Minnesota!

[gofeedthegirls]

I love my ranger.

 

[Mistahbue]

Im sure most of you were aware already or it has already been mentioned on here, but I just found out now... bummer.

I've never been to a swap meet up here. That makes me sad.

Sad about the fair too - but my goodness they need to seriously cool the poultry barn better? We walked through last year and it just seemed like the air was blowing overhead and not toward the birds.

When the ducks, geese, chickens, and guineas are panting you know it's a tad warm.

On another note - I got my peacocks into temporary pen until their permanent aviary is built. Picking the wood up for that tomorrow -- it was supposed to be delivered but story of my life..... just irrrrrr

And this morning I went to check on the 8 chicks I got a couple weeks back. Lost one during the night. Not a mark on it. They were in the same penned area as the peacocks but caged with sufficient wire around them and on top so the boys couldn't get to them to peck at them. Don't know what might have happened. Maybe jumpe or try to fly across enclosure (bottome of a large dog kennel) and hit the wall? I buried it next to a clump of wild daisies on the fence line.

Went ahead and moved the chicks to another temp shelter that allows them room to perch, jump onto a nest box, wander in a 'yard' (all 2 sq ft of it) and then get under cover if weather turns bad.

These were supposed to be week old chicks when I got them. They seemed to me to be closer to a couple/three weeks old because of their feather growth. How much longer do they need a heat lamp? I will have to rig up a lamp in the pen before nightfall.

DuluthRalphie -- how are Ole and Lena with wee ones? If they were good with them my plan is to enlarge their yard to the area where Ole and Lena roost at night. They decided they didn't care for the house -- Lena would got in to lay an egg and scoot back over to their run. They've been running free range since Wednesday - and put themselves to bed each night since. They don't seem to be too curious about the chicks so I was wondering about temperment with young'uns

Happy beautiful Saturday today!!!

 

[scandiafowl]

Were they up in your yard??

They have wandered through our yard, pre-Rosie.
She is increasingly establishing her presence.

 

[scandiafowl]

@duluthralphie

Pilot? Chair Force?

 

[Minniechickmama]

Keeping the fingers crossed for less heat today! The girls looked less than pleased yesterday.

When I built my run off my coop I built it offf the west side, in hind sight I should have built it on the east side because of the shade trees. I dont have any shade on the west side... so that lead me to just release the girls yesterday after noon to free range and find their own shade. It was the first time they have ever free ranged and I was worried like im sure everybody does the first time they let a new flock FR if I would have to chase them back into the coop at night. Thankfully they all went in right after another. It was kind of sweet to see how their instincs just kick in like that.

The other good reason to make a run off the East, or any doors for that matter, is we least often get precipitation from that direction. Another... In the afternoon when the Sun is most intense, the birds also can us the coop itself as shade since it casts a shadow at that time of day.

 

[scandiafowl]

What I like about my coop are all the shade trees surrounding it, plus the pole barn north which blocks wind. We insulated the east side.
What you can't see is another row of trees behind the coop.

My father had a tree farm for a long time.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I've never been to a swap meet up here. That makes me sad.

Sad about the fair too - but my goodness they need to seriously cool the poultry barn better? We walked through last year and it just seemed like the air was blowing overhead and not toward the birds.

When the ducks, geese, chickens, and guineas are panting you know it's a tad warm.

On another note - I got my peacocks into temporary pen until their permanent aviary is built. Picking the wood up for that tomorrow -- it was supposed to be delivered but story of my life..... just irrrrrr

And this morning I went to check on the 8 chicks I got a couple weeks back. Lost one during the night. Not a mark on it. They were in the same penned area as the peacocks but caged with sufficient wire around them and on top so the boys couldn't get to them to peck at them. Don't know what might have happened. Maybe jumpe or try to fly across enclosure (bottome of a large dog kennel) and hit the wall? I buried it next to a clump of wild daisies on the fence line.

Went ahead and moved the chicks to another temp shelter that allows them room to perch, jump onto a nest box, wander in a 'yard' (all 2 sq ft of it) and then get under cover if weather turns bad.

These were supposed to be week old chicks when I got them. They seemed to me to be closer to a couple/three weeks old because of their feather growth. How much longer do they need a heat lamp? I will have to rig up a lamp in the pen before nightfall.

DuluthRalphie -- how are Ole and Lena with wee ones? If they were good with them my plan is to enlarge their yard to the area where Ole and Lena roost at night. They decided they didn't care for the house -- Lena would got in to lay an egg and scoot back over to their run. They've been running free range since Wednesday - and put themselves to bed each night since. They don't seem to be too curious about the chicks so I was wondering about temperment with young'uns

Happy beautiful Saturday today!!!

It was the right call to cancel those events, but it does bum those of us who show out.

If you thought last year was bad, and it was the day the 4-H poultry left (93 degrees that day), you should have been there the year before when the whole week the open class poultry was there was in the 90s. I didn't take any of the 20 or so birds I entered because I was so afraid they would die. When you are taking your best to show, the last thing you want to happen is for them to die at the first show of the season.
I took a Buckeye hen that won best of breed at the state show last fall, then took her to the Ohio National in Columbus in November. She lost about a pound after the first show and I ended up losing her about early January. I am certain she picked up something at the first show that just slowly took her out. Never did figure out what it was. But with the multitudes of things that any critter can be exposed to at shows, knowing something as lethal as Avian Flu being around, it is just best to avoid gatherings until it is all clear again. Indiana just announced their are lifting the show ban in September, which I think is a bit early to call since Fall is when they expect it to be at its worse. Then again, when an overwhelming number of the positive cases have been commercial facilities should be an indicator that another huge outbreak isn't likely.

You know, all that leaves the only thing to go to the fair for is all the food

 

[Minniechickmama]

Ralphie, someone just has gotta say it...
Yo Momma is crazy!!! I must say, your bit of sharing is about the only thing that keeps me laughing some days.

Ever watch "Throw Momma From the Train"?

 

[ejb3810]

Cyrus83, you may have worked by my house? I have a tower about 1/4 mile E of my house. The Tower Company got an easement from me to cross my property to get to it.
It is a long story. The Tower Company was duped by the city. They had done nothing wrong other than listen to the city. Another reason that I am not fond of government entities and bureaucrats.

 

[scandiafowl]

Tonight the gate between the wee ones and the teens was opened, it was like the fall of the Berlin Wall. The little ones hightailed it out to the teen area and promptly turned about and hightailed it back.

Zeus stood and watched and didn't make a move.