Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Cats may or may not be wonderful, but... when a family member with equal or almost equal rank objects to cats, chickens can be very helpful. Anyway, even cats can be slackers...

I did have a slacker cat... it got stuck inside a live trap inside a barrel that spontaneously filled with ether.

It must have over dosed as it was not moving when I opened the barrel.

 

[CindyinSD]

Ralphie! You mobster!

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie! You mobster!

What did I do?


I am innocent.

 

[memphis]

We had a "cat lady" in our neighborhood feeding ferals. The cats were upsetting my senior neighbors. One was having babies under her shed, one was pooping in vegetable gardens....plus I was worried about my chickens. I trapped 13 of them from several backyards. They slowly started to "disappear ". I've wondered what the cat lady thought about her tribe disappearing.

 

[duluthralphie]

Live appears to be back to normal in Duluth.

http://www.duluthharborcam.com/p/hillside-can.html


Here are the totals for up there.. it’s safe to say EJB is up to his butt in snow!!

We did not get close to that here. My guess is 10 inches.

 

[jerryse]

Live appears to be back to normal in Duluth.

http://www.duluthharborcam.com/p/hillside-can.html


Here are the totals for up there.. it’s safe to say EJB is up to his butt in snow!!

We did not get close to that here. My guess is 10 inches.View attachment 1971941

Guess I am satisfied with rain and mud .

 

[memphis]

Wow....that's a lot of snow!!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

About 9-10 inches.

Thank you for thoughts on kitty cats. Good to know that the more socialized arent hard on newly pastured chicks. We would probably start with a young cat. I did get a buckeye as the coop mouser. She was a single in a mixed flock of layers (silkie included)— that was another lesson for me. Large meat dual purpose birds that are piggies at the feeder don’t go with open skull silkies.

Sigh—
After I got the silkie well from neurological symptoms. She got picked up by an eagle . Lol... so we can’t have bantams.
7 years of figuring out colors sizes and breeds that work in my woodsy back yard...

I did like the buckeye. But I think i’d Need to be more of a meatie person with those. I don’t like butchering. I can do it but I also I don’t have helpers for it.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

It’s pretty quiet for Monday morning...
?

Still shoveling I imagine...

 

[duluthralphie]

Nope, drinking my tea.