Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

I have a lean too on the old granary. the birds go into it year round to sand bathe... I am trying to talk Mom into moving her crap and I do me junk type crap out of it so I can give the birds more sand year round. I would add ash to it if her stuff was moved.

But I guess I will have to not push too hard on that. If you could get the right chicken into the ash pile today Kloppers, you could have baked Chicken. Maybe you would have to wrap it in foil like you do a potato before you throw it in ashes.

Thanks for the well wishes on the "visit".

I really had thought it would be a couple weeks down the line so I could have gotten more done. As nice as the weather was this winter, the spring has been chaotic and it has been hard to actually get a lot of major projects done.

I tried to got to bed around 1-1:30 this morning, but I could not find my IPhone. I had a meeting in Downtown Orrock last night for 2 hours. I managed to convince myself I had left it in my van and had failed to lock the door. I was a tad over tired, I admit. I even went on ICloud and disabled my phone and used the find a phone feature. I called my phone over and over, I looked in my van, in the chicken coop, and the entire house.

When I was laying in bed fretting over the phone, I thought, "gee whiz, golly gee, Did I leave it in the shed" So I got up and made an undies run to the shed. There was my phone! I use the blue tooth on it and play through a speaker in my shed while I work in there. I listen to Pandora. Yesterday was a little big town station day. I like them, I change stations every day so the repetition is not as bad. But 99% of the time it is country, what else is there?

 

[ejb3810]

Klop, a problem with the dusting area is that if the birds free range they invariably choose a spot to dig a dusting bed that is not the place you want them to use?

Ralphie, hope all goes well with the inspection and you get a chance to take a break afterward. If it goes as well as you wish you can celebrate with a Lemonade of your favorite brand!
With chicks in the house does that become part of the inspection, or is their existence not identified?

You may find this of interest due to your prior life. A man driving a 2016 Camaro ISS was clocked at 171 mph on the highway heading toward Two Harbors. The officer who was involved was in an unmarked car in the southbound lane right at a crossover, and immediately turned on lights and siren. He had to get his squad up to 135 mph to get close enough for the guy in the Camaro to see the lights. Those were the good old days for you Ralphie. The guy in the Camaro was slowing down even though he had not seen the officer, that's how he could get close enough to apprehend him.

It looks by the forecast that we will be getting some of your Banana Belt weather up here for a few days, which will result in some productive outdoor chores being tackled.

 

[duluthralphie]

Klop, a problem with the dusting area is that if the birds free range they invariably choose a spot to dig a dusting bed that is not the place you want them to use?

Ralphie, hope all goes well with the inspection and you get a chance to take a break afterward. If it goes as well as you wish you can celebrate with a Lemonade of your favorite brand!
With chicks in the house does that become part of the inspection, or is their existence not identified?

You may find this of interest due to your prior life. A man driving a 2016 Camaro ISS was clocked at 171 mph on the highway heading toward Two Harbors. The officer who was involved was in an unmarked car in the southbound lane right at a crossover, and immediately turned on lights and siren. He had to get his squad up to 135 mph to get close enough for the guy in the Camaro to see the lights. Those were the good old days for you Ralphie. The guy in the Camaro was slowing down even though he had not seen the officer, that's how he could get close enough to apprehend him.

It looks by the forecast that we will be getting some of your Banana Belt weather up here for a few days, which will result in some productive outdoor chores being tackled.

I revealed them already. I also told her I have the incubators in the basement. She asked when I first started hatching in the house, I asked her if she meant this house or other houses I lived in. She said both.

So I told her I first hatched chicks myself in the house we lived in 35 years or more ago. When I first moved to Carlton. Then she asked about this house and I told her when I started hatching in it, and mentioned my Dad incubated in the house when I was a kid in this same house.

She says she thinks that qualifies for the "grandfather" clause! So I am optimistic.


