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[trailanimal]

dire straits guarding the VIBE, too

.........i want my, i want my Magic beans......

 

[trailanimal]

Shaman says............MAGIC is in the air.............Fri March 10 Midnight GMT.............

pre-Interview party before the pumpkin turns

 

[Eclectic Elle]

We get mostly greens and brown right now, but it may be time to add to our flock.
A couple of our hens haven't laid an egg for over a year.
They live a spoiled life of retirement now

It sounds like you could use a bit more of a blue injection LOL. Do you breed your own replacements? And for the table, or just eggs?

 

[Renaissance Redneck]

Good to hear . Don't worry about that memory thing sometimes I forget before I can remember to write it down .

best of the best bro

It's all good. On the bright side, I don't have memory loss.

 

[Renaissance Redneck]

It sounds like you could use a bit more of a blue injection LOL. Do you breed your own replacements? And for the table, or just eggs?

We did hatch some of our own, but are minus a rooster right now.
I'm thinking about adding some meat chickens to the family this spring, I just have to force myself not to get too attached.
I'm a bit of a weenie, still cry when I have to cull a sick chicken

 

[trailanimal]

Will this do?

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this will do ya just fine. The higher performance type of controller I mentioned will be considerably more $, and if you drive truck(batt is in a truck, right,lol) battery gets full toped

 

[trailanimal]

It's all good. On the bright side, I don't have memory loss.

that's really not a disability, no memory loss, after all, at our ages we can always claim loss of memory and nobody hassles us, lol

 

[Dmrides220]

this will do ya just fine. The higher performance type of controller I mentioned will be considerably more $, and if you drive truck(batt is in a truck, right,lol) battery gets full toped

Battery is only for running the lights in the camper. As of right now I bring the battery home every time and charge it then put it on the tender until we go again. Might get a little 4000 watt generator to run a couple small things like coffee maker and electric griddle as well.

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[trailanimal]

Battery is only for running the lights in the camper. As of right now I bring the battery home every time and charge it then put it on the tender until we go again. Might get a little 4000 watt generator to run a couple small things like coffee maker and electric griddle as well.

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if you get a controller that will maintain a float charge you will go long periods of time spring-fall without having to haul batt or charge with gas generator

 

[Eclectic Elle]

We did hatch some of our own, but are minus a rooster right now.
I'm thinking about adding some meat chickens to the family this spring, I just have to force myself not to get too attached.
I'm a bit of a weenie, still cry when I have to cull a sick chicken

I am a bit fed up of roosters after living here for 5 months LOL, there are flocks of wild chickens in the gorge behind our flat. They crow at all hours of the day and night because the other side of the gorge is a hotel with lights on all night.

I hear you on the attachment thing! I'm the same. I think it's a mark of a good keeper, because it shows you care. Not to say that people who don't cry aren't good keepers, but everyone is different. Some people are more emotional than others, I'm one of them.

We once had a wonderful little Welsummer bantam, she raised her chicks perfectly etc etc. We also had a big Kelloggs looking rooster at the time. I was absolutely distraught when I found that the rooster had pretty much ripped the back of the bantam's head off while he mated her. I cried bucketloads as I put her down. That's the thing, if you're going to have livestock, sometimes you're going to have deadstock too. And it's never pleasant. We've had a few fox attacks over the years, I always cried.

Perhaps I should go start a chicken thread in the Farmacy! I'll post the link in my sig when I've done it.