Some more pic's Joe...........

[Dave Parks]

The winter wheat in the food plot next to the flight pen (left center) is drying up in the warm weather we've been having. In November I'll disced the plot and plant it with strips of winter wheat and milo for next years crop. The skys cleared a little after a week of our valley being filled with heavy smoke from the fires down in Northern California. A cool wind out of the N/W was a great help.


View of the flight pen from up near the trap thrower.



Here is four of the six brooder pens that we've been building up at the shop. I'm making these out of 1x4 fir with the intention of moving them down to the brooder/incubator room at the lower end of the flight pen once that room gets built. These are 5' tall, 6' deep and 8' wide with 22" doors. The divider can be wired down the middle of you have just a dozeen quail or so to put in them for the "growing out" period that is indoors with heat lamp, water and food in each section. With the help of a chop saw, Senco brad nailer and Judy holding teh long pieces in place.........these go together pretty fast.


And here's what part of all this labor and effort is about!


It makes all the pain and blisters go away when I see these guys. I can't wait to see one of thes eguys that tips the scale at SEVEN POUNDS!

Dave

 

[Joe O]

Looks green,compared to here.Friday afternoon we had a frog-strangler.Got 11/2 in of rain in 25 min.That was our total for the month of June.What month do you plant the winter wheat and milo,Sept??

 

[Dave Parks]

duck season? You'll need it next December if you want to see your decoys float and not hust be field diver decoys.:^)

An inch and a half of rain would be good about every 3 weeks or so. Maybe you should think a little more about this global warming trend. If you really like to duck hunt you might consider moving to the NEW Everglades area that is being made in the midwest anywhere along the Missouri River and Old Mississippi is good I hear.

Sorry I missed your call yesterday, I was off getting more lumber and hardware for the brooder pens.

The winter wheat will be planted in early November just after the rains soften the soil. The Milo will have to wait until early Spring to be planted in it's rows between the 30 foot wide wheat rows. There is plenty of volunteer wheat that came up this Spring to keep the birds fed. Everyday the wild turkeys, Valley Quail, deer and doves are eating it up now that it's dried and gone to seed. This year we had the most vetch that I have ever seen here on the place and the dove and quail love it.

I'm going to try and remove all the fish from the upper pond and put them in the lower pond while I drain and treat the upper pond. I need to get some dolimite and fix teh slow leak I have into teh lower pond. I want to kill off the weeds and re-do the bottom at the same time adding some structure. Mac has a new "fish-shocker" that stuns the fish and brings them to the surface. I just hope I don't fall out of the boat while he's using it!

Dave

 

[Joe O]

Don't stand barefoot in a tin boat,while shocking the fish ;O).This diver experiment gets one more season around here,before I pull out.