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[MinnesotaNice]

Morning all. It's my third day back to work after being on leave for 4 months. I decided work is overrated. I've only enjoyed the free coffee so far.

@I Love Layers , I absolutely love Blue Stain Pine. I want to use it in our cabin someday. I like the look of your house - the wall of windows is awesome! how many acres is your family on?

@duluthralphie , I decided I'm going to get Turkey eggs - Sweetgrass and Penciled Chocolate Palm. I think I'll order a few breeders choice non-APA as well. Better my chances a bit. DH will be very happy to see the bator up and running again!

 

[I Love Layers]

Morning all. It's my third day back to work after being on leave for 4 months. I decided work is overrated. I've only enjoyed the free coffee so far.

@I Love Layers
, I absolutely love Blue Stain Pine. I want to use it in our cabin someday. I like the look of your house - the wall of windows is awesome! how many acres is your family on? 

@duluthralphie
, I decided I'm going to get Turkey eggs - Sweetgrass and Penciled Chocolate Palm. I think I'll order a few breeders choice non-APA as well. Better my chances a bit. DH will be very happy to see the bator up and running again!

We've got around 800. Part of it is all creek bottoms. And then it turns into rocky lots of brush and ridges.

 

[memphis]

MNnice great turkey egg choices!! If you get "Breeders Choice" we can play "Guess the Variety " over on the Turkey thread! We love that!

 

[duluthralphie]

MnNice I will be waiting to see how your hatch turns out.

I am going to put some breeding trios up for sale I think. I need to get rid of some.



I really should NOT be happy with you!!!! I went to the color calculator, I was not going to breed JJ, but look at all the cool varieties I can get with him and a Royal Palm hen:

06.25 Female Blue Red Bronze
06.25 Male Blue Red Bronze
06.25 Female Bronze Semi-Color Semi-Gray
06.25 Male Bronze Semi-Color Semi-Gray
06.25 Female Red Bronze
06.25 Male Red Bronze
06.25 Female Red Slate Semi-Color Semi-Gray
06.25 Male Red Slate Semi-Color Semi-Gray
06.25 Female Rusty BlackColor Semi-Gray Semi-
06.25 Male Rusty BlackColor Semi-Gray Semi-
06.25 Female Rusty SlateColor Semi-Gray Semi-
06.25 Male Rusty SlateColor Semi-Gray Semi-
06.25 Female Tri-color Mottled Black
06.25 Male Tri-color Mottled Black
06.25 Female Tri-color Mottled Slate
06.25 Male
Tri-color Mottled Slate

 

[duluthralphie]

Ahh I could not finish the post it did something weird.


I might breed him after all some of those are so cool.

 

[duluthralphie]

MNnice great turkey egg choices!! If you get "Breeders Choice" we can play "Guess the Variety " over on the Turkey thread! We love that!

@MinnesotaNice You really should join us on the turkey thread to see what you have to look forward too, Turkeys are not ducks or Chickens, they have "special" needs and behaviors which we all talk about. It is kind of a support group for people with special needs birds.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

The Bronze's would be pretty awesome. I'd be interested in some poults if you do breed him.

@memphis , they tell you what they are when they send the poults/eggs for Breeders Choice, but I can keep a secret like Vegas =)

I'm honestly not too confident with my incubating abilities, so we'll see. Chicken hatching eggs? No problem. Everything else? Fail.

 

[I Love Layers]

I have no idea what I did to my knee but holy cow it hurts today. It feels like my knee cap split in half!
My hands also hurt, but that's from dragging behind the snowmobile a bunch

 

[MinnesotaNice]

We've got around 800. Part of it is all creek bottoms. And then it turns into rocky lots of brush and ridges.

That's amazing. What's the history with the 800 acres?

 

[I Love Layers]

That's amazing. What's the history with the 800 acres?

The creek bottoms is a weird story

. Basically I think my great great grandpa, went to New York, and met a widow who had land out by there original 160 acres (we don't own this but my grandma owns the house and a neighbor owns the rest) he schmoozed her up and came back with the deed for the land.
The story for the other part of the land is a neighbor called Old Man Linster owned a quarter now called Linster Quarter. Everyday this Old Man Linster would stop at my great grandpas and ask you want to buy this land, everyday my grandpa would say no. No one wanted it as there was no water on it at that time so you had to haul it up there. Finally one day my great grandpa finally said yes.
From there it was passed down to my great uncle. He passed away in January 2012 if I am correct. So then my mom and dad bought it and we moved out here for the summer in 2013. And then at the beginning of summer 2014 we fully moved out. My dad stayed in Fairfield and worked at his job until May 2015 when he fully moved out. We bought our cows in December 2015.