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holm25 said:
Hi everyone... Very depressing here.... Out of the 50+ eggs I set only two goose eggs were viable. No turkey or duck eggs. I hope u have good luck with your Muscovy eggs Minnesotanice. Although idk if I set Muscovys. I think it was all Pekins. Anyways if all goes well I should have two cute little goslings available in 2 weeks.... I think... I dont remember. And I am thinking hard about the turkeys. Idk if I should keep them or sell them.... Decisions decisions....




Minnesotanice I talk to Al from Als quackery sometimes. He helped me figure out what color my scovys were.
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I've actually been talking to Al a lot on FB lately! He's such a cool guy. We've been talking genetics. He's sold out of Muscovies until Fall, but I'm going to get some Blues from him next year. Maybe a silver as well if he has them. It'll give me (Okay, DH) time to get another run and coop built.

I haven't checked the eggs yet, but my bator took a dip last night and I woke up to it at 98. I hope it wasn't like that too long. The temp was perfect before I went to bed. If I start incubating more scovy eggs, I'm dumping the styro bator and getting a Brinsea or at least something more dependable. I'm sick of the heavy temp fluctuations.

If Mr. T needs a home.....I know of a little boy who would love him.....Lol
 
holm25 said:
Hi everyone... Very depressing here.... Out of the 50+ eggs I set only two goose eggs were viable. No turkey or duck eggs. I hope u have good luck with your Muscovy eggs Minnesotanice. Although idk if I set Muscovys. I think it was all Pekins. Anyways if all goes well I should have two cute little goslings available in 2 weeks.... I think... I dont remember. And I am thinking hard about the turkeys. Idk if I should keep them or sell them.... Decisions decisions....




Minnesotanice I talk to Al from Als quackery sometimes. He helped me figure out what color my scovys were.
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Oh that's a shame. Do you mean you had over 50 goose eggs?
 
MinnesotaNice said:
I've actually been talking to Al a lot on FB lately! He's such a cool guy. We've been talking genetics. He's sold out of Muscovies until Fall, but I'm going to get some Blues from him next year. Maybe a silver as well if he has them. It'll give me (Okay, DH) time to get another run and coop built.

I haven't checked the eggs yet, but my bator took a dip last night and I woke up to it at 98. I hope it wasn't like that too long. The temp was perfect before I went to bed. If I start incubating more scovy eggs, I'm dumping the styro bator and getting a Brinsea or at least something more dependable. I'm sick of the heavy temp fluctuations.

If Mr. T needs a home.....I know of a little boy who would love him.....Lol
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NO NO NO NO NO NO..

I know big boy that wants him worse and asked for him years ago!!! We would hate to make this big boy cry!
 
Nope no rain here, yet. It is still sunny with a broken overcast layer, looking to the west is hazy and could be a front coming...
Otherwise, the banana belt is perfect again today.



Except I needed to have blood drawn this morning so I am being lazy and replenishing the fluids lost through multi cups of coffee. I should go do something,,BUT way too weak from the blood draw.. They took like 3 tubes so maybe 6cc total. It takes a while to get over that...



And the other day when I went to the Dr my blood pressure was 118 over 62, for my age that is way too low, so I am using coffee to get that higher too. I have to learn to take care of myself, Coffee is the drug of choice!
 
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Siggie said:
GOOD MORNING MINNASOTANS! I am so glad I found this thread!! I am a newbie and got my first 25 chicks just 6 days ago. Lost 2 the first night to the cold (they got pushed out from under the mama heating pad contraption and couldn't find there way back in :( ) and then lost another the next night (don't know why) found him under the heating pad. But so far the other 22 are going strong! I have 10 Barred Plymouth Rocks, 5 Blue Cochins, 5 Golden Laced Wyandottes and now 2 Australorps left.

I'm in the process of building a coop that is attached to the horse barn. The frame will be built out of pallets and the base is from free cinder blocks from a friend who took down her greenhouse - yay for recycling! I bought 1/4" hardware cloth and will be surrounding the coop and run with it but do I need to bury it or can I just place rocks on top of it...there is no shortage of rocks up here :)

We have 16 acres up in the arrowhead 10 miles inland from Tettegouche State Park. I have been searching for other chicken owners up here but haven't been too successful. Anyone close to me? I would love advice on what the "do's and don'ts" are in this area as far as predators and such. We don't seem to have any issues right now I think due to our having 3 large dogs that seem to chase everything away. Our neighbors about a mile away have seen wolves near their horse pasture but nothing has popped up here. Their pasture is quite a ways away from their house but our pasture is close to the house and garage. I can post some pics later when I get home from work.
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WELCOME TO THE THREAD ..and BYC



Wow, raising chickens in heavy wolf country! Every creature up there eats chicken. Good luck.. Hints will come from others I am sure.
 
Mr. T is becoming quite the popular boy! I cant tell him this though. He is already to full of himself!

Nathan there was abput two weeks worth of goose eggs so about 12-14 and 15 turkey eggs. And the turkey hen lays everyday!
 

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