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[Eugen]

@JSinMO I will open a thread on this machine. Just driving home now and I should have worn a diaper, my trailer is barely adequate, I hope.

@Spike188 this is good info, thank you!

@Harry it's heavy; steel tracks and everything.



Case 580 came to the rescue

They lifted, I pulled the trailer under. Had to be pushed forward quite a bit, too much weight on the rear of the trailer.


Chained and strapped, ready to go. I really just wanted the hoe, but I couldn't leave the rest behind.

Has a seized and destroyed Onan J60-MS engine. Interesting machine, steel tracks actuated by hydraulic motors, hydraulic up-down blade, and of course that big chainsaw in front.

[JSinMO]

Congratulations! That is one heck of a machine! It makes me wonder if your thinking of putting a motor in it and using it? I knew you had something cooking when you asked about the D-100 the other day!

[Harry]

I'm sure this will be an interesting thread to follow! I'm interested!
Keep the
Harry

[Eugen]

Congratulations! That is one heck of a machine! It makes me wonder if your thinking of putting a motor in it and using it? I knew you had something cooking when you asked about the D-100 the other day!

Thanks! I must say that having a little steel-tracked monster around the yard is very appealing. I suppose it'll depend how much $$ and effort it would take. My plan is to first restore the Davis D100 backhoe to functional, and then we'll see.

[JSinMO]

Here’s a quick chicken and duck update.

That was 4 months ago. Here they are today.

Everybody is growing nicely! We should be getting more eggs than we know what to do with this spring!

[Eugen]

Here’s a quick chicken and duck update. 9CA7B4A5-4F62-4ABB-AD30-1AF80CB77500.jpeg
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That was 4 months ago. Here they are today. F91DBEE6-6358-4607-949F-9CA6C679AA78.jpeg
Everybody is growing nicely! We should be getting more eggs than we know what to do with this spring!

Nice! I wish we could keep a few birds. Do you buy feed for them, or?

[JSinMO]

Here’s a quick chicken and duck update. 9CA7B4A5-4F62-4ABB-AD30-1AF80CB77500.jpeg
4AD8057A-D7B8-461C-A7BB-9AF8D78E7591.jpeg
That was 4 months ago. Here they are today. F91DBEE6-6358-4607-949F-9CA6C679AA78.jpeg
Everybody is growing nicely! We should be getting more eggs than we know what to do with this spring!

Nice! I wish we could keep a few birds. Do you buy feed for them, or?

Thanks! Maybe you’ll be able to have birds at some point. Yes we buy feed. It was fairly economical until the recent price increases I use the hay I cut off our field for the nesting boxes. In the warm months they also get a lot from the garden.

[Gordy]

I help out a neighbor down the road with a pheasant and duck farm. This summer he said the feed costs are more than double what they were last year He is hesitant to raise prices till he finds out what other breeders are charging for their birds A $3,000 feed delivery was enough to fill all of the feeders once, the bulk bin was emptied in a day


Gordy

[DavidBarkey]

I help out a neighbor down the road with a pheasant and duck farm. This summer he said the feed costs are more than double what they were last year He is hesitant to raise prices till he finds out what other breeders are charging for their birds A $3,000 feed delivery was enough to fill all of the feeders once, the bulk bin was emptied in a day


Gordy

3 years ago when we got our first birds feed was $18 a bag . Now it is about $28 a bag . Not near as bad , but a definate increase . In the summer we do not go through too much feed as they have 1/4 acre fenced to free range and lots of scraps from the garden . In the winter feed use goes up and we give cracked corn as a treat (high energy help keep them warm ) , plus we have a freezer full of stuff from the garden we give them after snow flies .

[Spike188]

In the mid 80's my wife and I owned a feed and seed store. We would run a promotion in the spring for baby chicks. For every bag of chicken feed you purchased, we supplied 25 baby chicks at no charge. The chicks cost us 17 cents each and were shipped to us through the US mail in lots of 100. A glass front jewelry counter/display case was turned into a perfect "aren't they cute, we will take 50" motivator. If you took 100 chicks we were out $17.00.
The customer was out $17.00 to purchase 4 -50lb bags of feed. We cleared $1.00 per bag and 4 bags would last about 1 week. At the end of 6 to 7 weeks the chicks were processing size and would have consumed approximately 20 bags or 1000lbs of feed. We clear about $63.00 dollars in 7 weeks.

By now the customer has become attached to the chickens and can't bring themselves to eating their pets. A few customers purchased feed for those birds years after taking them home. The checkbook is full of good intentions.

We also sold turkeys and ducks. One customer bought 25 turkeys that became free range, yard dwellers. Once again the processing for Thanksgiving never happened and critters had thinned the flock down to 6. One morning Daddy found a fully grown turkey doing an eye level stand off and stare down with his stick waving 4 year old son. Dad decided it was time to deal with the turkey's. Being very rural, a common practice when finding stray animals, dogs in particular, was to load them up and haul them to a city park and dump them. Some city dweller dropped them in the country so returning them to town was the logical thing to do. Before sunup the offending turkey's were loaded up and given a new home in the city park. Mid afternoon Daddy passed through the park which was now swarming with cops and city staff trying to catch the wild birds. Problem solved.