Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

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I keep looking at this one and giggling. Mostly because I'm immature. But those puffballs could use some charmin!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I love porcupines. They have the cutest faces and body types. Although not cuddly and a pain when the labrador finds them. DH thinks they kill popple trees. I've seen them eating popples and the popples still leaving out the next spring when they are gone. I think it's an excuse to shoot. I hate that. I'm onto DH.
There is a big porky that bumbles up and down our road sometimes. I hold the lab in the house when I see it and let it get away. They are pretty fast movers and hiders when they want to be.

 

[Cluckies]

I would let you have Ed, just because he is on the bottom of the pecking order here. He allows me to handle him, but he is not a real cuddler if that is what you are looking for. He has never been anything but a gentleman with the girls. When I have chicks he will sit with the chicks and "protect" them. When he is free ranging he is watching the skies constantly. He just refuses to fight other roosters. He was my first "good" rooster. So I have a soft spot for him.

I have no doubt he would give his life for his girls and the babies. I would miss him. I am now going to sound like a city chicken owner, I would not want him eaten by humans or used as dog feed.

I have a few Chanticler roosters now, all descendants of his. If they should all die (slim chance) I would like to borrow him for new chicks.... I know lots of strings attached. He is a great rooster, his body is a tad too V shaped but he has done me well.

He does crow, but not often. I have no idea what he would do at your place. Also you should know he is old. I have no idea how old. I am thinking 4, but EJB would know for sure.

I will let you think on it Ralphie, I know it would be a hard decision, he is such a good boy. I will have to de-worm my girls first so he doesn't catch anything from them. I've not de-wormed them yet this fall, to many molting until now. I should do that this week though I think.

My girls are old as well, 3 1/2 they are done laying for the year except for Fi. I am down to 4 hens now. I've never had a rooster and would want to start with a gentleman. You know my chickens are my pets and don't get eaten. I have had to bury 2, baby and cluck-cluck now

I do not cuddle my girls other than looking them over and feeling their crops once in the morning and once at night.

Of course you could take him back anytime you needed for breeding or if you didn't think he was being treated well, or just missed him. You could also visit him, i'd have to pick up some Mike's

My Dogs have not bothered my girls at all other than to run through them if they are excited about something on the other side of them. I guess the question would be, would he attack the dogs? That would be the only concern. Meka is on her last legs and with her alzheimers, she just kinda wanders around in circles, not really knowing where she is at or what she is doing, she has never bothered the chickens though other than "what is that moving there?". she seems to move towards movement now adays. My guess is we'll have to send her to puppy heaven soon.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Cluckies if it doesn't work out with Ralphie's man bird. I do have a gentleman Welsummer. He's following Junior's chicken tracks. Very gentlemanly and courtly. Kind of a Momma's boy really. No human confrontations. Just a good boy. He's from Minnie's stock and she breeds for temperment as you know as well. Pure Loves.

 

[Elise Ferguson]

I've got horses so I'm on the "'possums must go" side of the fence.

 

[duluthralphie]

for sale:

One entire flock of around 125 birds or so..... They are well trained and hardly any bother... It takes about 100# of feed a day and 3 hours to do the chores needed for them.

This is a rewarding flock, today I was rewarded with 5 eggs, 2 Dom Pullet eggs, 1 toad pullet egg, an older toad egg and a blue egg....

I thought the other day I needed to sell my eggs at $32 a dozen to break even. I have revised that number to $46 dollars a dozen.

Please PM me if interested in this rewarding and challenging flock...

 

[Cebarmlds]

How do possums harm horses?

 

[BantyChooks]

for sale:

One entire flock of around 125 birds or so..... They are well trained and hardly any bother... It takes about 100# of feed a day and 3 hours to do the chores needed for them.

This is a rewarding flock, today I was rewarded with 5 eggs, 2 Dom Pullet eggs, 1 toad pullet egg, an older toad egg and a blue egg....

I thought the other day I needed to sell my eggs at $32 a dozen to break even. I have revised that number to $46 dollars a dozen.

Please PM me if interested in this rewarding and challenging flock...

 

[ejb3810]

I love porcupines. They have the cutest faces and body types. Although not cuddly and a pain when the labrador finds them. DH thinks they kill popple trees. I've seen them eating popples and the popples still leaving out the next spring when they are gone. I think it's an excuse to shoot. I hate that. I'm onto DH.
There is a big porky that bumbles up and down our road sometimes. I hold the lab in the house when I see it and let it get away. They are pretty fast movers and hiders when they want to be.

BC, I can tell you that porcupines will eat the bark on most types of trees from Aspen to Maple, Pine and more. They frequently do much damage and from time to time do enough damage to kill the tree. As you might guess, I am a lover of trees and not porcupines.
In years gone by they were protected by the state of Minnesota using the logic that someone lost in the woods could possibly kill one for food to survive. They are physically and mentally quite slow.

 

[Cebarmlds]

for sale:

One entire flock of around 125 birds or so..... They are well trained and hardly any bother... It takes about 100# of feed a day and 3 hours to do the chores needed for them.

This is a rewarding flock, today I was rewarded with 5 eggs, 2 Dom Pullet eggs, 1 toad pullet egg, an older toad egg and a blue egg....

I thought the other day I needed to sell my eggs at $32 a dozen to break even. I have revised that number to $46 dollars a dozen.

Please PM me if interested in this rewarding and challenging flock...

Why don’t you eat them?