Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

He did an excellent job!

I have not seen one with the tank like that. Smart idea.

I am hoping to find some cheap plate steel to make one out of..

If that does not happen, barrel stove it will be.

 

[CindyinSD]

In case you have any advice on this, Ralphie, where does one get a barrel? Is there a specific kind of industry, etc., that might have unused barrels lying around and willing to sell/give them away? I’ve been trying to find one for a while, but Craig’s List has failed me so far.

 

[Cebarmlds]

He did an excellent job!

I have not seen one with the tank like that. Smart idea.

I am hoping to find some cheap plate steel to make one out of..

If that does not happen, barrel stove it will be.

Discount Steel in mpls. It’s stainless steel.
I see tanks like that sitting in yards all the time. We have a red one sitting out back...

 

[duluthralphie]

Bug eyes!!!!

23... 2 have a dim outlook ahead.. 6 bumper balls.

 

[CindyinSD]

Such cuties!

 

[holm25]

Another calf last night.

 

[I Love Layers]

I finally took my phone out yesterday so I took some pictures

Trying to feed without the rabbits finding it is proving to be hard..

Here is the broody hen

This is R.J.J a son of RJ, he is at least 1/2 Chantecler not sure on the other half

Here is R.J., pure Chantecler, a cross between a buff and a partridge. He will be 5 years old this fall

Buckbeak another son of RJ, half chantecler and half SLW.

This guy doesn't have a name, we just refer to him as Naked Neck. He is a cross between Buckbeak and a NN hen

 

[CindyinSD]

Discount Steel in mpls. It’s stainless steel.
I see tanks like that sitting in yards all the time. We have a red one sitting out back...

Unfortunately this isn’t an agricultural area... more of a tourism economy. Maybe that’s behind the mysterious lack of steel drums. I did buy some second-hand ones from a resin fabrication shop years ago for the YMCA, but the shop I got them from seems to have succumbed to the thriving economic conditions of not-so-long-ago. I think I’d like to get one for a chicken/turkey scalder, but it’ll be a while before I need one—maybe something will turn up.

 

[CindyinSD]

@I Love Layers Wow! What a good-looking cadre of Roos you have there!

Do the rabbits just flock with the chickens? Are they something you’re raising or are they gone feral?

 

[Cebarmlds]

Unfortunately this isn’t an agricultural area... more of a tourism economy. Maybe that’s behind the mysterious lack of steel drums. I did buy some second-hand ones from a resin fabrication shop years ago for the YMCA, but the shop I got them from seems to have succumbed to the thriving economic conditions of not-so-long-ago. I think I’d like to get one for a chicken/turkey scalder, but it’ll be a while before I need one—maybe something will turn up.

This is a tourist area as well but if you go driving around the backwoods areas you'll see them. When people had oil burning furnaces, those would be the green ones. The red ones (gas)I would think are from agricultural areas.