Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Ivie, I read it..

Kloppers did you pound every nail or use nail guns? I have almost stopped using nails. I use screws now. I love the torq heads.

and less chance of hitting my thumb.

 

[MNChickMom]

Good Morning All,
It is harvest season....umm I mean get stuck season. With the husband working out of town a lot of the harvest waits until the weekend to get done.

I need to call the locker plant as we have a steer that decided to take a tumble/do the splits and now is limping. With beef prices at rock bottom I have decided to fill the freezer instead of take the docking of pay trying to sell at the livestock barn.

On Wednesday, we will be re-homing AJ our barred rock rooster to my husbands uncle that wants to get some barred rock blood in his flock. While I will miss AJ (he is nice calm cool tempered hatchery stock rooster) but I need to make room for the SS rooster. If I ever miss him I can drive 3 miles down the road to visit him.

Glad to hear everyone is upright and is busy.

Enjoy the last couple days of Indian Summer.

 

[lvie]

What? NO ONE is reading MY post??

 

[lvie]

Okay - MNChickMom - I do go visit Tom once in awhile and walk away glad that he is where he is and no longer living with me. LOL

I want to go to Hutch to experience the Chicken show. So how many on this thread will be there and what time. Can we plan to lunch together or would that not work out?

Sigh . . . . . back to short and sweet messages. All done with that long book stuff. But Ralphie needed something to read so I stepped up. Off to the errands for the day. Bye

 

[Cebarmlds]

What? NO ONE is reading MY post??

I read it Ivie

 

[Cebarmlds]

Okay - MNChickMom - I do go visit Tom once in awhile and walk away glad that he is where he is and no longer living with me. LOL

I want to go to Hutch to experience the Chicken show. So how many on this thread will be there and what time. Can we plan to lunch together or would that not work out?

Sigh . . . . . back to short and sweet messages. All done with that long book stuff. But Ralphie needed something to read so I stepped up. Off to the errands for the day. Bye

My 13 week old cockerel started crowing, just heard him this morning. Kinda cute. The rooster hating 'neighbor' isn't up here much during winter and if she is she can just keep her windows closed. So the little guy can stay awhile unless he becomes a jerk.

Have fun in Hutch.

 

[KlopKlop]

Ivie,  I read it..

Kloppers did you pound every nail or use nail guns?   I have almost stopped using nails. I use screws now. I love the torq heads.

and less chance of hitting my thumb.

I did the wall framing and sheeting with a gun the rest by hand. Probably 40/60 split with the 60 being by hand.

Outside of this project I almost exclusively use torx wood screws I love them too. Just as long and the driver doesn't slip off and you stab your hand with the bit. Not that I have done that.... And definitely not several times lol

I've started buying them from the bulk bins at fleet farm. They are a tad cheaper that way and you can get them all the way up to 8 or 10" if you need them

 

[KlopKlop]

 My 13 week old cockerel started crowing, just heard him this morning. Kinda cute. The rooster hating 'neighbor' isn't up here much during winter and if she is she can just keep her windows closed. So the little guy can stay awhile unless he becomes a jerk.

Have fun in Hutch.

Isn't it fully when they are just learning to crow and they are raspy like a young boy whose voice is changing

 

[KlopKlop]

What?  NO ONE is reading MY post??  

I read the whole novel!!

 

[Momof3plustwins]

Well I don't think I would be able to let that chicken roost in my house at the foot of my bed. Just think of the chicken poop in your bed!

I did the chicken chores this morning and cleaned out most of the coop. I had to pick up the babies and throw them out into the big moveable run with everyone else. They were much happier outside than in the coop.

I have one of the remaining cockerels that is really turning into a good rooster for the girls. Just a barnyard mutt from a friend but was younger than the other cockerels so never really showed his stuff. He just keeps moving about checking all the corners of the runs watching the girls. Not too hard on the babies either.

I am hoping come Spring the chickens will have taken care of my slug problem I have been having. The garden is almost cleaned out then I can till it up good for them and they can finish the job. Right now I have both gardens fenced in for them and they are doing a good job tilling it up.