Surviving Minnesota!
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That pullet looks pretty darn good after her molt.
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How wonderful to see a Cornish X with some gusto. She deserves to roost and see what happens with Svart the Hona. She obviously has good genetics and the will to live. Love that she free ranged her food all this time too. Saavy little girl.
Layers what a trip you had there. Love the Wyandotte find! and the carrier box too! Congrats on your award.
Well keeping afloat during the holidays, chasing basketball player, knitting selbuvotter (norwegian mittens), making lefse, cleaning house (endless task), winter chickening for my 7 hens. (love the lighter load honestly) Same Same. I'm pretty boring these days.
Husband's holiday party this weekend at Grandview.
We have a deer mouse invasion here at one of the lodge's at work. We've been doing the 5 gallon bucket with some water and peanut butter part way down. Snap traps. After nearly 20 mice caught we brought in the big guns.
Cactus.
Cactus is an orange tabby male. Half wild schite of a cat that an employee here has given food and open water to get him through winters. He has earned his name. with me yesterday and tried again today...but alas I brought carhart bibs this time to save my shin from being laced again. Bass-turd.
He's got 1 mouse the first night. Snap trap got another. Nothing happened last night that I could see. Fat and Lazy cat already now. I'll have to hold the fancy feast in the morning I guess.
The key to a good mouser is half starving them. Those cats that easily break into pieces that I got from Detroit Lakes used cat emporium do wonders. I currently have the original and 4 teenage pieces running around. The original piece tends to run off the younger pieces each time she splits....
I have no mice, rats or chipmunks. I do have red and grey squirrels, hopefully they will be gone soon. The biggest problem I have is the reigning WW. She wants to make sure they always have milk and food..... What is wrong with her? Socialism does not work, the cats want to just sit on their butts and take welfare if the food is free!
Stop making me want a cat!! The rodent population is unreal around here. One thing I learned about cats recently... they’re not all mousers (but clearly yours are). I didn’t realize this until I looked into getting a few barn cats.
On a side note... the drawback of making a coop too tight.. Minnesota winters. This door will open great come spring!
On a side note... the drawback of making a coop too tight.. Minnesota winters. This door will open great come spring!
It had been so long since BC posted that I was concerned she had entered the ranks of the "used to be poultry owners". Good to read her post.
Ralphie, I believe you should have done more research in advance of choosing your life's mate. Someone who is ruthless and heartless to creatures other than you. At least that is the impression I get from some of your posts ? I hope Judy does not read this.
It is definitely winter now, and I am very much looking forward to spring.
Of course making it to another spring at my age is quite an accomplishment !
Ralphie, I believe you should have done more research in advance of choosing your life's mate. Someone who is ruthless and heartless to creatures other than you. At least that is the impression I get from some of your posts ? I hope Judy does not read this.
It is definitely winter now, and I am very much looking forward to spring.
Of course making it to another spring at my age is quite an accomplishment !
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Put together the first breeding pens, band wise, now to actually get iy set up. Tomorrow I will hopefully get the females seperated, I am just thinking of putting one layer of chicken wire down the middle of the coop to seperate them. My goal is to get 15 or so hatched from both of these pens individually, so 30 total, and then change it up and do a second breeding.
Morning . Cold everywhere it seems . Sunshine is weak today .
This article will be posted here and in the turkey thread as both groups have a vested interest in this incident.
Minnesota, Dec. 2018.
Yesterday, the owner of Ralphie's poultry farm found a suspicious death. It has been reported as a suicide by drowning. It was reported by a toad named “Hoover”. Hoover claims the turkey climbed in a water barrel and pulled the lid over herself and gave up on life.
Hoover is of questionable character having grown up in a an affluent neighborhood and coming from a wealthy family., It seem Hoover was shunned by his family and forced to move to a poor ghetto neighborhood. Hoover comes from an area with running water, heat and several penthouses and efficiency apartments.
Currently Hoover lives in the shadows of a community housing unit. Hanging out behind some water barrels and having to forage for food. While this reporter was at the scene of the crime, Hoover was engaged in a fight with a younger rooster that had grown up in community housing. Neither Hoover, nor the younger rooster were hurt during the fight as they was a chain link security fence between them so blows were hard to land. Hoover did have access to the place of death.
View attachment 1610133 The tank in question and Hoover's living area. Pictured as Ralphie claims to have found it.
