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Blazin said:
I culled my roosters last fall, currently none and don't really want them. Hens seemed more stressed out with them than without.

Before I switch over to the new pullets I'm going to super clean the coop , maybe just replace roosting boards. I coat them in DE though so again seems unlikely they would be the issue.
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I’d skip DE tbh. I’d pull all bedding and everything from the coop, buy durvet 10% permethrin, mix in chemical sprayer and spray the entire thing down. I’d follow up with treating individual chickens with elector psp (spray under wings, behind neck, on vent) maybe twice in a 10-12 day span.

Then I’d do permethrin spray as a preventative. Maybe once every 3-4 months. Nothing crazy like spraying everything. Probably just perimeter.

edit - this is if you can verify mites or bugs of some sort are an issue. This is a lot of work if it’s not. I wasn’t 100% sure I had mites but my chickens bounced back nicely after - less missing feathers, wounds from scratching, etc
 
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BrutulTM said:
In my mind it's normal for some chickens to be missing feathers. The low status birds get picked on by the other hens.
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A million times this. Vicious fucking things are the origin of the phrase 'pecking order'. Couple weeks ago I saw one chicken standing on top of another plucking its feathers out and the one on the bottom just sat there enduring it.
 
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Blazin said:
I culled my roosters last fall, currently none and don't really want them. Hens seemed more stressed out with them than without.

Before I switch over to the new pullets I'm going to super clean the coop , maybe just replace roosting boards. I coat them in DE though so again seems unlikely they would be the issue.
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We had all sorts off one of problems with chickens through the years of having a flock of 10-12. Some died some didn’t. In the beginning we we’re trying to do all this crazy shit to doctor up the ones that looks sick and I finally told my wife this is ridiculous. If they get better great if they stop eating and aren’t walking much they get the knife. It’s so cheap to replace em with young layers there’s really no point in bothering.

I did find that throwing electrolytes and low dose ivermectin into their water every couple weeks keeped em all going pretty good.

One of the biggest mistakes I made was spraying a ton of hornets nests with bee spray in the chicken run (we had a big one between structures) and the dumbfucks ate all the sprayed hornets. Lost one and the others didn’t lay for like three months.
 
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If I catch this fucking raccoon I swear I am going to crucify it.

Not a euphemism, not just venting, raccoon + tree + nailgun.
 
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If I catch this fucking raccoon I swear I am going to crucify it.

Not a euphemism, not just venting, raccoon + tree + nailgun.
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Does anyone have any experience using tow behind spreaders for fert/lime/etc. and have any recommendations?

After using my walk behind enough, it's not going to be a good solution for lime due to the sheer volume I need to spread. I was going to look at something like this Chapin one but it's saying it isn't recommended for pelletized lime due to the damage it causes the gears.


I would rather stick with rotary just for general use over drop spreader due to the layout of the lawn.
 
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Palum said:
Does anyone have any experience using tow behind spreaders for fert/lime/etc. and have any recommendations?

After using my walk behind enough, it's not going to be a good solution for lime due to the sheer volume I need to spread. I was going to look at something like this Chapin one but it's saying it isn't recommended for pelletized lime due to the damage it causes the gears.


I would rather stick with rotary just for general use over drop spreader due to the layout of the lawn.
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Land Pride

www.landpride.com www.landpride.com

This is what I use but maybe that's not the scaling you are wanting. Need a decent size tractor to use.
 
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Land Pride

www.landpride.com www.landpride.com

This is what I use but maybe that's not the scaling you are wanting. Need a decent size tractor to use.
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Yea I need slightly smaller for baby garden tractor :(

Looks good though. MTD makes one that's electric but its got mixed reviews.
 
Sludig

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Yea I need slightly smaller for baby garden tractor :(

Looks good though. MTD makes one that's electric but its got mixed reviews.
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Reply or @ me to leave a notification so I'll remeber to snap a photo of what i have might be up your alert and cheap enough, was a line $180 spreader i got to do 3 acres. Frequent load perhaps, but the idea was you have a tryck bed or whatever centrally located and just do a few strips at a time. Dump another couple bags or whatever and continue.

Think they had one more model a size up from this one which was already like a #200 or 250 lb I thought, just tow it on my zero turn.
 
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I've seen people use electric ones on ATVs. I think they work well enough.

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8 months later and I finally have my shed project back on track.. Had to have my entire property resurveyed. Just as a refresher - I’m having tuff shed build one of their premier tall barns 16x32 ft.

