The boiler used 10 bags in the first week, 10 in the second. By the old mental divider machine I get ~1.428 bags per day - that's 3.427 gallons equivalent per day - that's 47.9 gallons equivalent for the 2 weeks it's been running. If I want to extrapolate a little and take a SWAG at a guess for a month, then it'll be close to 104 gallons equivalent for a month (4.333 weeks). I'll re-SWAG when it gets colder and consumption goes up...
There was ice on the barrel yesterday - Frost on the Pumpkin... And we did the last lap around the yard to get everything up that didn't need to be lost all winter. I have one more (just one, really) item to move - the pallet of maple flooring that was salvaged from the gym... Good thing it's not heavy or anything...
The Banty Shanty is done except for a ventilator and the door latch - the ventilator is going in next weekend - it'll pull warm, clean air from the boiler house and exhaust moist, chicken-flavored air out through the Banty Shanty wall. It will be on a timer so they get an air exchange every 4 hours or so...
The door in...
The main chick door... (There's another behind the man door...)
Cinnamon giving it the 'seal' of approval while doing structural testing of the escape hatch...
The escape hatch - I hope they never learn to read... Actually, it's for cleaning - put the tub under the hole, scoop everything down the hole, done...
Moved in and settling down - this picture doesn't show the 3 roosting poles that hang from the walls. I thought about putting in a smaller chrome one from floor to ceiling, but... nah... Apparently they find it adequate (and I didn't even have to paint it 'Eggshell'...)
So we were at Sam's the other day hunting for some very elusive type of cheese and we saw this in the cooler - apparently healthy... I've been saying for years that you should drink naked...
What? What were you thinking? :)
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
~H.G. Wells
Herbert, Sorry I missed your birthday yesterday :(
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