Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

Depends on the Husband....

Little dark humor there....

 

[Bogtown Chick]

FishingMT.

I'm thinking they'll demolish it. Geese especially are grazers like goats. I don't have webbed footed foul. Sorry Fowl. They are wet and messy. LOL.
I free range chickens.

It will depend on the number of birds you have quite honestly and the size of their run. Pressure on foliage is a direct result of numbers of critters eating at it. And ducks (I'm guessing) and geese are good grazers. The more ducks and geese you have in a small enclosure you will have more bare spots. Woody stemmed items for cover and shade are nice to do. but honestly I don't see the nicer eating herbaceous stuff lasting you more than a month or two.

 

[MNChickMom]

Thank you guys! The very first time I seen a thread with DH I seriously felt bad for the lady because I thought it meant Dead Husband hahaha!

Dear Husband is much better!

Sometimes the "d" can imply other things.....dumb, soon to be dead

 

[EMorical]

Opinion time!!! I am getting my load of broilers in tomorrow morning and I have a question:::

They will be on a chilly and now damp (yay for leaky roofs) concrete floor of old barn - heat lamps of course will be up and running - but I don't necessarily want them to try and eat all the shavings before they get the hang of where/what the food is.

So.

Do I A) bed the area (large pine shavings) and just let them figure it out and have lil chick feeders set up OR B) not bed at all for a half a day (or so??) and sprinkle food out like you're "supposed" to do, let them graze and find feeders then bed it later.....

????

Or am I totally overthinking it. I have done chicks before but this is a bit different --- 300 broilers and each chick representing $$ in our annual income, so just trying to minimize loss as possible!!!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Em how about a sheet of foam insulation with OsB over the top. Let them get their bearings with the food then go shavings...?

 

[EMorical]

Sorry --- opinions no longer needed. DH decided to just "go ahead" and spread the shavings out.

So helpful sometimes.



SOMETIMES.

 

[Siggie]

Thank you guys! The very first time I seen a thread with DH I seriously felt bad for the lady because I thought it meant Dead Husband hahaha!

Dear Husband is much better!

hmmmm....depends on the day

 

[lvie]

And there you have. EM has a DH and it is meant in an entirely different mode although all of us females do understand that he is being dear and helpful but not too much.

Got busy outside and the boredom fled for the rest of the day. I came into the house at 7:10. DH had meeting at church which means he goes to Taco John's for dinner. That left me wide open to continue outside work.

Ruby laid an egg today! I was in SHOCK! She is the RIR that was naked all winter and has finally feathered out during the past month. I separated her and Regina into the hospital coop. They like each other although Ruby is a sweeting and Regina is a beeeach so it must be one of those relationships. You know, opposites attrak. Whatever, maybe Regina will lay a pretty blue egg.

Cleaned a coop today. Shovel chicken yard a little. Plastic, perfectly okay, laundry tub came home from a remodel job. Spray painted the tub and began filling it with leaves and compost from the compost heap in the back woods on property. Boy is that stuff nice. This is for tomatoe and basil this summer. Looking forward to trying out container gardening this year. IF it works then the raised garden is going bye bye for sure.

Its good to be excited about this summer.

 

[holm25]

Ralphie all of the eggs from the hens I got from you are fertile but one !! Cant wait for Mr. T babies! Should be some pretty ones!

And Mabel the big chubby BBB hen has been sentenced to butcher. Not one of her eggs were good just like last year. Glad its just the hen and not Mr. T

 

[I Love Layers]

Good morning everyone!