Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

Good morning Minnesota Dakota Illinois chicken people.

 

[Momof3plustwins]

We are up here getting ready for our Wisconsin trip. Back home for me! I love going back home where everything is always so familiar! I have lived away from home longer now than I grew up at home but home always seems more "home". One of our children is staying at a friends for the weekend who's dad is also his Football coach. Our son is the starting QB for his team and they only play 4 times for the season. We decided it was a distant enough relation that his team could have their starting QB. It is quite fun to have an unexpected QB. Always thought he'd be a line man. He is broad and thick with muscle. Plus a wrestler so we just assumed he'd be on the line. It was a pleasant surprise!

 

[Cebarmlds]

Good Morning.

Hey Ralphie the camper is 24 ft. 1969 Holiday Rambler. He put new tires on it so wants more than I said.

 

[I Love Layers]

Morning everyone!
Raining quite a bit here, I woke up numerous times to the sound of rain on your tin roof.
April and Gary are back in there cage today. I don't like them out when it's raining and there's mud. They have to go somewhere else when I get the new birds this afternoon. I put some new hay in there cage, and a rug over one side of the outer wall so rain doesn't get in.
The rest of the birds are not happy with the rain, except the ducks.
Now that I think of it one of the windows is still open a crack

it should be fine.
My cockerel who was having some issues with his leg is getting worse, he puts one out in front of him and the other behind him.... I guess I will do some research this weekend and see what's going on with him

 

[Minniechickmama]

I did not think of that! I have a dehydrator. Hmmmm. . . it could be a real challenge to get them pinned down so they flatten nicely. I suppose pinning them to a board and that way the inards would be an easy clean up to. It would fall right off the boards thereby leaving just the skins to be split and then cleaned and then into the dehydrator. The inserts in the dehydrator would clean up really good afterward so I could finish drying the herbs from the garden.

That is what I am talking about!!! Roll over them from the head first, the guts squeeze out the other end like toothpaste!

To do it the other way would just be gross!

 

[Minniechickmama]

Thank you Minnie. Those fine Ameraucanas are from Jerryse. Top one is Miss Kitty with the cheeks, Then there's Hattie and then Mini Pearl. LOL. Hattie is the ring leader in that group and Junior likes hanging out with them.

Patsy Cline and June Carter tag along too.

Okay. I was sure that Junior was actually NH over BLRW. (Roger's boy from Lucy) But his coloring is VERY much Welsummer! Do you suppose Shannon did not get me Roger Junior?! LOL. His underfluff is all gray--Like Momma. There's no white on him. That duckwing on him is amazing. He's gangly and still working out his feathering and disposition. The old hens are teaching him manners. I'm texting Shannon to see about some of the other chicks. I think all the Wellies that hatched were hens...?

RJ was first out in the incubator (hybrid vigor we suspected) and we kept track of him....

That cockerel you have a picture of is 100% Welsummer, so I don't know what could have happened with the color. There are some Wellies cockerels that have heavier eye color and can look borderline, but after you sex a couple hundred you start seeing other differences. He is gorgeous, I am telling you!!! If you want a NH, I would swap you! LOL
THat top chick in these two pictures doesn't even look right for a NH, too much red in the neck, NH are all buff colored. That looks more like a Buckeye, actually.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have discovered that my Buckeyes can be feather sexed, but my NHs cannot. The EEs are a hit a miss, depending on what was in the cross to make them. I don't do it at such a young age though because within a week you can see the difference when they are just standing still. The males feather much slower all over, especially the tails.

This might be talked about already. I am glad to hear this, because it means I read that article correctly!


BTW.. I won this morning but my computer jinxed me. I turned it on and it decided to take an update, then it installed said update. Then I got a message it failed to update, and another one that said "do not turn off your computer as we try to remove your update"

"My Update"??? Really?? My Update I was happy with the way it was. 90 minutes wasted by the update! Grrrh

 

[duluthralphie]

Horse pasture mushrooms

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Any idea what any of those are? Are they edible? You should post them on the mushroom thread. ONE AT A TIME.. not like someone else in this room does it.....(not meaning to single out any one person, BC)

 

[duluthralphie]

When we read about how much trouble Ivie goes through to get a chipmunk hide and how valuable they are, I find it amazing EJB is not asking for people to import little furry rodents for him to trap and skin all winter long. It just makes no sense.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Try this again . Puter shutdown for updates while typing . Found the mushroom thread and subscribed . Late to the discussion .

On chipmunks . I caught one by accident recently in a dog proof Z trap I set for coon . Stuck his head in there to get bait .

Really bummed out in my efforts to buy a spare rim for my flatbed trailer . This is day three . Seems I have a rare beast . 5 x 5 bolt pattern . TSC sold me a 5 x 4.75 pattern yesterday . Did not fit . Farm and Fleet can not order them . No longer available . So try again today .