Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Doesn't your germaphobic part rebel at letting a chick on your bed?

It's on the WWDF's side of the bed,and I let her in bed germs and all....

 

[BantyChooks]

It's on the WWDF's side of the bed,and I let her in bed germs and all....

Never know, she might let it onto your side of the bed...

 

[duluthralphie]

Never know, she might let it onto your side of the bed...

She knows better than that,,,it would require a bedding change then.

 

[ejb3810]

The photos of the mink have reminded me of my own recent encounter with a varmint.
If I have birds which do not return from a race by dark I have and area (aviary) which they can enter on arrival to get out of the open and be protected from predation. It usually works. The opening for entry is approximately 5" high and 4" wide.
The morning after my last two races a bird had come in after dark. However sometime during the night a Great Horned Owl crawled in and killed the bird. Even with heavy leather gloves it was able to inflict damage to me with it's talons. I released the Owl without inflicting bodily harm on it. Up close they seem to be a very large bird, and they are not too fond of humans.

 

[duluthralphie]

The photos of the mink have reminded me of my own recent encounter with a varmint.
If I have birds which do not return from a race by dark I have and area (aviary) which they can enter on arrival to get out of the open and be protected from predation. It usually works. The opening for entry is approximately 5" high and 4" wide.
The morning after my last two races a bird had come in after dark. However sometime during the night a Great Horned Owl crawled in and killed the bird. Even with heavy leather gloves it was able to inflict damage to me with it's talons. I released the Owl without inflicting bodily harm on it. Up close they seem to be a very large bird, and they are not too fond of humans.

Your impulse control is remarkable. I am not sure the bird would have flown away without an injury if it had been me. I am clumsy with predators and many times they end up mortally wounded.

 

[MNChickMom]

Good Morning!

 

[I Love Layers]

Good morning. Good news I can walk on it, but not normally. I still can't move it though.

 

[lvie]

Good Morning to all you Chickeners . . . . (felt like crowing this a.m.)

 

[duluthralphie]

Good Morning...

I have a ton of stuff to do, but I think I will take an hour or two off and go looking for some hen of the woods. It did not freeze yet and the temps are such I might find some. Everything else has been late this year, maybe the mushrooms are too.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Another beautiful fall day here .