Anybody up this early?
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Topic: Anybody up this early?
Posted By: thendrix
Subject: Anybody up this early?
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 3:56am
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Selling chickens tonight. Been up since about 730 yesterday morning and now having to sit here waiting for trucks to show up. You Canucks picked a fine time to leave the door open. 22 degrees right now. I know that's nothing to you northerners but us Georgia boys ain't made for this. Once the trucks show up I'll have about 7 hours to go then a shower, some food, and a nap. It might not happen in that order. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
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Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 4:34am
| I’ve been up for a bit. It’s aboyt 25 here and a little purdy left but not much. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 4:53am
I think I'm the only one up, in the people's republic of MD. All the federal "workers" are either furloughed, or have the day off for the mlk holiday...
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Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 5:54am
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Woke up at 6:00 AM to a cool house; 60 degrees. Minus 8 degrees outside but fortunately no wind. We have a gas well on the farm so use that free gas except that once in a while when it gets colder than usual something in the gas co's distribution system shuts it off. Glad we didn't disconnect from the regular gas so all I have to do is open and close some valves and we have gas again. Waiting for the house to heat back up now. Does Shameless' machine have refrigeration capacity too? I'll bet it does and he isn't telling anyone. We got snow here in central Ohio Saturday night but before that freezing rain so there is a good coating of ice on everything now. No damage here except a couple of limbs broken off some white pines. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 7:03am
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Hit 20 here at daylight. You boys must have some thick skin or some thick underwear to deal with that -8 crap. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 7:15am
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About 44 here in mid Florida. ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 7:26am
I'd be tickled to death with 44. But I suppose that's pretty cold for Floridians. Darrel |
Dusty MI wrote:Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 7:37am
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Was up about 2:30 but not for long. Don't think I could handle those all-nighters any more, done got too old. Used to fight house fires most of the night then go to regular job with little or no sleep. About 25 here this morning, somebody up north needs to close that darn door. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 7:53am
| How many chickens do you have to load? I'm not familiar with how the new big houses operate. Do you have to catch all those chickens by hand? Don't suppose they would herd very well. |
Posted By: 1955CA
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 8:37am
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I'm up all night hauling snow with the dump truck, LOL. It's minus 10*F here. Got all kinds of check engine and warning lights going with these crappy new emissions motors. Took some great minds to figure on using a liquid that freezes in these emission systems and put heaters in them that can't keep up.
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Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 12:04pm
Just got finished. I don't have to load any. Pilgrims sends a crew with 3 to 4 trucks, two Moffitt lifts, and 6 to 7 catchers. I have to get things ready for them. Cut feed off at certain times, raise feeders at certain times, get everything up out of the catchers way. After they finish with a house I have to get rid of anything they leave. They're not supposed to take small birds or any with leg problems. We have 72,000 at this farm. The farm I'm starting on now will house 236,000. We'll have to shut this farm down due to age and location. When they catch they turn the lights off and the birds lay down. Then they walk through and pick them up and put them in cages that the lifts take off the truck and bring inside. Each cage consists of 10 coops. They usually put between 6,600 and 7,200 per trailer ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 12:13pm
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Years ago we had to herd them. I used to help them catch birds on my grandparents pullet farm. We caught twice during each flock. Once to vaccinate, once to move to the hen farm. Back then we drove all the birds to the back of the house then strung a net across the width of the house. Then we all got another net a little wider then the house and walked so far into the birds until it looked about right. Then everybody spread out across the house and started walking and the net would drive them into the other net. Then we picked them up by the feet 4 or 5 at a time ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 1:38pm
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I'll bet the catchers are young guys. Sounds like a lot of stooping over and standing up and a lot of work. 200+ thousand is a lot of chickens. Do you haul all the fertilizer they make? Some of the guys that built houses around here several years ago used the manure value as an argument for building them. How big are your new buildings to be? Seems too be quite a few chicken houses built around here in the last 2 years. I know of 3 sites within about 10-12 miles of each other. 2 are on adjacent farms. 3 really long buildings on each site. Thanks for the info.
