Surviving Minnesota!

[ejb3810]

Ralphie. strange as it may seem I have not had a PC go broody for me. Perhaps it is something in your water that is causing this?

 

[duluthralphie]

I have never heard of anyone on here saying they had one go broody either..

Maybe heard my wife "reprimanding" me for some supposed wrong and thought she could be a broody old hen too......



I am just about to go out and see if she was still there. I am hoping ED told her to knock that crap off.

 

[duluthralphie]

I got my eggs ready to go in the incubator at noon today, and I found I could not see through the PC eggs this time.

Do the eggs get darker with age or as summer approaches or am I just going blind? I tried 3 different lights and could not see into the eggs.

I could see imperfections in the shells but not the air sacs.


It was like trying to look through the Turkey eggs.

 

[jerryse]

I have another hen wanting to go broody . Not sure yet what I will do with her . I may give her the cure . I really would like more chicks from her .

 

[duluthralphie]

I have another hen wanting to go broody . Not sure yet what I will do with her . I may give her the cure . I really would like more chicks from her .

That is my problem with the PC. If I let her have eggs now I will not get eggs for 2 months and I need eggs from her...

On the other hand it is nice to have a hen that lets me pick her up and only growls at me...She did not try to peck me. When my BA goes broody she gets downright mean..

What cure do you use?

 

[jerryse]

That is my problem with the PC. If I let her have eggs now I will not get eggs for 2 months and I need eggs from her...

On the other hand it is nice to have a hen that lets me pick her up and only growls at me...She did not try to peck me. When my BA goes broody she gets downright mean..

What cure do you use?

I put them in the spare rooster pen . It works for most . A few days of being harassed by the rooster with no nest to escape into does it . Still could be a couple weeks to lay again .

 

[duluthralphie]

I put them in the spare rooster pen . It works for most . A few days of being harassed by the rooster with no nest to escape into does it . Still could be a couple weeks to lay again .

I have never heard that one. Sounds reasonable. a couple weeks is better than a couple months.

 

[Cluckies]

You are right Sadie is still very young. She is family, I would never give her up either!   Gabi is not three until later this summer, she is very active and needs exercise. She loves to play ball, tennis balls we took away because the vet said they are hard on a dogs teeth. Her favorite now seems to be a basketball, we give it a good kick and she will jump in front of it and block it if she can then push it back to you to go again. She is smart but I really think she'd have been further ahead if she hadn't gotten lyme disease as a puppy. Her main growing and learning months she was sick.

i don't do tennis balls either as it is very hard on the teeth, so i use those kong balls. Puppy loves them

So Jerry, my raspberries don't "run" each plant has a long tap root. I get "baby" plants all over my raised gardens every year that iu have to continually pull out, to the point I'm thinking of moving them way far away in their own garden. So are you saying birds are propagating these seeds?

Well nature has thought of everything it seems when it comes to raspberry/blackberry seeds . In addition to surviving the digestive systems of birds and animals the ones that do not get eaten will grow after the seed coat decays enough to let moisture in . This could take years . I think sun exposure helps activate these . The wild ones up there pop up everywhere it seems . Clear a area in the woods and there they are the next year or so . Power company did a brush removal a few years back and those areas are full of wild ones . Are these wild ones you have ? Most of the tame ones are European red raspberry and mixes with our natives . So they are slightly different species . The tame ones sucker . 

truthfully, i have no idea at what they are. They have a smaller berrie, but very tasty when ripe. I may have to corner the neighbor as that is where they came from, i think...

 

[jerryse]

i don't do tennis balls either as it is very hard on the teeth, so i use those kong balls. Puppy loves them
truthfully, i have no idea at what they are. They have a smaller berrie, but very tasty when ripe. I may have to corner the neighbor as that is where they came from, i think...

Well I don't remember the wild ones up there suckering . Then I really did not look either . They seem to be individual plants even when in large patches .

 

[duluthralphie]

Well I don't remember the wild ones up there suckering . Then I really did not look either . They seem to be individual plants even when in large patches .

I thought they all came up from roots or suckers. I didn't think the suckers ran very far, not like strawberries, but still from roots. But to be hinest, I have never looked very closely, normally I am just chopping the things with my brush hog to get them out of my way.