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[duluthralphie]

Morning all,

One day until hatch day.

I hope I have the temp and Humidity right in the hatcher..




Judy is upset because I bought another dozen thermometers yesterday on Amazon. She thinks I have enough..



The Pathetic hatch:

 

[holm25]

Morning all, One day until hatch day. I hope I have the temp and Humidity right in the hatcher.. Judy is upset because I bought another dozen thermometers yesterday on Amazon. She thinks I have enough.. The Pathetic hatch:

Not as bad as my hatch! None of my birds are laying so I'm a little worried right now...

 

[I Love Layers]

Showing right now. Its 1F but feels like -31F. We're supposed to get anywhere from 3-6 inches in the next 3 days or so.
Yesterday I threw some new hay where the chickens like to stand in the coop, and gave the cochins some more hay. My dad is going to get the snow blower going today while were at school and try it out in the calving pasture when we get home. While talking to one of our neighbors at the sportsman banquet he also said his cows are in the calving pasture. Glad we aren't the only ones.

 

[duluthralphie]

Showing right now. Its 1F but feels like -31F. We're supposed to get anywhere from 3-6 inches in the next 3 days or so.
Yesterday I threw some new hay where the chickens like to stand in the coop, and gave the cochins some more hay. My dad is going to get the snow blower going today while were at school and try it out in the calving pasture when we get home. While talking to one of our neighbors at the sportsman banquet he also said his cows are in the calving pasture. Glad we aren't the only ones.

Tell him to be careful. running a calf through the snowblower can really mess things up..

 

[holm25]

Tell him to be careful. running a calf through the snowblower can really mess things up..

X2 but all it takes is one frozen piece of cow crap to shear a pin! The guy that had the farm before used to do that and sheared the pin quite a bit.

 

[duluthralphie]

X2 but all it takes is one frozen piece of cow crap to shear a pin! The guy that had the farm before used to do that and sheared the pin quite a bit.

I stopped using my snowblower a couple years back because I got tired of the shear pins breaking. It was not fun digging the snow out and replacing it in 20 below weather.

 

[holm25]

I stopped using my snowblower a couple years back because I got tired of the shear pins breaking.  It was not fun digging the snow out and replacing it in 20 below weather.

That doesn't sound like fun! You might as well just pile it up somewhere right? My mom yells at me when I blow snow and hit a window and I am like there is a car window here and a house window there what else am I gonna do? I forgot I could just blow the snow right in front of me and keep it moving

 

[I Love Layers]

Tell him to be careful. running a calf through the snowblower can really mess things up..

No calves yet!! We just have them in there since there's no creek bottoms in there and theres more shelter

 

[ejb3810]

Well the thing about hawks needing dark meat is not accurate. The Goshawk ( worst by far) has a natural liking for Ruffed Grouse which has very white meat. They also have a pronounced fondness for chickens (white meat) and pigeons (dark meat) and duck (dark meat).They do not discriminate.
I used to watch a falconer and his hawk in Duluth, and although I saw them hunting several times I did not see the hawk ever catch anything. I suspect they are much less skilled than a wild hawk?

When I lived in Iowa we used to visit The Ledges State Park. They had rattlers from that area on display, and although I lived in the Des Moines river valley near Boone,Ia I never saw a rattler in the wild.

It is my suspicion that BC actually caught her cold as a result of a coop run in her skivvies ? BC will learn that only a Norwegian like Judy Wilson can get away with that this time of year !

Layers, that new snowblower should move a lot of snow in a hurry, but as Holm has related it is not too good at removing frozen cow pies.

Guineas although obnoxious do serve two very useful purposes. They are excellent at tick eradication and as an alarm system. They do however have much to be alarmed about it seems.

Good luck with the hatch Ralphie. I would hatch pullet eggs. If a person is attempting to raise a flock with a goal of superior longevity then mature hens would definitely be preferential, or if one was attempting to establish superior lay rate it would be necessary to use hens which themselves had proven that attribute.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

The Russians ???

It was most definitely the Russians.