Surviving Minnesota!

[KlopKlop]

Hello all! I need to turn my notifications back on. Managed to catch up one day before I forgot to check in.

We finally had a dry-ish snap down here and the ground started to harden. Now we are due for 3-6" of rain tonight through Friday.

I have an over abundance of speckled Sussex roosters due to issues with sexing at the hatchery. Most are headed to freezer camp in the next week or so. If anybody needs one, they are fairly well mannered. The mean ones I have penned and are first to slaughter, including the muff faced one.

 

[holm25]

Hello all! I need to turn my notifications back on. Managed to catch up one day before I forgot to check in.

We finally had a dry-ish snap down here and the ground started to harden. Now we are due for 3-6" of rain tonight through Friday.

I have an over abundance of speckled Sussex roosters due to issues with sexing at the hatchery. Most are headed to freezer camp in the next week or so. If anybody needs one, they are fairly well mannered. The mean ones I have penned and are first to slaughter, including the muff faced one.

Hey Klop! Glad to hear you are back! I would love an SS roo but am over run in roosters too! Good luck finding them homes!

 

[KlopKlop]

Hey Klop! Glad to hear you are back! I would love an SS roo but am over run in roosters too! Good luck finding them homes!

They have a home either way one just might be a bit colder

 

[duluthralphie]

I am also over run with SS roosters.

I have tentatively picked out my breeder for next year. He is too small to go to Hutch. But he looks nice and has the straightest feet and toes in the world. The one going to hutch has the broken/bent toe. The other one has pretty good toes but not perfect. They are by far my largest birds (the oldest) so they get to go. Otherwise it is a coin toss on all of them.



The rooster boot camp is not working great, I think I need a rooster holding party.


I started my first hoop coop today, I think I am going to like it.

Oh, and Bertha has an apron. She ran from it and refused to let us put it on her, but she looks great in it now.

 

[KlopKlop]

I am also over run with SS roosters.

I have tentatively picked out my breeder for next year. He is too small to go to Hutch. But he looks nice and has the straightest feet and toes in the world.  The one going to hutch has the broken/bent toe.  The other one has pretty good toes but not perfect. They are by far my largest birds (the oldest) so they get to go.  Otherwise it is a coin toss on all of them.



The rooster boot camp is not working great, I think I need a rooster holding party.


I started my first hoop coop today, I think I am going to like it.

Oh, and Bertha has an apron.  She ran from it and refused to let us put it on her, but she looks great in it now.

I am impressed with how big they are too. Should be decent eating. I've got some younger rainbow roosters I hatched too that will be good to go in another month or so. They are taking after their daddy and getting big

 

[Minniechickmama]

@KlopKlop You have been getting lucky then with the rain missing you. We got over 4 inches last week and we got 4 the week before. We have been mowing a strip around out 3.5 acre field and the rest of the farmstead where I take my walks, and there is a lot of wet ground out there from what we have had already.
I swear the weather guessers (Navy term for weather forecasters) must be using Common Core or some other kind of whacky math to figure out their precipitation forecasts, because twice in the last week they have put up 0% chance of rain and we got hit with rain during the day, and today was one of those. It didn't rain much but it put my mowing on hold for a while. Luckily, we got most of it done over the weekend, but I needed to finish up some of the pasture paddocks and around the outside of the pasture.
I did get a chance to clean out one pen and I kicked 3 cockerels out that need to learn to hang with the big birds. I needed room for pullets and those boneheads were wasting space in the big pen. Tomorrow I need to shuffle a few more and get the meatballs in a big pen in the big building to live their second half of their lives. Time to start pumping a little more feed in them too, they aren't getting quite as plump as they should be. I haven't grown any this late in the year in 7-years and my spring and summer meaties have been faster growers. I will say though, these are a very calm bunch compared to the Hoover birds I had last year and any McMurray CRX I have had. A few have some black or gray feathers on them though, which is funny to me. They must have some outcross that carries the black feathers running in that line since I had a couple two years ago with some on them too.

I hope every stays safe and cozy tonight. I am happy to live on high ground when I read things about flood warnings, which we have here tonight.

 

[duluthralphie]

Morning !ll

 

[duluthralphie]

Now that I have assured the win I can type.

I am Grandpa again! We got another Grand daughter at around 10:30 last night. We have not been down to see her yet. She is number 5! Judy is pretty upset about not being able to go see her, but she will not go until she is 100%. My son wants me to come today, I might. I woke up with a sore throat and cold starting. I will not give baby a virus as a birthday present. I will see how it is this afternoon. It could just be allergies and morning throat. (Yea, us old people get stuff like that). Holms and Layers see what you have to look forward too? ( In addition to the joys of reading glasses).


I am going through the SOP book again. I know I should not worry about little things, but I found a spot on the beak of one of the Dom Roosters. I am also worried my Dom Hens may have too long of back and not enough rise at the tail.


I am looking at the PC's and thinking they maybe better colored than I thought. Which is good. Ivie was over yesterday and commented on another PC rooster that is not in "Show Boot Camp" after reading the SOP's again. He might join the boot camp today.

Finally Fufu's. Judy snapped these late yesterday afternoon. She had not seen them in quite a while. She asked how they can see. I told her some of the suggestions you guys gave, she has decided we need to give them all pony tails with some small rubber bands she has.....

I have made then a cage about 30 inches off the ground so they can start to get use to me, there is no way they can see me when they are on the floor. These could be my first truly indoor birds. I hope Fufu's work out.








I have no idea if this is my best Fufu or worse, I just reached in and grabbed the closest one. I am not even sure of it's sex or how to tell them apart.

 

[duluthralphie]

@KlopKlop You have been getting lucky then with the rain missing you. We got over 4 inches last week and we got 4 the week before. We have been mowing a strip around out 3.5 acre field and the rest of the farmstead where I take my walks, and there is a lot of wet ground out there from what we have had already.
I swear the weather guessers (Navy term for weather forecasters) must be using Common Core or some other kind of whacky math to figure out their precipitation forecasts, because twice in the last week they have put up 0% chance of rain and we got hit with rain during the day, and today was one of those. It didn't rain much but it put my mowing on hold for a while. Luckily, we got most of it done over the weekend, but I needed to finish up some of the pasture paddocks and around the outside of the pasture.
I did get a chance to clean out one pen and I kicked 3 cockerels out that need to learn to hang with the big birds. I needed room for pullets and those boneheads were wasting space in the big pen. Tomorrow I need to shuffle a few more and get the meatballs in a big pen in the big building to live their second half of their lives. Time to start pumping a little more feed in them too, they aren't getting quite as plump as they should be. I haven't grown any this late in the year in 7-years and my spring and summer meaties have been faster growers. I will say though, these are a very calm bunch compared to the Hoover birds I had last year and any McMurray CRX I have had. A few have some black or gray feathers on them though, which is funny to me. They must have some outcross that carries the black feathers running in that line since I had a couple two years ago with some on them too.

I hope every stays safe and cozy tonight. I am happy to live on high ground when I read things about flood warnings, which we have here tonight.

The weather guessers (I like that term) are not doing so well here either. I loved my Hoover CX's. They were healthy pure white grew fast and had great dispositions.

Bertha who is a small toad and mother of the giant toads has Hoover parentage. Other than being lacking in feathers she seems healthy and the Giant Baby toads seem to be the picture of health. We know they can run fast when Ivie and I tried to catch Bertha to but her clothes on her. She hides well, runs fast and prefers being a nudist to wearing clothing.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Good Morning All

Congrats Grandpa !! and Happy Birthday.