother in law helped me build a rather magnificent chicken coop.

Okay, okay - **** it. So my brother in law build me a rather magnificent chicken coop.   

10x10 on a solid foundation - salvaged treated 4x4s up on salvaged blocks underpinning 2x4s that support two overlapping 3/4" sheets of quality plywood - everything weather treated. The entire thing is framed and roofed, has an automatic solar powered, photo-sensitive door, windows guarded by construction cloth, roosts for about 60 birds (I have 39 right now). Classical music is piped in, solid watering system and electrical outlets for heat in winter and a fan in summer that is built into the walls, pointing outward. It's a real beauty, and perfectly situated so that their free range points downhill and away from the road that is at least a hundred feet away uphill on the reverse side of the coop from their ingress and egress.

The plywood double-floor is upholstered with plastic and covered by a 10x10 tarp which can be hauled out to dump the cedar-shavings/pine-shavings floor-covering as needed, then replaced and covered with fresh bedding material. Every bird has plenty of roost space, and no bird can roost under another to become a **** magnet.

It is a well-planned coop fashioned from lessons learned by previous experiments with chickens. If this coop is everything I hope for and predation can be kept reasonable, I plan to add about 30 hen chicks - likely golden comets - next spring (even earlier, if feasible). 

I will say this: raising hens is like buying a boat. The expenses never stop. They MIGHT pay for themselves over time, in the very long term (several years of chicken ranching, running at least 50 beak of hens) - but it's not very likely. The venture is not intended for that - it's about producing one's own food in an economy/food-delivery system in which one's trust is (on good evidence) diminished. Even with most of the building materials being free, I would say that I am about 1300 dollars into 39 chicks, almost half of which are cockerels - and that is with a borrowed incubator. Feed, ground cover, automatic door, the coop lumber I could not salvage and had to purchase, tarps, hardware (nails, brackets, etc.), heat lamps - just a myriad of penny here, penny there expenses have stacked up to the point that I would guess I am into the venture - ignoring the cockerels - about 75 bucks per hen. Now, that CAN be absorbed over time, as adding hens will not add to the infrastructural costs - just maintenance costs. And mind, this only counts the dollars - not the labor. Feed costs won't be too high moving forward, as my hens will free range.

 

We've kicked around the idea of getting some chickens but haven't gone there ourselves yet.

We know several people that have chickens and have zero issues getting fresh eggs on the cheap consistently without having to raise them ourselves so it always gets put on the back burner for other projects. 

Predators are always a real concern with any docile livestock. We have not only hawks and owls, but foxes and even the occasional coyote roaming about as well, not to mention the occasional stray dog even.

I still would like to have just a few to see what all is involved with it, but not sure if I want to sink that much time and money into it on a maybe. We might still do it someday though.
 
 

*rippy38 » 27 May 2024, 10:10 am » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 10:10 am

We've kicked around the idea of getting some chickens but haven't gone there ourselves yet.

We know several people that have chickens and have zero issues getting fresh eggs on the cheap consistently without having to raise them ourselves so it always gets put on the back burner for other projects. 

Predators are always a real concern with any docile livestock. We have not only hawks and owls, but foxes and even the occasional coyote roaming about as well, not to mention the occasional stray dog even.

I still would like to have just a few to see what all is involved with it, but not sure if I want to sink that much time and money into it on a maybe. We might still do it someday though.

I can tell you that if you're paying 3-4 per dozen for farm fresh eggs, you're ahead of your supplier in the money game. He's just treading water at those prices. Personally, I prefer duck eggs. If you haven't tried them, look about. Someone has them and is eager to sell: they're under-appreciated in the market place. 

I recommend forming relationships with local farmers. Save your scraps for their livestock - pigs and chickens. Buy what they're selling, instead of supporting walmart. Make yourself a valued customer. When the **** hits the fan, being a priority customer with a reliable food source is not a bad thing at all. And I do believe the **** is headed fanward at a reasonable clip, just based on the signs. Those bare shelves and media-fed consumer-panics of the covid psy-op were a beta test. They are actively sabotaging the American food delivery system with the intention of creating absolute dependency on a not-so-benevolent police state.
 

Cannonpointer » 27 May 2024, 10:21 am » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 10:21 am

I can tell you that if you're paying 3-4 per dozen for farm fresh eggs, you're ahead of your supplier in the money game. He's just treading water at those prices. Personally, I prefer duck eggs. If you haven't tried them, look about. Someone has them and is eager to sell: they're under-appreciated in the market place. 