171 is moving right out! I am amazed the purple car did 135. When I retired they barely did 110. Now back in the good old days, I had a 73 Plymouth that did 166 and no many could out run it as it would do that speed all day long. I got a I did get it over 170 but that was downhill with a tail wind. Unfortunately, that car was short lived with me. I was young and dumb and parked a tree where the engine use to sit one night while chasing a GTO on a forest road. Someday I will tell you the story, it is funny in retrospect and with beer. Of course, some of my back problems started right after that..LOL



I forgot to mention there was a good 30 days of paper work after that little incident.

 

[KlopKlop]

Ralphie I had to leg splint 4 of my CXs Sunday evening. I pulled the splints off last night and they are all looking great! They each had one leg that they seemed unable to keep under them and sprawled out to the side. I wonder if that is from keeping them in paper towels for 5 days? It was almost like a mild case of spradle leg.

It could be that I overfed them at the beginning but hard to say. I let them have full feed for the first 2 days as they seemed not to be eating much. I have since moved to scheduled feelings 2x daily and they are becoming feed frenzy experts.

 

[chickenlover292]

Morning fellow-chickeners, I have a question for anyone who knows the answer, how long can you keep guinea fowl eggs outside without the mom sitting on them before they go bad?

 

[Violetsfeathers]

When I just checked on them they were hanging out under the Lamp. The reason they are over there in the pic is because the food/water are over there! They are cheeping away happily so hopefully they will be okay.

That's great news!

 

[Violetsfeathers]

Same dates here, hatched 4/11 arrived 4/13 four yrs ago .  I had ordered 3 each of EE,SLW,GLW, CMarans & SSH.  3 died in the first day or 2. Now I have 7 of the 15. 2 roos were rehomed,( the hamburgs). 1 SLW was rehomed because she was picked on.. a couple hens died of something, one I think was egg bound.

x3! I have chickens with this hatch date too!
They are 3 years old today.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Your hubby wasnt fishing with the CEO of Cirdan Health Systems this week was he??

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/11/body-of-twin-cities-man-recovered-from-rainy-river/

No Kloppers. Thank goodness. It was so Windy and Rough up there that the guys never got out! They waited and waited for the wind to die down but it never did. They watched the docks. If boats weren't being towed in for having froze up motors they'd ask if the others caught anything at it was "No" or "One" it was the worst time he said he's ever been up there. Now I'm glad they didn't go in the boat. They played cribbage and had beer all Saturday and talked smart I'm sure.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

When I was laying in bed fretting over the phone, I thought, "gee whiz, golly gee, Did I leave it in the shed" So I got up and made an undies run to the shed. There was my phone! I use the blue tooth on it and play through a speaker in my shed while I work in there. I listen to Pandora. Yesterday was a little big town station day. I like them, I change stations every day so the repetition is not as bad. But 99% of the time it is country, what else is there?

Never underestimate the efficiency and speed of an undies run. Especially in 20 degree weather.

She says she thinks that qualifies for the "grandfather" clause! So I am optimistic.

I think you will do really really well.

I must say if I had a Camaro like that I'd be tempted to test it out on a straight stretch of highway....

My Dad had a 1967 GTO. Blue. I still remember riding in it with him. Watching the highway pass under my feet through the hole in the floor. One time Our driveway was full of snow --drifted in (SE Minnesota) and I remember Dad saying "Hang on to me" Because I wasn't strapped in a seatbelt of course. And we went busting through the drifts back into the farm. We had a long Driveway. Ah those were the days.

 

[lvie]

When I just checked on them they were hanging out under the Lamp. The reason they are over there in the pic is because the food/water are over there! They are cheeping away happily so hopefully they will be okay.

hi mnbrewdude - how are the chickies this morning? and welcome to this thread. I am going to move my last three four-week old chicks to the 'nursery' today as it warms up. It too has a brooder lamp inside with double hooks for the cool nights yet. There are five in there ages 5 to 9 weeks and they have done fine with the brood light and are often outside. So how are they this morning?