It really doesn’t take much to clean a small coop like this when you want to keep a small number of backyard chickens. You have to pay attention to a few specific things, but other than that it only takes an hour or so, once a month to keep things clean, and the smell away.
Category: Life
I will finally acknowledge that there are some nice things in this world that do not involve the bass.
Meme Stock – NOVA – Sunnova
Admittedly I have 4 shares of this company that I bought at the $3.02 mark. I thought the bottom had hit, but was not quite sure. So for $12.08, the cost of a couple of cheap months of Netflix, I lost $10, as I am selling today, but I learned a valuable lesson. There is Read More …
What is a Dig Skirt?
A “dig skirt” in the context of poultry keeping, also known as a predator guard or anti-dig barrier, is a barrier made of metal, like hardware cloth or welded wire, that’s placed around the outside perimeter of a chicken coop or run, buried or secured to the ground, to prevent predators from digging under and Read More …
Some not so quick reads
Japan Birth Rate Thread Reader How both parties have failed The Masquerade & The Void Farewell Address The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads Read More …
Elmo adds to his conflict of interest
Just wanting to add to the growing list of issues with DOGE, and Elmo’s ability to decide what is a good or bad government program. Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract At this point, he is just being blatant about it, knowing that there is hardly anything anyone can do, because the petty orange man-baby is Read More …
So many Leopards
So many of these posts on Social Media these days. ofc, this is the echo chamber that I am served by these platforms. So it this what I want to see, or what it thinks I want to see? I can honestly say, that it is getting exhausting muting, blocking, and unfollowing all of the Read More …
DMTA – Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
This is a tough album for me to review. The reason I picked it first was it fulfilled 2 requirements. One is simply enough, I owned the album. The next requirement, was that it was first in alphabetical order of the albums I owned. OK, on to why this is tough to review. I Read More …
DMTA – What do I actually own
So I was planning on starting with Mule Variations by Tom Waits, as I knew this was one record I had. Turns out I was wrong. This lead to me going through the entire list to make sure that there is in fact one album in Duff’s list that I actually own now. There are Read More …
Trumpian Politics – A Progressive Trump in the Midwest
In this first episode of Trumpian Politics, I want to show our impartiality. Yes, I know we are named for the orange clown show, but I thought it important to showcase another trumpian in office. This one is the mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson. “If you ain’t with us, you just gotta go.” To be Read More …
Mozart and the Secret Sonata of the Chickens
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a secret. Not the kind of secret whispered in candlelit corridors or scribbled in the margins of love letters—but a secret so peculiar, so absurd, that he dared not share it with anyone. He was in love with chickens. Not in the ordinary way that farmers admired their plump hens or Read More …