Surviving Minnesota!

[MinnesotaNice]

Becaaaause it's true....

 

[Siggie]

Becaaaause it's true....

LOVE IT!!!!

 

[I Love Layers]

I sell lots of them.. TONs... Millions maybe..

Ok maybe not quite that many.

I will be hatching them for a couple more months, but they are a by product of my white sports.

Can you ship?
If so how much a piece for a chick

 

[duluthralphie]

Can you ship?
If so how much a piece for a chick

Are you in No Dak??


I would need to get a import permit..

 

[I Love Layers]

Are you in No Dak??


I would need to get a import permit..

Yep I am

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Another hard chicken lesson learned today.

I'm wanting to write off the last two weeks of this chicken hobby. I feel like this is my first year.

I don't even want to post or share...it just gets sickening, sometimes.

 

[duluthralphie]

Another hard chicken lesson learned today.

I'm wanting to write off the last two weeks of this chicken hobby. I feel like this is my first year.

I don't even want to post or share...it just gets sickening, sometimes.

Oh no.. whatever it is you have our support....Do you need a harder Mikes?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Oh no.. whatever it is you have our support....Do you need a harder Mikes?

Thank you and yes.

 

[Cluckies]

I have waited until well past 8am to post. I cannot wait any longer for you all to get out of bed...


Busy day yesterday, I build pens/runs.

I moved Ethel and her keets.





I found a guinea nest with a turkey egg topper. I am glad of this, I wanted a few more keets to hatch..





I am going to pick them tonight so I get another 8-9 eggs on the pile.



Oh and I forgot Blackie is having a rough molt, an early molt I know, but he has been living with 7 women so I assume it was either molt or suicide for him,,,,,

Dandelioness really made fun of hi when she saw him the other day. He was so hurt...





Oh and I forgot I grafted 2 BA chicks onto a turkey hen to break her broodiness.

Wow, busy day!

I know you guys get tired of my pictures and birds...BUT this is so cute even the duck people will like it,,


Last night we grafted the 2 BA's on the turkey hen that has been setting for 5-6 weeks. We were not sure how it would work, she did peck at them once. We locked them in together and hoped for the best..

Look at these!! What a Mama she is.








The photos were photoshopped to lighten the shadows or the baby was invisible.

Love it, sooooo cute!!

Hi, Folks -

I've been following as much as I can, but it's such a busy season! About half the garden got weeded this morning. One of my rabbits got out and I think she's about to kindle, so I'm trying to catch her so she kindles in the colony. I may just let her do it out under the feed shed where she made a little burrow. She's pretty wiley and the dogs don't go after her, so I might just leave her some water out there and let her do her thing. How will I catch all the little bunnies, though?? It is really cool to see her from the house window just hanging out in the shade, eating some clover, right next to my sleepy dog.

We had to put down our Black Copper Marans rooster on Sunday. Sadly, he got into it with a younger rooster and was completely blinded. I feel so horrible about it. (It wasn't Dusty BTW) He was such a gorgeous rooster and a real gentlemen toward the hens and our kids. I have 10-15 BCM eggs sired by him in the incubator. At last candling, 10 were for sure developing and 5 I couldn't tell with the darkness of the shell. I am hoping I get a good throw from him, he was such a sweetie.

My chicken and guinea eggs are going into lockdown this Friday!! I hope to have some new arrivals over the beginning of the next week. BCMs, black silkies, and guinea fowl. Fourteen guinea, 5 silkie, and 15 BCMs. I am still holding some olive eggs in the hopes I get a real good broodie.... this just has not been the season for broodies over here. There is a black sexlink here that is suspected to be brooding...I will have to check her spot tonight and see if she's still there.

I did the hip-bone check on my Rhode Island Whites and Cinnamon Queens - surprisingly, they are still laying but not as frequently.

Dusty seems to be settling in just fine, he can see the flock but not really socialize. I think he's lonely. I am going to stew that other rooster once Dusty's quarantine is up and before he joins the flock.

I did lose one of Minnie's Buckeye chicks in the heat recently, but thankfully it was a pullet and I still have two of those and a cockerel left.

The meatballs are coming along nicely, almost meatloaf sized. Second batch is coming in mid-July.

I hope all your summer things are going well, friends -

Sorry about your sweet rooster and your buckeye chick,

Another hard chicken lesson learned today.

I'm wanting to write off the last two weeks of this chicken hobby. I feel like this is my first year.

I don't even want to post or share...it just gets sickening, sometimes.

Oh nooooo.

I am just a big baby. I can't leave my girls out of their pen without me being out there to help keep watch. I spend most days outside after work with them free ranging from the time I get home until dark when they put themselves away. this is why i'm not on here very much in the summer. the good thing is i have plenty to do out there.
Hugs to you, I hope things start to get better, so very sorry for what you are going through.

 

[jerryse]

Got 3 1/2 inches of rain in some places around here . Getting ready to hit us again . Tornado warnings in nearby areas . Not here . We had a couple of 94 degree days now rain and back to 90's in a day or 2 . Hate heat and humidity . Getting closer to my trip north . Time to enjoy the Northern weather .

Been picking raspberries . Got chiggers while picking . You would not know about those . Not common here but we do get a few . They love hot dry weather . More of a southern pest . Itch something fierce . No see ums . Need to spray my socks next time .