Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

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.[/QUOTE]

Maybe I can get a porcupine to buy my flock.....

 

[Elise Ferguson]

How do possums harm horses?

They carry a parasite that causes EPM. Looks like sea otters have it too, I dare one to get near my horse!

 

[BantyChooks]

Ralphie, I will take all the birds that are laying.

I'm getting 4 eggs a day from 37 birds. I win!

 

[ejb3810]

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...

Ralphie, I am not sure you are totally committed to this marketing process based upon your post. I suggest that if you are you get Holms out of the woods and put his selling ice cubes to Eskimos talent to work for you. No fixed fee for him. It must be a commission based upon performance of course !!

 

[Cebarmlds]

They carry a parasite that causes EPM. Looks like sea otters have it too, I dare one to get near my horse!

I will have to look up EPM, hope you are safe from the sea otters.
We have lake otters here and I think they are cute.

 

[BantyChooks]

Ralphie, I am not sure you are totally committed to this marketing process based upon your post. I suggest that if you are you get Holms out of the woods and put his selling ice cubes to Eskimos talent to work for you. No fixed fee for him. It must be a commission based upon performance of course !!

So Holm was that nice young man that sold us ice cubes?

 

[duluthralphie]

I will have to look up EPM, hope you are safe from the sea otters.
We have lake otters here and I think they are cute.

Just the other day I was ran down and tackled by a Sea Otter, It required a trip to the ER and stitches. However, the doc that stitched me up kept insisting it was not a Sea Otter, but a Walrus that had escaped from the Arctic Ocean during the last cold snap.

Be very very careful of Sea Otter attacks. People think they are all cuddly and cute.....Until you need 72 stitches..

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Ralphie are you todling Mikes today?

Ed I cannot side with DH on this for it means that he wins. So now I’m the wiser is it ok that I not admit he got this one right? Thanks for letting me know. Maybe we scare them off with our 58# yappin’ mutt? And damage is minimal. Sort of like bison and elk browsing done on the run in Yellowstone due to wolves? So now there’s more vegetation for beaver lodges. Lol. Perhaps we have popples that are reaping the benefit of our mini cascade effect here. ...?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

We have a lake otter family that lives in the channel/river in town. Cute as can be!

 

[hmarg06]

You northerners have much cooler wildlife if you ask me... Wolves, Porcupine, Elk(not many, I know), Moose, Bear(occasionally seen here), Bobcat(I think they are occasionally here), Lynx, Mt Lion, the list goes on haha. Maybe they are just more charming since we don't have to deal with the downsides of them here. We mostly get the boring usuals, Coyotes, Foxes, Coons, Possums, Skunks...