Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

I have way more roosters in my coop than the experts say you should have. I really do not have much in the way of naked backed hens or bullying. I find with more roosters I get less fertile eggs, as they spend most of the day making sure the other roosters are not breeding.

The actual breeding is done on the sly and quickly our of sight of other roosters. It works well for me, as I always have roosters watching the skies and woods edges.

I do lose a few rooster to predators, but better than a hen. I lose them now and them but not in same proportion as roosters.

I have roosters in the guinea gulag that I should process, but that may have to wait to spring. They will be too old for fryers then but will make great roasters. I am tempted to let them out to free range too. I think there would be a few fights, but they should go back into their pen and coop at night.

The turkey toms would most likely not allow them into the layer coop. The turkeys enforce turkey law on roosters most of the day.

 

[BantyChooks]

Does anyone else see a woman who appears to had one too many adult beverages...standing next to a snowman?

I do

 

[I Love Layers]

Show off, braggart!

Ralphie to make you feel better there were only 2 Doms

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie to make you feel better there were only 2 Doms

Two doms????

In the online contest??


So he came in second in a two man race?

 

[I Love Layers]

Yesterday I was cleaning cochin stuff in the coop and finishing putting hay behind the thatches. I left the door open while I went to get the first load of hay. When I came back the Jersey and her calf are in the coop. The calf slipped out pretty easily but the cow not so much, she wouldn't back out so I had her turn, I swear she almost ripped the nest boxes off the wall and almost squished my Cochin cages. I figured they wouldn't come back in if I was in there so I left the door open. Look behind me there is the cow. So I turned her around again and got her back out. I got her about 15 feet away to go get a grate, that was about 10 feet away to put in front of the door when I turned around after grabbing the grate she was in there again. After the grate was put up she didn't come back in but she liked looking in

 

[holm25]

Two doms????

In the online contest??


So he came in second in a two man race?

His comb is the only reason he placed as low as he did. The other male had the worst back and didn't even come close to looking like a "U" but he had a nice comb!

 

[I Love Layers]

His comb is the only reason he placed as low as he did. The other male had the worst back and didn't even come close to looking like a "U" but he had a nice comb!

The other Dom did not look that good IMO either...

 

[duluthralphie]

The other Dom did not look that good IMO either...

OUCH!! That hurt, Now poor Holm will spend the rest the day in bed depressed and weeping!! Shame on you for being so blunt....

 

[I Love Layers]

This was the other Dom

I got RV with this blue

 

[duluthralphie]

That dom is "not good"....
I am not sure that comb is even that good. Too large and too large of points on it. The back of the comb comes off the head decently, but with that picture it is hard to tell if it is "even" ..

Then again yours has an ugly comb...more cushion than rose...and I think you need to put some toothpicks in it so it stands up on the back and maybe glue on comb extensions....ROFL..

A good hen will fix the comb for next years chicks....and of course I will have a cull pen for you to rob again..