Surviving Minnesota!

[holm25]

It's always a good day when you can turn the heat lamps off. I decided it was time when the chicks escaped (someone left the brooder door open. I decided to be the bigger man and blame it on my sister) and they slept on the floor all night and were just fine. So they don't have a light now.

I am really happy with the size and growth on these. I can define you tell which are Buckeye sired. Buck mutts have bigger feet, heads and breasts already. The one with the single comb should not be if you know what I mean. There is no rooster that could possibly have bred him. No red in him and no pea comb. The only roosters I had have lots of feathers on their legs and were too young to breed. And Bubba my old main mutt went to his new flock in September. What the heck?

 

[I Love Layers]

Cute chicks Holm!



Just ordered mine, 20 sexed Leghorn pullets, 20 sexed Naked Neck pullets, and 2 sexed Golden Polish pullets for my mom for helping me set up the excel expense, income and total trackers

 

[holm25]

Cute chicks Holm!



Just ordered mine, 20 sexed Leghorn pullets, 20 sexed Naked Neck pullets, and 2 sexed Golden Polish pullets for my mom for helping me set up the excel expense, income and total trackers

Awesome!

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Beautiful spring like weather yesterday . A little cooler for today and then back to warmer temps . Gotta love it for February .

 

[Cebarmlds]

good morning peeples it was so windy yesterday it felt colder than it was, cooler today again but then warmer for the rest of the week.
DH was going to put steaks on the grill last night and after starting it noticed a mouse nest. So it was left over pizza.

 

[jerryse]

good morning peeples it was so windy yesterday it felt colder than it was, cooler today again but then warmer for the rest of the week.
DH was going to put steaks on the grill last night and after starting it noticed a mouse nest. So it was left over pizza.

I had the urge to grill but stayed too busy outside to start the grill . So it was pizza for us also but not leftover .

 

[MNChickMom]

Pizza in our house too last night. Husband outta town so I took a vote about cooking verses papa Murphy. Vote was 1-0 in favor of papa murphy.

 

[duluthralphie]

Pizza in our house too last night. Husband outta town so I took a vote about cooking verses papa Murphy. Vote was 1-0 in favor of papa murphy.

The kids didn't get a vote?

 

[lvie]

Good Morning Chickeners . . . . The flock is out! They love free ranging so I let them. I will, somehow, have to deal with training them to stay off sidewalks and the patios. I am thinking of the how to.
Hmmmm. . . . I was just going to say that my flock, except what I gained from Ralphie is all hatchery stock from Runnings. Oh! except for the two RIR's. Oh! and then there is the BR. Where did I get that BA and BO's from? Oh! Those came from Runnings. Now that I am beginning my third year, and since I have such a small flock (20 is small I think - but really 8 to 10 would be perfect) and that life is on the shorter side so I want what I decide I want NOW because there aren't too many tomorrows (may 25 years of them but that goes by fast!) I want to watch a flock of beautiful birds. Not from a hatchery because I am reading about the culling to get only certain birds that you go through. Plus I read that kind of bird is stronger and longer lived.
Between the two coops I have room for 20 if I let them free range. And I am not so protective (now that I am a grown-up chicken woman) that if a few go to the wildlife, while I will not like that, it will not be so tramatic (than the three BA from my first flock that fed the eagles.)
And Ralphie - YOU are RIGHT! I have that whole riverbank for them to free-range on. I think I will pound fence posts in and fence it so that they have to go in that direction and not toward the back of the house. Ho Hum - more work to be done in the warm sunshine when the ground thaws. Oh well . . . .

Enjoy this day - less to no wind - so it will feel warmer.

 

[lvie]

Where is the chatter? I have time to do some reading chickies!