Above 1200 Sq/FT Harley Jim's place

[don long]

Didnt do anything today, I did work on the pipe wrench handle a bit yesterday.

Found a stick.

Yes I know, I was too lazy to set up the wood lathe.

But it did allow me to counter boar the handle.
That's as far as I got, I was exhausted. I'll fit it to the wrench and finish it next week.

Jim
Your wood lathe looks like the one I used to make the handles for the drew knife I restored over on the tool challenge thread.
By the way your wrench is on it's way as soon as I look up your address

 

[harley jim]

Kirk, I'm hoping it will, I think I can find an excellent condition Tahoe in that range.

Don, I noticed that,
Mine is an atlas and I believe it's around 1940s/1950s. It works so well. I cant wait to start the challange!

 

[harley jim]

Pat and I spent the day in the shop reassembling her grandma's kitchen table and chairs, plus a bakery cart that I acquired.



We moved it to the cabin for storage until I get the floor finished in the basement.

 

[xtremek]

The table and chairs look great.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

That is a great old table and chairs.

 

[harley jim]

Thanks guys,
Off to a yard sale and a couple of estate sales. Then deliver chickens to Athens Tn.

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[don long]

right out of the 50's with that table and chairs. I remember them too well lol

 

[shortykorte]

To bad this fits me a lot better than a CJ7.

 

[harley jim]

Don most of my family had them, when it was passed on to Pat I laughed with memories when I saw it.
Shorty, it's worse than that this is the CJ5 its shorter than a 7.
Pat said you could take the front seat out and sit in the back!

 

[harley jim]

A friend stopped by to see Josh, wanted to show off his new ride, 1976

I cleaned the coop and moved the chicks in this morning. They didnt know how to react to so much room, it took them about an hour to move out of a square area the size of there old cage.
I want to add an addition onto the coop, one reason is to have a feed room and second reason Pat wants some buff coachen bantams, they will need there own space.

Official count is 15, they sent a couple extras.

 

[shortykorte]

Ok see if he’d like a 99 Tahoe versus that old Ford. My wife would be very happy.

 

[harley jim]

Them things are all over the place here, I think he said he would take 45,000 for it.
Truthfully I think he is a little light!



Donnie is redoing his again. The entire chassis and everything that is satin black is powder coated.

 

[bugnut]

Jim, any particular reason to separate the bantams? I co-mingle mine and after the week of introduction no issues, between banties and full size.

 

[harley jim]

Bugnut, just cross breeding really, I want to keep them small.
her bantams will be pets and eggs,
my Orpingtons will be for meat and eggs

 

[harley jim]

I spent the afternoon at the laundromat, Pat dosnt IKEA washing my shop rags in her washer, we took the bed spread and quilt also!!!

 

[larry4406]

I spent the afternoon at the laundromat, Pat dosnt IKEA washing my shop rags in her washer, we took the bed spread and quilt also!!!

Did you wash the bed spread and the quilt with your shop rags?

 

[harley jim]

Oh, heck no. Pat was there

 

[Boostingaz]

Bugnut, just cross breeding really, I want to keep them small.
her bantams will be pets and eggs,
my Orpingtons will be for meat and eggs

We just finished up a batch of Cornish Cross chickens and man they are nasty birds. Sure am glad they are in the freezer now lol.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

We just finished up a batch of Cornish Cross chickens and man they are nasty birds. Sure am glad they are in the freezer now lol.

Yeah but lots of meat

 

[harley jim]

That's what I like about the orpingtons, they have no aggression, very calm birds not a real dirty breed.
Boostingaz, what do you use for defeathering?

Willy we are going to BBQ some birds next year!

Chicken Cam

 

[Boostingaz]

Boostingaz, what do you use for defeathering?

Dip in almost boiling hot water with a dash of dish soap, drop it in, literally 15/20 seconds. Very very little to finish hand plucking. It gets an easy 95%+ in those 15 seconds.

 

[harley jim]

Yes, that is the type I want.
I have been doing research and that style seems to be the cleanest and quickest method.
I am going to try to buy used first.

 

[welder4956]

LOL - "Chicken Cam" = CCTV?

 

[harley jim]

Welder4956, I bought a set of Blink cctv cameras from Amazon.

