Old Jim's Fowl Page

Where everything

is just DUCKIE!

Well...things were duckie. Now I'm duckless...no ducks, no eggs, no joy from the ceaseless antics of the runners. I do miss the ducklings hatching in the spring of the year.

Due to travels and other activities, I've passed my ducks on to relatives. Livestock is very confining! Yes, confining but very worthwhile. I may get back to a small flock sometime, but am too old now to have the 100+ flocks of a few years ago.

I leave this web page up to provide information that may be helpful; moreover, I'll be glad to correspond via email with those of you who may have questions that I might answer.

Best wishes for good years to come. Enjoy your slide into the "duckpond!" :)

Jim Satterfield

jsatt@gsu.edu

What's New...

Charlie is responsible!

Charlie came to live with me in the autumn of 1996, a border collie filled with all of the intelligence, love, and mischief that comes with the breed. I thought I might work with him as his "herding instinct" began to express itself, and having attended a few herding trials as a spectator, I thought that those things called "runner ducks" might be useful. I made some inquiries on the herding listserver and gathered information about runner ducks. My demise was inevitable. I had started my slide into the quagmire of keeping poultry. It's all Charlie's fault.

To get a head start...

I had gotten acquainted with Denise Aylesworth via an internet request for information on runner ducks. She told me about McMurray Hatchery, and I ordered a catalog...but it would not be available until November. I did learn about Tony Padgett from Denise, learned that Tony lived about 10 miles from me, had runner ducks, and I could get some eggs from him to hatch "on the halves" in the spring. Wow!!

Tony also said that Mr. William Kelly had hatched eggs for him before, that Mr. Kelly had a lot of different kinds of chickens and other poultry. Well...I got acquainted with Mr. Kelly, and he told me that he could give me some eggs to try to hatch as a test for my anticipated incubator. Now...all that remained to do was make my incubator. Super! Things have a way of working out.

Mr. Kelly, a wonderful, unselfish man who knows more about poultry that I can ever learn.

So things have developed for me to include...

A couple of cobbled-up, inexpensive, one of a kind incubators.

Keeping them warm with brooder boxes.

Learning to drive a Chicken Tractor.

Duck tents and laying boxes.

Tempfencing and duck mowers.

Waterers, swimming tubs, and doodle holes.

Duck and Chicken watching.

Doing science a few steps at a time.

Buying ducks, ducklings, and hatching eggs.

Doing things with eggs.

Poultry Prose and Poetry.

Predator Wars: Building a large live trap-coop.

Button Quail

Following other web links.

The Fountain of Youth.

I invite you to visit my other websites...

Mother Crochets

Mother is 92 years old now, and her arthritis prevents her from using her hands well... not much crocheting now. But do go to the web page to see some of her beautiful creations..

Beekeeping in Top Bar Hives

Have you been interested in beekeeping but have been reluctant to get involved because of the high initial cost of equipment? Do you enjoy making much of your own things for projects with which you are involved? Are you attuned to recycling materials? Do you enjoy honey and the many uses of beeswax? If so, then this website may have information that will enable you to move into some very satisfying and enjoyable beekeeping adventures.

The June 2001 TARSUS Event

Learn about the wonderful world of Arthur Ransome's books. Get acquainted with The Arthur Ransome Society. The first Georgia TARSUS event is over, but click on the photo to see the fun that we had. Join TARS and read the adventures of John, Nancy, Peggy, Susan, Titty, Roger, and others.

Detachment 45, 848 AC&W Squadron, Hokkaido, Japan

I was in the USAF 1953-56. From 1955-56 I was stationed at this radar detachment. We were the ground control intercept station for northern Japan, playing "games" with the Russians on adjacent islands during this period of the Cold War. We were the first line of defense for the armed forces. Come along and see what life was like in this remote, cold, but also beautiful area of the world.

Acknowledgements:

I am indebted to many friends who have helped me construct these pages by contributing suggestions and expertise, assisting with photographs, suggesting editorial changes, and in many other ways. The friends include Kathy Duggleby, Sandra Garber, Annette Satterfield, and Gary Satterfield.

I'm grateful to Georgia State University for providing an old retiree a computer account and web space with which to piddle about. The GSU Computer Help Center has been very supportive of my efforts, and I'm particularly indebted to Dale Richards for his unfailing guidance in helping me through the maze of UNIX commands and in resolving other problems as they arise.

This Poultry Ring site is owned by James D. Satterfield.

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