Surviving Minnesota!

[Cluckies]

This afternoon i took advantage of the warm weather to plow down the snowpack on my driveway. I scraped down to the grass up near the house in a few places. The chickens found the grass and are having a hay day! DW and I have been sitting at the window watching them and snuggling our sleeping dogs. How fun!

While watching we were discussing what our favorite part of having chickens is. Hers is the awkward wings back/flapping run they do when she calls them for treats. Mine tied between their snoring/cooing at night on the roost and how they scratch to look for food. Left foot scratch, right foot scratch, step back and look for goodies... repeat!

What is your favorite thing your chickens do?

Love that too, but I think mine step forward with the left, scratch scratch with the right, then step back and look, lol

Aussie, so sorry about your alpaca, I hope he recovers though. A lady I work with lost a llama to worms last summer, I don't know what kind though.
Rio is a nice looking pup! Thank you for giving him a home

I thank God for this beautiful January day!

Couldn't resist taking this photo, even though there were no birds in it

But here is my puppy and the girls...

 

[KlopKlop]

My photo dump from today's activities

1) The twins watching over Buck


2) the twins , RJ and Wallace, enjoying the sun from the corn crib door




3) Socks looks on from the shadows




4) Fresh wood chips in coop 1 meant dust baths galore. they love it



6) Sherah hanging out in her cat door






7) the twins eventually figured out how to get to the top window in the crib



more chicken themed photos to follow once i get them from DWs phone/camera

 

[duluthralphie]

Kloppers nice pictures.

I wish I had, had my IPhone with me today. I think my RIR has passed up yours for the worst looking molter. She is looking pretty darn rough....I saw her but had no camera, oh well. maybe tomorrow..


I am thinking of giving up on the TOAD project. It is just not worth the effort to try and keep the CXs alive. Maybe if I get babies from Bertha and Bert Jr I will, but I am done dumping a lot of effort and expense into it. I will have paid more in feed to the group than what it would cost to buy 500 chicks.

I could then use their coop/pens for some other birds, maybe Doms...


Also is your soil real heavy and do you have earthworms there?




Who is Wallace? Why are we just hearing about him now?

 

[KlopKlop]

Kloppers nice pictures.

I wish I had, had my IPhone with me today. I think my RIR has passed up yours for the worst looking molter. She is looking pretty darn rough....I saw her but had no camera, oh well. maybe tomorrow..


I am thinking of giving up on the TOAD project. It is just not worth the effort to try and keep the CXs alive. Maybe if I get babies from Bertha and Bert Jr I will, but I am done dumping a lot of effort and expense into it. I will have paid more in feed to the group than what it would cost to buy 500 chicks.

I could then use their coop/pens for some other birds, maybe Doms...


Also is your soil real heavy and do you have earthworms there?




Who is Wallace? Why are we just hearing about him now?

Wallace is one of the kittens, Sherah is the buff girl, socks has... well.. socks haha and then there are the twins RJ and Wallace. I call them the twins even though they probably arent acutally twins. they are identical except for RJ is fatter because he loves to eat.

As far as the soil here, i dont know exactly what qualifies as 'heavy' but it is nice dark black dirt here. and i have seen worms when i plowed the garden but not very many. Why do you ask?

 

[duluthralphie]

Wallace is one of the kittens, Sherah is the buff girl, socks has... well.. socks haha and then there are the twins RJ and Wallace. I call them the twins even though they probably arent acutally twins. they are identical except for RJ is fatter because he loves to eat.

As far as the soil here, i dont know exactly what qualifies as 'heavy' but it is nice dark black dirt here. and i have seen worms when i plowed the garden but not very many. Why do you ask?

Earthworms are thought to be the carrier or "go between" host of blackhead in turkeys. Chickens, earthworms and turkeys do not seem to mix. I was just thinking of your soil when someone mentioned they had blackhead in there turkeys the other day.

I would ask around and see if it is in the area. When I got my first two, I kind of decided I would give it a try and see what happened, but I was prepared to lose them. Luckily I have not had a problem and no self respecting worm would get within 10 miles of my place.


I was thinking Wallace was the rooster in the picture, I thought you only had Conrad.

 

[KlopKlop]

Earthworms are thought to be the carrier or "go between" host of blackhead in turkeys. Chickens, earthworms and turkeys do not seem to mix. I was just thinking of your soil when someone mentioned they had blackhead in there turkeys the other day.

I would ask around and see if it is in the area. When I got my first two, I kind of decided I would give it a try and see what happened, but I was prepared to lose them. Luckily I have not had a problem and no self respecting worm would get within 10 miles of my place.


I was thinking Wallace was the rooster in the picture, I thought you only had Conrad.

2 roosters - Conrad my rainbow roo, and Buck my monster buckeye rooster. that was buck in the photo

 

[KlopKlop]

I've never asked anyone around here that would know about blackhead but I would assume it is a high risk potential

If I ever do try turkeys i will have some serious planning on how to prevent blackhead. I wanted to try turkeys this year until I got pigs green lighted.

 

[KlopKlop]

Everyone quiet down now... Not need to all talk at once!

 

[KlopKlop]

Ralphie I am sad your road project isn't going as well as hoped. I had high hopes for you and subsequently my own attempts to breed Betty white

 

[jerryse]

I was thinking 2 weeks add the rooster then 8-10 days before I save an egg. I would hate to give a bird to someone saying it is a PC and find out it had BA or EE in it.

I do this where I can tell the difference or it does not matter . Changing from my single barred crele auto sexing rooster to a double barred cream . Getting ready for selling eggs in late March or early April . Changing from Leghorn mix rooster to Legbar rooster in Legbar pen for same reason . Still need to take the white to another pen and put a black and a lavender with the black/lavender hens . I need to hatch a few more first .