Surviving Minnesota!

[I Love Layers]

I have a sister that lives in Billings, MT ....she does oodles of fly fishing with her beau. I would like to "SURPRISE" them with chooks that will be most suitable for tying flies with. Anybody have any advice for me on breeds? I've done quite a bit of research already (there are specific hackle breeds that I am not going to sell a kidney to raise the $$ needed....and I guess I didn't really find any threads around here that really pointed in a good direction for me) @duluthralphie
I may have had alternative motives when I asked you for pics of your Yoka's the other week :yiipchick ...have any roosters you want to part with? And deliver to SW ND    I will be doing the buying raising harvesting etc etc so just tryin to get some lists going. I am a list-er. You think any rooster with longer saddle feathers would work....??? ....??

I've got some that would work. Really pretty roos also.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have a sister that lives in Billings, MT ....she does oodles of fly fishing with her beau. I would like to "SURPRISE" them with chooks that will be most suitable for tying flies with. Anybody have any advice for me on breeds? I've done quite a bit of research already (there are specific hackle breeds that I am not going to sell a kidney to raise the $$ needed....and I guess I didn't really find any threads around here that really pointed in a good direction for me) @duluthralphie I may have had alternative motives when I asked you for pics of your Yoka's the other week

...have any roosters you want to part with? And deliver to SW ND

I will be doing the buying raising harvesting etc etc so just tryin to get some lists going. I am a list-er. You think any rooster with longer saddle feathers would work....??? ....??

I have the perfect Yokie for you. He is absolutely no good for anything. He is a back up to my back up rooster. I put him in the pen with the young Guineas last year because he was so mean. He holds his own with guineas. That should tell you mean he is.

He is a little runt too. His tail feathers come off his back at 87.6 degrees. .....The only he has going for him is a nice small walnut comb, I thought about breeding to him for the comb, but too many other things are wrong with him, besides he is a jerk,,,


I happen to know where there is a Yokie Rooster that is not a jerk if I really needed a back up to my back up....








I found my egg eaters I think, in the SS pen. I have the two out of the pen that went to New Ulm and I 4 eggs today, one from each of the girls in there. They were just sitting in the nest box waiting for me to pick them up.

I also got an egg from the one Dom hen not in the rollaway cage and it also was sitting in the nest, with the rooster and her both in the cage.

Again, it was a hen I took to New Ulm! I think the starling down there drove the hens nuts.

 

[duluthralphie]

Cuties. What will these guys be used for? Pets - showing - surrogates?

Brooding...

They go broody once or twice a week.....

But that blue is beautiful.

 

[I Love Layers]

Brooding...   They go broody once or twice a week.....


But that blue is beautiful.

Ive never had any of mine go Broidy. Im Really suprised

as long as they don't go Broody before shows.

I can't wait to take the blue to state.

 

[MNChickMom]

Omg I just laughed so hard I woke my son. Yes the son who was born November 10th causing my husband to not participate in 2nd weekend deer hunting festivities. But I remind my husband it was kinda like karma as his dad sat in hospital 39 years to the day holding him (my husband) on 2nd weekend of hunting.

 

[EMorical]

I have the perfect Yokie for you. He is absolutely no good for anything. He is a back up to my back up rooster. I put him in the pen with the young Guineas last year because he was so mean. He holds his own with guineas. That should tell you mean he is.

He is a little runt too. His tail feathers come off his back at 87.6 degrees. .....The only he has going for him is a nice small walnut comb, I thought about breeding to him for the comb, but too many other things are wrong with him, besides he is a jerk,,,


I happen to know where there is a Yokie Rooster that is not a jerk if I really needed a back up to my back up....

.....can I see a photo

? The closest I will get to you this coming months is.... I have a wedding in May that I will be traveling to the Alexandria MN area. Long chance but still a chance.

 

[duluthralphie]

.....can I see a photo ? The closest I will get to you this coming months is.... I have a wedding in May that I will be traveling to the Alexandria MN area. Long chance but still a chance.

He looks a lot like this one,but I think you have seen this picture a few times...if I remember I will get a picture tomorrow.

Legbars might give more color too.

 

[EMorical]

He looks a lot like this one,but I think you have seen this picture a few times...if I remember I will get a picture tomorrow.






Legbars might give more color too.

I was hoping he would look like this guy!!!! Is the first rooster the same rooster in the other photos? Or are they two, or three, different birds ? I have to ask.....what would you want for a price for the little poophead exiled to Guinea-land?

 

[MNChickMom]

Those are old pics ivie but thank you.

I love the St. Cloud sewing center. They are nice, resourceful, and have a can do attitude with my old machine. Brainerd sewing center isn't worth a crap.

Love this place...honest answers.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Love this place...honest answers.

ThevSt Cloud Sewing center or BYC Surviving Minnesota Thread? Lol... sorry I might be having a blonde moment..,