Archive for the ‘on the henhouse door’ Category

Automatic Chicken Coop Door Opener

February 20, 2010 - 8:23 pm No Comments

I built this automatic door opener for my chicken coop so I wouldn’t have to go out there and let them out in the morning before I go to work. Full details of the design are available at my blog here: http://www.fabiens.org/ckblog/?page_id=106

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Automatic Chicken Coop Door – Morning Rush

February 17, 2010 - 7:37 pm 22 Comments

“How stupid is this? One night, I forgot to close the door and had to walk out in a lightning and rainstorm getting soaked in seconds! Another time, rushing over an hour from home worrying the entire time what might be getting at my flock… Because I forgot to shut the door…”

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A Tour of our Chicken Coop & Automatic Chicken Coop Door Opener

February 14, 2010 - 6:32 pm 8 Comments

Here’s a tour of my chicken coop and a look at our Automatic Chicken Coop Door.

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Automatic Chicken Coop Door 1.0

February 12, 2010 - 2:26 am 12 Comments

After raccoons killed 3 of our birds over the past few years I finally build an auto chicken coop door closer. Here is the orginal plan: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/automatic-chicken-coop-door.php

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Bombay Male by the henhousedoor

February 8, 2010 - 3:13 pm 1 Comment

“I would like a hen for lunch. If I miaow really loud maybe one will come in my mouth”, this Bombay male seems to think. He has traditional healthy lines. www.bombaycats.us

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Spinal Tap – sex farm

February 5, 2010 - 5:02 am 4 Comments

Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay

Scratching in your hen house
Sniffing at your feedbag
Slipping out your back door
Leaving my spray

Sex farm woman, I’m gonna mow you down
Sex farm woman, I’ll rake and hoe you down
Sex farm woman, don’t you see my silo rising high?

Working on a sex farm
Hosing down your barn door
Bothering you livestock
They know what I need

Working up a hot sweat
Crouching in your pea patch
Plowing through your bean field
Planting my seed

Sex farm woman, I’ll be your hired hand
Sex farm woman, I’ll let my offer stand
Sex farm woman, don’t you hear my tractor rumbling by?

Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay

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Free Range Chicken in Snow

January 25, 2010 - 10:59 am No Comments

http://www.foxfirefarms.com/soyfreeeggs.aspx Do chickens like snow? Follow Andrew the intern as he opens the mobile hen house door and watch the free range hens try to navagate through the deep snow.

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JOHN DENSMORE AND MICHAEL C FORD AT HEN HOUSE STUDIOS

January 22, 2010 - 2:11 am 11 Comments

HenHouseStudios.com
Michael C. Ford is the first poet to record at the Hen House. He has recited his poems with music accompaniment on two different projects thus far. The first had John Densmore, a Hen House veteran, drumming while Ford read a poem about the history of the American drummer. Ford has a wonderfully expressive voice and a great delivery. His writing is intelligent and very witty. Ford often draws from history and politics as subject matter. Ford’s work was recognized in 1998 when he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and in 1986 when he was nominated for a Grammy. His latest project at The Hen House has him reciting one of his poems with a full band. Also, check out Ford’s poetry on the poetry/lyrics page.-Hen House Studios is a record label and documentary film company in Venice, California. First made famous by their unique concept to record musicians for free in exchange for the right to film them, Hen House has grown to a premiere, web based multi media company featuring music videos, CDs, DVDs, and podcasts all produced by the studio.
Hear the Music and See the Stories.
©2007 Hen House Studios . All Rights Reserved.

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Toby — Attack Cat

January 15, 2010 - 1:41 pm 1 Comment

For some reason, Toby was spooked when Denny peeked around a door. Denny, of course, could not resist playing into this.

At one point in the video, Denny acted like he was attacking my leg. Toby lunged at him pretty fiercely. He’s always been rather protective of me, but we’d never seen him quite like this.

Toby was not harmed at all in the making of this video. However, Denny experienced an accelerated heartbeat.

The song is from the musical, Cats.

Growltiger was a bravo cat who traveled on a barge
In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed at large
From Gravesend up to Oxford he pursued his evil aims
Rejoicing in his title of

GROWLTIGER:
The “Terror of the Thames”! Ha ha ha ha!

GRUMBUSKIN:
His manners and appearance did not calculate to please
His coat was torn and seedy, it was baggy at the knees
One ear was somewhat missing, no need to tell you why
And he scowled upon a hostile world from one forbidding eye

CHORUS:
The cottagers of Rotherhithe knew something of his fame
At Hammersmith and Putney, people shuddered at his name
They would fortify the hen house, lock up the silly goose
When the rumor ran along the shore:

GROWLTIGER:
Growltiger’s on the loose! Ha ha ha ha!

SOLOS:
Woe to the weak canary that fluttered from its cage
Woe to the pampered Pekingese, that faced Growltiger’s rage
Woe the bristly bandicoot that lurks on foreign ships
And woe to any cat with whom Growltiger came to grips

But most to cats of foreign race his hatred had been vowed
To cats of foreign name and race, no quarter was allowed
The Persian and the Siamese regarded him with fear
Because it was a Siamese had mauled his missing ear

Andrew Lloyd Webber
T.S. Eliot

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WHO’s Job is it to Secure the Barndoor?

December 31, 2009 - 7:44 pm No Comments

Was this intended to be a [SIC] joke by Homeland Security???

This is the type of crap, the wolves would say, who were hired to guard the hen house.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that the spread of swine flu does not merit closing any of the nation’s borders and that the sub class humor she used to explain this outbreak as a barn door that was left open.

Once again WHO let the Horse out of the Barn?

these guys

http://www.cid.army.mil/

are investigating these guys

http://www.usamriid.army.mil/

to find out who left the barn door open

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