Surviving Minnesota!

[KlopKlop]

Good morning from the farmers market!!

Selling 15 dozen today plus garlic and jumbo jalepenos. Yum! Garlic has been a big hit this year. Anyone else here grow garlic?

 

[lvie]

Good Morning Chickeners . . . . .

Caught up in reading - had to do it in two sessions. If a person relaxes one day, let alone two or three, on here it is like reading a book. A good book - but still alot of reading to be done.

No one responded to my pasturized egg question. Should I assume you do not know any more than I do about them? I guess I will take the time and look on line and then I can inform you, my chickeners.

Layers - sorry about the second horse going lame. Even more sorry for your grandpa.

Ralphie, tck - tck - tck Poor St. Judy. You just do not understand what she is going through with chickens occasionally in the house. Judy needs you to hold her on your lap while you drink your coffee and look at BYC.

I have been out this morning, gathering scrap pieces of wood so that I can put together a three-sided-brooder in the current coop. CORRECT ME if I am wrong but . . . . if I build a floorless box (38 x 25 x 18) and secure a heat source (like you have on your wall BT) to the top, then check the temperature BEFORE I put the chickies into that section of the protected-from-the-weather- coop these three-week-old chicks should be good to go - don't you think? I am just so done with chicks in my basement and they are ready to graduate to a larger brooder. I will section them off from the flock of course in their own area with hardware wire so that everyone can see everyone. WHAT SAY YOU Chickeners? Should be doable right?

Hutch - yeah - lets do it. Like meat for coffee or tea or something mid- afternoon?

 

[lvie]

Okay - Dah! I get it. pasturized chicken eggs are from hens that free-range. I feel so dumb!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Lol. Are you sure you don't mean pastured?
I think eggs just go through and FDA approved egg washer. And yes unfortunately it takes the bloom off in which then eggs in the United States require refrigeration. It's dumb really. Europe, Mexico, etc,,, eggs sit on a dry goods shelf at stores for sale. If you give hens clean nests, you'll have clean eggs.

Ivie agree Ralphie needs to hold Judy on his lap instead of chickens!

 

[holm25]

Idk if I am gonna get to show in Hutch this year. That's a bad weekend for us this year with a good family friends wedding and we are setting it up and doing all that fun stuff lol. BUT I think we could make it down for a day!



Layers sorry to hear about your grandpa's horse. You're already working cows?! We don't work ours till middle of November after deer season and then sell the calves sometime in December. We have 1 cow that cycled a few weeks ago and is bred back but she is going to the sales barn. We would like all the calves to be born before May so she will just be too late.

 

[I Love Layers]

Idk if I am gonna get to show in Hutch this year. That's a bad weekend for us this year with a good family friends wedding and we are setting it up and doing all that fun stuff lol. BUT I think we could make it down for a day!



Layers sorry to hear about your grandpa's horse. You're already working cows?! We don't work ours till middle of November after deer season and then sell the calves sometime in December. We have 1 cow that cycled a few weeks ago and is bred back but she is going to the sales barn. We would like all the calves to be born before May so she will just be too late.

Yeah. If you do it during deer season you won't get any help here. And later in October its playoffs for HS football, and then it will snow and you can't get the cows out of some of the draws even on horseback. I think its also because of how cold it gets. And my uncle contracts so it may be that the contractor wants them before a certain date.
They just got the 2 shots, and PGing. The vet does 15,000 cows a every fall so that may have been the only day that worked.

 

[holm25]

Yeah. We party hunt so everybody is up by Thief River hunting together. Well different stands but u know what I mean. All of ours come when we call and walk right into the corral so we don't worry about that. But we do t have as big of an opperation as you guys.

 

[holm25]

Did you know you get more for non Vaccinated calves than you do for Vaccinated?

 

[KlopKlop]

Good Morning Chickeners . . . . .

Caught up in reading - had to do it in two sessions. If a person relaxes one day, let alone two or three, on here it is like reading a book. A good book - but still alot of reading to be done.

No one responded to my pasturized egg question. Should I assume you do not know any more than I do about them?  I guess I will take the time and look on line and then I can inform you, my chickeners.

Layers - sorry about the second horse going lame. Even more sorry for your grandpa.

Ralphie, tck - tck - tck  Poor St. Judy. You just do not understand what she is going through with chickens occasionally in the house. Judy needs you to hold her on your lap while you drink your coffee and look at BYC. 

I have been out this morning, gathering scrap pieces of wood so that I can put together a three-sided-brooder in the current coop. CORRECT ME if I am wrong but . . . .  if I build a floorless box (38 x 25 x 18) and secure a heat source (like you have on your wall BT) to the top, then check the temperature BEFORE I put the chickies into that section of the protected-from-the-weather- coop these three-week-old chicks should be good to go - don't you think?  I am just so done with chicks in my basement and they are ready to graduate to a larger brooder. I will section them off from the flock of course in their own area with hardware wire so that everyone can see everyone. WHAT SAY YOU Chickeners?  Should be doable right?

Hutch - yeah - lets do it. Like meat for coffee or tea or something mid- afternoon? 

I don't know how eggs are pasteurized but milk is by heating it to 180 degrees. Not sure how you hear an egg without it cooking a little. I know pasteurized eggs are a thing because DWs nursing home gas to use pasteurized eggs. She can't bring our eggs there

 

[I Love Layers]

Did you know you get more for non Vaccinated calves than you do for Vaccinated?

The contractor will not buy them if they aren't vaccinated for shipping's. Most buyers won't even look at calves not vaccinated without shipping. These calves can hold their own anyways. They were so freakin big