Surviving Minnesota!

[hmarg06]

I started with calls, but moved to full size. That's the beauty of the Muscovy and buff ducks, they lay lots of eggs. I was overrun this spring haha! I agree they are just pigs though, everything they walk over turns to nasty mud! I'm just an overall poultry lover, if it's a bird I want it

 

[holm25]

I started with calls, but moved to full size. That's the beauty of the Muscovy and buff ducks, they lay lots of eggs. I was overrun this spring haha! I agree they are just pigs though, everything they walk over turns to nasty mud! I'm just an overall poultry lover, if it's a bird I want it

**Sees opportunity** Do you possibly need another Pekin hen so yours isn't lonely?

 

[hmarg06]

Someone is supposed to be taking him and the buffs soon, but if she backs out on him I may take you up on that!

 

[Cluckies]

Wow, there's a lot of Minnesotans here! Hello from the bottom South East corner!

Thanks for sharing the photos, you have a nice looking flock!

If I were to get ducks again, it would be the ones that don't splash all their water everywhere, who don't poop everywhere, who don't quack in the middle of the night for no other reason that to hear themselves quack, who don't lay their eggs in middle of mud puddles and ankle breaking holes they dug with their bills, ones who wouldn't dig ankle breaking holes in the first place, and ones that didn't eat me out of house and home just for a few measely eggs in the fall that I have to scrub mud and poop off with a scrub brush to eat. Other than those things, I don't mind ducks.

Wow, didn't have time to read yesterday... 145 posts later! phew!

My Golden comet is back to laying only one hard shelled egg a day, yey! those 2 softshell eggs a day, no good. I won't get another golden comet. She is a lovely bird, like a tall skinny dancer, very delicate and graceful. But all those wasted eggs this summer

They should not breed them to lay more than 1 egg a day. of course, she may have just been an accident. she just doesn't have the calcium to cover 2 eggs a day. Getting some nice eggs from her now though that she is only laying once a day. Of course, she is the only one out of 5 who is still laying, the rest are in different stages of molt. Won't see an egg out of them until spring.

Has anybody taken cattle panels and made a tunnel out to the chicken coop for the winter? I'm kicking it around. My DH would not want to deal with it... but....

 

[holm25]

Someone is supposed to be taking him and the buffs soon, but if she backs out on him I may take you up on that!

Just let me know! I would keep this hen but lost my drake to a bad leg injury.

 

[Momof3plustwins]

Holmes did you figure out which house was mine as you drove past for deer hunting?

 

[holm25]

Holmes did you figure out which house was mine as you drove past for deer hunting?

Yeah I think so! Do you have any cattle at your place?

 

[ejb3810]

Good morning all of you poultry enthusiasts. It is a great day!! I am going to work on buildings and pens today in preparation for the upcoming breeding season.
Can't beat this weather, so time to make the most of it. Soon we will have snow and cold.

 

[jerryse]

Ed, I can second your statement on having Jerry's Chickens in Northern Minnesota vs. Illinois as a good thing. He gave my heart a pitter-pat yesterday when he mentioned there would be Ameraucanas of his lines in our neck of the woods. I think I have a few local chicken friends I can line up for sales to put in the saw-mill piggy bank.

Morning . I had to post on this one . I can finish reading later . The plan is evolving . I need your input on internet and TV . I think I will make myself a summer resident . Still waiting on my MN entry permit . I think IL did not complete their part . I did not get one last year due to the AI scare . The sawmill is a go SHHHH . DW does not know yet . First time in 47 years I have went ahead alone . She will be OK once I prove the savings . I will bill her for lumber produced to pay off the loan . Our joint account . The changes to all hardwood and no purchased lumber will add up . No trusses I will use the older method of 2x6 rafters cut from my trees . I will do no drywall . Thinking 1/2 wood with a 1/4 veneer of different species of each wood over the 1/2 inch . The lumber bill will be staggering . I will get it done on the cheap at $15000 for a new mill . Lumber = could hit $50,000 . Glad now the sawyer did not work out . I could never have got this much cut with him in a timely manner . Some lumber species will be cut here this winter . The rest in MN in early May . Morel season time .

 

[I Love Layers]

Its still 4 o clock here. Woke up mainly to see election results. Now I'm laying in bad cause I'm to lazy to fall asleep