Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Okay - now that i have caught up with four days of reading and know what you all are doing - deer hunting for the most part - congrats to everyone one of you that have venison to put into your freezer. The weather was beautiful but not so much for hunting deer.

I did alot of outdoor work and am still paying the price for it. Lots of aspirn and Advil PM. Sleepless nights because I am in pain. It is tough getting older and so therefore, I am more determined to STOP adding more to my lists of thoughts about - wouldn't it be nice to put strawberries in this place? What about hunting for those mushrooms? Oh! and I could take down that hedge around the garden and put in all blueberry plants for a hedge (which is probably a pretty good idea.)
Take good care of what I have and forget about creating more work to do.

Enjoyed the weather so much. Extended the outdoor run on my coop. Should have done it that way in the first place. So much more room. Decided to move the three hens in the small coop back in with the main flock. After everyone gets dusted again. Then I have only one source of water to keep from freezing. It is a little bit (not alot) of an overload in that covered run but a couple extra nesting boxes and the extra run space will accomodate them nicely I believe. Keep them all warm with their body heat. I may decide not to use excess heat at all this year. Gotta grease Reggie's HUGE comb.

Those are my thoughts for now. Good morning and Good day Chickeners . . . . . . .

Ma'am, I can second that!

 

[duluthralphie]

Nope this is a different one. I see... She is my only duck I have left! I sold my Muscovys to some crazy chicken person from the Bethel area this spring

@MinnesotaNice

Boy you're so lucky you found a crazy person to buy them.

 

[holm25]

Boy you're so lucky you found a crazy person to buy them.

I was crazy for buying them... But I learn from my mistakes

 

[duluthralphie]

I was crazy for buying them... But I learn from my mistakes

You should just listen to me, I made all the mistakes so you don't have too.


Jerry, just move here!

 

[NathanZee]

I was crazy for buying them... But I learn from my mistakes

You didn't like muscovies?

 

[holm25]

I wish I would have hatched more Lucky babies. The one I butchered the other day is sooo good

 

[holm25]

You didn't like muscovies?

Oh I loved them! But I love my chickens and turkeys more

 

[lvie]

Good morning fellow chickeners

WOW! I stay away from the computer a couple of days and I miss so much! nice cats Ralphie! I also love cats .... (outside) my ex had 5 in our house....never again!

Never again will you have cats in your house or is it never again will you have your ex in your house?

 

[I Love Layers]

There's a wind tower propeller stuck on the road, it was trying to get into the gas station parking lot. One of the many reasons why to not have wind towers

 

[I Love Layers]

2 are sitting ducks on the interstate because the traffic is backed up. There's a bunch of trucks hauling corn waiting along with buses and HS kids who are backed up past the railroad tracks. Hopefully there won't be a wreck

This picture was after a bunch of corn haulers backed off into the other parking lot