They have great resolution and there cloud storage is one hundred bucks for a year.
I put the camera in to keep an eye on the little ones and I shared the link with Whitley, the three year old neighbor so she can check on them also. Just for some fun!

 

[welder4956]

Good resolution Jim. I want to add a couple, but not sure if I want to stay with Ring. Resolution is good, but sometimes I don't get motion notifications. This one is running off a solar charger mounted near the camera:

 

[harley jim]

That's a pretty clear pic.

The blink run on 2 double AA batteries, they claim will last two years. The notification is a couple seconds, The part I like is I can actually intercept the ups man and have him hand me my packages. My neighbor has them outside his rental in cookeville tn. About 3 hours away and gets the same results.

 

[harley jim]

 

[harley jim]

We made Egg Rolls for supper, the chicks got all of the scraps

 

[loganb]

I grew up on a hog farm so all this chicken stuff from you and @Boostingaz is interesting and educational....also reminds me to stop bitching when I see the price of chicken at the grocery store cause I don't think I want to go to this much effort to avoid it!

Glad to see it looks like you're over the bug and back at full speed making Pat's dreams come true...well maybe yours too in a free minute or two

 

[harley jim]

Thanks Logan,
Chickens are a thing, you have to like the work. The jury is still out on whether it's cheaper or not to raise your own meat! I am hoping to get this flock to work around the house eating bugs and such, my last flock would spend the day free ranging and return to the coop to roost without any problems. This house is a lot closer to the national forest and there are way more hawks and four legged predators here so we will see how it goes.

 

[Boostingaz]

@loganb and @harley jim

Yea...it's pretty close on if it's cheaper. If you take a look at your time like you should since time is money, that's a tough call.

However, for us it's not really about the money. We enjoy knowing where our meat comes from and knowing what we are feeding our kids and having that connection with our food. I have some fairly "serious" health issues and my wife has done a great job managing my symptoms with a clean diet. This has reduced my need for so much western medicine. So ehhhh do we save money on raising them, close call, but I do know we save at least some money on medical expenses however silly that may sound.

We also enjoy spending the time with the kids and teaching them respect for the animals and all that's good stuff.

We buy all our pork and beef local as well. We raise and butcher chickens and turkeys and buy everything else local. The last whole cow we just bought came from about 20 minutes down the road.

We don't buy any meat from the grocery anymore.

 

[Boostingaz]

I grew up on a hog farm so all this chicken stuff from you and @Boostingaz is interesting and educational....also reminds me to stop bitching when I see the price of chicken at the grocery store cause I don't think I want to go to this much effort to avoid it!

Glad to see it looks like you're over the bug and back at full speed making Pat's dreams come true...well maybe yours too in a free minute or two

We just got back a few weeks ago from my cousin's hog farm. They breed Duroc's with Yorkshire x Landrace crosses. The have a pretty big operation there in the central/northern Indiana area. About 20k head a year. They row crop a couple thousand acres for feed.

 

[loganb]

@loganb and @harley jim

Yea...it's pretty close on if it's cheaper. If you take a look at your time like you should since time is money, that's a tough call.

However, for us it's not really about the money. We enjoy knowing where our meat comes from and knowing what we are feeding our kids and having that connection with our food. I have some fairly "serious" health issues and my wife has done a great job managing my symptoms with a clean diet. This has reduced my need for so much western medicine. So ehhhh do we save money on raising them, close call, but I do know we save at least some money on medical expenses however silly that may sound.

We also enjoy spending the time with the kids and teaching them respect for the animals and all that's good stuff.

We buy all our pork and beef local as well. We raise and butcher chickens and turkeys and buy everything else local. The last whole cow we just bought came from about 20 minutes down the road.

We don't buy any meat from the grocery anymore.

I think thats a great way to look at it in entirety and all the benefits outside of direct meat cost/savings. I've had the discussion many times with people on raising own animals for meat, eggs etc that if goal is exclusively lowering meat cost its not going to be successful but if one has other goals/benefits it can be very successful. I learned a lot taking care of livestock and have seen the same benefits in others thru 4-H livestock programs and gaining a better appreciation and respect for animals, livestock, responsibilities etc.

