Minnesota!

[Cluckies]

Nordic. I feel like an jerk I forgot to give you my sympathies on the losses forgive my manners...or lack there of..

It is a cold sunny morning but life is good today!

I have re-homed Nameless sort of.... and my 3 jakes including the mean one....


My wife works for a major health care company as a home care nurse. She is required to set up translators for some of the visits. She met this translator a few weeks back and they have started taking beings they seem to over lap at work a lot becoming friends. The translator wants all the turkeys (she actually wanted 5) and a my extra roosters ( I only have nameless right now) and 4 dozen eggs!!!


My new incubator is paid for! Now I need to buy something else..... My secret hope is this will become a place to sell more roosters. She wanted more young roosters but was willing to buy Nameless...


They leave here alive, so I can consider it re-homing......... Nothing in the definition of re-homing requires them to stay a certain length of time at the new home.....




And Wow do we ever write a lot of pages in one day!

Wow is this the truth, I didn't come on for 2-3 days and have 118 posts to wade through, yikes! My husband is wondering where i've been!

 

[Cluckies]

To show that I'm not only all about revealing my youngest daughter's fears, I'll reveal mine. Snakes. I'm 6'4 200lbs and let me tell you that no one is safe if they're around me and a snake. Not even women and children. I will throw a woman or child ON the snake to allow me the chance to flee. My fear is so irrational that I can't see a snake on TV or in a magazine without me freaking out.

OMG, lol I'm crying with the visual!

 

[Cluckies]

Can't catch a break this week. Went out this morning and made sure water (using nipple system) and food were full for the 4 week old birds (to be fair, there are a couple in there that are older, but they are d'Uccles, so they will soon be dwarfed by the bantam cochins and the bantam cornish they are sharing the "big kid brooder" with.). Everyone was looking chipper and good. Didn't have time to handle them all, but figured if they all perked up their heads when I looked in the top they were doing great. Came home from work 10 hours later, not quite through all the food and made a good dent in the water for the day and my bantam barred cochin cockerel was dead. He was not by any means the smallest bird in there and there have been no signs of cocci. Checked temps and there is a nice warm spot under the lamp with ample room to move away from the heat. Wondering if maybe he decided to sleep on the bottom of the chicken pile (they were chicken piled up when I got home) and suffocated. I have only had that happen in the first week before when I've had very small bantams in with slightly larger bantams, sometimes of a slightly older hatch. He's not a particularly fast growing breed, so I don't think it was likely heart attack. And he was in warm spot, so very unlikely that he got too cold (though I did adjust a couple things cause I did notice there was a particularly cold portion of the brooder). Oh well - he was a free chick anyways. (we ended up with so much loss on our Welp order earlier this year after they were lost in the mail that they are re-doing the whole thing). Just sad cause I ended up lucky with 2 pullets and a cockerel which would have been a great start to breeding that variety and cause I never ever am not sad when a chick or a full grown chicken passes away, regardless of reason.

Sorry to hear of all your losses, this is terribly sad

 

[duluthralphie]

I got 4 eggs from 4 turkey hens today in my redneck nest box....



I got 29 eggs from my 30 hens today. I have one broody hen that is a pain in the rear, she takes up a nest box and gives me nothing. She keeps moving to a new nest when she gets up to eat and "hers" is taken ( well, once a day). I moved her to the "ICU" and gave her a nest in there with 10 eggs. She will either take them or she will break her broodiness either outcome is ok with me.... (with fingers crossed she takes the eggs....)

I have not checked the Creamettes for eggs yet, but I am doing 100% when deducting for the broody one on eggs so far.....I should be an egg production specialist....

 

[bantiesrule]

I got 4 eggs from 4 turkey hens today in my redneck nest box....



I got 29 eggs from my 30 hens today. I have one broody hen that is a pain in the rear, she takes up a nest box and gives me nothing. She keeps moving to a new nest when she gets up to eat and "hers" is taken ( well, once a day). I moved her to the "ICU" and gave her a nest in there with 10 eggs. She will either take them or she will break her broodiness either outcome is ok with me.... (with fingers crossed she takes the eggs....)

I have not checked the Creamettes for eggs yet, but I am doing 100% when deducting for the broody one on eggs so far.....I should be an egg production specialist....

I thought you were already??

Isn't "egg production specialist" just another name for the "professional chicken rancher" that you are? Or maybe they are two very different things, maybe you could explain the difference to me??

(This must be my "learn one thing new today".)

 

[linneamae]

Duluthralphie - I don't post in here much but couldn't help but notice that your profile says you are from Orrock - I grew up there! Which might not seem significant to anyone else unless you know how small Orrock is lol. (Or was, IDK maybe it's bigger now, but in the 80's, early 90's there was like, 29 people.) Lived in the 100+ year old Victorian- the 2nd house down on 261st until I was 11. I've often wondered if it's still standing. Thought about taking a drive through there many times, but I think I was afraid I'd see it torn down.

 

[duluthralphie]

Duluthralphie - I don't post in here much but couldn't help but notice that your profile says you are from Orrock - I grew up there! Which might not seem significant to anyone else unless you know how small Orrock is lol. (Or was, IDK maybe it's bigger now, but in the 80's, early 90's there was like, 29 people.) Lived in the 100+ year old Victorian- the 2nd house down on 261st until I was 11. I've often wondered if it's still standing. Thought about taking a drive through there many times, but I think I was afraid I'd see it torn down.

Well.I live on 261st. which was known as county road 4 when I grew up.....which was way before you.....

I am thinking the house you are talking about is gone. I know when I moved back and saw the old Orrock store was gone and the "old: gas station was gone it was a sad day....

How are we related again? Everyone in Orrock twp was back then...

 

[duluthralphie]

I thought you were already??

Isn't "egg production specialist" just another name for the "professional chicken rancher" that you are? Or maybe they are two very different things, maybe you could explain the difference to me??

(This must be my "learn one thing new today".)

As a professional Chicken rancher I spent my day riding my donkeys and herding the chickens rounding up stays and so forth.... As an egg production specialist I spend my days giving my chickens motivational speeches and finding ways for them to work harder for less pay.

 

[lalaland]

ooohhhh, I want to grow up to be a professional Chicken rancher too!

 

[Minniechickmama]

As a professional Chicken rancher I spent my day riding my donkeys and herding the chickens rounding up stays and so forth.... As an egg production specialist I spend my days giving my chickens motivational speeches and finding ways for them to work harder for less pay.

Thanks for that. I had a stupid weekend, so it is nice to read your accounts of you life in a small Minnesota town with chickens as your besties