Surviving Minnesota!

[Cebarmlds]

I was wrong in above post ..this is what I read before bed to ruin my nights sleep...


I found this mushroom in my Audubon book, it is called "Stinky Squid" Clathraceae Phallales..

It is a stinkhorn of some kind. However, the book says it is not in our area. first seen in USA in 1915 and in the mid-Atlantic states. I am assuming because of Global tectonic plate shifting we have moved to where the fungi was.

Wow that's amazing you found them thank you.

 

[duluthralphie]

That bare spot can also be a favorite spot for feather-picking-eating. If you get some time sit and watch your birds at roost time etc... See if you have a bird with that naughty habit.

Lol. You guys driving all this way for mushrooms that I'm not even sure are around any more! Lol. I'm not even entirely sure where to go. Just a few ideas to try. I'd feel really bad if you drove and we got nada. It's up to you. But by the looks of those last chanterelles we are getting to the end.

There might be a hen or chicken out there. I have my new handy dandy "Mushrooms of the upper Midwest" guide book. I will bring it as it is designed to fit in my pocket so I can take it into the woods....

Besides if I don't use it, Judy has been upset at me for nothing....


It is going to be 70 on Saturday and 68 Sunday in Effie, so we should get a spurt of fungus growth...I hope..


I am coming to have good coffee more than good shrooms. Besides I have a rooster in training for Jerry.

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[duluthralphie]

Wow that's amazing you found them thank you.

I am amazing, just ask me!!!

Do not ask the WWD, her and I disagree on this.

 

[Cebarmlds]

You edited this!

I read the first version just before I tried to fall asleep last night. You made it hard to sleep.

All I could picture was you eating one of those things. I had always thought of you as such a nice sweet person.....until last night, when I realized you were actually a sister of Judy's. Just another WWD....

Maybe a cousin, but evil I am sure....

I was just joking around, I didn't think Nathan or anyone would think I'd actually eat those! Even you with all the shrooms you've tried, I would never believe you'd try those.

 

[KlopKlop]

Morning all! I'm hobbling around this AM. Was late for chicken chores so I had some ornery hens waiting for the doors to open.

Time to find some coffee!!

 

[Violetsfeathers]

This morning as I was leaving the coop I heard what sounded like a young cockerel learning to crow coming from inside the coop. At first I thought it was my young rooster Huckleberry but him and my only other rooster Pumpkin were both outside.
So I went in the coop to see who it was and it was my white Cochin bantam hen Marshmallow! After she crowed she sneezed once or twice then kept crowing.

I've had a hen crow before, I thought she was turning into a rooster but she never did. Not sure why they do this?

I got it on video.

 

[duluthralphie]

This morning as I was leaving the coop I heard what sounded like a young cockerel learning to crow coming from inside the coop. At first I thought it was my young rooster Huckleberry but him and my only other rooster Pumpkin were both outside.
So I went in the coop to see who it was and it was my white Cochin bantam hen Marshmallow! After she crowed she sneezed once or twice then kept crowing.

I've had a hen crow before, I thought she was turning into a rooster but she never did. Not sure why they do this?

How old is she?

 

[Violetsfeathers]

How old is she?

I am not 100% sure, I got her February 2015 and at that time I think she was a pullet, she could've been a hen. But right now I think she was a pullet when I got her.
So she is... 2 or 3 years old?

Also I edited my first post, now there is a video.

 

[duluthralphie]

I am not 100% sure, I got her February 2015 and at that time I think she was a pullet, she could've been a hen. But right now I think she was a pullet when I got her.
So she is... 2 or 3 years old?

Also I edited my first post, now there is a video.

Wow, I am stumped by her actions..... unless she is a really late blooming rooster...

 

[Violetsfeathers]

Wow,  I am stumped by her actions..... unless she is a really late blooming rooster...

Ha ha, No, I've had a hen crow before, she only did it for a day or two then she didn't crow again. Hens can turn into roosters but usually that's when there are no roosters around. I have two.
I am keeping marshmallow seperate from the other chickens because she is molting and I want her feathers to stay pretty for a while, last time she molted Pumpkin kept jumping on her with muddy feet and I had to give her a bath. Then her feathers got all raggedy and horrible. She can still see the other chickens, she's just in her own pen.

As you can see in the video her feathers really are terrible. She used to be so white she glowed.