Surviving Minnesota!

[jerryse]

My mom came to help me dig my poor poultry out of this mess this morning before we went to work. Made it through the blizzard yesterday and another 10 inches since Sat. I'm starting to run out of room to pile this once I get it out of the chain link. I don't ever remember having this type of snow, at least not since I was pretty young. I've lived at this house 4 years now, and I've never had it drift in front of this door. My dog thought it was pretty cool he could watch from above Living in the southern most part of the state has been doing me no good this year!View attachment 1684052 View attachment 1684051

Thanks for sharing . I feel better about my weather now .

 

[duluthralphie]

I had to actually pay someone to plow my drive....You have no idea how much that bothers me....

The Mailwoman got stuck in the drive way...She tried to drive the 7 ft wide van through a 6 ft wide space...It failed.

It appears she called her husband to pull her out, as it was not a real tow truck, Just a pickup with a tow strap and a kid in a child restraint seat..... My guess is he has a full time job pulling his wive out of the ditch...

 

[CindyinSD]

Thanks Memphis.

I can eat the white cow so you don't have too!

Oh no... the white cow is not for eating. The red one either, but maybe the other red one. She’s a little shitey meangirl. I don’t want meangirl calves. I think she is already with calf though, so I guess we’ll see what happens. I’m going to get a bull this summer, before the Black Angus bulls start ambling by, eyeing my girls. We have to fence them out, so the rancher likes to tell us. I do not like the BA bulls or the rancher...

As much as I enjoy bragging about our super-icky weather, I’ve gotta say, ya’ll’ve got bragging rights and I’m very happy for you (and that it’s you not me). I hopehopehope it warms up soon. My faith in global warming is being severely tested here...

 

[CindyinSD]

I have a Colombian Wyandotte spreading herself wide over one fake egg in a nesting box. Poor girl. She’s even pulled out her breast feathers and she NEEDS them. She’s still a little pullet. Well, a big pullet. I want a broody. The timing is not so good, though. No boy chickens here anyway. I’ve been taking her out of the nesting box every time I go down there. I guess she’s not doing any harm, but it’s just so sad. Poor girl.

 

[I Love Layers]

A couple more things added to the list of problems today. Cows managed to break part of the corrals when coming up for water, so that is now an unusable part until we can fix or temporarily fix it. The 186 is leaking oil. The cattle guard is full of snow, you can tamp one side down, the other half you can't. The gate that goes on one side of the cattle guard is stuck in the snow, even then it is on the wrong side, so they can still step on the cattleguard.
I guess as long as the cows don't realize the two cattleguards leading off of our property are full they shouldn't cause to many problems.
On a good note, other then a couple birds having some rough spots from a heat lamp they are all looking really nice. I may do 2-3 more hatches, hoping for 25+ chicks, and then stop and get ready for County and State.

 

[memphis]

Cindy....get a few turkey eggs from Ralphie for your broody!!

 

[duluthralphie]

Morning..I woke up and found it was still winter....I m so depressed now.

 

[ejb3810]

Ralphie, it is too late for this season, but I am thinking that for next winter I would take you up on your offer to overwinter my birds. I will deliver them to you on Nov. 1st and pick them back up on May 1st.
I anticipate that there will be 100 in the flock, and so at your rate of $1 a bird that would be $100 for the season. Being the generous sort I will offer you a $5 tip. You may also have the eggs to do with as you wish during that time period. This alone should provide another income source, since only 98 of them will be roosters.
You don't have to thank me now. That can wait until I drop them off !

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie, it is too late for this season, but I am thinking that for next winter I would take you up on your offer to overwinter my birds. I will deliver them to you on Nov. 1st and pick them back up on May 1st.
I anticipate that there will be 100 in the flock, and so at your rate of $1 a bird that would be $100 for the season. Being the generous sort I will offer you a $5 tip. You may also have the eggs to do with as you wish during that time period. This alone should provide another income source, since only 98 of them will be roosters.
You don't have to thank me now. That can wait until I drop them off !

I know you are getting "up there" and as such, facts and memory become "mushy"...So let me refresh you, it was Holm's that made that offer to us....As I recall he even offered to remove the feather's, and entails from the roosters and wrap them in heat shrinking bags for the same price...

 

[holm25]

You have both lost your minds. I believe it was MNchickmom who made that offer.