Surviving Minnesota!

[ejb3810]

Be careful out there Jerry, who said living in the tropics comes without challenges ?

BC I think that if you took fewer photos of your chickens you would be less attached to them. It is then easier to deal with the inevitable. Nice photos by the way, and I notice there are no ND One Legs in your flock.

Ralphie has been strangely missing in the last posts. I hope he has not succumbed to the notion that work projects needed tending to.

 

[jerryse]

I have 3 chicks hatched . 1 more trying . I will have to get a pic later . I have a genetic impossible in there . I put a couple silver penciled Brahma roosters over my auto sexing EE hens . Should produce sex linked silver hens and golden roosters . I have a red chick with feather legs . This should not happen . I have had a similar result in a red x silver cross before . Genetics guys told me it could not be . I had to be mistaken .

 

[Momof3plustwins]

Genetics are a funny thing. Just when you think you know what you are talking about the impossible happens. The fluke.

 

[duluthralphie]

Morning all..

I have been busier than a one legged man at a butt kicking contest....as the saying goes.

I have 8 chicks turning a week today. I have some hatching this week.

I was online but I was answering my PM's I am getting a lot of requests for legbar chicks, especially the white ones and I am not even advertising them. The problem is even at half of what the hatchery's ask people say I am asking too much.

I am thinking about contacting Meyers hatchery and see if they want hatching eggs. if I put my a couple white roosters in with the legbars. I love hatching I hate selling, to people.

I really am not into my full hatching mode yet. I am just starting to gear up. I have so much to do, I am willing to put on a seminar if people want to "learn"....( I must have read too many Tom Sawyer stories as a kid)..

I am behind today already. I had planned to be back from Menards by now. I need to remember how old I am and wear my glasses more. I thought one of the toads had pasty butt last night so I spent 5-10 minutes trying to get it off the butt.... Turns out mother nature played a joke on the chick and got a brown/black spot around his vent.


Jerry, I love when something occurs that "can't"...Why remember last year I got a legbar rooster with a pea comb and so many of the experts said it could not happen and another rooster must have breed the hens...Immaculate conception would be the only answer unless a rooster could tele-transport in and out of the breeding cages.


I wonder what happened to that rooster.....Wait, I remember I gave it to a friend of mine that is a chicken breeding expert.....and he hated it so much he fed it to his pet raccoon...

MnChiockmom I am so glad your home! How is the boys shoulder?

I need to get bleach, and disinfect the hatcher and a bunch of eggs for setting today. I think I have 6 dozen to go in today. I am still being optimistic with Ed on the PC hens. I know I should change him out, BUT I think Ed has a better look than his Sons do. Ed threw some great pullets that out do the Mothers but his cockerels where not the same quality as him...Except the one something killed, naturally.

 

[memphis]

Ralph....a thought about Ed. If I have a lazy stud dog, separating him from his girlfriend makes the heart grow fonder...so to speak. Maybe you pull Ed from his girls for a few hours, or a day & see if it makes any difference. Just a thought....

 

[duluthralphie]

I thought I would beat Jerry to the fuzzy butts pictures..

Here are my one week today old chicks.




As you can see I have a hard time keeping the temp probe under the light. One of the SS picks it up and carries it around like a dog with a bone..


Also my Brother in NC has been finding ancient spearheads, knifes, skinning tools and so on from his new property. He wanted to remodel and old farm house, like we are doing here.

He put a garden in and got hundreds of edged things. He actually is just putting them in 5 gallon buckets he has found so many they have kind of lost the thrill of finding them.. Yesterday, life changed for him.

His building project is on indefinite hold. He has to go through a ton of inspection and determinations before he can do any more building, digging or even hoeing his garden,,,

He found this:



Amazing what a human bone with a few teeth can do to stop a remodeling project. Beings he is a good liberal professor he has lots of professor friends, one is an archeology professor. She says the bone is probably thousands of years old. She told him, she would contact the proper authorities. The police called and talked to him but were not interested in the bone. He found a tooth last week and did not think much about it.

I read the NC laws, it appears he will be able to finish the project when the Eastern Cherokee Nation Council decides he can or if they will let him. They have about 6 months to tell him they are thinking about it The Silly boy thinks he will be digging in a week or two again.

It is a cool find though I am jealous of him over that. but not for what is about to come. He did not think it would be that big of deal, until I told him to look up the Kennewick man....

 

[memphis]

Wow! That is so interesting about your brother! I live in fear of finding bones on any of our sites....it shuts down the whole project. Having been there, I got an instant headache just reading about your brother. However, its so interesting finding that stuff! Keep us posted!

Aww... how cute of the little SS! Baby wants to play!! My turkeys LOVE their soccer ball!

 

[duluthralphie]

Wow! That is so interesting about your brother! I live in fear of finding bones on any of our sites....it shuts down the whole project. Having been there, I got an instant headache just reading about your brother. However, its so interesting finding that stuff! Keep us posted!

Aww... how cute of the little SS! Baby wants to play!! My turkeys LOVE their soccer ball!

I bought a soccer ball for my turkeys but they only chase it when I kick it and if they are in the mood. They would rather sulk and make noise.

 

[duluthralphie]

Wow! That is so interesting about your brother! I live in fear of finding bones on any of our sites....it shuts down the whole project. Having been there, I got an instant headache just reading about your brother. However, its so interesting finding that stuff! Keep us posted!

Aww... how cute of the little SS! Baby wants to play!! My turkeys LOVE their soccer ball!

I am thinking with the number of artifacts he is finding and now the bone, he may never be able to continue. am I right?

 

[memphis]

Not necessarily. My experience has been with commercial projects, but the local authorities ("authorities " can differ state to state) come to the site and determine if any additional excavation is required. Not unusual to find an arbitrary body here & there. If there are enough artifacts and they want to further investigate, they are usually given a time frame to complete their work. One project was two months, another six months.