Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Blood sweat and tears... That's what makes it worth it in the end!
I think these are production strain. Probably quite different than birds of your childhood unfortunately. They are friendly though.

They are probably closely related if not the same. We ate the scrawniest little roosters you have ever seen. Grandma had leghorns because of the white eggs, the size and how many they laid. She sold the eggs at the Super Fair store in town.

 

[KlopKlop]

They are probably closely related if not the same. We ate the scrawniest little roosters you have ever seen.  Grandma had leghorns because of the white eggs, the size and how many they laid. She sold the eggs at the Super Fair store in town.

Really!!?! Here i thought today's leghorns were a super Bast.... Uh.. You--know-what-ized version of what the breed used to be. I should know better than second guessing you Ralphie!

 

[duluthralphie]

I don't know, but I do not think leghorns have changed much since they were first developed. Minnie would most likely know. I know people will say the chickens now are different than they were in the early 1900's. Back then a chicken laid around 90 eggs year now they lay 280 or some such number.

However, I think nutrition, electricity and the light bulb have more to do with the number of eggs than anything else.


Looking on Wiki . which is even less accurate than an old time butchers scale, implies the breed as been unchanged since the 1800's,

 

[Coffee 1st]

Sounds like you did well, Wire cuts are just an expected occurrence when fencing. Never say anything deserves to eat them, a weasel could take you up on that. They go through Fort Knox coops like a hot knife through butter.

Do we have weasels?? dont get me panicking about another predator,,,, ive been thinking Hawks,eagles,foxes and i had a beaver cut through my yard to make his way to the river...

 

[Rhetts]

Ralphie what are the 3 S's you are referring to? I am sure I know but please spare my noggin the work of thinking!

 

[duluthralphie]

I think weasels live anywhere in the state.

There is not much you can do about them, except cross your fingers and hope for the best. They are so sneaky they can get in any small space.

 

[Cluckies]

Welcome back Holm, great to see you. Someone was on here just a week or so ago looking for some ducks.. can't remembrer what kind though.

@Rhetts Shoot, shovel, and shut up.

Are white leghorns the only chickens that lay white eggs?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Hey all! It's been awhile. How have u all been? Not much has happened here. If anyone's interested I have 3 female Pekin duvk who r showing sign of laying. I also have some pretty roos for sale.

WElcome back holm. Snowball seller to eskimos, and Rooster sales in September. Ltd.

Oh I forgot to add......he asked me if I had heard any howling lately. I said sure did just last night. So close that DH got me up and outside to hear it. No it was not coyotes. But then I can't 'prove' they were wolves out there.
All I can do is set my traps, set my game cameras and try to protect my farm as best as possible. Oh I told him I have cattle too and will be expecting calves in a few months possibly. Yeah, I think I will be chatting with him a bit if we don't get this under control soon.

yah. that size print you have a wolf. Don't you just love that feeling of having smoke blown up your a.... Butt? (Holm is back.... Sorry buddy)

I think I would have said. "Look, let's be real, here fella... and quit wasting my time and admit that what I have is a wolf problem. If it looks like sh... Poop, smells like poop. It's probably poop." I just hate inefficiency and the games that people play. and isn't it a well known fact or something to the likes that where there are established packs of wolves, generally coyotes are run off or killed by wolves?! I mean come on. He is telling you just 2 miles away there are proven wolf kills?!

Are white leghorns the only chickens that lay white eggs?

Cluckies. I think there are some orientals or fancy breeds that will lay white as well. Off the top of my head I can't think of them

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Coffee 1st. Weasels are alive and well in Minnesota.

Brown and hard to see in the summer.

White and lush gorgeous & cute in the winter.



They tend to take care of the coop mice and follow their trails leading to the coop. They are also vampires to chickens. Beautiful little white draculas that pile up the bodies.

 

[Cluckies]

@duluthralphie , do you still have the lady that laid the porcelain egg? Did you figure out who it was?