Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Good Morning!

I am headed to Grandpa day care duty. My birds are on autopilot today.

I was searching Craigslist looking for whatever. One can never have too much whatever.


I found some bee keeping stuff Cluckies... St Cloud CL.


I also found some guineas on there for 80 bucks. I think they area little expensive. BUT I know many of you want them after hearing how great mine are. I just want to caution you. Adult Guineas do not do well when moved to a new home. The seem to really imprint on the area they grow up in. I have bought adults a couple time through the years and they always ran away.

I offer this to save you $80 and to encourage you get them through some fool that owns breeding guineas as keets. BTW I do like my guineas. Except for the one doing life in prison without a possibility of parole.

 

[KlopKlop]

Good morning! What a bright and sunshine morning!
The whole farm is out and about and everyone is having a great day.

In other good news, the basil seeds I planted last week have broke soil! Hopefully the oregano and rosemary follow suit!

 

[KlopKlop]

DW and I are browsing the Hoovers catalog and she has fallen in love with the speckled sussex. I didnt realize how gorgeous they were.

I definitely think we will be getting some this year. ralphie, are you planning on hatching them?

 

[holm25]

Glad someone could come look at momma cow.


Those turkeys can be evil sometimes... My pure Royal palm toms were brats too. They got butchered two weeks early because they got so mean.





The guy at the feed mill gave me a bag of wheat for free yesterday. He screwed up and accidently mixed barley in with wheat a few days before so he gave it to me for free since knowone really wants that. So now I got more seeds soaking for fodder. I am done with corn fodder. That crap is to hard to keep from molding. I have a batch thats doing good. Trying to keep it from molding and smelling bad

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[jerryse]

Do you far north gardeners have to deal with squash boers ? They are a real pain here .

 

[KlopKlop]

Do you far north gardeners have to deal with squash boers ? They are a real pain here .

I dont know about borers, but we do see squash beetles/bugs around here.

I have been fortunate not to have any major issues with those

 

[holm25]

DW and I are browsing the Hoovers catalog and she has fallen in love with the speckled sussex.  I didnt realize how gorgeous they were.

I definitely think we will be getting some this year.  ralphie, are you planning on hatching them?

Maybe you'll get more chickens! We are getting a bunch of Black Australorps and Buff Orpingtons. I also am getting more Cochins and Buckeyes from Minnie.

 

[Rhetts]

I am trying to add raising the cornish CX this year. We are trying to figure out if doing 2 batches of 25 are better or one batch of 50. I think processing 50 birds will be WAY too much to do. I was thinking of getting the first round of chicks in mid May and then the second round of chicks end of July. DH wants to get 50 in April. I am thinking of doing 10-12 weeks on mostly free ranging with the grains at a minimal. Those with experience, what would you do? Our camp day is nothing like ralphies. Very rough if you know what I mean. Maybe 4 adults and about 6 kids doing the work. A backyard/homemade plucker that kinda works.

We let the cows out of the barn to run around and stretch their legs on this beautiful day. I will keep a close eye on how the others are treating them.

 

[duluthralphie]

DW and I are browsing the Hoovers catalog and she has fallen in love with the speckled sussex.  I didnt realize how gorgeous they were.

I definitely think we will be getting some this year.  ralphie, are you planning on hatching them?

Yes, I am I have just turned the lights on them. I have not gotten an egg, but they have been segregated for a month. I will let you know when I set some eggs. I want a few more myself, I love their docile personalities and the color on them.

 

[duluthralphie]

Do you far north gardeners have to deal with squash boers ? They are a real pain here .

My ignorance is showing again. I have no ide what a squash boers is.

I have no real problem with bugs on my squash. The only problem I have is chickens breaking into them and deer. Deer are terrible. Rats on long legs!

My Guineas patrol my garden and they are worth the hassle in the number of bugs they pick off my plants, I have very little problem with bugs because of them. They even pick the potato bugs and cabbage moths that people told me they would not eat.