Surviving Minnesota!

[NathanZee]

Today has been the best day of my ducks and geeses lives! They run from puddle to puddle, and some new ponds that have appeared around the yard. I really hope this thaw is permanent, another blizzard would be really sad now.

 

[holm25]

Got an email yesterday... Someone wants to rent some chicks for a photo shoot... Idk what to do... I would love for my lil chicks to be in a magazine or something like that!




Tomorrow any egg that gets laid is going in the incubator... I need some fuzzy butts!! I have the temps perfect so I think I should...

 

[bantiesrule]

.Anyone else headed to Hutch tomorrow? After no swaps last year, I'm thinking it will be busy.

 

[holm25]

I'm not going to Hutch till this fall. I am showing birds there. I hope to see some of u!!

 

[duluthralphie]

.Anyone else headed to Hutch tomorrow? After no swaps last year, I'm thinking it will be busy.

I am thinking about it

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I have a dinner party gathering and a 50th Birthday to attend tomorrow so will not be going to Hutch. I wish I could. I would really like to get to one. There's always something going on I guess. In October it always falls on a Halloween event I help out with ...maybe we'll get it figured out sometime.

The older I get and the more time I spend with chickens the more I find out that my efforts can pretty much be flushed down the toilet. So as a result my First Aid kit for chickens probably has dwindled to what it was from my first -somewhat neurotic-first year. The Axe is part of my kit as well. I never like it or enjoy it but it is there. Tonight though I dug out Vet Wrap, Veterycin spray and bacitracin for this guy. He is about 15 lbs shy of Memphis' and Ralphie's Lapper requirements -- but he is my lapper and he takes care of my hens out free ranging in Wolf and Eagle country. He's lost 2 hens in 4 years. Pretty good track record. And he's my big baby. So I'll keep the bacitracin and Veterycin aside for him when he has a sore toe. I'll never diminish somebody trying to take care of a chicken as pet....because I've been there and I totally get it; but I know that the Axe solves ALOT. And as I said after a number of years at this....I'm recognizing Sunday Chicken Dinner back in the old farming days fed a family and probably handled other issues as well in a flock. Either way...I'm for whatever.

But anyways here is Roger--The Big Tootsie. With his Bad Tootsie Lapping. He's too tough anyways for dinner I'm sure.

 

[Cluckies]

Roger is beautiful, what a sweeheart! Now that, is a winter dubbed comb I believe

 

[Bogtown Chick]

It is indeed, Cluckies.

Who says you can't keep a Single Combed Rooster in Minnesota.....















After the first year. .....

Seriously brutal first winter for my birds. -20 almost everday for 6 months. I believe that's the year the lake ice didn't come off for Opening Fishing. Nasty.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Look at that Wing dropped. That bird was so comfy...He was not tense at all.

 

[memphis]

Nothing like a lapper!