Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Good Morning All

Congrats Grandpa !! and Happy Birthday.

Thanks and ooops.. I meant the baby's birthday not mine.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Thanks and ooops.. I meant the baby's birthday not mine.

OK never mind.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Ralphie your fufu is a cockerel . The crest gives it away . On Polish those long pointy crest feathers are a male trait . Females have rounder crest feathers . A pom pom look instead of wild hair day look . There is your on thing to learn for the day . So you are done learning for the day .

 

[KlopKlop]

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.

Congrats ralphie!

 

[KlopKlop]

@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.

 

Oh we got all of that rain too. The 'dry snap' was only about 4 days long. Enough for some of the mud to firm up around my new garage thanks to the few windy days we had.

We had a wild storm last night. Lots of rain and a constant light show for quite a while. The dogs were fussy, it was hot in the house, and I was anxious about the power going out. We had 10" of water in the basement earlier this summer thanks to sustained rain and a short power outage while we were out of town one night.

 

[duluthralphie]

OK never mind.

You can still give me a present or something, I would accept it..

 

[duluthralphie]

Morning . Ralphie your fufu is a cockerel . The crest gives it away . On Polish those long pointy crest feathers are a male trait . Females have rounder crest feathers . A pom pom look instead of wild hair day look . There is your on thing to learn for the day . So you are done learning for the day .

Oh no... they all look the same, maybe I have no pullets!

 

[KlopKlop]

Oh no... they all look the same, maybe I have no pullets!

When did you get foo foo chickens? Must have been shortly after I faded into oblivion? That's a cool looking bird!

 

[duluthralphie]

Well, Andy is trying to become what Lucky is right now!

Yesterday, he attacked Bert. I kicked his (synonym of Butt) out of the shed. This morning he ran to the shed and stalked Bert and jumped him again. Andy is now serving a day in Chicken Jail.

If he does not stop it he will be going to freezer camp. Once he lost his crest he lost all value. I kept him around as a pet. I have no problem eating my pets!

Bad Andy Bad!

 

[duluthralphie]

When did you get foo foo chickens? Must have been shortly after I faded into oblivion? That's a cool looking bird!

I got them in late June or early July, I have 3 breeds of Fufus! Bring on the suburban housewives that want cute chickens!

The CLB hens I sold in Hutch went to Chaska, the only thing that mattered to the woman that bought the was crest size, not color, condition or general looks. Just crest size~!