Surviving Minnesota!

[BantyChooks]

 

I have my own crop, but thanks for the offer, However, your crop seems much higher yielding than mine...

Poor, poor chooky is still stuck in winter...

No dandelions for moi.

 

[holm25]

Name two good uses???

Alcohol and salad

 

[holm25]

Hopefully Jerry can get back on the road soon!

 

[BantyChooks]

Alcohol and salad

Holms, dear boy, that's only ONE good use.

And the salad isn't it.

 

[holm25]

Had broody baby hatch yesterday early morning. Same cross as Momofmanys baby. Have alot of eggs due this week! Turkey eggs and chicken eggs. Up to 4 broodies eith another clucking and an Aussie whos sitting on the nest alot...

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Hopefully Jerry can get back on the road soon!

I got a text just two minutes ago. They have rented a truck and are on the road! Yay

Holms, dear boy, that's only ONE good use.

And the salad isn't it.

I'd like to think Dandelion wine is good. But I tried some once and it was.....not...that great. Elderly couple from Iowa made it. I loved them...just not their vino.

 

[Siggie]

Good morning all, does anybody have a recipe for their own mixed layer feed? I'm trying to get away from buying the commercial crumbles....

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Siggie @KlopKlop started grinding his own corn and making his own hen mash. You could message him and ask for his recipe. But you might google and find it too.

 

[EMorical]

Sorry if nobody cares

- but I went to a "local" (In North Dakota, everywhere within a 5 hour radius is considered local!) "Alternative Livestock Auction" on Saturday.... The usual hoofstock (llamas, goats, icelandic sheep, other sheep, some things that went "BLAAAAHHH" and could have either been sheep or goats, pigs, ponies, a few specialty cattle) BIRDS, and a few misc items. Here's a quick summery from the ND board. Complete with a few questions.

What did prices go for chicken wise?

I guess - in my personal opinion - they went HIGH. Guieneas were going well over 25$ per bird (I think maybe only one cage went under that price)... Roosters were not a hot item, $1-4 per bird altho a cage of two Buff Orphington Roos went for $14 per bird...hens were high. $20 for Americana hen; $15 for another; trios of Banties went from anywheres of $12.50 or so all the way up to $27.50 for a d'ullce (or however it's spelled) hen trio and rooster. Do they make a Lavender Orphington Bantie??? Of course the Silkies were popular. Cages of hen/roo up to $27 a bird... I had some of my older birds I had brought, and I was AMAZED at how well they did. I bid on a few cages of Legbar/Creambar/Rhodebar pullets...I didn't NEED 10 of them so I didn't bid very aggressively. Just need a few olive eggers for my coop. ***the SOB who got the first cage got them for $6/bird and then the rest of the cages went for $12-16 per bird**** The bunnies....holy smokes. $$$. $40 - $100+. Not a bun-bun person so I'm not sure what they wanted them for but apparently I will be no longer running cow-calf pairs and starting a Rabbitry haha

I thought it went extremely slow. We stayed until they finished the baby chicks, went to Bismarck and had lunch, came back for a minute around 2:30 I think and they were still on the hoofstock.

How long did the whole thing last?

As far as prices go, while I didn't see any of the adult poultry, I thought everything else was going for quite a bit less than what I've normally seen at the spring sale. I wonder if there being the same type sale in both Rugby and New Salem on the same day had an effect on that. Because normally there's people that come from miles to this, I think the normal crowd go split up.

There was also considerably less poultry there, normally they have both sides of that barn full.

If I would have been more prepared (actually had a trailer with and was looking to buy something) I would have picked up two of those highlander heifers that went for $500ish. Grass or not, I could have found a place for them for awhile.

The only thing I did not watch, was the baby chicks/ducks/etc...can you tell me how those went?? I am powerless against those so I removed myself from the area haha.

Ditto on the slow...didn't start poultry until after 3:00? or there abouts? Not familiar with sheep/goats/llamas/etc but I was absolutely SHOCKED at how low the ponies were going. Starting them at $2.00!?!?! I think a few went for $20 to $40...I mean, that barely covers the cost of the halter

I thought there was less birds! I was disappointed in the variety. Only a few ducks, no geese (or one set? Of ornamental), and just lots of chickens. Didn't think I noticed a Brahma rooster....??? Did you end up bringing one up?

I had been sent with NO checkbook, and NO trailer...for a reason. I was super disappointed b/c there was a sow that went for $40 and that would have set us up for all our grinding pork for the year for venison etc etc....and the weaner piglets went for $30 a pig. Dang. Don't even get me started on those Highlands. And for that angus calf to go for $575 right after those....yikes.

Already looking forward to fall!!!! Will be going with trailer this time. Regardless of what Husband says

Ta-dah!

 

[EMorical]

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