Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

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

No, I do not think so. I think the coyote/coon/hawk/eagle/possum/skunk/dog got her. I keep hoping to see the eggs again. No idea what breed it was even.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Ralphie: Tonight we were having supper at the in-laws. It's DH's birthday today. Anyways I told FIL about your family inventing copper wires. We all laughed around the Dinner table about that. DH and DS are already fans of yours since the redneck test. Then we read the lovely attributes of guineas over dessert. DS was in stitches. I also shared about the dog named Reagan who went to live with the professor's family.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Super Happy the girls went in their new big run today I finally got the tops and sides all done, I cut and weaved everything all corners,seems and everything that looked like it needed it.. It is like Fort Knox... Just have to do the underground portion... anything that gets into the coop and run deserves to have a chicken dinner..The only damage i did to my body today was wire down into my cutical OMG that hurt...and i was cutting across the roll of wire and it was rolling back up I said to myself DONT cut that last wire AND what did i do...yep cut it anyways snapped loose from the roll as it was curving into a roll it caught my leg and yep cut right down my leg...RRRGGGG no one to blame but myself...cant wait till its done.. i have been damaged doing this thing...but a end is in site...

I know that end in site thingy. Backsplash. Please pick tiles so the end will come!!

 

[Minniechickmama]

oh I need to rent goats!! blackberry picking in the brush by the woods I was dismayed to find a huge poison ivy infestation. Way to much to spray, and so far that spraying hasn't really worked well for me in the areas I've been trying. But....won't coyotes eat goats?



your phone vendor should have cloud tutorials on their website - I know verizon does (ask me how I know).


and, in my book, you can be a class 1 redneck AND a treehugger! eat venison AND granola. listen to country AND MPR. I could go on, but I wont.....


and just to make this post chicken related, three days after the soap in the water, and the tumeric/garlic/wormer herbs added to the feed, I got more eggs!


Also, want to complain about EEs. They are soo docile. I had one as a chick some years back and I literally had to duct tape her back just about the tail because she was letting her flockmates eat her feathers and draw blood. Now I have one who is about 18 months old and having her first molt. Her best buddy is a buff orpington. The buff is eating the EE's little feather stubbs that are coming in. She just walks over and starts grazing on the EE. Worse yet, the EE goes over and sidles up to her so the BO can eat more! I tried some old booster rooster pick me no more which has a horrible perfume and is basically blue kote in a lotion (works great when the area you want to cover is near the eyes). I don't know if it will work or not, if not, she is going to have duct tape muffs.

You think your EEis bad for letting them eat her feathers? I have had a couple who peck themselves and and were eating their own bloody tails off!

 

[Minniechickmama]

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.

Didn't you go to school today? That is something new that is happening

 

[KlopKlop]

When i bought my place last year the old owner sold me his craftsman lawnmower for $100 since he was moving to town. It was nice to have the extra mower but now it is causing me to grind my teeth. In the last week the steering link broke and the battery quit charging. $79 for the link, $89 for a new regulator. So much for it being a cheap second mower. Might have to give it a redneck parking job and move on...

 

[Minniechickmama]

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.

That was actually about the time that they began developing the super-layer strains we see today. Your grandma's birds were probably closer to breeder quality of today. I would be in shock to see a Leghorn go broody.
It is pretty interesting to look at pictures comparing production and meat chickens and how they have changed over the years. I believe the Leghorns of 50-60 years ago looked more like the hatchery Rocks we have today with longer tails. The CRX are the ones that is really amazing to see the differences in over the years.

Okay, maybe being like Rocks would be an exaggeration, but I think there were noticeable differences from todays birds in most breeds from 60-years ago. The differences from 100-years ago are incredible!

 

[KlopKlop]

That was actually about the time that they began developing the super-layer strains we see today. Your grandma's birds were probably closer to breeder quality of today. I would be in shock to see a Leghorn go broody.
It is pretty interesting to look at pictures comparing production and meat chickens and how they have changed over the years. I believe the Leghorns of 50-60 years ago looked more like the hatchery Rocks we have today with longer tails. The CRX are the ones that is really amazing to see the differences in over the years.

yeah she eventually laid an egg and got off the nest. i think she was just pretending haha

 

[Minniechickmama]

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?

Eggs that have white earlobes lay white eggs. That would include:
Leghorns
Minorcas
Hamburgs
Polish
White Faced Black Spanish
Buttercups
Blue Andalusian
Ancona
Catalana
Campines
Lakenvelder
Houdans
LeFleche
Sumatras
Phoenix

 

[Cluckies]

If anybody is up right now, ignore the coyotes and go watch the northern lights