The victim was a Royal Palm hen. She a known a crack corn addict. She is suspected of contaminating the community water supply just last month with feces and an raw egg. She did have an unhealthy fascination with the water supply tank.
Yesterday morning Ralphie, the owner and operator of the community housing building reported opening the water supply and water tank and finding the poor RP hens floating face down in the water. Ralphie gallantly rescued the poor hen and performed hours of heroic life saving measures including CPR to no avail on the RP hen. She was declared dead around 9am.
View attachment 1610137 You can still see feathers floating from the victim in the tank. The Benton County investigators are asking they no be removed until after the next election in case they actually decide to charge Hoover. Based on past history of said investigators the possibility of charges is remote at best.
There are some questions the investigators have.
Like:
How did the hen get into the water tank and manage to pull the cover back and close the lid?
What was she doing in the area after the tanks were moved to an area where this was not suppose to be able to happen?
Can Hoover be trusted to honest?
Because Hoover grew up in wealth and with a silver spoon in his mouth will he be running for state representative next election cycle as a Republican and use Daddy's money to finance it?
How widely known is Hoover's alcohol problem and sex addiction?
Could he have gotten the RP Hen (whose name is being withheld at this time) pregnant and gotten rid of her so he could not be tied to an abortion because of his political aspirations?
Will the recent fight at the bars with the younger rooster hurt him politically in an area known to elect drunken bar fighters?
Will his addiction problems become public? Will the public give a poop?
At this time the case is still under investigation by the Benton County Sheriff's who were brought in to eliminate any possibility of politics hindering the investigation.
View attachment 1610138 Here lies the drowning victim where her body waits transport to the morgue. As you can tell they work long and hard to attempt to revive her.
Minnesota, Dec. 2018.
Yesterday, the owner of Ralphie's poultry farm found a suspicious death. It has been reported as a suicide by drowning. It was reported by a toad named “Hoover”. Hoover claims the turkey climbed in a water barrel and pulled the lid over herself and gave up on life.
Hoover is of questionable character having grown up in a an affluent neighborhood and coming from a wealthy family., It seem Hoover was shunned by his family and forced to move to a poor ghetto neighborhood. Hoover comes from an area with running water, heat and several penthouses and efficiency apartments.
Currently Hoover lives in the shadows of a community housing unit. Hanging out behind some water barrels and having to forage for food. While this reporter was at the scene of the crime, Hoover was engaged in a fight with a younger rooster that had grown up in community housing. Neither Hoover, nor the younger rooster were hurt during the fight as they was a chain link security fence between them so blows were hard to land. Hoover did have access to the place of death.
View attachment 1610133 The tank in question and Hoover's living area. Pictured as Ralphie claims to have found it.
The victim was a Royal Palm hen. She a known a crack corn addict. She is suspected of contaminating the community water supply just last month with feces and an raw egg. She did have an unhealthy fascination with the water supply tank.
Yesterday morning Ralphie, the owner and operator of the community housing building reported opening the water supply and water tank and finding the poor RP hens floating face down in the water. Ralphie gallantly rescued the poor hen and performed hours of heroic life saving measures including CPR to no avail on the RP hen. She was declared dead around 9am.
View attachment 1610137 You can still see feathers floating from the victim in the tank. The Benton County investigators are asking they no be removed until after the next election in case they actually decide to charge Hoover. Based on past history of said investigators the possibility of charges is remote at best.
There are some questions the investigators have.
Like:
How did the hen get into the water tank and manage to pull the cover back and close the lid?
What was she doing in the area after the tanks were moved to an area where this was not suppose to be able to happen?
Can Hoover be trusted to honest?
Because Hoover grew up in wealth and with a silver spoon in his mouth will he be running for state representative next election cycle as a Republican and use Daddy's money to finance it?
How widely known is Hoover's alcohol problem and sex addiction?
Could he have gotten the RP Hen (whose name is being withheld at this time) pregnant and gotten rid of her so he could not be tied to an abortion because of his political aspirations?
Will the recent fight at the bars with the younger rooster hurt him politically in an area known to elect drunken bar fighters?
Will his addiction problems become public? Will the public give a poop?
At this time the case is still under investigation by the Benton County Sheriff's who were brought in to eliminate any possibility of politics hindering the investigation.
View attachment 1610138 Here lies the drowning victim where her body waits transport to the morgue. As you can tell they work long and hard to attempt to revive her.
Poor dumb turkey.
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