Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

Isn't Foxy a Lucky Dog? What a sweet girl. She will love your farm Holm.

Saws scare me too. I don't do chainsaws and I just about didn't build a chicken coop because I had to learn saws. LOL. It was a leap. By the time I was done with the coop though...it was old hat. I suppose I should try a chain saw. But I've seen them kick DH and my Dad so...not a fan.
My Dad just informed me he turned in his JD lawn mower/utility tractor into a bit larger tractor with a roll bar (which he hates) and he got fork attachments as well for clearing out logs on his property. He's crazy! LOL. He wants to brush out a piece of property and put in a pine tree plantation. He currently has two partially torn rotator cuffs from fall backwards over logs on the ground last year. IDK.... He makes us nervous. But it keeps him busy. You can take the man off the farm. But you cant take the farm out of him.

 

[MNChickMom]

To cull a mean rooster at 6 weeks or let him finish out and be invited to dinner? That is the question.

Anyone who draws blood from 5 hens and me, then grabs a yokahomma by it's head and throws it is destined for a life of solitude.

 

[lvie]

To cull a mean rooster at 6 weeks or let him finish out and be invited to dinner? That is the question.

Anyone who draws blood from 5 hens and me, then grabs a yokahomma by it's head and throws it is destined for a life of solitude.

Huh?

 

[holm25]

To cull a mean rooster at 6 weeks or let him finish out and be invited to dinner? That is the question.

Anyone who draws blood from 5 hens and me, then grabs a yokahomma by it's head and throws it is destined for a life of solitude.

What rooster did that? I personally would cull it if its just a mutt of some sort. But it is up to you.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

To cull a mean rooster at 6 weeks or let him finish out and be invited to dinner? That is the question.

Anyone who draws blood from 5 hens and me, then grabs a yokahomma by it's head and throws it is destined for a life of solitude.

6 weeks and already a dirty bugger, huh? It's up to you and what your priorities are. If he's a cull and you don't care that he's little or not... Make your flock happy before they are overly stressed by him.

 

[holm25]

Isn't Foxy a Lucky Dog? What a sweet girl. She will love your farm Holm.

Saws scare me too. I don't do chainsaws and I just about didn't build a chicken coop because I had to learn saws. LOL. It was a leap. By the time I was done with the coop though...it was old hat. I suppose I should try a chain saw. But I've seen them kick DH and my Dad so...not a fan.
My Dad just informed me he turned in his JD lawn mower/utility tractor into a bit larger tractor with a roll bar (which he hates) and he got fork attachments as well for clearing out logs on his property. He's crazy! LOL. He wants to brush out a piece of property and put in a pine tree plantation. He currently has two partially torn rotator cuffs from fall backwards over logs on the ground last year. IDK.... He makes us nervous. But it keeps him busy. You can take the man off the farm. But you cant take the farm out of him.

Hopefully she likes it here! Believe it or not I am actually kind of a city boy. I live in a super small town and farm outside of town at my grandpas!

 

[duluthralphie]

To cull a mean rooster at 6 weeks or let him finish out and be invited to dinner? That is the question.

Anyone who draws blood from 5 hens and me, then grabs a yokahomma by it's head and throws it is destined for a life of solitude.

WOW!! It can't have been one you got from me, I sent them all through sensitivity training...

What breed was it?

 

[lvie]

So I am sitting at my puter at the table and up the river comes a Bald Eagle. I rush to my boots to get outside to my hens and the eagle is after ducks on the river. I gather my hens in - there are a total of 20 and there are always these two that do not show up. So eighteen are in lock down which means they have access to an outside run, their typical covered run and a little coop with nesting boxes. So plenty of space.

that wind is going to get nasty this evening and they would be confined for the next cple of days anyway. I think I need another roo. There are too many hens for Reggie to be able to protect. And Reggie likes to be on the homefront instead of out and about taking care of the wanderers.

 

[lvie]

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LOL Holm! What does this mean that you a city boy?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I think we have enough pictures holm from your phot-barrages to know where you really 'live'. LOL. No worries holm we won't think less of you for living in a small town.