Surviving Minnesota!

[Momof3plustwins]

Update on hen and chick. Well I am not sure how they got down out of the box but the chick seems fine and I moved them into the caged area in a bucket nest as I found her on the floor in the middle of the coop with the chick under her. I put a small feeder right in front of her so she could eat while she sat because I found one of the other eggs she was sitting on pipped. I want to encourage her to stay on that nest so the next one can hatch too! So far all the planted eggs from yesterday are still being sat on. I have not checked on those to see if any have started to pip. Tomorrow is day 21 I believe. I am sad I will not be around to see all of this happen. I do hope to come home to a whole clutch of chicks running around though!

 

[Cebarmlds]

Ralphie that is horrible, sorry for your loss.

Have a great time on your houseboat Momof++

 

[I Love Layers]

Last night we had open gym volleyball. 10 of us showed up for grades 7 through 12. There were 9 high schoolers and 1 Junior high. Out of high schoolers there were 2 freshman, 1 sophomore(me), 3 juniors, and 3 seniors. Us older SO, JR, and SR kids were excited because we were going to meet the new varsity coach. We get there and Coach H is there, he is an amazing volleyball player and would be an awesome coach but he coaches JH football so he can't. We start setting up nets and about 10 minutes later then AD comes in. She says "The new coach backed out, so we are back to square one". It's been about 6 months since they've been looking for one, so we were excited when they found one. So coach H stayed and basically coached us. I had so much fun though and learned so much. I haven't had such a good practice since I was in Heart River! Our old varsity coach had her mind stuck in this you're a hitter so you won't ever set sort of thing. Coach H believes totally opposite and thinks that everyone should learn everything, and be good at it, and he is an amazing setter. I actually understand how to set now, and before I would dread setting, not after this. When we went to hitting we started with outside, and then about 15 minutes through he asked if my friend who's a junior and I wanted to go hit ones. Neither of us like ones because our old coach never taught us it was always hit a one and then she never corrected us. With coach H he actually took the time to tell us what we were doing wrong. After him doing that I definently feel more confident about my goal which is to start varsity as a middle. And then we scrimmage for about 40 minutes, which was really fun!
Yesterday I had some chicks hatch under a barnyard mix hen. Eggs are mixed too, I didn't find her until about a week ago, she has 16 eggs and 8 hatched as of about 10 last night. There are 1 really cute EE chicks, and one fibro gene chick. I'm going to try and sell everything excpet the fibro, and possibly maybe one of the EE chicks.
Today we take the birds in for testing and set up the cages and tables.

Ralphie that really sucks with all the birds...

 

[duluthralphie]

Good morning all..

I got a side/bottom fence dug in yesterday. I think that pen is secure now. I placed a live trap with a dead chick in it along the fence. Nothing today.

Not a track, we have light rain and with the new digging I could see a track. So whatever it is decided to not come back today. The total death count was 17.

Momofmillions..... Have good time on the boat. We did that once and enjoyed it a lot. The chicks in the nest get out the normal way. They fall and bounce like a marshmallow. I never help them out they either bounce shake it off and survive the fall, or they die in the nest....

I have the worlds greatest Turkey Mom, Which is like giving Joan Crawford the best Mother of the century award. This turkey hatched 10 of 11 eggs. I only saw her nest empty once in the 28 days she sat. When we got within 20 feet she went into the pancake mode and hissed...

I have her in a cage now with the babies and as soon as come into the shed she puffs up and makes her babies crawl under her. She has not lost one baby yet and they are 3 days in the cage. The babies look about 5-6 days old.

Cluckies, if the bear and mountain lion talk scared you I have a video on my phone my cousins DIL took of a fisher attacking her chickens. It is terrifying to look at as a chicken owner.

I think I have it uploading now..maybe..

I was trimming my Christmas trees on Saturday with my SIL and we walked through the blackberries.. WOW I will have a ton if all the little berries ripen..Anyone want to come pick some?

Just know you will need deer fly protection.


Can't think of anything else right now..Have a great day all.

 

[duluthralphie]

I think I have the fisher attack uploaded...


@Cluckies have a strong adult beverage before you watch!!!

You can here the girls screaming for help...She was videoing and walking closer, the fisher stopped to look at her a few times but continued the attack. She was afraid to get much closer without a weapon.

 

[BantyChooks]

I think I have the fisher attack uploaded...


@Cluckies have a strong adult beverage before you watch!!!

You can here the girls screaming for help...She was videoing and walking closer, the fisher stopped to look at her a few times but continued the attack. She was afraid to get much closer without a weapon.

Now that thing is terrifying.
I hope none of the fishers here decide they want chicken.... 'cos my coop isn't going to keep them out. Every day that I wake up and still have chickens I am thankful for.Just a few more months...

I've been keeping my valuable birds in a HWC pen. I figure that way if something gets my layers it wouldn't be complete devastation.

 

[lvie]

Wow! Chickeners . . . . good morning.

MOM - enjoy the time away. The best part is coming home. Good for you.

ILL - so busy. Keep it up - love reading your stories.

Ralphie - UGH! Catch that varmint. The video is interesting. Poor chickens having to go through that stress.

