Surviving Minnesota!

[Cebarmlds]

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[BantyChooks]

I'm gonna upload some pics tonight... Finally got the camera charged up and brought out today.... Got some good Dom pics for Ralphie and ten some random ones...

 

[destiny_56085]

Sorry Holm but I'm being brutally honest for the new chicken owners.... too many times I've sold birds and they end up dead if people have never had them before.

 

[jerryse]

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Some of my new birds. They're slow to warm up but real cute. There's a rooster too but he refused to pose for this picture.

Nice . Hope you raise plenty . I will be wanting some .

 

[I Love Layers]

For those of you that are showing I would recommend getting a bottle of show sheen for horses. That stuff really makes feathers pop and shine

Yes it does! Same with Mane and Tail Shampoo when bathing!

 

[BantyChooks]

Nice . Hope you raise plenty . I will be wanting some .

Come visit next spring and bring some of them pretty blacks and they're yours.

 

[MagpieDucks]

Holm, why didn't you just stick the rest of the birds out in the rain to speed up the bathing process? :

 

[DwayneNLiz]

For those of you that are showing I would recommend getting a bottle of show sheen for horses. That stuff really makes feathers pop and shine

baby oil works just as well

For the birds I lost or having to tell the WWD I need to buy 4 rolls of electric netting?

sorry to hear about both

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I lost two cockerels tonight. Two BIG FAT cockerels I have been fattening up to eat myself.

Something beat me to them. They were lying dead on the ground inside the Guinea gulag. I had moved them there the other day. It has been empty for 3-4 months.

I had lost some this spring in there to something. I searched for entry points and found none. It has an apron and netting cover.

Again today I searched for an entry, nothing. I am baffled and a little urinated. I was moving the small pen they were in, it had 4 birds in it. I figured I would try the gulag again. Wrong choice on my part.

I am afraid I will have to buy more electric netting to go around it. Saint Judy will not act saintly when I tell her I need to buy 500-600 bucks worth of fencing again,,,,, I hate to be me when I break that to her.

Maybe I should just order it and let her be surprised when the bill comes. That always works well.

Better to ask forgiveness than permission I guess ?
Sorry about the birds that stinks

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Shawluvsbirds I did not realize you are Fake Eileen. Rofl...

Here’s the deal for me hatchery vs. breeder. Longevity in laying. When I get birds they are tended to and cared for and I want longevity in my efforts. Hatchery stock will be smaller and often with plumbing issues at a year and a half to 2 years. Breeder birds are large and the plumage extremely beautiful as most are breeding toward show and competitions and less so for production. Although they do great anyways as layers.
Silkies great for docileness with kids but not good in a mixed flock. Larger birds peck and pick on silkies and they have incomplete skulls. Brain damage or death with hard pecks. My silkie at 5 years old layed 14 eggs, was broody x 6 weeks. Laid 14 eggs, broody six weeks. You could set a watch to it. I guess she did do some winter breaks and raised chicks so broody for 8 -10 weeks a couple times.

Sewing machines. Ralphie you do surprise me. I too have been fascinated by the mechanics of it. Intricate machined works of art they are. I was bequeathed a 1950’s husqvarna in its turquoise splendor from mil. It was her mother’s. Mil does not sew so I got it. It’s heavy. It’s solid . It came with the desk. Book. Feet . Tools. Case with bake-a-lite handle.

Been busy with work kids and Dear Dad. He’s had some setbacks but we are determined to get him well.

Birds are good.

Trip to Duluth over MEA and a run up the north shore yesterday to hike up Oberg mountain. I was there with everybody in the state I think. DD and I tried sushi for the first time. Yay for dragon rolls!
The Duluth mall today (while it rained cats and dogs) again with the populace of state of MN . The show stopper was Ed’s Hermantown mill’s fleet farm. That building is humongous! The Mills family has out done itself! I felt lost in that spacial place. I’m used to Brainerd ‘s well packed to the ceiling building. In its relatively compact efficient goodness...

Well one hour to Outlander. Enough of my blubbering.