Surviving Minnesota!

[ejb3810]

Mike only sells started birds. This to insure that people get quality. His prices are very reasonable for what you get, and I wish more people approached things as he does.

 

[memphis]

Ralph...Aurora makes chicken saddles...bet she could do a bra.

 

[BantyChooks]

Mike only sells started birds. This to insure that people get quality. His prices are very reasonable for what you get, and I wish more people approached things as he does.

Absolutely.

 

[BantyChooks]

Ralph...Aurora makes chicken saddles...bet she could do a bra.

Shh, I'm trying to get fifty bucks out of this

Kidding.

 

[holm25]

Well there was 14 deer out tonight and a bear with two cubs out and about tonight. Looks like it's a farm and mini sanctuary

 

[bobbi-j]

Thanks for the thoughts, everyone. I will have four chickens before winter - the remaining juvenile is a cockerel, and I have an adult rooster already. With only 3 hens, one of those males will have to go. I have decided it will be the cockerel. I'm pretty sure he has suffered permanent psychological damage from the trauma he's gone through. He survived two attacks in the coop/run, and then my mom had to corner him to catch him and put him in the other coop. None of the adult chickens tolerate him. When I went in the coop tonight, he tried to crawl under the nearest hen on the roost. She pecked him on the head. He tried to do the same with the hen on the other side of him with the same result. Poor guy!

On a brighter note, chores will be a lot easier this winter...

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Going to be hot and some rain probable . Blueberry growing report . Planted 2 this year in peat bales . A tip I read . Doing well and about a foot of new growth . The Jersey set fruit and some were ripe when I returned . Still getting a ripe one . Plant still blooming and setting fruit . Self pollinating . So success at last .

 

[lvie]

Does anyone here think they could make one of these?

http://www.hensaver.com/Crop-Bra.html

I have an old girl that really needs one, she is so large she sways when she walks.

Sure Ralphie. I will get one whipped up in the next couple of days. Honest!

 

[I Love Layers]

We looked at the grainery yesterday. It is pretty big not sure on full dimensions but at least two times the size of my current coop so over 240 square feet. Good floor and walls. The roof was one of the bad things though, in '89 they had a tornado come through and the chicken coop got on top of the grainery. There is also a lean-to on the side which would need to be chain sawed off. I am willing to do the work to get it moveable and chicken livable, take off the lean-to, buy a few sheets of tin for the roof amd put them on, put plexi glass in both windows in the peak, and new door. Everything else will be easy like electrical and a few windows. My dad is still on the edge but I will try to convince him. The only thing he really has to do is drive the stack mover over, back it up, pull a few levers, and drive away. Hopefully he gives me an answer before Wednesday so I know before school starts.

 

[I Love Layers]

I am downsizing big time for winter. 12 two year old layers who lay good but are slowing down, all of my rare breeds (Swedish Flower Hen, Icelandic, and Bresse) so a total of 8, and 4 test hatch cochins. So a total of 24 birds out of about 60 or so. I want to sell them privately, especially the cochins and rare breeds, but so far it seems I will be taking them to New Salem