Comments on: Still going strong http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/ The trials and tribulations of a modern crofter Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:06:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Ruth http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-5387 Ruth Wed, 16 May 2007 12:13:45 +0000 http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-5387 Please can you give me details of where you got your chicken coop? I am about to get 3 hens and they don't have a home to come to! I live near Inverurie. There seems to be a world shortage of chicken-coop suppliers in this part of the world! Email me on: rmramanan hotmail com Many many thnaks! Please can you give me details of where you got your chicken coop? I am about to get 3 hens and they don’t have a home to come to!
I live near Inverurie. There seems to be a world shortage of chicken-coop suppliers in this part of the world!
Email me on: rmramanan hotmail com
Many many thnaks!

]]> By: stonehead http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-583 stonehead Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:08:11 +0000 http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-583 Timethief, I had a read of your environmental blog - http://timethief.wordpress.com/ . Good stuff and keep getting the message out. Nice to meet you too. :) Timethief,
I had a read of your environmental blog - http://timethief.wordpress.com/ . Good stuff and keep getting the message out. Nice to meet you too. :)

]]> By: stonehead http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-582 stonehead Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:58:49 +0000 http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-582 Tremone, I've posted details of how I build our chicken houses, broody coops and runs at http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/building-a-hen-house/ Tremone,
I’ve posted details of how I build our chicken houses, broody coops and runs at http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/building-a-hen-house/

]]> By: timethief http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-575 timethief Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:10:28 +0000 http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-575 Hello there. I may be late to the party but that's because I live so far away on the gulf islands In British Columbia in Canada. Twenty nine years ago my beloved and I left the big city, opted for the simple country life, founded our own pottery and apparently are living a rural lifestyle very much like yours. <strong> It's good to meet you! :)</strong> Hello there. I may be late to the party but that’s because I live so far away on the gulf islands In British Columbia in Canada. Twenty nine years ago my beloved and I left the big city, opted for the simple country life, founded our own pottery and apparently are living a rural lifestyle very much like yours. It’s good to meet you! :)

]]> By: Tremone http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-573 Tremone Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:23:22 +0000 http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-573 Stonehead, You say you were going to build your own. Do you have any working design plans that you could share, I know you're a helpful chap with that sort of stuff over on the selfsufficientish site. I really admire your knowledge,courage and honesty. You don't harp on how everything is glorious which i find most refreshing. I lease the land that I have to farmers and do a desk job because I haven't the guts to do what you do. Although we might go half way as the OH is expecting any day and will want a project to keep her occupied as she really doesn't want to hand over the rearing of our child to a child minder. So we are trying to get a veg garden up and running and some chickens(hence the chicken house). Keep on living the dream. Rgds, Tremone Stonehead,
You say you were going to build your own. Do you have any working design plans that you could share, I know you’re a helpful chap with that sort of stuff over on the selfsufficientish site. I really admire your knowledge,courage and honesty. You don’t harp on how everything is glorious which i find most refreshing.
I lease the land that I have to farmers and do a desk job because I haven’t the guts to do what you do. Although we might go half way as the OH is expecting any day and will want a project to keep her occupied as she really doesn’t want to hand over the rearing of our child to a child minder. So we are trying to get a veg garden up and running and some chickens(hence the chicken house).
Keep on living the dream.

Rgds,
Tremone

]]> By: Dad http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-571 Dad Sun, 19 Nov 2006 23:50:33 +0000 http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-571 We like to hear news of such elder people doing well. Only last week there was a nice story in the (NSW) Daily Telegraph newspaper of one such fellow. He is a couple of weeks short of his 100th birthday; he plays 18 holes of golf a couple of times a week, walking the course pulling his buggy. He still drives his Nissan coupe and organises his residential nursing home activities for all residents. We like to hear news of such elder people doing well. Only last week there was a nice story in the (NSW) Daily Telegraph newspaper of one such fellow. He is a couple of weeks short of his 100th birthday; he plays 18 holes of golf a couple of times a week, walking the course pulling his buggy. He still drives his Nissan coupe and organises his residential nursing home activities for all residents.

]]> By: stonehead http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-570 stonehead Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:44:52 +0000 http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/still-going-strong/#comment-570 I should add that buying the hen houses now ups the pressure on us to sell Ginger, our Tamworth boar. He was already due to go following the arrival of Graham, our pedigree Berkshire, but as we've just spent the last of our pig feed money and splashed out on two hen houses, it's down to Ginger to pay for more feed and recoup the investment in the houses. Anyone want a very nice boar? And it's not helped by the chickens having gone off lay either - the egg sales usually cover the cost of feed and straw with a little left over, but with no eggs to sell we can get a bit close to the edge over winter. I should add that buying the hen houses now ups the pressure on us to sell Ginger, our Tamworth boar. He was already due to go following the arrival of Graham, our pedigree Berkshire, but as we’ve just spent the last of our pig feed money and splashed out on two hen houses, it’s down to Ginger to pay for more feed and recoup the investment in the houses. Anyone want a very nice boar?

And it’s not helped by the chickens having gone off lay either - the egg sales usually cover the cost of feed and straw with a little left over, but with no eggs to sell we can get a bit close to the edge over winter.

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