Minnesota!

[holm25]

Good night, everyone!

Good night little hens!!

 

[lalaland]

yes, chicken rescue group in mpls. run by a woman who started picking up lost chickens maybe 10 or 15 years ago from animal control who had no way of dealing with chickens. Now she is vegetarian and vehemently believes you should never use a chicken for eggs or meat. Also that you should provide vet care, and extra roosters should never ever be culled. opposes getting chicks from hatcheries because of the outcome of sexed male chicks, which is gruesome, I admit.

 

[lalaland]

scandia, love the good night photo.


you know those quail stayed out each and every night in the bitter cold with the 34 below zero windchill. Formed their little quail wreath on the bare ground in the run. Ignored the leaves and the hay. Last night when it was so nice and warm, where did they sleep? In the snug and dry coop.

go figure.

 

[scandiafowl]

scandia, love the good night photo.


you know those quail stayed out each and every night in the bitter cold with the 34 below zero windchill.  Formed their little quail wreath on the bare ground in the run.  Ignored the leaves and the hay.   Last night when it was so nice and warm, where did they sleep?  In the snug and dry coop.  

go figure.

Funny. What do you keep them for? Eggs?

 

[holm25]

I read the hens get shots that makes it impossible for them to lay.

 

[scandiafowl]

yes, chicken rescue group in mpls.  run by a woman who started picking up lost chickens maybe 10 or 15 years ago from animal control who had no way of dealing with chickens.  Now she is vegetarian and vehemently believes you should never use a chicken for eggs or meat.  Also that you should provide vet care, and extra roosters should never ever be culled.  opposes getting chicks from hatcheries because of the outcome of sexed male chicks, which is gruesome, I admit.

Don't want to know.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

Good night, everyone!

Nice picture!

yes, chicken rescue group in mpls. run by a woman who started picking up lost chickens maybe 10 or 15 years ago from animal control who had no way of dealing with chickens. Now she is vegetarian and vehemently believes you should never use a chicken for eggs or meat. Also that you should provide vet care, and extra roosters should never ever be culled. opposes getting chicks from hatcheries because of the outcome of sexed male chicks, which is gruesome, I admit.

I also don't want to know.

 

[scandiafowl]

You'd be surprised how many people are employed in this field.  Also, the number of people who are artificial breeders that go around and stick their arms in cows' bums and breed them.  My brothers were certified so they could breed ours AI when needed.  We bought most of the semen and did almost all of our cows through AI to breed them.  Keeping a bull on a farm is convenient, but very dangerous too.  We kept them for "clean up"  (when a cow wouldn't settle with AI) or if we had a good bull we raised ourselves that was worth using.  Most of the time though, we didn't keep any because they would be too aggressive to keep around once we started using them to breed with.  

My brother had a bull we raised from one of his cows, Clyde.  He was a pet as a calf and he and my calf, Ginger would run in an out and come when we called or whistled to them.  They were really cute.  Then they grew up.  Ginger ended up being one the best cows our family ever bred and stayed around until she became and old cow and her legs got bad.  Clyde got to 2-years old and he was running with the heifers in the pasture.  My brother went to feed that group and Clyde cornered him in the hay rack.  Someone distracted Clyde long enough for my brother to get out of there.  The next day Clyde went on the trailer.  Our neighbor was mauled as a young man and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.  Not worth it.

A long time ago a friends brother was killed by a cow when he got between her and her calf. He was a older man who used a cane to assist. It was tragic.

 

[Minniechickmama]

A long time ago a friends brother was killed by a cow when he got between her and her calf. He was a older man who used a cane to assist. It was tragic.

Yes, a momma cow protecting her calf can be just as dangerous! Us Mommas don't want anyone messing with out kids!

 

[holm25]

A long time ago a friends brother was killed by a cow when he got between her and her calf. He was a older man who used a cane to assist. It was tragic.

My aunts friend got attacked by a cow with a fresh calf. She brought her daycare kids outside to see it but when she got in the pen it smash her up against a wall and broke all her ribs. We dont have cows that are like that but I still watch my back. The closest they get is when u r caring the calf to the calving pens to band it if its a boy or to tag it. BUT now my grandpa is getting 8 head from a guy who has a couple hundred head and they are nuts! They have to have a cag on the front of their four wheelers to get the calf in while mom is beating on the cage to get her calf so they are not safe.