Now I need to do site prep. As I mentioned before I’ll go with gravel and am looking to do something almost exactly like these guys outline here How to Build a Gravel Shed Foundation - The Complete Guide

In that article they use 4x6 GC PT lumber for the retaining wall and even say some counties may require it. What would be the advantage to using lumber over say concrete block for the retaining wall? Any ideas?
 
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Foler said:
8 months later and I finally have my shed project back on track.. Had to have my entire property resurveyed. Just as a refresher - I’m having tuff shed build one of their premier tall barns 16x32 ft.

Now I need to do site prep. As I mentioned before I’ll go with gravel and am looking to do something almost exactly like these guys outline here How to Build a Gravel Shed Foundation - The Complete Guide

In that article they use 4x6 GC PT lumber for the retaining wall and even say some counties may require it. What would be the advantage to using lumber over say concrete block for the retaining wall? Any ideas?
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Closer to maybe the home improvement thread. I dont think the few that might know are in here as much. One of the very very few reasons I miss Picasso
 
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I had a first since living on bigger piece of land. My wife and I walk the property pretty much every day and we are out for a stroll and I see someone quite a distance away sitting at fire pit, I assumed it was an extended family member, I have nephew who likes to run the trails. My dog was out running ahead of us and when she stopped her run short and did her weird hopping I was positive it was a stranger. Told my wife to hang back and call my brother, I wasn't armed (I sometimes am on property because never know when you might get a chance to blamo a groundhog) . This guy was sitting shirtless at my fire pit drinking some beers, fortunately wasn't some dude in crisis half drunk.

Asked him what he was doing and he told me he didn't know whose land it was. I asked him where he came from, and he told me had just walked along the creek. He was about 1000'+ from where he had left the creek. I didn't question him further because he got up and said he would leave. I just don't get people like that, I keep the trails all well kept and mowed its not like you are just deep in an untouched property where some confusion is justified but what I could never imagine just going on someone's property and just plopping myself down for some beers.

I'm sure it's bound to happen occasionally part of just having property I'd imagine especially when create something that people want to enjoy but in four years that was a first. So anyways that's my random story.
 
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Blazin said:
I had a first since living on bigger piece of land. My wife and I walk the property pretty much every day and we are out for a stroll and I see someone quite a distance away sitting at fire pit, I assumed it was an extended family member, I have nephew who likes to run the trails. My dog was out running ahead of us and when she stopped her run short and did her weird hopping I was positive it was a stranger. Told my wife to hang back and call my brother, I wasn't armed (I sometimes am on property because never know when you might get a chance to blamo a groundhog) . This guy was sitting shirtless at my fire pit drinking some beers, fortunately wasn't some dude in crisis half drunk.

Asked him what he was doing and he told me he didn't know whose land it was. I asked him where he came from, and he told me had just walked along the creek. He was about 1000'+ from where he had left the creek. I didn't question him further because he got up and said he would leave. I just don't get people like that, I keep the trails all well kept and mowed its not like you are just deep in an untouched property where some confusion is justified but what I could never imagine just going on someone's property and just plopping myself down for some beers.

I'm sure it's bound to happen occasionally part of just having property I'd imagine especially when create something that people want to enjoy but in four years that was a first. So anyways that's my random story.
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First 2 years here I got trespassers quite often. Literally coming through my front gate that has no trespassing signs and cameras (I keep it open). Some of them have zero sense of private property when confronted. It’s funny when you ask them what their address is they look confused, give it to you, then tell them you’ll show up unannounced on their property sometime in the future and they get a little taken aback at the realization..
 
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Blazin said:
I had a first since living on bigger piece of land. My wife and I walk the property pretty much every day and we are out for a stroll and I see someone quite a distance away sitting at fire pit, I assumed it was an extended family member, I have nephew who likes to run the trails. My dog was out running ahead of us and when she stopped her run short and did her weird hopping I was positive it was a stranger. Told my wife to hang back and call my brother, I wasn't armed (I sometimes am on property because never know when you might get a chance to blamo a groundhog) . This guy was sitting shirtless at my fire pit drinking some beers, fortunately wasn't some dude in crisis half drunk.

Asked him what he was doing and he told me he didn't know whose land it was. I asked him where he came from, and he told me had just walked along the creek. He was about 1000'+ from where he had left the creek. I didn't question him further because he got up and said he would leave. I just don't get people like that, I keep the trails all well kept and mowed its not like you are just deep in an untouched property where some confusion is justified but what I could never imagine just going on someone's property and just plopping myself down for some beers.

I'm sure it's bound to happen occasionally part of just having property I'd imagine especially when create something that people want to enjoy but in four years that was a first. So anyways that's my random story.
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"I didn't know whose land it was". Well, he knew it obviously wasn't his but that didn't stop him.
 
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