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Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 2:17pm
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Most of the catchers are, I'm guessing, in their 20's to 30's. We sell the litter we take out to people and spread it on hay fields and pastures. The new houses will be 50' wide and 600' long. There had been a rash of new farms built here in the last 4 to 5 years here to. This happens every 20 years or so. The older farmers retire and somebody has to replace them ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: DonBC
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 3:55pm
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There use to be a chicken farm operation on the island that we previously lived on. I am not sure how large an operation it was but on when harvesting day came there was either two or three semis with cages come over on the ferry the evening before and leave full of chickens the next morning. You always knew when this happened if you took the ferry that day as there would be chicken feathers blowing around the ferry deck all day. The trucking company was called "Last Ride Trucking". This farm was visible at other times when the bulk carrier brought the feed over. It was a two trailer train that had to be split when loading and unloading on and off the ferry. This often put the ferry off schedule for the rest of the day. It must have been because of weight restrictions on the ramps as the train did not have to split when leaving the island. The farm made it's presence felt one other day as well. A truck carrying chicken poop to a local farm to spread on the fields did not have it's tailgate tightly secured. This chicken poop was semi liquid and spread on one of the main roads circling the island. This chicken poop gradually spread around the island, the shopping area, the ferry deck and some of the main streets of the city on the other side. The flocks gradually got smaller and then a disease problem eventually lead to a complete shut down and it never reopened. ------------- Jack of all trades, master of none |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 4:50pm
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Wow I never heard of a farm on an island. How often did they move the birds? Being 3 trucks is guess it was either a very small farm or a breeder farm ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 11:24pm
| I was up at about 0345, went to coffee in town at 0430, was about 9 degrees out with sum wind. them silly Canadians keep leaving their doors open, that's where we giys all this cold from! |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 11:28pm
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And here I thought is was old man winter. Learn somethin new every day. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: DonBC
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 1:34am
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thendrix, it was only 3 or 4 large chicken houses plus feed storage, equipment garage a large house and swimming pool on less than 10 acres of land. They raised fryers and chicks were brought over from a hatchery. There were 8 or 10 small farms on the island that raised sheep and cattle. A couple of the farms started in the late 1800's. Otherwise there are about 4500 people on the island. ------------- Jack of all trades, master of none |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 1:42am
| Ya there are some of us up. Attempting to decide if we want another 40 bee hives next year. Heck of a lot of work. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 3:04am
| I is up again, think'in bouts going to wally world...then to coffee. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 3:32am
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Hey Shamers, would ye kindly stop by and throw some wood in for me, would ye??? Pretty please??? It needs it now, not next summer when Hutch is on... I heard that Shameless... SHEESH want are friends for. Just ask him nicely an he don't show up. Well, guess it's me an the dog... and she's curled up under the table on her blankie... LOL ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 4:42am
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Dang,,,,!!! all that jawin by youse guys has awoke me up,,,,well,,,might as well go make a pot of Cinnamy-Coffee,,,Hey,,,I kinda like thet ,,,,,Cinnamy-Coffee,,,I'll have to look into maybe a patent on thet,,,,,,, By the way,,,,Good Mornin,,,,,,,  PS,,,Shameless,,,I don't go to walmart this early,,,,accordin to you,,,,they's some mighty strange peoples that frequent thet place at them hours,,,,,, Well,,,I took Joyce to the Rehab Center yesterday mornin and,,,,,and,,,,I was surprised in that I didn't have to fight very hard to push her out of the car,,,,,,
,,,seriously tho,,,She was kinda eager to get started with her rehab and hopefully graduate up to getting the prosthesis and get to where she can at least motivate some with her walker |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 5:38am
Prayers sent that she will stay on this path. Reading this makes me smile.👍 |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 6:06am
| I don't get near the Puter until dogs walked/potty'd/fed, chores done but usually up close to 4. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 6:24am
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That's some good news Joe. They say a good attitude is a great healer ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 7:18am
| thanks for the update Joe! hope she can keep up her good spirits! got to wally world, boughts lots of TP. a jug of tea and out the doors I went. was coffee time at the gas station! home now, found another hose leaking...oh well, i'll still share with ya'll! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 1:10pm
| Glad to hear Joyce is in good spirits. There was a guy in the doctors office today that had two prosthetic legs and wasn't even using a cane or anything walked just as good as I was. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 12:38am
Sure, the one night that I'm not here at that time and Tyler starts squawking about chickens. I gotta get the heck off of here now though,,,,,,,,I got a lot of stuff to do ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 12:39am
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Warms my heart Joe!! I'm glad she's a fighter!! Prayer's coming every day!! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 2:17am
| G'nite Ted! |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 2:27am
| Hey, I'm already up tomorrow. The coffee is hot. Leon |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 2:29am
| did you puts the ciminum in it Leon? |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 2:30am
| I gots about 2 hours before coffee in town |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 3:58am
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Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 4:03am
| 5 AM here and I've had 2 cups of coffee and swapped out the fuel gauge on the D 15. Nice folks at Sandy Lake sent me another gauge as the first one was fogging up inside . Now what to do ? |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 7:07am
| coffee at 0430 every day. it's a open 24 hour station. |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 7:30pm
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If I hit the hay a little after 10 PM after a glass of milk with 3 spoons of Nesquik in it, I'm up to pee at midnight. Drink a little water or cold coffee and up again at 2 to pee again. Same. I'm up again at 4 to take a thyroid tablet after I pee. Now with the cooler or cold nights I stoke the insert every 2 hours . If it goes below freezing I have another wood fire in our LOPI to stoke. Sometimes I'll check the forum while up. Or Check the Weather for 75652 6 AM Fresh Coffee , Scrambled eggs and Toast. If I'm lucky Bacon, Ham, Spam or Homemade Breakfast Sausage.
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Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 7:40pm
That ham and homemade breakfast sausage sounds good but I don’t know about them Minnesota pork chops?? Lol |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2019 at 12:39am
| spam???? whew |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2019 at 4:44am
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Spam is better than Sardines . Up at 4 for my Thyroid pill. Nothing to eat or drink for 2 more hours. Indoor/outdoor Thermometer read 71 and 27. Put 2 more sticks of oak on the fire. Checked in here and now back under the Quilts I go in the cold end of the house. Wife is on the couch sound asleep with the 2 cats 8 feet from the smokin hot Fireplace Insert. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2019 at 8:38am
| Under the quilts in the cold end, then that feeling of getting up and walking in the room with the fire......ahhhh, that's the way to sleep! |