Minnesota!

[scandiafowl]

@Minnechickmama, no kidding! My mother hates CC and would have far more chickens if she knew they'd take out that stuff!

 

[duluthralphie]

Iphone so note short and ugly .

I want both!!!

I really do not care if i have more blue eggs. I get around 40% blue now from my ees.

 

[duluthralphie]

Dang iphone


I have to collect the creamettes eggs separate from ee or i cannot tell them apart.

I never thought of putting Ole, Ernie and Ed in jail , when i get home it is happening for a week

 

[gofeedthegirls]

Is it unheard of to put a heat lamp inside a square made of cinder blocks and put a galvanized waterer over the top of it during the winter months?

 

[nordicacres]

My chickens will not eat Creeping Charlie. Or really anything that is not a perennial, lol.

 

[Rhetts]

Is it unheard of to put a heat lamp inside a square made of cinder blocks and put a galvanized waterer over the top of it during the winter months?

Do you mean to keep the water from freezing? They do sell heated bases for the waterers. I was stubborn last winter and just hauled out warm water 3 times a day for all the birds. Towards the end of winter I was sick and tired of it and got the heated base. Spring showed up and I didn't use it but I will use it this coming winter. Or did you have something else planned with your set up? Heat lamps can be very dangerous!!

 

[Rhetts]

Ralphie-sorry you had bad renters! They really can make a nightmare of things. Your place in Florida sounds beautiful. My father and mother in law have been talking of buying a place in Florida for years. They finally decided they might become snow birds instead and they bought a 'summer place' just a few miles away from us. I much prefer that to losing them the whole year to Florida. I am glad to hear that Bert is well from his foot injury and is giving you the toads you had wanted. How are the chicks of his growing in size compared to the other ones? Is there a noticeable difference in genes? Maybe your creamettes are very sensitive and all the things you have tried is too much change for them.....idk just a thought that maybe they need super consistency.

Minne-how is it going with the Battle of the Weasel? Any luck yet?

 

[nordicacres]

I had a cockerel trying to crow today for the first time. I was so excited, haha!

 

[Cluckies]

Is it unheard of to put a heat lamp inside a square made of cinder blocks and put a galvanized waterer over the top of it during the winter months?

Just do a search on the site, I found this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/428896/my-diy-water-heater


The chicken chick did this: http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2011/11/make-cookie-tin-waterer-heater-under-10.html

I use 2 waterers, a 2 gallon pail with a bird bath deicer and a pond water pump with horizontal nipples (vertical nipples will freeze up):


And I also use a heated dog dish with a black rubber dog dish placed inside of it for easy change out. But when it gets below zero I have to take out the rubber dog dish as it cannot heat enough through it. I place a gallon jug filled with sand in the middle of the dog dish so that the chickens don't walk in it, or sit on the edge while drinking it and get frostbit toes and feet. I may skip this one next year. I had it as a back up to the horizontal nipple waterer incase it froze, but it didn't freeze all winter.
It is here:

 

[Cluckies]

Wow Ralphie, I can't imagine. those people would be gone yesterday! Jerks.