Minnesota!

[holm25]

Just some pics from this morning.

 

[scandiafowl]

Just some pics from this morning.

Good morning!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Look at all your fun variety holm! That's great! Still pretty proud of you and your article on the home feed. And Facebook blurb.

Welcome sour land. We do have a bit of good fun over here in Minnesota. Ralphie is up at his beloved cabin in Togo fishing bullheads (mn lingo for walleyes) duckhunting with a chicken poop eating Labrador, and rendezvousing with Sasquatch.

We're waiting for a new signature line edit for his services when he returns with new stories.

Scandia are you a divorcee by chance? Haha. Or you've heard the saying for married ladies... " you can go shopping, but you just can't take the credit cards."

Cute BO teenage boy there.

 

[holm25]

Thanks BC it is quite the variety. I saw u commented on Facebook.

 

[scandiafowl]

Look at all your fun variety holm! That's great! Still pretty proud of you and your article on the home feed. And Facebook blurb.

Welcome sour land. We do have a bit of good fun over here in Minnesota. Ralphie is up at his beloved cabin in Togo fishing bullheads (mn lingo for walleyes) duckhunting with a chicken poop eating Labrador, and rendezvousing with Sasquatch.

We're waiting for a new signature line edit for his services when he returns with new stories.

Scandia are you a divorcee by chance? Haha. Or you've heard the saying for married ladies... " you can go shopping, but you just can't take the credit cards."

Cute BO teenage boy there.

Yeah, he is a sweetie. Lives by his own rules unfortunately. If I can get him through the winter without being a coyote snack I plan to hook him up with some BO gals.

And yes, I'm previously married female. But being married never stopped me from window shopping

 

[Cluckies]

Wow! We are Rockstars!


DD and I walked to Scandia proper today to fetch the mail and get some ice cream.

While we are enjoying the sun outside the store a dreamy gentleman about my age on a dreamy BMW pulls up and asks me where we bought our cones.
Thank God for sunglasses... I could subtly stare at him without embarrassing myself.

The panting may have given you away...

 

[Cluckies]

Are you my neighbor?
Worked for me.


I just stumbled over here, and it feels like home.  Perhaps I was adopted from Minnesota? 

Perhaps you were! Who are we to say? Welcome to the thread!

 

[Minniechickmama]

Fount base Warmers run about $50. I've found the cookie tin heater much more economical to make and it is the same type of mechanism for keeping water open. But who am I to argue on overspending on a chicken hobby. ;D hahaha


Those metal base heaters are apparently not very reliable. I had one that pooped out after the first year and when I call McM about it, they refunded me with no problem. They had actually cut them from their stock that year. I haven't checked if they got them back or not, but the service person said they had been having all sorts of problems with those.

While we are enjoying the sun outside the store a dreamy gentleman about my age on a dreamy BMW pulls up and asks me where we bought our cones.
Thank God for sunglasses... I could subtly stare at him without embarrassing myself.

I have encountered a couple of those who come out for chickens, and I have to look away to stop from staring into their eyes, wipe my mouth, then try my darnedest to not talk like a babble idiot. LOL!!

@Minniechickmama

Where do you keep eggs before there are enough to set? You mentioned some were ten days old. I know that eggs don't have to be incubated right away...

I have been just keeping them in the garage, either in the baskets or in trays. It is best to have them in trays or cartons with the pointy end down.
Eggs will hold fertility very well up to 10 days, after that they drop drastically, but I have hatched a few that were over 2-weeks old before. I generally set/hatch weekly. You don't want them to freeze but keeping them about 50-55 degrees is ideal. Do not refrigerate. If they freeze, then you likely will have little to not fertility, but as long as they do not crack, sometimes you can get some to hatch anyway.
Once it is too cold in my garage, I use my pass-thru between the house and the garage, which is a cool spot, but not cold.

This dude rides his motorcycle nude on a Minnesota morning? Sounds like something duluthralphie would do. Yep, I cyber know him.

Ralphie likes to go causing trouble around here. That is why he gets put on secret probation! Really, they just like to torture him for not being the obedient PC practicing minion.

The panting may have have you away...

And the drool running down the side of her mouth!

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Great pictures Holms. Every type of bird under one run!!

I have to say we have some entertaining posts this morning. But a few more wouldn't be bad......

 

[The BlanchRanch]

I am about to run out of eggs this morning!! We have had a friend staying in our guest room and she has had her boy here. So between that and the reduction in eggs we have had because of the time of the year I will actually be running out. :-(