I recommend forming relationships with local farmers. Save your scraps for their livestock - pigs and chickens. Buy what they're selling, instead of supporting walmart. Make yourself a valued customer. When the **** hits the fan, being a priority customer with a reliable food source is not a bad thing at all. And I do believe the **** is headed fanward at a reasonable clip, just based on the signs. Those bare shelves and media-fed consumer-panics of the covid psy-op were a beta test. They are actively sabotaging the American food delivery system with the intention of creating absolute dependency on a not-so-benevolent police state.

I get duck eggs when I can find them, but they are pricey around here.

Right now my main egg plug is $2 a dozen with my friends and family discount... and all the empty egg cartons I can muster for barter. I have always saved empty egg cartons and when I first started buying from him I handed over probably 200 empty cartons that I had been stashing for a while and you would have thought I handed him a bag of gold. My eggs have been $2 a dozen ever since.

When I can find the duck eggs, they are usually a buck or better a piece. The last time I bought a dozen I think it was $15 or $18. They are worth it though... and they are hard to find.


 

Cannonpointer » 27 May 2024, 9:16 am » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 9:16 am

They're not too bitter. My brother in law helped me build a rather magnificent chicken coop.

Okay, okay - **** it. So my brother in law build me a rather magnificent chicken coop.   

10x10 on a solid foundation - salvaged treated 4x4s up on salvaged blocks underpinning 2x4s that support two overlapping 3/4" sheets of quality plywood - everything weather treated. The entire thing is framed and roofed, has an automatic solar powered, photo-sensitive door, windows guarded by construction cloth, roosts for about 60 birds (I have 39 right now). Classical music is piped in, solid watering system and electrical outlets for heat in winter and a fan in summer that is built into the walls, pointing outward. It's a real beauty, and perfectly situated so that their free range points downhill and away from the road that is at least a hundred feet away uphill on the reverse side of the coop from their ingress and egress.

The plywood double-floor is upholstered with plastic and covered by a 10x10 tarp which can be hauled out to dump the cedar-shavings/pine-shavings floor-covering as needed, then replaced and covered with fresh bedding material. Every bird has plenty of roost space, and no bird can roost under another to become a **** magnet.

It is a well-planned coop fashioned from lessons learned by previous experiments with chickens. If this coop is everything I hope for and predation can be kept reasonable, I plan to add about 30 hen chicks - likely golden comets - next spring (even earlier, if feasible). 

I will say this: raising hens is like buying a boat. The expenses never stop. They MIGHT pay for themselves over time, in the very long term (several years of chicken ranching, running at least 50 beak of hens) - but it's not very likely. The venture is not intended for that - it's about producing one's own food in an economy/food-delivery system in which one's trust is (on good evidence) diminished. Even with most of the building materials being free, I would say that I am about 1300 dollars into 39 chicks, almost half of which are cockerels - and that is with a borrowed incubator. Feed, ground cover, automatic door, the coop lumber I could not salvage and had to purchase, tarps, hardware (nails, brackets, etc.), heat lamps - just a myriad of penny here, penny there expenses have stacked up to the point that I would guess I am into the venture - ignoring the cockerels - about 75 bucks per hen. Now, that CAN be absorbed over time, as adding hens will not add to the infrastructural costs - just maintenance costs. And mind, this only counts the dollars - not the labor. Feed costs won't be too high moving forward, as my hens will free range.

At the end of it all, I have the beginning of a nice flock - all mixed up and multi-cultural for the present, though I will transition over time to either barred rocks or golden comets with a bias toward golden comets and time to sort it as I continue to learn. Golden comets go as high as 330 eggs per year under good conditions (which I have), and the eggs tend to be quite large, often double yolkers. The dangers come from coons, foxes, weasels, coyotes, hawks and owls. I am working on getting a good coon hunt up on the land, which brutal mass-murder will quell every one of those quadrupedal species for a good year. The aerial threats I hope to allay with old CDs strung up strategically to confuse and confound the hovering horrors. If that does not work, I have some DDT I'll put out (kidding, kidding).

