Surviving Minnesota!

[lvie]

I just went back onto St. Cloud' Craigs list for Farm and Garden because I wrote down that those Welsummers and Easter Eggers http://images.craigslist.org/00j0j_3AW3alWNWMn_300x300.jpgnot This is the listing I was looking at. And I saw one in Princeton for $25 an egg.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

I couldn't pull it up. But, I'm also at work.....pretending to work.

 

[I Love Layers]

@duluthralphie can I get the plans for your CX brooder?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Violas or Johnny jump ups

I love these!!!!

The pear grafts are starting to grow . Maxine is the most growth grafted last year . Honey Sweet , Hudar and Savinac . I have Stacey pear on a small root stock . The last 3 are hardy enough for zone 3 .

This is so cool that you know how to do these with your trees. When I get these teenagers kicked out.... (5 year plan) you're coming over to my house for coffee and grafting.

 

[jerryse]

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Deal

 

[lilbear412]

@KlopKlop Mine are too. Its nice to have the rain but not the chickens AND the rain...lol i have broilers that have not been out on the grass but a few times because of the weather. Need them out and in the warmth eating grass and bugs. Its not suppose to be really nice until maybe next Monday again.

 

[KlopKlop]

@KlopKlop
   Mine are too.  Its nice to have the rain but not the chickens AND the rain...lol  i have broilers that have not been out on the grass but a few times because of the weather.  Need them out and in the warmth eating grass and bugs.   Its not suppose to be really nice until maybe next Monday again.

I know your pain. Mine are still on grass but I've had to make some ammendments to keep them dry and warm! A pain in the butt!!

 

[chickenlover292]

I know your pain. Mine are still on grass but I've had to make some ammendments to keep them dry and warm! A pain in the butt!!

I am lucky enough that my mom knows that I will get to attached to the broilers so she won't let my dad get any.

 

[KlopKlop]

I am lucky enough that my mom knows that I will get to attached to the broilers so she won't let my dad get any.

I don't know if I would call that lucky

I will complain a bit now about the rain but in 7-8 weeks from now when my freezer is overflowing with pasture raised chicken I won't be complaining

 

[duluthralphie]

@duluthralphie can I get the plans for your CX brooder?

I really do not have plans for brooders. I just build a box and it looks like this when nearly done..


The door on the backside is a new addition, I am going to retrofit all of them like this soon.






I make the same thing for everything,,,sort of. I have some old flat top brooders but they inhale strongly.








I make panels like these and screw them together for tractors/pens/covered runs. Right now these are breeding pens.

The panels are all 72 inches long and about 26 inches high. They are easy and fast to move. I find them very versatile. I have started making one that is 22 inches high and using some hardware cloth in the middle and putting a "lid" on each end, for ease of feeding and watering. The lid is what Houdini escaped through the other night. The 22 inch panel fits better on a 6 ft panel for the roof. I have 2-26 inch ones and one 22 inch one. that is still 2 inches over but it works well. I may start cutting that down to 20 inches.

As I said no plans I just build.