Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

I checked the eggs from the PC's I gathered yesterday. I might have jumped the gun on putting Ed in with them. The eggs are still fertile. It has been over two weeks. I think I will start saving next Monday. that would be 23 days. Hopefully, the mixed stuff is out of them by then and Ed is the chick Daddy. Actually there is a 70/30 chance Ed has his DNA in them already. Ed was not known for sharing his girls with the other roosters.

With Ed gone ( locked in breeding pen) Blackie has really stepped up to the plate. I gave them some scratch and household scraps and Blackie took credit for finding them just like Ed would.


Also I need to get pictures of Chauncy he is really becoming eye candy! He kind of has Ole's unkempt tail so I think Ole is Daddy and the escapee Creamette from last spring.



I have not had rabbit in years, but as I recall it was not that great. BUT that was eaten right after the kill. I think it would have been better to let it rest. I was not that smart back then, I would hunt, kill. cook eat and bellyache about the toughness of the meat all in one day...

 

[holm25]

Oh and I am pretty sure chickens cant get STD's

 

[duluthralphie]

Guineas with a mass suicide pact.

 

[KlopKlop]

Guineas with a mass suicide pact.

Roast Guinea coming right up!

 

[ejb3810]

Klop, what better use of time, than to travel several hours to meet up with a group on chicken people who you have come to know through the internet? It would be held in conjunction with a chicken swap?
How could anything be better than that?
The ladies may have reservations about meeting some chicken weirdos in person, but I believe that most of us are at least close to normal.
I can personally vouch for Ralphie!

 

[NathanZee]

Klop, what better use of time, than to travel several hours to meet up with a group on chicken people who you have come to know through the internet? It would be held in conjunction with a chicken swap?
How could anything be better than that?
The ladies may have reservations about meeting some chicken weirdos in person, but I believe that most????? of us are at least close to normal.
I can personally vouch for Ralphie!

 

[Cluckies]

Good Morning Fellas, Cluckies, Rhetts, and Bantiesrule:

Kloppers: Hope your Valentine's Chow Mein was good. LOL.

Good luck hunting rabbits Jerry. Up here in God's country it will be 35-36 degrees today. So the 3 inches of snow we got yesterday will disappear pretty fast I think. Thank goodness. I'm ready for the spring warm ups to be honest and grass showing again for my birds. They deserve that. Although their winter really only started in December so....it's only been a couple months in the run. Not 4 or 5 so...but it always bugs me that they are not free ranging for some reason.

Thank Goodness for small blessings. I took out the hatchet last night but I did not have to use it. Holly my BA passed on early this morning. I think it was a cancerous thing. Her keel bone was very prominent. But that bird ...had so much gumption. She was a fighter until the end. Crazy how they do that. I'm down to 7 birds with room for 11. I have a couple EE that lay Lash eggs (infected fallopian tubes) and the buckeye has not laid since last spring....so I'm thinking she is also reproductively diseased or scarred. But she's not efficient enough feed wise for me so I think she'll go as well this spring when it's nicer for such jobs outside.

I'm wondering with my hens ...if the rooster can pass along the bacterial infections from hen to hen's fallopian tubes...you know like a pelvic inflammatory disease. Any thoughts on that. I'm suspicious of that scenario but then my silkie, old SLW and BLRW seem to lay just fine this fall.

So then is it just individual and nothing to do with the rooster spreading stuff between matings. As I talk it through....I think the cloaca being recepticle for mating and being near poop...it knows how to handle bacteria for the most part.

This morning's thoughts and ramblings by Bogtown. LOL.

Morning BC sorry for the loss of your girl. I have no idea about std's in chickens. I've got no roo so never even thought about it. Ralphie may talk me into a roo yet this summer though. they are such eye candy!

 

[Cluckies]

Guineas with a mass suicide pact.

They sure are adventurous!

 

[MinnesotaNice]

375 posts.....I can't keep up with you kids

I've been working lots of OT, so will hopefully be able to breathe after this week and weekend.

I mucked out the chicken coop yesterday. I swear they poop more in the winter! And my notoriously clucky duo are broody again. About every 6-8 weeks they go broody.....getting so old. Dang chickens acting like chickens.

I hope everyone survived the wave of booger freezing weather - feeling like Mexico today

 

[Bogtown Chick]

LOL. Only you guys can I bounce such an idea off of.
You're too funny.

Well just Pm me if you all think I'm okay or not to meet for coffee at Bridgemans. LOL. If I don't hear back from anyone...then I know I need to work on my mental health. hahaha. That's already a given. Chickens, nutso labrador, 2 teenagers and a husband who may as well be a teenager. It gets a little bonkers around here. You're probably all safe anyways as its doubtful I could make it.

25 days until Ixtapa. Speaking of Mexico.