Minnesota!

[Minniechickmama]

My first Call ducks of the year are due in about 10 days. I am getting excited! I think I am going to just keep Snowies though and get rid of the Blue Bibbed with all their babies that hatch here soon in one swoop if anyone is interested. I will see how many I get to hatch and set one price for all. If anyone IS interested in taking them off my hands, send me a PM. I just have too much to keep track of out here.
Theri

 

[AvianEgo]

Minni ive got I've call duck egg due on Wednesday! And some saxonies due a week later. Will be my second time hatching and first tune with ducks. I'm nervous! Good luck on your hatch. Post some pictures !

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I have calls hatching today and again next week.

 

[Triplell]

I had four calls but mine flew away, all four in just one swoop they were gone. No more for me. I have put off hatching until I get back from vacation on July 1st. Then all bators will be full.

 

[Minniechickmama]

The adults I bought this Spring, most were pinioned. I clipped the others primaries, so no one is flying off at least until fall, but I will make sure they are clipped or in a pen with a screen or fencing over the top.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Black Bear Visit to the coop last Thursday during the day while we were at work. Haybale pulled away from the coop base (heavy and sodden with the rain). Pop door frame work pulled away (held in place with torque screws). and 1 broken egg at the entry at the pop door... (?--that's a mystery). I'm sure she could smell the feed inside...but got no reward for her efforts. Hopefully she's just passing through. Neighborhood stories of bent bird feeders and raided sheds the next day. Birds were all free ranging and Roger, my Roo, greeted us as we came home with all his flock intact. LOL. Sometimes I think they are safer free ranging than confined. And of course all of this happened right before I left for the weekend on a camping trip. What is it with predators and me going on long weekend trips?!

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I had a bantam faverolles hen go missing a few weeks ago. I assumed it was the fox I had been seeing in the yard. Well, last night I found her under a tub I use for a dust bath in the coop during the winter. It had flipped over on top of her. She must have just layed under there and starved or died of thirst. Poor little girl, I never even thought to look for her since I had seen the fox in the yard that day. It's never ending with these chickens. I've felt bad about it all day.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Sorry about your Bantam Faverolle Hen. What a freak deal that is! I mean what are the odds? I would Never think to check under a dust pan. Weird. Nonetheless I know we are hardest on ourselves with these sorts of things... We just do our best...

 

[Cyrus83]

Hi, I just joined this sight so I figured I better find the other Minnesotans and check in.

 

[cochins1088]

Hi, I just joined this sight so I figured I better find the other Minnesotans and check in.

Welcome!