Surviving Minnesota!

[jerryse]

I have some of those old cartridge fuses around here Kloppers. They are a pain in the rear. I am changing them out as I get time.

The Quonset shed has 10 gauge wire running to it (underground) with 4 circuits on a 100 amp fuse. Speaking of fire waiting to happen. My Dad use to weld in that shed. I can't believe the welder did not burn the 10 gauge wire up. I am gradually changing everything to circuit breakers and a decent amount of circuits.

I am also burying wire to the Quonset. I am using number 2 Al. It should hold 100amp. I had the electrician change the mask on the pole this spring and drop me a 100amp shut off, in addition to the farm shut off. There are some things I will not do either..

I had to have the electrician do some work on my Mom's house . Even though I own her house and it is on the same parcel I cannot do any work on it. The law only allows you to work on dwellings you own and live in. So I am stuck having to hire on her place.


Jerry I had to look "breda" up. I then looked at some Polish crosses. There are some weird looking birds that can be made with them. I wonder what a CLB/Polish cross would look like or a White Sport Polish!

I can make my own Fufus!

V comb and single will give you double single combs . Like in buttercup . So 2 big wonky single combs on roosters . Ugly IMO .

 

[Momof3plustwins]

Ok I have been wondering forever what PC stands for and CLB. Ralphie can you help me out?

 

[duluthralphie]

V comb and single will give you double single combs . Like in buttercup . So 2 big wonky single combs on roosters . Ugly IMO .

This is what I am going for Jerry!






PC is Partridge Chanticler..... CLB is crested Cream legbar Oops I said that wrong, Never say crested to the purist, they go nuts over it.

 

[holm25]

Ralphie I think a CLBxPolish cross would be awesome! Crested green egg layers! I think that would sell?! Maybe not though lol!

 

[holm25]

Ralphie my Legbars are confusing me... Only one of them is laying at this age. Wouldn't u think both would be laying? I cannot find where the second one could have a best in this run! Are they both the same age? I assume they are since they were the same size when I got them. Is one of them broken?lol I was jw Cuz I thought they would both be laying by now!

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie my Legbars are confusing me... Only one of them is laying at this age. Wouldn't u think both would be laying? I cannot find where the second one could have a best in this run! Are they both the same age? I assume they are since they were the same size when I got them. Is one of them broken?lol I was jw Cuz I thought they would both be laying by now!

Some Clb will not start laying until you kiss them on the lips, give that a try for a few days, then get back to me on how it worked.

 

[holm25]

Some Clb will not start laying until you kiss them on the lips, give that a try for a few days, then get back to me on how it worked.

Oh no Ralphie. I can't kiss this one! I dang near have to wear winter gear just to pick her up! She draws blood constantly! She is really mean to me... She's lucky I'm to scared to touch her or she would have a lesson in kindness. Were u raising killers over there or what?!

 

[I Love Layers]

Pulled 46 posts after lunch, then went to a neighbors, originally to just BS but ended up hanging 2 doors on his new building for working cows. Him and my dad then BSed some more about the pipeline and wind towers.
We got home about 45 minutes ago.
Tomorrow we are heading out to Fairfield to go meet the new priest who is from Ukraine and is married and has 2 daughters, if I'm correct he's 33.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I just had an electrician out to quote me on trenching a power line to the new garage. He says i have to put 100amp service in, i was figuring 50a would do it. probably wont be a bad idea for more if it isnt too spendy. He was looking at the power pole and determined i needed to replace the 'whole kit and kaboodle from the meter down'. I told him that sounded expensive and asked if it was really necessary. he said he supposed he could just replace the box at the bottom where the service lines go into the ground. I may be looking for a second estimate unless this quote comes back super cheap!

anyone have experience with this kind of work? i figured it would be fairly simple

17-years ago when we moved here, we had 60a service to the house with the old fuse box. It was our first order of business to get that replaced. It was about 150' run from the new transformer they also put in on the property that year with a buried line up the yard, which was nice with all the trees we had then. We upped it to 100a and it ran about $2000 then for us. I know we didn't have the cheapest electrician, but he did a good job and we were happy with that. He had to go under our patio too and install the whole new breaker box and hook it all up, so I am sure that was part of it.

I know United and RSC both have the trenching equipment, or at least they did las time we rented anything (usually some kind of earth moving or other heavy equipment, and usually on Mother's Day weekend, or a chipper or high lift for something, I am such a lucky woman!) If you plan to put in PVC, you could go with the small, track backhoe and lay it all down fairly easily, i would think, if like the fellas said, you may want to run something else later on.



@duluthralphie and @holm25 you two are quite the cut-ups tonight, aren't you?

@duluthralphie They are pretty young birds for competing with, however, if your purpose is to find out more about what you have and compare or at least experience the show, they I think you should still take them. They do look young and smallish. If you really want to try to put more on them, up your protein in your feed, but that isn't going to do a lot in the next month, what they need is time, and you already knew that.
You could hatch in November even, if you have eggs and fertility then. The rules are under a year for cockerels and under a year for pullets, it does not go by the January 1 date like 4-H. However, trying to raise them in November and December is kind of a PITA since they are big enough to outside and it is too cold to turn them out at that time. I do find the even February hatched are pretty well filled out, that is what Holm's birds are, mid-Feb. It will depend on the breed too, but Doms are about the same growth rate as most other American breeds.
I don't like the comb at all on the first one you showed us, there are no bumps on it and it looks like it half wants to be a cushion but with the tear drop shape of a rosecomb. The other one, I am not sure if it will plump up with age or cup more? I didn't realize the Doms were so much smaller than the Buckeyes, but they are of slighter build.

You may end up being the only one showing Doms at all. I don't recall seeing any or at least not many in the previous two shows at Hutch.

 

[duluthralphie]

Morning....


Another day with no rain in the forecast. But this heavy dew really vacuums!