Surviving Minnesota!

Siggie said:

LOL....no way could not keep that many! Do you guys have smoke in the air? It got pretty windy today and now its so smokey Its crazy that the smoke could travel so far...feel so bad for all those people.

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We have had smoke not constantly, just on and off ~

We've had haze. I can't smell smoke. So maybe just dust and pollen. The wind is nutso though. Need rain bad! I guess it turned out to be 90 up here. Whew!

Nut ball is 1 today. She got birthday steak.

Yeah I think the smoke and haze is from something closer than the Canada fire. It was hot today but suddenly cold.

I've heard Itasca state park has some fire and eastern iron range.

So excited for the sale!!

Morning Erli!

I smelled the smoke around 2am..Woke me up. I did not get excited and look for fire after seeing you guys talk about it. I thought about waking the WWD and have her look, but decided not too......


I have a chick out of last weeks disastrous hatch (five live birds from 100 eggs) that is the prettiest lavender/blue color. I think I know who her mother is. Holm it is that one you said you have "only that color Easter eggers). With the Blue from Sven-son of Ole's tail she (hoping here) is beautiful. Even Judy says it is the prettiest colored chick we have ever had. I will try to get a picture today.

One thing the hatch is a lucky hatch in that they all get to eat Gamebird starter. I feed 28% gamebirds started to turkeys and Keets, If I have a chick with them it gets the better food. This lucky group is 4 chicks and one turkey.

I have decided to put Judy's grill together today. She has been complaining long enough about it still being in the box. She can blame the pick up being such a PITA for that! As of today no one has taken me up on my Craigslist barter. I was disappointed, I thought EJB would use this opportunity to get me into something other than a Ford.. BUT he has not been on much lately so maybe he just missed the post.

I have discovered the weak point in my hatching. It is the foam hatchers. I am going to have to build some new ones or buy some. I did buy some automatic humidity devices ( a bucket and hose with a float) I hope that helps maintain a more stable humidity. I also got some new setting trays for the one 1202. And that low pressure waterer Jerry told us about...


Judy was NOT happy with the purchases. I am now banned from Sam's Club, Amazon, and all internet shopping. She is so unreasonable. On the plus side, she did tell me I could build a new hatchery, if I do a few dozen things on her honeyDo list instead of fixing up the old shed for a hatchery.


I am really giving it serious thought. I am thinking a 24x32 garage package from Menards that I insulate and put a few windows in. With 2 mandoors and maybe one 5 ft door for larger items, like a new incubator that holds 3000 eggs!

Now it is picture time!!!



First the cute "blue" one. The color is not as realistic as I would like, an IPhone failure.





Here is all 5 of the survivors of the disastrous hatch of '16. I think the one just to the left of the blue one is a PC. I did not mark these as they were such a weak hatch I refused to sell any.



Same as above but shows side view of blue one.




And this was unbelievable. The other day when I got my old truck "fixed" again. I had Judy follow me to Elk River to make sure it was running ok. I brought with me tools to pull the axle and the wheel bearings incase of a problem. We stopped every couple miles so I could feel the bearings to make sure they were not getting hot. When we got to Elk River Judy wanted to go into Walmart. I picked a parking place as far away from people as I could. I parked in 4 spaces, so I could pull the axles if need be. I wanted lots of room around me...


When we came out this is what we found...The old truck is mine...There is not room to get in my passenger door.




I guess the other 400 spots around me did not appeal to the PITA.