Surviving Minnesota!

[memphis]

Ivie...the SS eggs will keep that pinkish blush.

 

[Cebarmlds]

I found his hiding spot, the windows in my coop are casement type and one opens into the run. So after counting heads and he (top juvenile cockerel) wasn't anywhere to be seen, I stuck my head out the window looking up thinking he was on a ledge in the run and there he was right above my head on the window.

Stinker, had me all worried about a predator last night.

 

[lvie]

Ivie...the SS eggs will keep that pinkish blush.

Cool. Thanks Memphis for letting me know! Do they stay small?

 

[lvie]

Tom was acting way weird tonight. The girls were in the coop and he still did not want to go in. I found him perched on the slanted roof of the big coop. Shooed him off it and he still would not go to roost in his own coop. I am a little concerned - not enough to lose sleep - and wondering if he is dehydrated but then he wasn't panting. Just seem disoriented.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Is there something in the coop other than hens that has him jumpy or weird?

Ivie my husband enjoys the chickens now too. Before he was a nay-sayer about them and now that he 'likes' them I'm getting all sorts of non-welcome uneducated advice. Well not all the time...but enough for me to have to ignore or give an eye roll.

Well I took that half day off at work and we played on the lake from 1:00 until about 7:30. It was amazing to be out there. We are very fortunate to live where we live. The kids knee boarded and wakeboarded. DS has misplaced his iphone though and I'm not enjoying the search. Nothing anywhere. Nada. Not in the house. Not in the boat. Not at Grandma's where he changed prior to going to work. IJDK. I was on the phone with Verizon Wireless then Apple for an hour or more...until the pathetic people of Apple which I had to wait for for 40 minutes to pick up the line finally told me that my son didn't have the 'find my phone' button switched over. So I wasted 40 minutes of my life....
anyways --1st world problems. Any time I find myself wasting time on devices I get grumpy.

More about chickens. I still need to hook that camera up to my computer and put on my photos from last night.
But I'm tired right now....

 

[Violetsfeathers]

The only chickens I have that would even tolerate a nail painting have feathered legs and feet. Sounds like a lot of work....we'll see how bored I get on my maternity leave =)

I only paint the inside toe and the middle toe on the featherd ones, it's not that hard but then, some are more feathered than others.
Congrats on your baby!

 

[duluthralphie]

I found his hiding spot, the windows in my coop are casement type and one opens into the run. So after counting heads and he (top juvenile cockerel) wasn't anywhere to be seen, I stuck my head out the window looking up thinking he was on a ledge in the run and there he was right above my head on the window.

Stinker, had me all worried about a predator last night.

I like birds that find cool roosting spots.......Glad he is safe...

Cool. Thanks Memphis for letting me know! Do they stay small?

They are a good large medium to large egg, I am guessing you have a pullet egg.

Tom was acting way weird tonight. The girls were in the coop and he still did not want to go in. I found him perched on the slanted roof of the big coop. Shooed him off it and he still would not go to roost in his own coop. I am a little concerned - not enough to lose sleep - and wondering if he is dehydrated but then he wasn't panting. Just seem disoriented.

Was the coop hot? Sometimes a guy just needs to be where there are no women, you know..... Maybe Tom was having one of those nights..

 

[Cebarmlds]

Good Morning

nice day, less heat

 

[duluthralphie]

Good Morning..

I have shut my incubator down....and killed my last egg.

I am a Klutz! I had one turkey egg that was in the nest Sidekick is now sitting on. I took it and the 32 guinea eggs. I did not know if any where going to be good.

Today was the day to move the turkey egg to the hatcher. I took it out, Opened the hatcher and was going to put it in. I slid out the drawer and the Keets went nuts. ( baby Guineas are just as crazy as adult ones) I thought a bunch were going to jump out. I went to stop them and the egg slipped from my hand to the concrete floor, Smashing to pieces. I put the egg into the hatcher moistened it and left it with the couple guinea eggs that have not hatched.


Chances of it surviving the fall, 5%.... chances of it successfully hatching 0.2 %..... What an idiot I am! Normally moving eggs to the hatcher is a two step process. I take them out of the incubator and place them on a hatching rack on a table. Then I close up the incubator and slide the table to the hatcher and put the eggs in. If there are chicks in the hatcher to come out, I take them out, place them in a box to move to the nursery then put the eggs in...


This was one egg! What could go wrong! The sad part is while I was doing it I thought, this is how an egg will fall by changing the program. And it did,,, Dumb Poophead (me, not you)....



I am going mushroom hunting today with my cousin, he is going to teach me what chanterelles are. No idea how to spell that.

Have a good cooler day folks!

 

[duluthralphie]

Good Morning

nice day, less heat

I assume that will make the walk to the outhouse more pleasant.