Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

We are reroofing a dairy barn roof, it will be at least 6-8 men on the roof and another handful of women and one older man on ground crew, lull driving, and bobcat driving.

Have fun on the roof.............. You are going up to help too, aren't you?

 

[Cluckies]

Yeah, them too.

Should be a nice day to take the plastic off the run, has everyone else removed their plastic- if you used it? maybe I'm a procrastinator?

Mine is still on, and I remove some here and there and put it back when needed. The beauty of green house panels.

Looks like it is going to be a beautiful day. Chickens chook cooking when they find an earthworm, which invariably calls Fi over to steal it. They never learn.
I have to plan my day, or I'll waste it, hate that. I have parts for 2 raised gardens. Wonder if the ground is soft enough to dig and level out without killing my back?
Or I'll find something else to do...

 

[I Love Layers]

I got the plastic down rolled up and put away

It's very dusty in the run

A little wind and rain might help.

I took my run down last year! Best decision I have ever made!

We are reroofing a dairy barn roof, it will be at least 6-8 men on the roof and another handful of women and one older man on ground crew, lull driving, and bobcat driving.

Have fun!


Foggy this morning but hopefully it clears up so I can get some stuff done. First on the list is separating Chicks

 

[ejb3810]

My project pullets have initiated laying and have not produced the egg color I was attempting to develop. Some on here may recall that I was using a combination of Black Copper Marans, Ameraucana and EE to develop a line of hens that would lay a Purple egg. This has failed as most of the pullets are laying eggs which are a shade of Lavender. This is so far off from goal that I have butchered all the pullets and will likely go on to using some combination of Ameraucana and EE to produce Lime Green eggs. Wish me luck!!

Cloudy and cool here this morning. I hope that BC brought a sweater and jacket with on her trip to Duluth. I believe it was Mark Twain who said "the worst winter I ever experienced was a summer in Duluth".

Ralphie may be more flexible in the sale of his lake get away property than previously thought. The authorities from Togo have contacted me and reported that the Sasquatch meth ring operating out of the cabin has had an accident, and the cabin has burned to the ground.
April Fools, Ralphie !!

 

[BantyChooks]

My project pullets have initiated laying and have not produced the egg color I was attempting to develop. Some on here may recall that I was using a combination of Black Copper Marans, Ameraucana and EE to develop a line of hens that would lay a Purple egg. This has failed as most of the pullets are laying eggs which are a shade of Lavender. This is so far off from goal that I have butchered all the pullets and will likely go on to using some combination of Ameraucana and EE to produce Lime Green eggs. Wish me luck!!

Cloudy and cool here this morning. I hope that BC brought a sweater and jacket with on her trip to Duluth. I believe it was Mark Twain who said "the worst winter I ever experienced was a summer in Duluth".

What, no orange eggs with periwinkle spots? Impossible. Every bird from my Marans x EE so far has produced a lovely egg of aforementioned colour.
Try crossing the Ameraucana with yellow unicorns to get the desired lime green.

That was George Washington who said that, get your facts straight...

 

[jerryse]

We have sunshine .

The hour by hour forecast says mostly cloudy . Hope they are wrong . Burning daylight or sunshine so gotta get out there .

 

[Cluckies]

Ours says partly to mostly cloudy too, not a cloud in the sKY (knock on wood)

 

[holm25]

Rainy, Foggy and you can't see any blue in the sky. Good day for shingling.... Not... We just have a tiny bit left to shingle on a house when the rain stops.



MNchickmom I know how bad metal roofs are as we replaced a huge one last fall at a neighbors .. I wish you luck.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Beautiful partly cloudy here.

Good luck to all the roofers!

 

[franksgreengirl]

Is it too early to remove the plastic tarp from around the run for my city hens? I'm itching to get in there and do a full scrub down but want to air it out sufficiently too. It would also give them a better view of the yard when they're in their run. #NosyQuads
Here is our princess peach... One of the pampered beauties