Surviving Minnesota!

[MinnesotaNice]

I know what it looks like to me

 

[duluthralphie]

I know what it looks like to me

and what is that?

 

[jerryse]

Hi ! It was 11 above here at 6:30 . Officially 5 . Should hit 20-30 today . I hauled my adult grandsons pickup truck home on my trailer . Bummed my knee hooking up the trailer . Note to self you can no longer knee the tongue onto the ball . Use a pipe or bar .

 

[duluthralphie]

Hi ! It was 11 above here at 6:30 . Officially 5 . Should hit 20-30 today . I hauled my adult grandsons pickup truck home on my trailer . Bummed my knee hooking up the trailer . Note to self you can no longer knee the tongue onto the ball . Use a pipe or bar .

Life has a way of reminding us we are aging,,,

This is why my chickens are ticked off at me and still inside today. Nothing is going out for a while;






For the record I hate eagles.. It is just sitting there looking at us waiting for us to let them out,,

 

[MinnesotaNice]

and what is that?

*clears throat*

Looks like a spermatozoon tail. Or, more appropriately, a male gamete or reproductive cell.

Just sayin'.

 

[duluthralphie]

Cyprus come and shoot this eagle,, I would rather not go to jail myself, but you going would not bother me as much,,,,

 

[jerryse]

Around here the menace is redtailed hawks and coopers or sharp shinned hawks . I can't tell them apart . Eagles have not been a bother .

 

[duluthralphie]

Around here the menace is redtailed hawks and coopers or sharp shinned hawks . I can't tell them apart . Eagles have not been a bother .

The main hawk I get is the kestrel, which does not bother full grown chickens. BUT these eagles may keep the rest away. Normally I have raven and crows around to keep the eagles at bay, but I do not see any today,

 

[Rhetts]

So my brain cannot compute today and DH who usually does is gone so I was looking to see if anyone can help me figure this out ( @KlopKlop came to mind)

I am trying to figure out how much milk replacer the bottle calves will need. No not the herefords coming. I got some bulls off craigslist for butcher steers in the fall or later. I was reading that the colder the weather the more replacer they need to maintain their core temp. Basic feeding is 2 quarts 2 times a day. I came across this in my reading and can't figure out how much more replacer that means. Quote: A good rule of thumb is to increase the amount of milk replacer by 2% for every degree the temperature falls below 5°C. So 5 degrees Celcius is 41 F. I was told that there is a difference in keeping calves on replacer. She said the basic feeding is keeping the calf surviving but not thriving. Any thoughts?

Here is the article I am currently reading. http://calfcare.ca/calf-feeding/cold-weather-feeding/

Not sure how this converts to our measurements either (from the same article) : 4 litres/day at the concentration of 125g/l is starvation for a calf.

 

[jerryse]

How bad a problem are coons up there . They used to be really bad at the lake . Now there are not enough to clean up fish guts . I now dispose of then in the campfire . Not when I sit around it of course .