How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Back on line

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Back on line

I bet it is beautiful there! I live in a are of Ohio called Slate Mills. We have alot of slate and rocks in our soil, every time I dug I hit a large rock. We have a pipeline going in down from our property and since we live in a flood zone we ask if they would bring their extra soil here and dump it. We got 35 dump truck loads of some good topsoil but it all went on the back of the property to keep the water from flooding our barn and Bob's Auto Garage Business. We brought the land around the barn up 23 feet and still need more dirt for the business and the rest of the property. There hasn't been a flood on the front of the property since 1963 but at the barn it flooded 3 yrs ago. We was in chest high water trying to save the few chickens we had at the time. The dump truck are back now and will be coming in again soon to bring us more dirt and what is the best part it is FREE, but it took us 2 yrs and a few months of asking anyone we saw hauling dirt to help us out and this guy did. We cooked them steaks on the grill last fall and gave them all new steel runners for their dump truck that Bob bought somewhere. We own a 100+ year old house here on the property that we are remodeling to rent. It's the last of our 3 rentals that we are doing a total remodel before someone moves into them. It's alot of work but we have to do it so we can get more money out of the homes in rent. We need the income and that is one reason I went into selling fertile eggs and chickens as a hobby but to make extra money. But the bad thing is the house sits empty for a year while we spend our extra time remodeling them but in turn it is worth it on the long term. I have done really good hatching and raising chicks to sell plus most of them are from my own eggs. I wrote a book again..lol

Enjoy your electric, coffee and showers. I hope you had heat during that time.

Darla

--- On Sun, 2/28/10, Old George <barnmanager@myfairpoint.net> wrote:

From: Old George <barnmanager@myfairpoint.net>
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Back on line
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 1:41 PM

Sorry Darla, I thought everybody knew. I live in the wilds of southern New Hampshire. 20 minutes from the North Atlantic. Close to the open border with Massachusetts. (We're planing to fix that). My DW and I own a 300+ year old home situated on a more than 2 acres of the worst soil I've seen since I visited Texas 50 years ago. We had a pair of horses but one died and the other is boarded out. The dog and the cat have both passed on so we are left my 5 Silkies, 3 squirrels 1 skunk and 4,237 chipmunks.
Ol' George

The coffee was great