Oh, she has the rust bug in a few areas and is by no means perfect, but she has held up well over the past 15 years. I just use two covers and try to keep her dry as possible.
Still on an unleaded head, so I use lead substitute which has kept the lines and carb amazingly clean of any ethanol debris, but I have used Seafoam before winter hits which helps alot too. However, plugs are next on my hitlist of things to replace.
To keep the car for sale in the US, which was by far the largest market, they had to "federalize" it more halfway through the 1974 production year, which resulted in a raised ride height to make the headlamps meet the new height mandate and the black rubber bumpers to meet the 5mph impact...
Here she is, in all her 74.5 glory. Only the past 2 or so years has she been cantankerous, the other 14 she has been awesome and pretty reliable overall.
Mine too, but my MGB has given me fits since the carb rebuild which I was hoping would address my drivability issues but I've been too irritated to delve into why after she started acting up a whole new way. But now with such weather coming up, I suppose I'll get motivated enough to dig into it...
The Brahmas, blue SF, BLR Wyandotte roo and blue and splash JGs are all from researched and knolwedgeable breeders. So, when I had 35 birds 2 weeks ago, 22 were breeder birds, the rest hatchery. Now, of my 32 remaining, 21 are breeder and 11 are hatchery.
So these are my two larger coops. The blue JG roo passed away in the yellow one. For the tan one, not only has the only major medical case been my one JG hen with wryneck, but it also survived a bear attack from April. The big wire run is mobile, I simply move it to the coop run door, fasten...
You kinda hit the nail on the head perfectly with tragedy only being a day away. I really appreciate this post, makes me feel halfway decent that some do indeed get these strings of trial and hardship. I was actually dreading opening and cleaning my coops today, afraid of finding yet another...
This post is exactly what every new prospective chickener should read before going into it!!!! You have perfectly summed up the whole experience of much more work than people ever think it is, but because we enjoy it we push on. With full time jobs and living far from everything, finding time...