Surviving Minnesota!

[ejb3810]

Ralphie, a dog collar to pull her out if she goes through the ice. What a kind gesture, and who said chivalry was dead?

As Cluckies said, I can't imagine why she would be unhappy with that nickname? I do sometimes wonder how that policy on you has not been cashed in? You seem to have a habit of walking near the edge!

 

[KlopKlop]

Lol omg Ralphie u will have my farm filled up in no time.. Post a pic of your boy and if he is pretty enough I will take him..

Don't you know it is what is on the inside that counts??

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Good Morning All!

It is a pretty Winter Morning out. There's a little brightness out there. Still kind of cloudy...but I think the clouds are thinner or something.

So I put some Poultry & Garden Dust in a knee high nylon stocking like Cluckies suggested and gave Roger an extra puffing around his tail. His backside is tender...poor Roo. He's got some sores back there and I suppose newly hatched bugs roaming. So I pulled him off the high roost and set him before me on a lower one and puffed his saddle area and the back area. All of a sudden he nibbled on my hand that was holding and balancing him around the front on his breast. I think this was his warning that that was enough.

It took me by surprise and gave me a little giggle...because certainly he has bit me harder (when he was younger or being overly protective of the girls) but I think in his older age he has come to regard me with enough affection and respect as food lady-- to give me just a nibble to say that's enough. Now watch tomorrow he'll spur at me about something. LOL. Bird Brains do amaze me some days though.

Coffee: She sounds like she is just a bit on the randy-side. A girl has needs sometimes. LOL. She sounds pretty cute though. Coming up to you for attention. They are too funny. Glad you are seeing the enjoyment in these creatures. They really can be charming.

Ralphie....... Ralphie, Ralphie.
Who's with me? Judy is going to get signed up for sainthood. I'll submit the paperwork, testimony, what have you.

 

[Coffee 1st]

Don't you know it is what is on the inside that counts??

i know nothing about roosters, but would like a nice one and not a snot,, any hints on having a good rooster??? Thanks...

 

[Cluckies]

Fantastic chicken morning. After feeding and watering and cleaning poop. I sat on a tree stump in the chicken run and was watching my girls for a while. And Noname (that's her name) lol was screaming at me the whole time I thought she was having an attitude with me. She kept getting closer and closer and she never does that and then she laid down in front of me so I reached out to pet her and she stuck her butt up in the air like a cat in heat. For one I couldn't believe it she was letting me pet her and The whole time still screaming at me. I stopped petting her and then she jumped up on my lap it was so cool. So I started petting her again and again her butt went right up in the air. I've heard about chickens laying down for people before I've just never seen it. Does this mean she's getting ready to lay eggs? I was so disappointed I didn't have my phone on me so I couldn't take a picture.– She was screaming at me sitting on my lap getting petted the other five chickens just all stood there and stared at us like they were in total disbelief what was happening...

funny how you can keep falling in love with your chickens.

Just before my Cluck-Cluck laid her first egg (right before, a few minutes before) she was yelling at me, and walking around me and on me. A couple days before I had uncovered the nest boxes and I had a golf ball in the box. well, I showed it to them, but didn't want them to poo in it, so I covered it back up. Sooooo, as she wouldn't settle down, I uncovered the nest boxes and she went right in and laid an egg.

Here she is standing over the egg looking surprised (what the h just happened?). she stood there for a few minutes! lol
Then I pulled it out and she stared at it, lol


Do you have a golf ball or ceramic egg in the nest box so she knows where to go?

 

[KlopKlop]

i know nothing about roosters, but would like a nice one and not a snot,, any hints on having a good rooster??? Thanks...

I was just being a jokester
A good rooster is probably mostly determined in his genetics. Aka a belly button rooster will sire a belly button son. Or so I have read. For example my rooster Conrad is very gentle and personable so I am thinking his offspring should be the same this spring.

I would take an ugly rooster who was kind to his ladies and a good leader/protector over an eye candy belly button any day of the week.

 

[Coffee 1st]

Just before my Cluck-Cluck laid her first egg (right before, a few minutes before) she was yelling at me, and walking around me and on me. A couple days before I had uncovered the nest boxes and I had a golf ball in the box. well, I showed it to them, but didn't want them to poo in it, so I covered it back up. Sooooo, as she wouldn't settle down, I uncovered the nest boxes and she went right in and laid an egg.

Here she is standing over the egg looking surprised (what the h just happened?). she stood there for a few minutes! lol
Then I pulled it out and she stared at it, lol


Do you have a golf ball or ceramic egg in the nest box so she knows where to go?

I have the nest boxes blocked off but i think tomorrow i will unblock them and put golf ball in them. i didnt think they would lay till spring...

 

[Coffee 1st]

I have the nest boxes blocked off but i think tomorrow i will unblock them and put golf ball in them. i didnt think they would lay till spring...

BTW i love the pics of your girl and her 1st egg...

 

[duluthralphie]

Coffee, these guys are not bad roosters, They are not lappers but I do not try to make my chickens into lappers.




The redder one is a beauty. He is large, If you are not going to breed the breed does not really matter. BUT They are all gentle as they are Bert Jr's Half brothers. All but the creamer there will make great roosters, Bert Sr, their father was a very gentle rooster. These guy are all gentle by heritage.

 

[duluthralphie]

I am the worlds greatest husband!! Just ask me.. I am the best one Judy has ever had! BTW she gives me as much poop as I give her..

BUT now you guys have me worried about going into the wilderness with her.......Hmmmm