We get about half our meat from locals...now that the stockpile of frozen milk in the deepfreeze is about gone I'm looking forward to filling that up again with local pork and beef....have to still find a source for local chicken.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

We had ducks, chickens and rabbits until we moved. The chickens went in the freezer ( that is now 18 miles away plugged in to a friend's garage), the rabbits came are back in the woods in thier cages, and unfortunately the ducks escaped shortly after we got here. When things get straightened out we will try again.

 

[harley jim]

I have a cow going in in about two weeks, Josh picked up a couple at a sale a few months back and put them at Ben's farm, I have never seen it but he said it was about 700 lbs.
I have a neighbor that has chicken houses, theres are 60,000 six week old chicks put in the house and fed completely on a liquid diet for six weeks at that point they weigh around 5.5 lbs and are ready to go to the packing house. We wonder why our kids look fully grown at 14 years old, that is some of the basis behind me raising my own birds, the other is, have you ever tasted a chicken that was raised on bugs, worms, and table scraps. There is no comparison!

 

[don long]

My helper gets to eat all our chickens because Ann thinks they are pets and when the rooster starts to get mean he goes into jose's pot
She has well over 40 of um

 

[harley jim]

Jose is eating good!

 

[mybigwarwagon]

I have a cow going in in about two weeks, Josh picked up a couple at a sale a few months back and put them at Ben's farm, I have never seen it but he said it was about 700 lbs.
I have a neighbor that has chicken houses, theres are 60,000 six week old chicks put in the house and fed completely on a liquid diet for six weeks at that point they weigh around 5.5 lbs and are ready to go to the packing house. We wonder why our kids look fully grown at 14 years old, that is some of the basis behind me raising my own birds, the other is, have you ever tasted a chicken that was raised on bugs, worms, and table scraps. There is no comparison!

Fresh chicken tastes so much better. Fresh eggs even better. Someone was at the house and I cooked some fresh eggs. They asked what was wrong with them because the yokes were a much richer color than store eggs.

 

[Boostingaz]

I think thats a great way to look at it in entirety and all the benefits outside of direct meat cost/savings. I've had the discussion many times with people on raising own animals for meat, eggs etc that if goal is exclusively lowering meat cost its not going to be successful but if one has other goals/benefits it can be very successful. I learned a lot taking care of livestock and have seen the same benefits in others thru 4-H livestock programs and gaining a better appreciation and respect for animals, livestock, responsibilities etc.

We get about half our meat from locals...now that the stockpile of frozen milk in the deepfreeze is about gone I'm looking forward to filling that up again with local pork and beef....have to still find a source for local chicken.

4-H is great. We go the 4-H auction every year. Last year I got a bit paddle happy and ended up with 3 hogs. My wife thought it was nuts, but ehhhhhh it's for the kids. The money goes back into their club.

We had ducks, chickens and rabbits until we moved. The chickens went in the freezer ( that is now 18 miles away plugged in to a friend's garage), the rabbits came are back in the woods in thier cages, and unfortunately the ducks escaped shortly after we got here. When things get straightened out we will try again.

We have ducks too. I can't say that I like or dislike them honestly.....I do hate baby ducks though. They are messy smelly creatures. Duck is one thing I can not seem to cook well, it's a fine art. If I knew how to cook duck well, I think these ducks would have less of a future lol.

I have a cow going in in about two weeks, Josh picked up a couple at a sale a few months back and put them at Ben's farm, I have never seen it but he said it was about 700 lbs.
I have a neighbor that has chicken houses, theres are 60,000 six week old chicks put in the house and fed completely on a liquid diet for six weeks at that point they weigh around 5.5 lbs and are ready to go to the packing house. We wonder why our kids look fully grown at 14 years old, that is some of the basis behind me raising my own birds, the other is, have you ever tasted a chicken that was raised on bugs, worms, and table scraps. There is no comparison!

Six weeks of liquid and 60k in close quarters. I'm afraid that's a liquid goes in liquid comes out kind of situation . They better have a poop skid steer!

 

[Boostingaz]

Fresh chicken tastes so much better. Fresh eggs even better. Someone was at the house and I cooked some fresh eggs. They asked what was wrong with them because the yokes were a much richer color than store eggs.

We sell the eggs, that's really the only thing we sell right now. I want to get into selling the turkey's. Like small batch stuff, not a whole "operation".