Surviving Minnesota!

[holm25]

Oooh Raaalllppphhhiiiiieeee! Look at the head on this Cockerel Hos comb needs some work but look at those wattles! He got RB in an online show

 

[duluthralphie]

Oooh Raaalllppphhhiiiiieeee! Look at the head on this Cockerel Hos comb needs some work but look at those wattles! He got RB in an online show

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Show off, braggart!

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm wondering if I could house all my roosters in the goat shed over winter. I have 8 & the shed is 48 square feet. Stupid idea? I'm just trying to find ways to spare the hens, because I can't sell these guys for anything and I refuse to process in this weather. 35°F was bad enough. I don't think re-integrating with hens would be an issue, especially if I let them free range together whenever it's warm enough/they feel like walking through snow.

I thought of putting the ducks in there but it's a dirt floor and I don't want a repeat of last year just in case something gets through the frozen soil.

 

[holm25]

I'm wondering if I could house all my roosters in the goat shed over winter. I have 8 & the shed is 48 square feet. Stupid idea? I'm just trying to find ways to spare the hens, because I can't sell these guys for anything and I refuse to process in this weather. 35°F was bad enough. I don't think re-integrating with hens would be an issue, especially if I let them free range together whenever it's warm enough/they feel like walking through snow.

I thought of putting the ducks in there but it's a dirt floor and I don't want a repeat of last year just in case something gets through the frozen soil.

I would lock them up in a shed that size in no times. I have 5 Cockerels in a 3'x5' pen on corn getting fat. I have 17 rooster right now and only have three with the layer flock. The rest are locked up in show cages.

 

[holm25]

Show off, braggart!

 

[BantyChooks]

I would lock them up in a shed that size in no times. I have 5 Cockerels in a 3'x5' pen on corn getting fat. I have 17 rooster right now and only have three with the layer flock. The rest are locked up in show cages.

Thanks... I have a new cock in there that still squabbles with the others a bit, so I might have to just watch them for a while.

 

[holm25]

Well I gave all of our remaining calves shots and poured them today. Took about 30 minutes to do twelve calves which seems good. My grandpa and I sorted them into the chute and then I gave shots and put new tags in the keeper heifers. My mom drew up shots and my dad ran the head gate.

 

[holm25]

Thanks... I have a new cock in there that still squabbles with the others a bit, so I might have to just watch them for a while.

Does he start stuff or do the others?

 

[BantyChooks]

Does he start stuff or do the others?

Others. He's fairly mild mannered.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Saturday. A slower pace. I stepped inside the coop at roost time. Big puffy glorious large hens and roosters snuggle bunnied on flat 2x 4’s. Seriously tho that blrw is a huge beast of a hen.
I saw something that I never have seen in nearly 6 years of chickens. I saw Sean Connery tuck his head under his wing. Large comb sort of laid flat across his wing but head and wattles were under wing. Junior with his head droop when he sleeps. Sean’s comb is losing the back blade though. Got pretty nipped these colder temps. Nothing to be done with a welsummer comb though.
They all looked so beautiful in those new glorious feathers.