SS continually amazes me. She was in a fenced garden with me yesterday so she could gets some exercise and I could observe. She was eating and drinking well. I went in and showered and came back out to one stressed hen. She felt warm. I made sure she had the vitamins and electrolytes and she was still stressed. I put her in a cool pan of water and she unstressed. Had to do this a couple of times. She wants to be with the flock so I let her as long as there is no pecking at her. She is walking, holding her head up, eating, drinking and sometimes staggers like a drunk. Lists to the right. But still surviving. I seriously thought that the stress meant she was dying. There she was this morning. Up and at em.

 

[Cluckies]

The high in Phoenix Arizona yesterday was 122 degrees.... I will stay here... I would die in those temps and so would my birds....

I don't know if i would die...but I do know I'd wish I were dead. My chickens would definitely die. My step son is down there. Just went this spring. No money, drives for dinner dash. His car broke down on the side of the road down there yesterday. This kid has to learn every thing the hard way. You try and try, but he never listens. He is always in one mess or another. I keep praying he gets some sense... maybe this wi'll bake some sense into him.

I had an animal attack last night or this morning.

14 birds dead. These were all 8 week old's. It was in the temporary pen I put up for them. The ones I would have sold in Waverly had I been allowed to go.

I did not have a ground fence on them as I did not plan on the coop/run being there very long. I will be adding a ground fence today.

Whatever it was, and I suspect a neighbor will be losing a dog soon, dug under the wall and killed 2 birds inside the enclosure and 12 on the outside. Only one was eaten and the others just left whole. I think it killed for fun.

It could be a fox, the hole is not big enough for a coyote, I don't think.

I cannot see any tracks, the darn sand is so dry there.

Of course, it had to be Dom's and CLB's all the mutts survived just fine.....

Oh no!

Update on hen and chick. Well I am not sure how they got down out of the box but the chick seems fine and I moved them into the caged area in a bucket nest as I found her on the floor in the middle of the coop with the chick under her. I put a small feeder right in front of her so she could eat while she sat because I found one of the other eggs she was sitting on pipped. I want to encourage her to stay on that nest so the next one can hatch too! So far all the planted eggs from yesterday are still being sat on. I have not checked on those to see if any have started to pip. Tomorrow is day 21 I believe. I am sad I will not be around to see all of this happen. I do hope to come home to a whole clutch of chicks running around though!

Have a great time! I hope you have tons of chicks when you get back!

Wow! Chickeners . . . . good morning.

MOM - enjoy the time away. The best part is coming home. Good for you.

ILL - so busy. Keep it up - love reading your stories.

Ralphie - UGH! Catch that varmint. The video is interesting. Poor chickens having to go through that stress.

SS continually amazes me. She was in a fenced garden with me yesterday so she could gets some exercise and I could observe. She was eating and drinking well. I went in and showered and came back out to one stressed hen. She felt warm. I made sure she had the vitamins and electrolytes and she was still stressed. I put her in a cool pan of water and she unstressed. Had to do this a couple of times. She wants to be with the flock so I let her as long as there is no pecking at her. She is walking, holding her head up, eating, drinking and sometimes staggers like a drunk. Lists to the right. But still surviving. I seriously thought that the stress meant she was dying. There she was this morning. Up and at em.

Great job with you girl, I hope she makes a full recovery!

Ill,thanks for sharing your stories, that coach sounds wonderfull, glad you were able to use his instruction to make yourselyourself a better player. I hope they find a new coach for you soon, a good one!

@duluthralphie, I could not bring myself to watch the video yet... Poor chicken.

@Bogtown Chick I hope your silvia gets better. How old is she?

Fun stuff, so my daughter did that ancestry dna test. We've always thought my mom was 100 percent german, and my dad 100 percent swede. Well it came back she is 54 percent swede, and only 5 percent german. Well if she is only 5 percent german, my mom can't be 100 percent. What? I sent mine in tuesday, we'll see what it says... my daughter was also 14 percent eastern europe, 10 percent great Brittain, 5 percent irish, 7 percent iberian peninsula, I forget the rest. Very interesting stuff.

 

[MNChickMom]

Good Morning All!
It's been awhile.

Ralphie~ Sorry to hear of the attack.

Ivie ~ I firmly believe the SS are one of the strongest breeds out there keep up the great work!...It is only my SS pen that fell victim to the Cocci. According to the way they looked last week....one would have thought they would all be dead by the next morning, but we only lost 2 of the 12.

Mom of Many ~ Enjoy the peace and serenity!

On the Benton County homefront we will be pouring 10 yards of concrete at 1pm today. If you would like directions to help out....feel free it private message me. All I have seen this week is concrete....my parents did a late monday 15 yard pour to accomodate some of their kids that work regular jobs. Gee thanks Mom & Dad.

In other chicken news. I found 2 late blooming rhode island red cocks in with my show girls. How I missed them is beyond me.....So I think another day of rooster freezer camp is in order. Last night my father in law says, "I would like to exchange one of the boys on death row with mine." So one will receive a pardon.

I am starting to get eggs from this years hatch....So far the Dominiques are laying and I received my very first yokahamma egg yesterday. At the size of the yokahamma eggs I will need to collect for a month from my 3 pullets before I will have enough eggs to make a single meal of scrambled eggs. They are so tinyyyyy!

Off to my paying job for a few hours then back to work!

 

[duluthralphie]

I sure, wish I did not have a bad back and was not allergic to concrete...BUT I could come and supervise.....