Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

BC we didn't catch anything. We did to much screwing around and not enough time fishing lol

KIDS!!!

FISH on the lake screw around elsewhere!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

What kind of mutt? What do the reports look like? DO they give areas or of origin or country?

Do they give you a time frame as to how much or when it could come from?

Well they give areas as it is DNA. Nationality is something different and not always dilineated easily...I suppose with things. We can narrow things down with census and such.

We know he was half Swiss. Switzerland is a melting pot of Germans, French, Italians for example.
36% West European
25% UK
12% Scandinavian
9% East European (his Grandpa was part Hungarian)
7% Iberian Peninusula (Spain/Portugal) That one was a surprise.

Trace DNA from:
3% Italy/Greece
4% Ireland
1% North Africa-- (Morocco, Algeria, etc) --These folks migrated East to West and up into Spain/Portugal
2% Caucasus -- Turkey, Kazekstan, Georgia (Soviet Union) -- These people would raid and settled Hungary for about 800 years.
<1% Middle East --Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, etc.

Just reading that migrations due to invasions/war or religious asylum kept people on the move. I wish there were more details like time lines etc....maybe there is if I pay them more money. But for now we're giggling and intrigued.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

My sister just sent me a snap shot of our DNA. (She did this too).

So I've always known --nationality wise I'm 1/2 German and 3/8 Norwegian, 1/8 Swede.

BUT! My DNA says:

84% Scandinavian
10% Europe West
3% Europe East
1% Great Britian

Trace Finland (Western Russia) and Trace Iberian Peninsula. <1% each.

Edited to Add that I did more research and the Plattdeutsch conversation --Low Germany is Northern Germany. Denmark is nice Land Bridge of Island Hopping for Viking raiders, fisherman and merchants. Doing the Family Tree I see Great Grandpa was born in Brandenburg and got on a boat in Hamburg--all Northern Germany. I've connected some dots here. Ha!

 

[MinnesotaNice]

Do you do sugar or salt scrubs?

This has a little bit of involvement to it... But no not difficult. I get the sense that you could probably do well with it. I watched 4 YouTube videos on it before I bought supplies and gathered equipment from 2nd hand stores and dollar stores (bowls, stick blender etc) there is lye safety to know and how saponification works, calculations, and curing the soap. It's time consuming to set up and clean up. The actual soap making happens fast.

Arg. Lily did not kick the bucket last night so I had the job tonight. She was an original-- so those are not easy ones. Overall though... Culling birds -- getting better at it. Lily loved to perch in trees. Fly up on the deck. She was the first to jump up on the brooder ledge. Loved her wings. Now she really gets to use them.

Salt scrubs. I'll check out a few videos and see how adventurous I feel. I've always wanted to give it a go. Ans sorry to hear about Lily. I love the pictures you shared.

I have finally done it....First successful strain of the one-legged chicken. Here they are in their natural habitat....Still working on perfect placement of the one leg - as you can see only one hen has the correct symmetry going for her. Now accepting (non refundable) deposits for next generation.

I'll just go wait by my phone for your offers.

I was online but I was answering my PM's I am getting a lot of requests for legbar chicks, especially the white ones and I am not even advertising them. The problem is even at half of what the hatchery's ask people say I am asking too much.

I am thinking about contacting Meyers hatchery and see if they want hatching eggs. if I put my a couple white roosters in with the legbars. I love hatching I hate selling, to people.

I say then folks don't need to buy them if they don't like your price. They can buy from the hatchery.

Do Meyers and other hatchery's buy hatching eggs from folks to start new lines? I'm not really familiar with how they operate. My Grandpa said the local hatchery would come pick up eggs from them on the farm. I wasn't really sure if it was for hatching or market. I'll have to ask him. He said they always had around 500 leghorns.

I didn't see if you responded or not, but why do you use egg cartons when hatching? I've seen a few people use them and never thought to ask why.

 

[duluthralphie]

MnNice.. Sorry, I forgot who had asked, then forgot anyone had asked.

I use them for a couple reasons.


I can get more eggs into a tray...

The chicks can hatch without getting bumped around by those out of the shell


And most importantly I can put "fences" around the cartons so I know which chick is which breed and keep them separate. In a small hatch like the one in the picture with 3 breeds so different from each other it was not necessary, it is just habit. I do use the foam cartons because I think the paper ones suck up moisture but I have no proof of that,

 

[duluthralphie]

I had a semi-productive day today.

I had some chainsaw issues. the shut off switch stopped working. The switch not working seemed to coincide with my taking it apart last fall and changing the gas lines and filters. I am sure it was just a coincident, and more importantly Judy has not put 2 and 2 together.


I fixed it yesterday. I had to tear it down again and found a small clip that had someone slipped off its anchor point.

It worked when I put it back on. This is important because I had some trees the insurance company inspector had decided were too close to the buildings....Geeesch!

Then I got a card yesterday saying he was coming back in next two weeks to inspect again. I did not want to try cutting a tree down without the switch working. I have cut some logs lying on the ground and I would just choke the motor until it died. On tree I think that is too dangerous. Anyways I got the trees down today.

I worked in the barn for a little. I ste a new record today, that Judy again was not happy with. I carried 8 eggs in one jacket pocket to the house successfully! I was quite proud of the record, she just chewed me out for it. I also had 4 in my hands, so I carried a dozen eggs with no bucket...Amazing feat, if I say so myself.



Finally, and I write this for Jerry and EJB!!!

I have brought Snitch into the barn for lapper lessons!

She is doing good for day one, but is kind of confused.





She has also been given a permanent spot in my flock which is signified by a brand new red leg band! She chose #13. She is quite proud of it.




I will be bringing a few more hens in shortly, I need to decide who will be breeders and who will be sold or culled.

JJ has got back in the breeding lineup. I had taken him out, but when taking stock today, I discovered I have no bronze Toms. I have 4 bronze hens. The only Tom that gets me a small "b" to make a bronze is JJ. and that is only 13% of the time. So I will have mutt turkeys to sell this spring..Dang, I did not want mutts.



Also I picked JJ up and held him, rubbed his head and hugged him. He tolerates it but does not particularly like it. While I was holding him the Royal Palm Toms that had been attacking Judy and the guy getting the trailer yesterday got close to me. When I set JJ down they must have teased JJ about being hugged. JJ immediately ran over and beat the the crap out of the bad Royal Palm Toms!! Go JJ!!

 

[Cebarmlds]

Hey Ralphie I think the beautiful olive egg is from one of the hens I got from you!

 

[duluthralphie]

Hey Ralphie I think the beautiful olive egg is from one of the hens I got from you!

I was wondering about that. Those crosses with the legbar/EE and Ed gave me that shade.

 

[Cebarmlds]

I was wondering about that. Those crosses with the legbar/EE and Ed gave me that shade.

I wondered at first but now I'm pretty dang sure.

Do you remember the hatch date for those three?

 

[duluthralphie]

I wondered at first but now I'm pretty dang sure.

Do you remember the hatch date for those three?

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I am guessing May or early June. Just a guess.