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[Violetsfeathers]

 Hi all.  I am planning on getting chicks soon.   So many breeds to choose from. :cd    Trying to limit myself. LOL  

For sure I am getting some Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, and probably also some Silkies and Ameraucanas.    I want the Silkies because I want some mamas to do a lot of my raising babies work for me, and my last cochin died.     I might get some calico cochins also, as I have a really nice roo to go with them. (I picked out 3 calico chicks last year, and of course they were all boys.  The older hen I lost this winter was a cc.)   I was going to get mostly orpingtons, but decided that, at least for now, I am going to focus on breeds that have "cold hardy" combs.  I will still have some orps, just because I like them, but not sure I will get as many as I had first planned.  Hence, the Wyandottes, Ameraucanas and Silkies.  I might add Brahmas, also.   I decided this because even though I had a pretty good spot for my chickens, the Bresse boys got quite a bit of frost bite.  Of course, my Cochin boy has a regular comb, and he didn't get a lick of frost bite.    The Bresse do have very large combs though.  I'll have to see how it goes with the Orpingtons.  I have some Legbars I'll have to watch, too. 
I have had chickens for years, but this is the first winter that I had roosters.  I knew about frost bite, just didn't think about it when buying those Bresse.  LOL

Bantam Cochins are my fav, brahmas I like, I recommend black Australorps, great egg layers and are very friendly. Wyandottes can be a little mean to other chickens.

 

[MNChickMom]

Does your Allis have a foot clutch with a hand clutch too?

Not sure....I only drive green when I am not on photo duty.

 

[KlopKlop]

Not sure....I only drive green when I am not on photo duty.

I would think so. The pto is live on most old ACs so you have to run the hand clutch to stop the tractor but keep the pto spinning for the baler to work. Neat picture!

 

[duluthralphie]

Thanks eveyone! Good to chatter. I looked up the curled toes stuff on chicks. Its simply remarkable what the internet provides. She needs Rivoflavin (b-12) and also d-3 (thiamine) and manganese. I have to pick up the manganese. Then I crush it and add it to the water. Along with the Poly vi sol and vitamin E. She is a pretty special chick!

Ugh! Then I need to make her a playpen so she can be by the other chicks but not get trampled by them. LOL. Do you believe all this? Learning alot and not sure if I want to do it again. She has spunk though.

OI am feeling bad about SC, I wonder if I had known about the splint thing and gotten the Ivie patented "pelvic holder togetherer thingy" on her sooner if she would be walking better,

I have Igor in with the other chicks. I can not really pick her out unless I look really close. There was some pecking on her at first, but she was pecking back as much or more than getting pecked on. So I think it is ok. She is so small though, I do not know if she will go outside with this class or be held back until the next class.

 

[duluthralphie]

Does your Allis have a foot clutch with a hand clutch too?

Growing up on a farm that only had Farmalls We never had hand clutches. When we would go to Grandpa's and drive his Allis, it was so cool to have that hand clutch. I forgot all about that until you mentioned it.

When I was 7 I had to cultivate the corn, (yeah, that is something we use to do before pesticides). We also checked the corn so we could cultivate in every direction. I still have some checking wire here. ( I bet some of you are going "some what wire?".

My Dad had a Farmall C, he cut tires up and bolted them to the clutch so I could drive the tractor at 6 and 7. At 6 I had to spread manure. (ground driven spreader) 7 cultivate. We are talking cultivating for hours on end, not once up and down a row with Dad riding with. I would follow Dad to the field he wanted cultivated ( he was in the truck) he would point me down the right rows. He never trusted me at that age to not get between rows 2and 3 or 4 and 1. (4 row planter) 4 row planter was huge back then, and getting between wrong rows meant you would rip out one whole row every 4th row All the little farmers had 2 row planters!

Today that would be child abuse back then it was farm live.

 

[jerryse]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1110721715620194

Check this out . Small bailer .

 

[KlopKlop]

Growing up on a farm that only had Farmalls   We never had hand clutches. When we would go to Grandpa's and drive his Allis, it was so cool to have that hand clutch.  I forgot all about that until you mentioned it.

When I was 7 I had to cultivate the corn, (yeah, that is something we use to do before pesticides). We also checked the corn so we could cultivate in every direction.  I still have some checking wire here.  ( I bet some of you are going "some what wire?".

My Dad had a Farmall C, he cut tires up and bolted them to the clutch so I could drive the tractor at 6 and 7. At 6 I had to spread manure. (ground driven spreader) 7 cultivate.  We are talking cultivating for hours on end, not once up and down a row with Dad riding with.  I would follow Dad to the field he wanted cultivated ( he was in the truck)  he would point me down the right rows. He never trusted me at that age to not get between rows  2and 3  or 4 and 1.  (4 row planter)   4 row planter was huge back then, and getting between wrong rows meant you would rip out one whole row every 4th row  All the little farmers had 2 row planters!

Today that would be child abuse back then it was farm live.

My dad tells me stories of when they used to cultivate corn. They called the cultivator the '4 row corn eraser' because if you get off track you would wipe out 4 rows at a time in a hurry

 

[KlopKlop]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1110721715620194

   Check this out . Small bailer .

Those are neat. But cost more than an old square baler would

 

[duluthralphie]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1110721715620194

Check this out . Small bailer .

I want one of them, BUT I want the power shaft on the side or other end, so I can run it with my little John Deere Tractor. The tractor no one knew I had until Coffee had to tell everyone..


BTW Coffee cannot get internet at her new farm and her cell phone is iffy there. So she might be a while before she gets back to us. I am delivering Porter on sunday to her.

 

[duluthralphie]

My dad tells me stories of when they used to cultivate corn. They called the cultivator the '4 row corn eraser' because if you get off track you would wipe out 4 rows at a time in a hurry

I never lost 4 rows, but I did take out 1 row once. Dad was not happy, It never happened again. I hated to disappoint my Dad.