Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie: For comb saving you may have to insulate and heat a coop special for those birdies. Bag balm helps. But sometimes it's like putting peanut butter on a sore I feel and hard to keep up with....?

I am planning on keeping them in my Pole Barn/ shed / brooder area. It will not be heated but will have heat lamps on the chicks the roof is over 20 feet at the peak, I hope between the heat lamps and the high ceilings the moisture goes up and out.


Then again, my Mom leave for Florida around the 20th of October, so maybe I could just move the roosters into her house.

MNchickmom I have roosters!! Just give me a few days to catch them. They are pretty "wild". I just caught the SS hen I plan to show, and she bit me, but she will calm down in a couple days I am sure.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I know it gets a little colder up north of the Cities for many of you folks, but DRY is definitely the key to keep those combs over the winter. If there are bowls or waterers they can get themselves wet on, it will likely cause some damage. Even metal feeders, I have found, for those big, single combs is a problem for some as they rub they on the cold metal to eat and that causes freezing on the skin of the comb, and next thing you know you have blood everywhere and a scabby comb.

 

[MNChickMom]

I know it gets a little colder up north of the Cities for many of you folks, but DRY is definitely the key to keep those combs over the winter.  If there are bowls or waterers they can get themselves wet on, it will likely cause some damage.  Even metal feeders, I have found, for those big, single combs is a problem for some as they rub they on the cold metal to eat and that causes freezing on the skin of the comb, and next thing you know you have blood everywhere and a scabby comb.


 

Hey KlopKlop klop....this reminds me, do you have pictures of the 5 gallon pail with pan on bottom feeders that you made. Or at least I thought it was you?

 

[KlopKlop]

Hey KlopKlop klop....this reminds me, do you have pictures of the 5 gallon pail with pan on bottom feeders that you made. Or at least I thought it was you?

Yeah that is what I use. I don't have a picture of mine but this one is similar. I ran a couple screws up through the bottom of the hog pan through the bucket and into a block of wood to hold it together then hung it by the bucket handle.

Also this one has way way too many holes. Mine have 5 or 6 holes around the bottom. If you do as many as you see here you will probably have wasted feed. I would recommend start with 5 and add more if you find the feed isn't coming out as much as you like

My holes are maybe 1.5" or so and as low in the bucket as you can get without cutting the bottom

 

[memphis]

Ralph! Moving the SSroos into your mom's house for the winter is ideal!! You can go sit & watch T.V. with them all. Just think how tame they'll be come spring show season!!

 

[spurrer]

I want to move to MINN and be your neighbor. You have it all.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

.....and you can hide all your mushroom books over there and your amazon bills, too!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I want to move to MINN and be your neighbor. You have it all.

Pack a parka!

 

[duluthralphie]

I want to move to MINN and be your neighbor. You have it all.

I bet you would want to move back to Georgia around January 8th.... But your sure welcome to come on up and give us a try..

 

[holm25]

Ralphie where is this mushroom hunt taking place?



Our first year getting chicks I ordered some SS but they had a bad hatch so I never got any. Now I wish I did! I would take an SS roo but I have decided to just keep Buckeye cockerels this winter. They are such good birds too! My biggest cockerel is a gentle giant. He is by far the calmest and biggest cockerel (other than Lucky) I have ever raised!