Surviving Minnesota!

[I Love Layers]

All I had was a small mixing bowl

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I am considering this a nightmare....

 

[holm25]

Good morning everybody.

Not much happening here... Incubator is running good and temps are staying at 99... I am happy with how this Hova is running! I figured out that there is an art to these things lol! I am putting off candling for a couple more days... I only had 6 eggs to set cuz someone likes to peck their egg after they lay it. But she has stopped now so hopefully next week I will have a dozen and a half or so.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Slow egg production here . About 3 a day . Dark wet gloomy day here . Light drizzle . Temps dropping later today . Then the cold sets in .

 

[Cluckies]

Morning, ice. Terrible. Here was a shot of the top of my picnic table, it was clear yesterday morning.

Don't know If the photo attached. Had to chisel out my daily comuter, my 97 honda this morning. No fun.
Temps dropping, was 30 degrees when i went out to the coop at 3:30. Now, 13 and dropping...

Didnt attach, trying again... nope, not working...

 

[duluthralphie]

Good morning everybody.

Not much happening here... Incubator is running good and temps are staying at 99... I am happy with how this Hova is running! I figured out that there is an art to these things lol! I am putting off candling for a couple more days... I only had 6 eggs to set cuz someone likes to peck their egg after they lay it. But she has stopped now so hopefully next week I will have a dozen and a half or so.

I have no way to explain this but it worked.

I had the two Don Hens that picked up the bad habit of eating their eggs in New Ulm. It was driving me nuts, I raised the edge of the cage and made a trough for the eggs so the girls could not get to them but with frozen poop and feed it seldom worked.

I gave up and threw them in the cage with the rooster. ( I had been putting them in for the rooster to do his thing and then taking them out). Since they went in the same cage as the rooster I am getting eggs from both of them. It is like that forgot they like to eat the eggs.


They have been throwing the golf balls and ceramic eggs out of the nest and rolling them around the cage. I built a nest box to try and keep them inside the nest. It could be the ceramic egg hurt when they tried to break it with their beaks, I have no idea, but it helped.

 

[duluthralphie]

Morning, ice. Terrible. Here was a shot of the top of my picnic table, it was clear yesterday morning.

Don't know If the photo attached. Had to chisel out my daily comuter, my 97 honda this morning. No fun.
Temps dropping, was 30 degrees when i went out to the coop at 3:30. Now, 13 and dropping...

Didnt attach, trying again... nope, not working...

WOW we are 3 degrees different I have 10 now and dropping fast.

 

[holm25]

I have no way to explain this but it worked.

I had the two Don Hens that picked up the bad habit of eating their eggs in New Ulm. It was driving me nuts, I raised the edge of the cage and made a trough for the eggs so the girls could not get to them but with frozen poop and feed it seldom worked.

I gave up and threw them in the cage with the rooster. ( I had been putting them in for the rooster to do his thing and then taking them out).  Since they went in the same cage as the rooster I am getting eggs from both of them. It is like that forgot they like to eat the eggs.


They have been throwing the golf balls and ceramic eggs out of the nest and rolling them around the cage. I built a nest box to try and keep them inside the nest.   It could be the ceramic egg hurt when they tried to break it with their beaks, I have no idea, but it helped.

I think I will put a golf ball in. Like I said they aren't doing it anymore but I don't want to lose hatching eggs!

 

[holm25]

You all are lucky! 19 below when I woke up this morning!

 

[duluthralphie]

You all are lucky! 19 below when I woke up this morning!

I hope you last woke up on the 22nd of Dec!

 

[I Love Layers]

Double dog today