{"id":99,"date":"2007-11-23T06:57:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2007\/11\/23\/winters-coming-and-were-working-like-mad-of-the-pheasant-pen\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T06:57:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T13:57:38","slug":"winters-coming-and-were-working-like-mad-of-the-pheasant-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2007\/11\/23\/winters-coming-and-were-working-like-mad-of-the-pheasant-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter’s coming and we’re working like mad of the pheasant pen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was lovely; sunny, breezy and nearly 45 degrees outside.\u00a0 So after splitting up a wheelbarrow load of firewood and carrying that in and hauling another load of donkey\/goat manure out onto the garden, I resumed working on our new pheasant pen for David’s new fancy pheasants our friends are giving him.\u00a0 It’s taking a long time because we needed a tight, strong outer fence (old kennel panels from the dog yard), a tight shelter, which is their shed, and three separate pens, one for each breed of pheasant.\u00a0 The rooster pheasants will fight and sometimes kill each other, so they need to be in different pens.<\/p>\n

Not only can pheasants fly, but owls will swoop down at night and pluck any pheasants roosting outside up and eat them.\u00a0 So the pens also need tops!\u00a0 Then there are the inside individual pens and gates…..lots of gates.\u00a0 And a door from the goat barn into the pheasant barn.\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 Lots of building for three pairs of birds!<\/p>\n

Luckily, I was able to recycle the last clear Filon left over from our old greenhouse for the roof, 2″x4″s and windows from the dump and a few treated timbers from our old greenhouse.\u00a0 The building is only 6’x13′, but it’s been kind of a fussy thing to put together.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/p>\n

Tonight after David got out of school, he hopped on the bulldozer and graded their yard before we fenced it.\u00a0 There was a huge old stump in it, and a bunch of big rocks.\u00a0 He dug up the stump and shoved it over the hill and buried it.\u00a0 Then he filled the hole with rocks and graded the whole pen area nice and flat.\u00a0 Tomorrow I’ll hook all the fence together and pound down the posts we’ll need for the cross fencing.\u00a0 It’s going to get cold soon, and the ground will be freezing.<\/p>\n

Up here in the north, you have to think of these things, for once the ground freezes, you won’t be pounding or digging posts in any more till spring.<\/p>\n

We’re also hauling wood in like mad, carefully protecting the floor and log wall in our new porch from the beating dumping firewood on it can give.\u00a0 Luckily there’s enough old OSB pieces lying around to do the job.\u00a0 After all that work staining I do not want my beautiful floor and wall dinged up!\u00a0 Oh no!\u00a0 This time of the year I feel like having David play hooky from school to help get in the wood, but of course, I won’t.\u00a0 But one can’t help feel a bit pressured this time of the year, here in the northern backwoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was lovely; sunny, breezy and nearly 45 degrees outside.\u00a0 So after splitting up a wheelbarrow load of firewood and carrying that in and hauling another load of donkey\/goat manure out onto the garden, I resumed working on our new pheasant pen for David’s new fancy pheasants our friends are giving him.\u00a0 It’s taking a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}