Are you pro or con crastination?

[urbpan]

Currently experiencing the worst bout of procrastination / writer's block I've had in years. You will notice I am posting lots of things today, that is to avoid writing and recording my podcast, which is already 3 days late. Assisting in my efforts to procrastinate is the joyous fact that

WE ARE APPROVED TO HAVE CHICKENS!

So I spent much of last weekend teaching myself how to use a miter saw and using it to cut lots of thirty degree angles on lots of pieces of wood, and (with Alexis kind and necessary assistance) assembling them all into a chicken tractor. The plans seem to have omitted 6 crucial boards which I will pick up today and strap to the roof of my car, and depending how hardcore my procrastinatory industriousness is, assemble them into the sides of the tractor.

Anyway. Enjoy today's spamming or not, and hey, do you know where we could get 4 or fewer laying hens?

Comments

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

try your local agway

You HAVE subscribed to "Hobby Farm" and/or "Urban Farm" magazines, haven't you?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

No sir. Not previously aware of these magazines.

[cdozo.livejournal.com]

I found a couple of chicken magazines on the magazine rack at Barnes and Noble. They had some good information and some stuff I already knew was not true even though I'm only the land owner -- my tenant has chickens, I just go look at them every now and then.

Last week the chickens were chasing one that was carrying an egg shell around. My tenant says they sometimes peck an egg open and eat the contents. It looked to me like they like to eat the shell too.

My tenant lost a lot of his chickens at the beginning because the coop, which was very well made, wasn't as critter-proof as he thought it would be. He reenforced the wire at the bottom and tightened everything up and now things are OK.

[audacian.livejournal.com]

jealous!

Agree with trying Agway and checking the local classifies/craigslist, or drive out to somewhere rural and look for signs. There are always signs around here for people selling chickens and bunnies and dogs and cows and whatever.

or ask these folks: http://www.meetup.com/BostonBackyardPoultry/

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

chickens!

You need to find something you want to procrastinate from *more* than the podcast.

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I know where you could get those chickens in Ireland, but that's probably not much good to you.

Man, I'd LOVE an ommlette! (says the bad vegan)

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

Yea chickens!! I look forward to many photos and stories of your chickening. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yay!! I'll look forward to lots of chicken posts from both of you.

4-H clubs would be a good place to check for where you could get hens or chicks.

Get the Peruvian kind that lay blue eggs!

A reasonable guide

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Barnyard in Your Backyard : A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cows by Gail Damerow (2002, Paperback)


ISBN-13: 9781580174565

http://tinyurl.com/clkqxxq

chooks

[vodkanoodles.livejournal.com]

a friend of mine rescues ex-battery hens but the rspca re-home chooks here too..

do the aspca do that.. could you "rescue" your chooks the way you foster puppies?

Re: chooks

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

The MSPCA does (the aspca don't do much, from what I can tell), and we're looking into it.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

Umm, I think you could easily spread out a lot of the information over several podcasts. I found it a bit long. Just a bit. All interesting but I guess I am ADHD.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Really? The last one was 13 minutes! I have to listen to my favorite podcasts over several listenings (Nerdist: an hour and change, WTFpod: hour and a half usually). That's good feedback, though, I appreciate it! What are you doing when you are listening (dishes, driving, just listening, etc) ?

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

I have wonky head phones so I have to sit right in front of the computer. I am not very tech savvy. That was my first. *blush* Also I am at home so I have continous "jobs" all around me. But mostly I think it is because I have attention problems. I like my information in small bits.

I am a visual person. It drives some people crazy. I can go happily without speaking to anyone for several days and I never sit for more than a half hour (and I like to be drawing or sewing.)

I don't think I listened to the last one. What about breaking up segments with a bit of incidental music. Nothing fancy, even just three notes or whatever. But perhaps I am suggesting a whole new market, Urban Nature for "the brain damaged listener", :P

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

I went and listened to it again. It was the one about Hummingbird Moths, wormseed, animal phobias and the salt gun thing... I think any of those could be a podcast in and of themselves. You do have music! Sorry, but a bit more separation between nuggets would help me and I am like your biggest fan, I am just trying to make light of the fact that I could even imagine my opinion mattered. I still had to get up between two of the segments to go let the cat in. (I know Cotton hates people who let their cats out but she just sits and looks in at me and she is so old...she came to me as a stray...lets say I disagree about cats and the outdoors, they are gypsies, what are you going to do?)

[deathling.livejournal.com]

Funny you mention this because my houseguest just walked in with two freshly slaughtered ones from a local farm. They sold them to her CHEAP too. I imagine you could call around to some farms and see if they have any extra chickens..

[iheartoothecae.livejournal.com]

I am eagerly anticipating vicariously enjoying your hen-keeping. That won't be an option for me for several years. Same with bees, which I want even more than chickens.

Fair warning: If you get bees I may have a conniption.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Wish I could remember more about chickens - our neighborhood in Austin had quite a few people who kept chickens. It was even a feature of a house tour one year - five of the nine houses on the tour were people with chickens in their yards (of exquisitely restored turn-of-century houses that most people couldn't even think about), and lots of people whose houses would never be on a house tour had chickens. There was one corner where we always had to go slow going around it, because so-and-so's chickens kept getting out. And this wasn't the suburbs; this was south Austin, a mile from downtown! But alas, I don't remember all the details. I do remember that the coop I admired most and that seemed most secure was a side-yard coop, homemade, that was quite tall - it could have served as an aviary as well as a chicken house, and I wonder whether the hens liked it that way.