Well, we had about a year off from the drama with the jack-ass next door. Today, he called in a team of landscapers with little bobcats to come tear out MORE of our trees and knock down our deer fence.
Mother. Fucker.
So now I'm torn between calling the cops, knowing they've done nothing in the past about the situation, and calling the landscaping company to demand they replace the fence, or be taken to court.
I'm so mad right now, I want to seriously go paint pictures of giant dicks on the side of MY fence facing his house.
Has anyone been in this situation? What do you do when the neighbor continuously (and randomly) removes your fence from your own property because he thinks it's his or too close to his or just because he feels like being a dick? Like I said before - we've called the cops in the past and they said it was a civil matter and they couldn't help. The last thing I knew, STEALING and VANDALIZING were things cops could deal with. Guess I'm wrong??
Friday, May 29, 2015
Monday, May 4, 2015
Homesteading 101: Adding to Our Flock
It has been a busy couple of weeks around here. The weather finally
warmed up, so we've been spending more time outside, working on the
garden and putting up a deer fence around the back. We're hoping the
deer fence keeps the deer out and the chickens in. Ideally, that would
all result in fewer ticks too.
Besides chores, chores and more chores, we have also taken the time to add to the flock. Starting out, we had a 2 buff orpingtons (1 is a roo), 2 barred rocks and an Easter egger. We hatched out a buff/EE baby, using an egg from a hen that had died. Here's the baby today:
HE is a crazy looking chicken. Yes, you read that right - little lucky is a boy. Another rooster. Fortunately, we got lucky some lady friends the day after he was born. We got a Wellsummer and 2 Easter Eggers. We got one dark and one light EE. You can see the tail of the light one in the picture above. The dark Easter Egger is starting to look like a boy. We're really striking out with that.
We went the retail route, and in MA you have to buy 6 chicks. The store let us put off buying the other 3 until a different breed came in. When they got more chicks, we went back to get the other 3 that we had to buy. We got 2 buttercups and 1 Blue Andalusian. (1 buttercup and 1 Blue Andalusian shown above)
The Blue Andalusian has never really wanted to be a part of the flock. The little loner pretty much hangs out on her own while the buttercups go off and play with the bigger hens.
Shortly after that, my husband started saying he really wanted a red chicken. I found a post on Craigslist from a lady selling 5-week old chicks. We picked up a NH Red, a Delaware and a brown leghorn. The Delaware was my pick and the other 2 were my husbands. Apparently the brown leghorn will be an egg laying machine, so that's looking good for my little egg business that I have going on the side.
So that brings us up to 15 chickens, 3 of which may be males. Well, 1 is definitely a male, but the other 2 are only potentials. It's fun to watch the chickens peck around the yard and interact with one another. Their personalities are really starting to come out. I'll post an update with pictures when the babies are old enough to do something other than huddle in the corner.
Originally posted at: mommasmadness.wordpress.com
Besides chores, chores and more chores, we have also taken the time to add to the flock. Starting out, we had a 2 buff orpingtons (1 is a roo), 2 barred rocks and an Easter egger. We hatched out a buff/EE baby, using an egg from a hen that had died. Here's the baby today:
HE is a crazy looking chicken. Yes, you read that right - little lucky is a boy. Another rooster. Fortunately, we got lucky some lady friends the day after he was born. We got a Wellsummer and 2 Easter Eggers. We got one dark and one light EE. You can see the tail of the light one in the picture above. The dark Easter Egger is starting to look like a boy. We're really striking out with that.
We went the retail route, and in MA you have to buy 6 chicks. The store let us put off buying the other 3 until a different breed came in. When they got more chicks, we went back to get the other 3 that we had to buy. We got 2 buttercups and 1 Blue Andalusian. (1 buttercup and 1 Blue Andalusian shown above)
The Blue Andalusian has never really wanted to be a part of the flock. The little loner pretty much hangs out on her own while the buttercups go off and play with the bigger hens.
Shortly after that, my husband started saying he really wanted a red chicken. I found a post on Craigslist from a lady selling 5-week old chicks. We picked up a NH Red, a Delaware and a brown leghorn. The Delaware was my pick and the other 2 were my husbands. Apparently the brown leghorn will be an egg laying machine, so that's looking good for my little egg business that I have going on the side.
So that brings us up to 15 chickens, 3 of which may be males. Well, 1 is definitely a male, but the other 2 are only potentials. It's fun to watch the chickens peck around the yard and interact with one another. Their personalities are really starting to come out. I'll post an update with pictures when the babies are old enough to do something other than huddle in the corner.
Originally posted at: mommasmadness.wordpress.com
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