Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Take a video if you eat them . I gotta see that . I don't think you can get 'em down .

Once they are cooked I do not need to eat them, they will no longer bother me...... I did have a guy from St Paul buy a bunch of hatching eggs off me for that very thing...I could hardly eat a scrambled egg for a week after he told me what he was going to do with them!

 

[jerryse]

Last weeks duck eggs were duds at candling . I suspected they would be due to rooster interference . Yeah the rooster was thinking that was his hen . Got them free ranging now . I know she is laying somewhere . Secretive duck .

Found 2 more Morels . Too dry . Rains have been disappointing . Saw another forager in the river bottoms . Going to be a sparse season . Hills are too dry . River bottoms or nothing this year .

 

[KlopKlop]

No issue with rain shortage here as of late. we have had plenty in the last 2 days with more to come. Things are really greening up with this round of rains

 

[Violetsfeathers]

this is the coop I want to build. green=feeder blue=waterer brown=roosts yellow= nest boxes pink(I think)=window orange =door I messed up in a few places

but hopefully you can see where the real things are

That's a cool coop, I don't see brown or pink tho, are the doors poeple doors or chicken doors or both?

 

[MinnesotaNice]

Once they are cooked I do not need to eat them, they will no longer bother me...... I did have a guy from St Paul buy a bunch of hatching eggs off me for that very thing...I could hardly eat a scrambled egg for a week after he told me what he was going to do with them!

I work with some Asian folks and that's a delicacy for them. Not my thing.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

I wish the rain would let up a bit my way. I have some cranky chickens. I think even the ducks have had enough.

We have tickets for the Twins game tomorrow. So far it looks like it'll be the one sunny day this week *fingers crossed*

 

[MNChickMom]

Ok Folks - Pop Quiz Time....what do you all use for 3-4 week old chick feeders and waterers. They are too big for the little chick mason jar screw on feeders but are not quite big enough for drinking cups and big ole 5 gallon pail attached to hog pan bottom. (Thanks to @KlopKlop for the idea)

 

[MNChickMom]

That's a cool coop, I don't see brown or pink tho, are the doors poeple doors or chicken doors or both?

How many in each section? and would you have a people door leading from one section to the next section with out leaving the middle? How about a breeze way in the middle that could serve as additional feed and medicine storage.

 

[duluthralphie]

I work with some Asian folks and that's a delicacy for them. Not my thing.

Just shows cultural differences. There is no way I could be forced to eat a egg that has been hatching for 19 days or whatever it is...

 

[KlopKlop]

Ok Folks - Pop Quiz Time....what do you all use for 3-4 week old chick feeders and waterers. They are too big for the little chick mason jar screw on feeders but are not quite big enough for drinking cups and big ole 5 gallon pail attached to hog pan bottom. (Thanks to @KlopKlop
 for the idea)

For the intermediate size chicks I use 1 gallon bell waterers and metal feed trays from fleet farm.

If you look back at the video I posted on Friday you can see the waterer. I'm on mobile and I can't figure out how to link to it. The feeders are the long metal trays with slide off top. Maybe 4" wide and 12" long or so with metal holes

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