Surviving Minnesota!

[I Love Layers]

Jerry, I am glad you passed on the toadstools..

I bet your grandson will be a hero back home with a mess of bullheads to share..........



I have a question I cannot get an answer to on the EE thread. There are a bunch of people making sex linked EE.  I asked why and never got a decent answer. It is not hard to do, so it is not a challenge.  If you know the sex at hatching do they cull the boys the day they hatch? 

One person told me they keep the girls and sell the boys at auction.  The only way I see that working is with ignorant people that do not know they are sex linked. Who would buy a box of boys?


I have a run loaded with boys, lots and lots of boys from the CLB's.  They are headed to the Freezer Camp Day extravaganza.  No one wants CLB boys, why would they want EE boys???



I am going to avoid hatching chicks in the future that can be sexed at hatch.  I am not sure I will even hatch many CLB's next year if I can get enough Sports.



However, I am going to be selling sexed eggs, I have a string and needle to hang over the eggs before I hatch them to tell if they are boys or not. I will make omelets with the boys eggs.  




Ivie the fair was good but the chicken barn was lacking.  MNchick's daughters SS looked great.  There were a few exceptional birds but not that many.   They did not have a lot open division entries.  Next year I am going to load them up.

BTW we saw some jerk steal and egg out of the cage of one of the birds.  He slipped it into his pants pocket. I tried to get close enough to "accidental" bump that pocket but I could not get it to work.

Sounds like my fair. Not enough kids or birds there...

I laugh when people steal eggs

 

[Cebarmlds]

Is stealing eggs at the fair that common?

 

[Violetsfeathers]

No one knows where I can get some button quail? Eggs or chicks.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

BTW we saw some jerk steal and egg out of the cage of one of the birds. He slipped it into his pants pocket. I tried to get close enough to "accidental" bump that pocket but I could not get it to work.

People actually do that? Why?

No one knows where I can get some button quail? Eggs or chicks.

I did see an ad on Craigslist a few days ago. I'm not sure of the location. The place I get most of my chicken needs figured out might be able to order you some in as well - Anoka Ramsey Farm & Garden.

 

[Violetsfeathers]

People actually do that? Why?



I did see an ad on Craigslist a few days ago. I'm not sure of the location. The place I get most of my chicken needs figured out might be able to order you some in as well - Anoka Ramsey Farm & Garden.

Thanks I saw the ad too, I can't get them right now and the ones in the ad are four weeks old already. I've found a few places with eggs but I don't know if they have a lot of colors.

 

[I Love Layers]

Is stealing eggs at the fair that common?

Half the time for me it's little kids, and the other 1/4 it's people who have chickens but like how mine, look so try to steal their eggs. The other 1/4 is adults who are just crazy

 

[duluthralphie]

Is stealing eggs at the fair that common?

I have never seen it before. I was in shock, but I guess I am just too honest for my own good.

I do think a good pocket bump would have made this the last egg he stole.

 

[duluthralphie]

Thanks I saw the ad too, I can't get them right now and the ones in the ad are four weeks old already. I've found a few places with eggs but I don't know if they have a lot of colors.

I have no idea what a button quail is, but will they live there over winter? Your winters are not a lot warmer than ours.

 

[holm25]

Well the fluid moved from Daisies lower jaw to her brisket so now we r treating her for Hardware disease and are going to shoot a magnet down her throat. Then we have to do daily doses of penicillin and hope that helps. If not she is a goner... If we lose her this will be the 3rd cow this year... And it makes it worse we cant just run her through the sales barn for food... She will just be vulture food...

 

[I Love Layers]

Well the fluid moved from Daisies lower jaw to her brisket so now we r treating her for Hardware disease and are going to shoot a magnet down her throat. Then we have to do daily doses of penicillin and hope that helps. If not she is a goner... If we lose her this will be the 3rd cow this year... And it makes it worse we cant just run her through the sales barn for food... She will just be vulture food...

That sucks... We've lost one so far this year, she was really sick who were going to take her to the corrals, and take her to the sales barn. The day I went out on Sneaks to take her to the corrals, she couldn't get up. And she could barely even move or make a noise so we made the decision to shoot her.. Thankfully we have 3 replacement heifers