Surviving Minnesota!

[Rhetts]

Cow update: no bagging or filling. Leaking is same. So now we just watch and wait.

 

[duluthralphie]

These are single barred . The bottom one is now old enough to breed . So he is the daddy of the eggs I set .

Ralphie those trailing berries are either dewberry or Alaskan raspberry . My dewberries are like blackberries only trailing .
The Boysen was a cross of the California dewberry and a raspberry . Turns out the California dewberry ( rubus ursin ) has male and female
plants . So that cross was as easy as planting a female ursin among raspberries . There are many polidy levels among brambles making things complex for crossing . I am assuming dewberry are compatible with raspberries .

Ralphie we may have to do some trading . I could graft some trees for you and you could get me starts of berry .

I am going to try and get some pictures of mine that I think are single barred.. double barred would be like a Barred rock then?

 

[holm25]

Team industries always has pallets. That is how I get mine. And theirs are really nice.

 

[jerryse]

I am going to try and get some pictures of mine that I think are single barred.. double barred would be like a Barred rock then?

A single barred male will have a non barred feather somewhere that give it away . Double barred will not have that . Barring has a dosage effect making auto sexing possible .

 

[duluthralphie]

A single barred male will have a non barred feather somewhere that give it away . Double barred will not have that . Barring has a dosage effect making auto sexing possible .

Wow you just started speaking Greek to me... I think I have a headache now too..

 

[duluthralphie]

Koppers I think this is pretty close to you;;\




http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/zip/5394067227.html

 

[KlopKlop]

Klop-we used field fencing and one row of electric at the bottom or snout level and they never got out.  I plan to use that area again this year so making the large purchase of fencing would trickle down through the years.  I can also use the area in winter for calves or water fowl.  

this is what we bought:
http://www.menards.com/main/buildin...4436710504-c-5769.htm?tid=4139657519157280544

I like that fencing option if we decide to go that route. Do you use metal or wood fence posts?

 

[holm25]

I had some sex link roos that were barred. They were a cross between a Welsummer roo and Barred rock hens. They were cute. I was working on Welbars but sold the first generation so never got to finish that project. I would have kept a roo and put it in with Welsummer hens but never got to it...

First generation roo

First generation pullet

 

[jerryse]

black feather = single barred
no barring in tail and other placesLighter color on double barred

 

[jerryse]

some lavender sex links . The head spots are male

some cuckoo chicks . Defiantly double barred male on bottom