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[MinnesotaNice]

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.

I think a good pocket punch would have worked great as well.

 

[Cebarmlds]

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.

I was shocked to hear it happens! That would have been great if you could have pocket bumped him

 

[Cebarmlds]

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'm sorry Holm, that's sad.

 

[Violetsfeathers]

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.

They're the smallest kind of quail, their real name is Chinese painted quail. I would keep them in a coop with a heat lamp or some poeple have them in their house like a parrot kinda. I'm trying to convince mom to let me have it in the house.

 

[ejb3810]

Ralphie, I found the story about putting the turkeys in for the night hilarious! I can only imagine what Judy was saying under her breath.

If you were to produce EEs that were sex linked and had good size from highbred vigor you might well find a source for the male chicks? You are a young man yet, so that would be a good project for you. Jerry would be a good source of advice in such an endeavor.

Fleet Farm is opening their new store in Hermantown soon, and that may well be a source of feed items and poultry keeping supplies at reasonable prices.

As to a source of quail, Craigslist or some Facebook group should be a likely place to search?

Ralphie, if you are going to show birds at Hutchinson and have some Dominiques that may be a good breed to show as well?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Chanterelles?

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie, I found the story about putting the turkeys in for the night hilarious! I can only imagine what Judy was saying under her breath.

If you were to produce EEs that were sex linked and had good size from highbred vigor you might well find a source for the male chicks? You are a young man yet, so that would be a good project for you. Jerry would be a good source of advice in such an endeavor.

Fleet Farm is opening their new store in Hermantown soon, and that may well be a source of feed items and poultry keeping supplies at reasonable prices.

As to a source of quail, Craigslist or some Facebook group should be a likely place to search?

Ralphie, if you are going to show birds at Hutchinson and have some Dominiques that may be a good breed to show as well?

My Dominiques are a tad young, and small but I have time and might show them. I started moving the hens out of the main run they were in yesterday. They are some beautiful birds. Duane Urich has nice stock, there is no doubt about that in my mind.

I am learning too late about the places to show birds, I missed the State fair deadline by a day. I did not know Benton County would take Sherburne County Birds. If I had known Andy would be in Sauk Rapids right now.

They had a partridge Chanticler at the fair that the one I am giving you would have beaten on his worse day. Makes me more impressed with the stock I got from you.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Everything here seems to be going down hill here rn... About 2 weeks ago we had to put a reallybold cow down due to really bad leg issues(she couldnt walk anymore). And now we have a cow with lump jaw! And of course she is the craziest cow here that we cant catch. So we gotta get all the cows into the corral and get them seperated so we can keep her in!

That stinks!!!! Losing chickens hurts enough, when it is a large animal like a cow though, that is really bad. I am so sorry! Be careful with those crazy cows.

 

[duluthralphie]

Chanterelles?

I do not think so, those appear to have gills. Chanterelles have false gills. Also the color is way off.

 

[Minniechickmama]

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.

Sex Link EEs would be wonderful so I could cull the little cockerels at hatch and be done with them at hatch. I rarely keep any of them for myself, and I could probably sell every EE pullet if I hatched 50 every week.

I do have a handsome rosecomb EE cockerel I am going to keep and breed to the Black Ameraucanas I have still this year. That should pretty up the pen a little.