Surviving Minnesota!
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lvie
Songster
Good Morning chickie friends. Learning lots this morning on this thread. Thank yew!
HOLM - gotta keep it up so that the memories can flow. I appreciate your sharing the torture of the siblings. It makes me LOL. Oh my boys did not make me LOL - I remember that the teasing was to stay within the family. Don't take it to school or the bus stop or you will have to contend with me. Its one thing to tease at home, its another to say your nasties to each other in front of other kids. I was pretty much the controlling Mom. LOL. We do laugh about ALOT of those growing up years together. Especially when they tell horrific tales of what they were really getting away with.
Mornings are busy so that is why I join you all quite late. As usual - lots to get done. I am not a bored old lady - perhaps boring to others (you) if I were to tell about all the wonderful things I am doing and getting done. I enjoy the cold days INSIDE. I go get eggs, sit with the chicks in the coop for a while, feed them worms. Make sure there are no fires - LOL.
Hope everyone stays warm and smiling and THIS IS THE LAST OF THE COLD SPELLS.
HOLM - gotta keep it up so that the memories can flow. I appreciate your sharing the torture of the siblings. It makes me LOL. Oh my boys did not make me LOL - I remember that the teasing was to stay within the family. Don't take it to school or the bus stop or you will have to contend with me. Its one thing to tease at home, its another to say your nasties to each other in front of other kids. I was pretty much the controlling Mom. LOL. We do laugh about ALOT of those growing up years together. Especially when they tell horrific tales of what they were really getting away with.
Mornings are busy so that is why I join you all quite late. As usual - lots to get done. I am not a bored old lady - perhaps boring to others (you) if I were to tell about all the wonderful things I am doing and getting done. I enjoy the cold days INSIDE. I go get eggs, sit with the chicks in the coop for a while, feed them worms. Make sure there are no fires - LOL.
Hope everyone stays warm and smiling and THIS IS THE LAST OF THE COLD SPELLS.
lvie
Songster
The 1202 and 1502 sportsman incubators will spoil you . My grandson bought a styrofoam incubator at a sale about 3 years ago . I found I am no longer good at hatching in those . Way too much trouble . I do not even check humidity anymore in the sportsman .
I candled last weeks eggs and removed 10 out of 78 . 5-10 were not able to tell for sure due to shell and color . So i left those . Cooked the clear ones for the dogs .
I candled last weeks eggs and removed 10 out of 78 . 5-10 were not able to tell for sure due to shell and color . So i left those . Cooked the clear ones for the dogs .
I am amazed at it!
I have the tray in it filled with water. I have a piece of plastic covering all but about an inch to an inch and a half on the one long edge and I run a perfect 25% constantly!
The temps never vary.
On another note. Yesterday I was walking alongside my shed, and I noticed a fox track running right next to the shed. It was obviously fox. Straight inline tracks . albeit a small fox, but still a fox. They had been made when the snow was mushy so they were very well preserved.
This morning I went to let the chickens out and they were out already. I went to the coop and the chicken door was pushed in. If the door was monkeyed with enough a fox could get it to push in. I am fixing that today. I have a bad feeling I had a fox in the henhouse last night.
Luckily because my chickens roost so high (rafters) I doubt the fox could touch anything. I was worried about Ed, but he seems fine. There is no other reason for the door to be popped open and laying where it was.
I am going to put a live trap on the inside of the coop right up against the chicken door and leave the door open for a few days. Whatever if anything comes in will be stuck in the trap. I may have to invest in cameras too. We came home at about 10 last night and I checked the door it was secure then...
KlopKlop
Crowing
If incubating goes well for us this year I intend to build my own cabinet incubator with digital temperature controls. I have most of the electrics needed already so would just need to devise the heater and the cabinet itself
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Oh we are so spoiled. Remember two and three years ago?....when every morning was a blessed -20F. My chickens did not leave the building until noon when maybe it was -5F for 6 months straight each of those winters. Those were the days. Not that I'm complaining about -6. My cellular mitochondria-- though-- are in protest, and are not acclimated to this below zero with the balmy winter we've had. What a bunch of wusses.
-15 F tonight or so the radio man said today. Chickens look so beautiful all fluffed up on the roost. Big balls of downy feathered cuteness.
NathanZee
Songster
Weird. Does he breed your goose? Maybe you should separate them, the weight of the gander could hurt your ducks.
I just checked the online forecast for here. Tonight is cold but no bad. Tomorrow is 14 below!
Holm what do you all your duck/goose hybrids?
Guck? or Duse? If they flock are they Deese?
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