Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie you could try cat food in the live trap or a disposable live chick in a small cage inside the trap . You could also try a bucket set . Go to YouTube and search trapping bucket set . I will probably lose points for that suggestion .

I will go look, You gain points with me. I will have to buy a can of cat food. I have thought about the small disposable chick, I have lots of soup creamers I would sacrifice. (hopefully I could keep it alive)

 

[lvie]

Whew! Good morning! Catching up was not so very difficult. We are a busy bunch and less time to loiter at the computer.

Wow Ralphie! I love warm cuddly kitties however, people, people, people, there are many, many, many feral cats in the country and they can create havoc. Then they begin to be road kill. I can always tell when there is an over abundance of any animals in the area as to the number on the highway during mating season. And then the creeps that drop off their animals on the side of the road near a farm. What kind of a person does that and thinks they are helping the animal?

Of course I inspected the coop yesterday morning when I got up. Gonna load a picture.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Ferrel cats are not at the top of my list for saving a shot gun shell on. It may not help you with your stalking chickadee though to kill it. Lol anyways good luck with getting your chick killer.

Holm you will do well. With that personality and those gorgeous buckeyes you'll crank out a big purple ribbon I'm sure. When you get them home from the fair be sure to isolate them for a bit again. Some vet RX in the water.

More rain. I got the lawn mowed but lost about a pint of blood. My cankles looked like they had a sock of Mosquitos on them. Crazy! They are thick and hungry.

 

[MNChickMom]

Good Luck Holms!

 

[MNChickMom]

It must be the season for preditor attacks. Just found a nice chewed hole in the bottom of my coop door. Thankfully, we have a double entry system to get to the chickens. But whatever it was made a mess of the BOSS.

 

[lvie]

Okay - this shows how the coop was chewed on. First on one side and then on the other. I did not have any more coop damage overnight as I lined this whole coop with cement block and then dropped the cement block 'caps' in between the coop Hardwire Cloth and the cement block. Hopefully this will be the trick.

 

[lvie]

HOLMS - I a rootin for you and I know you really don't need it because of who you are. Being a little nervous before anything presented to others is good. It keeps you on your toes. But you already knew that. Can't wait for an update on how it went.

 

[Violetsfeathers]

It would be a purebred bird but would not be a recognized color. So you could show it as a purebred bird, but not sure how it would place due to it not being an APA recognized

Okay so it would be just like showing a non-recognized color. Like if i showed a buff barred Cochin, i don't think they're in the APA.

It is still a Cochin but not showable . You must state the color variety .You compete in your variety and then for breed . So you may get a best of variety but not best of breed . There is also a AOV class in your breed where project colors compete . There again color variety is stated . AOV does not always have awards .

But I could still show it as a purebred Cochin even though I might not win anything.


What I have is a Blue rooster over white, lavender, splash, barred, and partridge hens. I'm guessing most of those combos will make a color that will be close enough to a recognized color that I can show it, especially splash.
With the barred, will all the Babies be barred? Black? Splash barred (if there is such a thing)? What will they look like?
Also the blue rooster has some red or gold leakage.

 

[lvie]

So! Yesterday morning Tom, who you will remember was agitated previously and would not go to roost one evening, began crowing at 4:30 a.m. Not once, not twice, every two minutes. I was ready to _ _ _ _ him! I let Tom out of the coop - only Tom. I figured he would hang around and if the DH and Tom got into it and Tom got the short end of the stick I simply did not care. Tom paced. Tom marched. Tom over saw BOTH coops and checked out every square inch of them, strutting his stuff, walking the walk, telling anyone who would listen what he observed.

By early afternoon he was calm, serene and tired. He went back into his coop and has been docile ever since. Doing only his normal crowing. What a bird! Now I love him again.

 

[I Love Layers]

Okay so it would be just like showing a non-recognized color. Like if i showed a buff barred Cochin, i don't think they're in the APA.
But I could still show it as a purebred Cochin even though I might not win anything.


What I have is a Blue rooster over white, lavender, splash, barred, and partridge hens. I'm guessing most of those combos will make a color that will be close enough to a recognized color that I can show it, especially splash.
With the barred, will all the Babies be barred? Black? Splash barred (if there is such a thing)? What will they look like?

If you cross a Blue and a splash you would get a 1/2 of the chicks are blue and the other half splash. They would most likely be very light colored blues though