A friend of mine in Hawaii bought a few Guineas for his kids

he lives in a “locals only”  village, tucked away near the mountains 

after a few years, they became a vicious pack against all visitors 

best watchdogs ever

good luck in Yur travels 

 
 

*rippy38 » 27 May 2024, 11:31 am » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 11:31 am

I get duck eggs when I can find them, but they are pricey around here.

Right now my main egg plug is $2 a dozen with my friends and family discount... and all the empty egg cartons I can muster for barter. I have always saved empty egg cartons and when I first started buying from him I handed over probably 200 empty cartons that I had been stashing for a while and you would have thought I handed him a bag of gold. My eggs have been $2 a dozen ever since.

When I can find the duck eggs, they are usually a buck or better a piece. The last time I bought a dozen I think it was $15 or $18. They are worth it though... and they are hard to find.

Bro, I did exactly the same thing with egg cartons, but my price is three for chicken eggs. I have another gal I deal with that charges the same for chicken and duck eggs - 18 eggs for five dollars. But the great thing about her is that when I bring her hog slop, she loads me down with free eggs. But my main supplier has fifty free roaming hens and she only has maybe 20, so he virtually always has supply, whereas she can be spotty. I have another gal who has duck eggs at four bucks a dozen. I only recently made that connection, but when I return stateside in July, she's gonna be at the top of my hit parade because I love me some **** duck eggs and reliable supply is more important than price - at least a four bucks a dozen, anyway.
 
My hens should start laying in September, I believe. But shortly after they start to lay, winter will slow them down. Still, they should supply MY needs. In the spring, I will have extras to sell, barter, or gift.
 
 

Mrkelly » 27 May 2024, 11:36 am » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 11:36 am

A friend of mine in Hawaii bought a few Guineas for his kids

he lives in a “locals only”  village, tucked away near the mountains 

after a few years, they became a vicious pack against all visitors 

best watchdogs ever

good luck in Yur travels

They're noisy bastards - but hella good property guards.
 

Cannonpointer » 27 May 2024, 10:21 am » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 10:21 am

I can tell you that if you're paying 3-4 per dozen for farm fresh eggs, you're ahead of your supplier in the money game. He's just treading water at those prices. Personally, I prefer duck eggs. If you haven't tried them, look about. Someone has them and is eager to sell: they're under-appreciated in the market place. 

I recommend forming relationships with local farmers. Save your scraps for their livestock - pigs and chickens. Buy what they're selling, instead of supporting walmart. Make yourself a valued customer. When the **** hits the fan, being a priority customer with a reliable food source is not a bad thing at all. And I do believe the **** is headed fanward at a reasonable clip, just based on the signs. Those bare shelves and media-fed consumer-panics of the covid psy-op were a beta test. They are actively sabotaging the American food delivery system with the intention of creating absolute dependency on a not-so-benevolent police state.

My neighbor had a flock of ducks. Had.
They gave up. Too much work for their lazy asses I guess.

DeezerShoove » 27 May 2024, 4:46 pm » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 4:46 pm

My neighbor had a flock of ducks. Had.
They gave up. Too much work for their lazy asses I guess.

I want ducks, but I don't want to spend all day shooting turtles. I'm investigating...

Cannonpointer » 27 May 2024, 5:33 pm » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 5:33 pm

I want ducks, but I don't want to spend all day shooting turtles. I'm investigating...

I've heard ducks can be mean, like geese.

They also prefer to have a body of water close by like a pond to keep them happy and healthy. I've read that a kiddie pool will do if you only have a couple, but a dozen or so will need something bigger.

I'll just keep buying mine from the Amish when I can catch them. LOL

Chickens would be enough for me, if we ever go that far even.

 

*rippy38 » 27 May 2024, 5:40 pm » wrote: ↑

27 May 2024, 5:40 pm

I've heard ducks can be mean, like geese.

They also prefer to have a body of water close by like a pond to keep them happy and healthy. I've read that a kiddie pool will do if you only have a couple, but a dozen or so will need something bigger.

I'll just keep buying mine from the Amish when I can catch them. LOL

Chickens would be enough for me, if we ever go that far even.

I have a lake or a pond, depending on your definition. It's only about 50 feet across, but it is spring-fed and it feeds a creek, so allegedly that makes it a "lake." It's still a pond, though.

And it attracts roaming turtles who attack anything and everything that hits the water. So if I buy ducks, I gotta buy a .22 rifle and an easy chair.