Surviving Minnesota!

[Rhetts]

This is the school policy: "Administratively the “close school” decision would be triggered by a ‐40 F ambient temperature if there were little chance of moderation during the day. ". This is only our second winter up here, it was surprising with how cold it needs to be for school to be canceled. Our firsr thing we did after winter number one was put in a wood stove, our heating bill was ridiculous last year.

Wow, I didn't think of the heat bill!!

 

[lvie]

Good day chickie friends. I started a part-time job this a.m. Of course I love it so far. Close by, gets me out and about, hopefully I will be able to keep up with all the other stuff I do. We will see

SC is doing well. I feed her from one of the those kiddie medicine dispensers - the kind that looks like a needle syringe without the needle. She sucks it right up and that little beak is just flapping to get the food and water. She definitely does not have a splayed leg. It is more deformed. But it is splinted as if it were splayed. I figure that she is rapidly forming a bone structure at this age and that the splint may help later. I hold her with both feet in my palm and her head propted between my fingers. She already seems to be comfortable with that position and knows its eating time. I do notice that she is holding herself up a little better for a small amount of time after being fed. The boys are hanging with her more than when I first brought them home.

Thanks Ralphie. I appreciate you trusting me with this little girl.

 

[duluthralphie]

Good day chickie friends. I started a part-time job this a.m. Of course I love it so far. Close by, gets me out and about, hopefully I will be able to keep up with all the other stuff I do. We will see

SC is doing well. I feed her from one of the those kiddie medicine dispensers - the kind that looks like a needle syringe without the needle. She sucks it right up and that little beak is just flapping to get the food and water. She definitely does not have a splayed leg. It is more deformed. But it is splinted as if it were splayed. I figure that she is rapidly forming a bone structure at this age and that the splint may help later. I hold her with both feet in my palm and her head propted between my fingers. She already seems to be comfortable with that position and knows its eating time. I do notice that she is holding herself up a little better for a small amount of time after being fed. The boys are hanging with her more than when I first brought them home.

Thanks Ralphie. I appreciate you trusting me with this little girl.

I am the one that cannot be trusted. I goofed up and lost 2 little girls.

I thought I had made the mama cave safe. I did not 2 got stuck under a fold in it and died. I feel like poop.

I have rebuilt the Mama cave so that can never happen again.

I do not understand it though, When I lose a chick I can almost always say it was nature and not going to live or point to something I did that killed it..

So why is it those people that had two birds die are still pointing at me??? (I told them I would replace them, but I am in no rush to do so) Otherwise all of mine look healthy.

I have just made a brooder outside for Andy and his friends. They will be going under a heat lamp out there. It is a big stock tank. I will be running to Monticello this afternoon to get some more bulbs. I like to have 2 heat lamps shining into the tank when it is this early/cold in the year, incase one bulb burns out.

Andy has to be moved out before Sunday when the new guys come.

 

[lvie]

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Those people were newbies - right? They need to adjust to the learning; send them this way and I can teach them real fast! For crying out loud! Now as to the two little girls that you just lost, well, all I can say is that it is in the learning curve. Darn that Mama Cave! It is a pretty good set up and just needed tweaking and now you know that. In five years those chicks would have been fodder and so it just is.

There! I mean it! So does that help?

 

[duluthralphie]

LOL

Yeppers. You put it all in perspective.

It amazes me how every time I try to find or use something better with animals they find a way I never thought of for it to fail...



I let Bert and his gals out today for about 2 hours. They loved it. They did not go far. A couple guineas saw them and wanted to harass Bert and bunch, I put a stop to that.

I held Bert for a while and one of his gals. For as big as they are, they are still babies and like to be with people, held and petted.

I held Porter for a few minutes too, That did not go as well. Porter has a ways to go before he is a lapper.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

The Roads are Clear of Ice. The Roads are Clear of Ice~!!!!!

I've been driving like a Granny for a week and a half!

 

[Rhetts]

Yes, despite our trying to think of everything to keep our animals safe, they NEVER fail to find a way to injure (or worse) themselves despite our best efforts. We are all still learning and if our mistakes help the next person than those birds are not lost in vain.

Sorry Ralphie about your two chickies!!

I was watching Frozen Planet on Netflix and they were talking about the Hoar Frost. Never heard the term until the other day when you said it. Cool. Learned something new. Thought that term was just something you used not some world renowned term. You genious!!

 

[duluthralphie]

Naw, Hoar frost is a old term, it is big in the aviation world, it can cause a plane to fall from the air hitting the ground hard. (commonly referred to as a crash)

 

[duluthralphie]

2 hours and no one posted????


Ralphie's personal non-chicken related rant time.

Where to kids these days learn to pack groceries? I normally go to a place that has self-check out. I hate the way they pack groceries. I prefer to pack my own. I do not have OCD, I just to not like getting squished bread or broken chips. We have company coming late tomorrow, so I bought a large 55 ounce, cane of pork and beans. I am going to make cowboy beans. I bought 2 bags of chips and a bunch of other stuff. Those 3 items are all that matter for this rant.


When I buy chips I make sure I find a bag with as few broken ones as possible. I then carefully set it in the child seat area of the cart. Tonight I checked out and was not paying attention to the genious (Holm's word not mine) that was packing the bags. He carried the groceries to me car ( another service I can do without). When I got home I grabbed the chips (which he had put on the floor) to find out the large can of beans was in the bag too, crunching my chips! Luckily my bread made it home in one piece...


rant over...

 

[KlopKlop]

2 hours and no one posted????


Ralphie's personal non-chicken related rant time.

Where to kids these days learn to pack groceries?  I normally go to a place that has self-check out.  I hate the way they pack groceries.  I prefer to pack my own.  I do not have OCD, I just to not like getting squished bread or broken chips. We have company coming late tomorrow, so I bought a large 55 ounce, cane of pork and beans. I am going to make cowboy beans.  I bought 2 bags of chips and a bunch of other stuff. Those 3 items are all that matter for this rant.


When I buy chips I make sure I find a bag with as few broken ones as possible.  I then carefully set it in the child seat area of the cart.  Tonight I checked out and was not paying attention to the genious  (Holm's word not mine) that was packing the bags. He carried the groceries to me car ( another service I can do without).  When I got home I grabbed the chips (which he had put on the floor) to find out the large can of beans was in the bag too, crunching my chips!  Luckily my bread made it home in one piece...


rant over...

But they fit, so why not put them together! Best not to waste the bags. You will chew them up later anyways



Lol