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[MNChickMom]

@MNChickMom

Let me know what you think you want for a 1/2 - dozen hatching eggs this April or May.

Ralphie....I've been thinking either Cuckoo marans or Doms for the others for the Hatch Project.

We are going to try to hatch some eggs early to determine Mr. Rooster's effectiveness. I will keep you posted and we can definiately work something out. Just as an FYI....these guys create a lot of compost for your garden.

They can eat! and What goes in must come out!

 

[holm25]

BC are you ginna be using an incybator this year!?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

My friend Shannon the Kindergarten Teacher is! She teaches her lessons and then has chicks that need homes. Between me and two other ladies she does pretty well homing those sweet birds.

The Chicks after a week or two in a kindergarten class are not as socialized as one might think. It took me a while to get June and Patsy to trust me. I think it's important for children to learn how to hold animals. I understand and am a proponent. But I also see those chicks sick to death of being handled and not wanting anything to do with it by the time I get them. Shannon is VERY good with setting boundaries and teaching good animal care. But it's still probably too much for those littles. Sooo....I do a little mini 'rehab' with them for what I want out of them. Let them know they can trust me. Let them know I don't always have to pick them up. That they have their own free will so to speak. But when I do pick them up...they're going to get a minute of care and mealworm or two and know that it's not so bad to be caught and held by me. Those are my goals. For multiple reasons: a catchable bird is a good thing.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

We are going to try to hatch some eggs early to determine Mr. Rooster's effectiveness. I will keep you posted and we can definiately work something out. Just as an FYI....these guys create a lot of compost for your garden.

They can eat! and What goes in must come out!

That sounds great MNChickMom. I just texted Shannon to see what she things about some BO's. I think they are gorgeous.

I have a couple of Poop-Makers too. Wow! That week or so they were in the coop with the extreme cold. I put cut open feed bags under them just to manage the poop. I about filled a 50 lb feed bag with chicken manure! That's 11 birds! Few bits of straw and pine shavings ...but mostly poop! They really burn the fuel in the winter...that's for sure.

 

[holm25]

My friend Shannon the Kindergarten Teacher is!  She teaches her lessons and then has chicks that need homes.  Between me and two other ladies she does pretty well homing those sweet birds. 

The Chicks after a week or two in a kindergarten class are not as socialized as one might think.  It took me a while to get June and Patsy to trust me.  I think it's important for children to learn how to hold animals.  I understand and am a proponent.  But I also see those chicks sick to death of being handled and not wanting anything to do with it by the time I get them.  Shannon is VERY good with setting boundaries and teaching good animal care.  But it's still probably too much for those littles.  Sooo....I do a little mini 'rehab' with them for what I want out of them.  Let them know they can trust me.  Let them know I don't always have to pick them up.  That they have their own free will so to speak.  But when I do pick them up...they're going to get a minute of care and mealworm or two and know that it's not so bad to be caught and held by me.  Those are my goals.  For multiple reasons: a catchable bird is a good thing.

I remember doing that in 1st grade and I LOVED it! Guess who got to take the chicks home then

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I remember doing that in 1st grade and I LOVED it! Guess who got to take the chicks home then

Ha! And what a good kid and home to go with. Lucky Chicks.

 

[EMorical]

DNA came in yesterday. I noted the email late last night...so then I stayed up reviewing it and going to bed late. Wow. Lots of interesting stuff. He really is a mutt!

Hi!...I must have missed an earlier post about this....??! Tell me more! Was just talking about this with my fam the other night - did you do one of those home kits?? (I actually thought you were talking about a dog for a moment

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[EMorical]

Oh...no....MNChickMom: I was hoping for some Buffie eggs this year from you. LOL. Give them until February.....

I imagine these one leggeds are common in Nodak?

Oh - quite rare - I am thinking of having them made into the "state bird" to promote habitat. Our state tree, "the telephone pole", has had much luck over the last years with numbers too!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Hi!...I must have missed an earlier post about this....??! Tell me more! Was just talking about this with my fam the other night - did you do one of those home kits?? (I actually thought you were talking about a dog for a moment

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Yes. We did the Ancestry.com DNA test for my Father In Law as a Christmas Gift. He had a friend do it and he became interested in doing it...mentioned it this fall. I made a mental note for Xmas. He has known he's Swiss and Hungarian but the rest he did not know. So we sent it in.

While it's been processing I've built a family tree (free on the site). It's very interesting and a bit time consuming. I can see why people get into it though. But I have too many irons in the fire to sign up for more advanced searches (which cost $ -- monthly membership) and just the investment of time alone. Over Christmas I had some time off to build up a family tree...but then it sort of dead-ends off after U.S. Census's run out. Advanced searches get you foreign paperwork as well. But then I'm thinking I don't know how to read German or Norwegian...so I'm done.

 

[jerryse]

Yes. We did the Ancestry.com DNA test for my Father In Law as a Christmas Gift. He had a friend do it and he became interested in doing it...mentioned it this fall. I made a mental note for Xmas. He has known he's Swiss and Hungarian but the rest he did not know. So we sent it in.

While it's been processing I've built a family tree (free on the site). It's very interesting and a bit time consuming. I can see why people get into it though. But I have too many irons in the fire to sign up for more advanced searches (which cost $ -- monthly membership) and just the investment of time alone. Over Christmas I had some time off to build up a family tree...but then it sort of dead-ends off after U.S. Census's run out. Advanced searches get you foreign paperwork as well. But then I'm thinking I don't know how to read German or Norwegian...so I'm done.

You may be surprised . We recently went back 1 more generation on my Swedish Great Grandmothers side . Old church records are becoming available . Not sure if it was translated or not . DW did not say . You can at least recognize names .