Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

I'm on my way home from the lumberyard with some fresh maple ready to make some new e cutting boards for a friend. It will be a good day to fire the woodstove in the shop

It is a day to burn 4 cords of wood!

 

[KlopKlop]

stopped in at the feed store on the way home for the bedding and they had a sale on pigs ears. needless to say my dogs are prettyhappy at the moment

 

[NathanZee]

Awesome!

 

[KlopKlop]

Check it out! i tripled my grow bench area (not couting my fodder system. 8 feet x 2ft on top and 4 ft x 2ft on bottom

I think i may enclose the back and sides on half of the top and add doors to make a sort of greenhouse but we will see.
my herbs are coming up nicely, lettuce and kale are growing quickly, my onion starts are about 2 inches tall and my strawberries are looking dandy, ready for transplant this spring.

 

[Rhetts]

Klop, that looks nice. Having sprouts (besides the fodder) is exciting!

 

[KlopKlop]

So it has been a steady 59 degrees in my basement, is that too cold to run my new LG Foam incubator in? i would think the steady part is good, but will it get warm enough?

 

[KlopKlop]

Klop, that looks nice. Having sprouts (besides the fodder) is exciting!

After building it, i was reorganizing my garden stuff that was just in a big pile (in the back of the photo) and sorted all my seeds i have left. Last summer at the end of the year i got this huge bag of seed packets for free from a friend's mom who runs the garden center at a local store. they were going to be trashed and she figured i could either grow them or soak them and feed to my chickens. I found this packet of neat beans called 'Royal Burgundy' bush beans so i planted some in a pot. we will see if it amounts to anything. everything else seems to be growing very well. I suspect i will need to manually pollinate the flowers if this is successful but we will see!

 

[duluthralphie]

I am ready for this frozen cracked ruined egg period to end!

Monday can not get here soon enough for me. I had to throw a couple Creamette eggs, a toad egg, a British gal egg, and a PC egg. I have not really checked the layers for cracks, but they had a dozen eggs all in the same nest, so with luck they rotated off them enough to keep them warm.


I have 2 CLB chicks. A creamer and a creamette.

There is a CLB in there that will die soon. I have never seen a CLB like it. The chick is all yellow (white) but the whole rear of the chick is open. Or appears to be through the window, I have not opened the hatcher yet. I am tempted to reach in and end it for that one. I can see no way it will live. It is surely not whatever SOP will be on CLB's.

It looks like something went horribly wrong inside the egg. Yes, it is a CLB. It is a marked egg. If it does not gross too anyone out, I will take a picture of it and show you. I will try to avoid the "damaged unformed area" and just show you the color. At first I thought it was an albino when I saw it's head pop out but it does not have pink eyes.

Anyways let my know if you would be offended or if you want to see it.

 

[Rhetts]

I am ready for this frozen cracked ruined egg period to end!

Monday can not get here soon enough for me. I had to throw a couple Creamette eggs, a toad egg, a British gal egg, and a PC egg. I have not really checked the layers for cracks, but they had a dozen eggs all in the same nest, so with luck they rotated off them enough to keep them warm.


I have 2 CLB chicks. A creamer and a creamette.

There is a CLB in there that will die soon. I have never seen a CLB like it. The chick is all yellow (white) but the whole rear of the chick is open. Or appears to be through the window, I have not opened the hatcher yet. I am tempted to reach in and end it for that one. I can see no way it will live. It is surely not whatever SOP will be on CLB's.

It looks like something went horribly wrong inside the egg. Yes, it is a CLB. It is a marked egg. If it does not gross too anyone out, I will take a picture of it and show you. I will try to avoid the "damaged unformed area" and just show you the color. At first I thought it was an albino when I saw it's head pop out but it does not have pink eyes.

Anyways let my know if you would be offended or if you want to see it.

I am fine with pictures if you feel too. It would probably help those that might know what could have gone wrong as well.

 

[duluthralphie]

Just after I wrote the last post I looked in and it had moved. Using a sponge as a pillow.

I do not think it has long.

This is a CLB. There is nothing but CLB's in the coop and has not been another rooster in there since Thanksgiving.