Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

I shut off the AC here at work...but now I just turned it back on. It got muggy in here real fast.

Ivie: My Mother had a STainless percolater for many years. I think she just got her Mr. Coffee like in the last 5 years. I think My BIL brought it up north for her....as he likes coffee more than Mom and Dad do. Mom and Dad don't really drink coffee. As a result I really don't either. But I do like a taste of it once in a while and the refined ways of making it really intrigue me. I think they are like $12 for some of the cheaper ones. As high as $79 for the top of the line one.

John and Mary's name ring a bell with me a bit. I might have known them....?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

 

[MNChickMom]

Here is what happens when you try to re-introduce PITA (the mean rooster). PITA lasted less than 30 minutes before he went back to his rooster village for life. In the 30 minutes he was allowed back he bit (and hung onto) 3 hens and mounted 1 rooster. Everyone was a squacking mess when he was in there....so it was clear he was the perpetrator.

On a positive note the hay crop was not a total loss.... it was just repurposed into a tubing path per Grandpas's ideas. The water wasn't quite moving fast enough to move you along. So he insisted upon moving the grandkids along a little faster with the 4 wheelers.

 

[Siggie]

pretty! Just like the other two

They look so dainty?!

rains are headed our way again....had a headache all day today. I think it is from the pressure changes, but regardless I need it to GO AWAY!

My little girl is getting better....I have been calling her Wabbles . I know, I'm mean. But I do say it with affection ha ha!
She is eating and drinking more now and can actually stand up. She is walking a little more upright but still falls back or forward a lot. But alert and her tail stays up now. I keep telling her as long as she's eating and moving forward in her recovery, she gets to live. I think she thinks I'm serious about killing her if she doesn't so she's trying ha ha!

 

[Siggie]

Here is what happens when you try to re-introduce PITA (the mean rooster). PITA lasted less than 30 minutes before he went back to his rooster village for life. In the 30 minutes he was allowed back he bit (and hung onto) 3 hens and mounted 1 rooster. Everyone was a squacking mess when he was in there....so it was clear he was the perpetrator.

On a positive note the hay crop was not a total loss.... it was just repurposed into a tubing path per Grandpas's ideas. The water wasn't quite moving fast enough to move you along. So he insisted upon moving the grandkids along a little faster with the 4 wheelers.

love the water sports!!!

 

[SleepyOwl]

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FUN!!!!

 

[I Love Layers]

I am so happy right now!!!
I may be getting 6 Blue Isbar hens and 1 Black Isbar rooster!!!
They are from a local breeder who breeds them straight from Green Fire Farms lines.


These are some of the birds on my wish list for next year.
Now I have to get
Black Australorps (Murray McMurray)
Black Copper Marans (The same guy I am getting Isbars from)
Pearl White Leghorns (Murray McMurray)

 

[Cebarmlds]

Good morning cloudy, chilly day.

 

[duluthralphie]

I am so happy right now!!!
I may be getting 6 Blue Isbar hens and 1 Black Isbar rooster!!!
They are from a local breeder who breeds them straight from Green Fire Farms lines.


These are some of the birds on my wish list for next year.
Now I have to get
Black Australorps (Murray McMurray)
Black Copper Marans (The same guy I am getting Isbars from)
Pearl White Leghorns (Murray McMurray)

I hope the birds work out for you.

Do not be overly disappointed in the GFF lines. I have found GFF birds to be over rated in my limited experience. I think they do a better job of Marketing than they do breeding. I tend to agree with Minnie on GFF.

I am finding breeding my hatcher stock in some cases gives me as good of birds as breeding the Creamettes does number wise. It just takes a lot of birds to get winners (IMHO). I have that pen of about 60 roosters in it there is maybe 3-4 birds that would make good show birds. Many would make good breeding birds though as the defects are minor, and a hen can correct them with her genes.

How do you trap the coyotes?

I have trapped fox but always in the winter when they are real hungry. How do you cover the traps and what do you use to mask your scent? I wish I could just introduce Ebola for Coyotes into the area..........If it affected weasels, coon and eagle it would not bother me either...

 

[duluthralphie]

Good morning cloudy, chilly day.

Good morning not all that cold 66 degrees and the sun is shining through the clouds.