Surviving Minnesota!

[destiny_56085]

I think higher powers were telling me to stay home today anyways. So I'm sitting here bored and nothing on but Judge Judy repeats or godawful soap operas. Thinking.. brrr its cold in here. Yeah the wind is howling and pretty chilly outside, but chilled so I traipse upstairs to check the thermostat. I have it set on auto at 76 and actual temp in here is 65 and falling. A call to CenterPoint Energy for my Home Service plan yielded no results...their system is down, call back in a few hours. I tried scheduling online and soonest repair date is 2 days away unless you call the emergency line. In the meantime I google ideas...changed the filter, rebooted the system, and I think it worked. I have warm air blowing again. If I were at work and first got home after midnight it would have been pretty dang cold in here.

 

[MNChickMom]

What is the protein on that ? It is a very good price for Game Bird feed.

I will check the label tonight. I just walk in and they say "The usual ?" and I respond "Yup"

The usual is 1 bag chick start, 2 bags 18% layer, 1 bag of Gamebird Grower. So I will check.

 

[duluthralphie]

We will soon have one less chicken....and it is not because of the cold! Quite the opposite in fact. I am sooooo hot under the collar I could possibly give 3rd degree burns just by touching it.

Someone....not to name names but Back Up Dominique cockerel pecked the left eye of Accident! Accident was moved to his own private pen last night, his eye lid is swollen but this morning he was crowing away. I put a little Vet Rx on his comb, hoping to settle him down with aromatherapy. (LOL)

Anyone deal with eye injuries?

I have one-eyed Jack.....But I never did anything for his eye. It just is what it is.

 

[duluthralphie]

You'll all be happy to know our punishment for the last 5ish days of 32-40 degree weather has arrived. It is snowing like crazy and it looks like we already have close to 3 inches. Our lows are also returning to below zero, the horror! The good news, highs return to high 30's by next Friday!

On the bird front, I tried to integrate a runty little Wyandotte pullet that has lived her life with the young scovies into my passel of chickens. By the time I got home from work, I think it was, a Buckeye cockerel had scalped her. They have been able to see each other through the wire for months! She was fine the day before and she was out with them all day. Now I have to hope that it'll heal back up. I just wanted them to be able to go outside, but now they are stuck back in their pen.

Really?

It is chilly here, but am pretty sure it is in the mid 40s this evening.. I picked a banana on the way up the walk and it wasn't frozen or anything.

 

[duluthralphie]

It's 28%... at least mine is.

I just paid 15 bucks at fleetfarm for 24% all bird starter.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Sylvia got pecked in the eye by junior this year and although she healed up after swelling her eye was milky looking and she had a blind side. Interestingly enough I watched her go from being all by herself to rejoining the flock and keeping cadence with my other Wyandotte Lucy and putting her on her blind side. She learned how to work it out.

Jerry that fatty liver is scary and I would say very contributable to your other issues. I believe the B vitamins (B12) and Milk Thistle are things to read up on for a fatty liver .

Also maybe read about resonant light therapies. Quite a few folks doing it for cancer around here. My dad included. But it treats a host of other things too. It’s interesting stuff.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Picked my daughter up from school. Tonya Harding could do a triple axle down hwy 200. My nerves are fried.

Cute Silkies destiny. Much needed.

 

[holm25]

Well everyone I'm in a pickle... ONE of these 17 eggs I set is fertile and it's not even a possible show bird! It's a BlueEExBuffCochin... What in the heck am I going to do with one chick?

 

[duluthralphie]

Picked my daughter up from school. Tonya Harding could do a triple axle down hwy 200. My nerves are fried.

Cute Silkies destiny. Much needed.

She could, but your wheels would fall off if she did..Watch the baton.

 

[duluthralphie]

Well everyone I'm in a pickle... ONE of these 17 eggs I set is fertile and it's not even a possible show bird! It's a BlueEExBuffCochin... What in the heck am I going to do with one chick?

That's worse hatch rate than I got...Winter hatching is not easy. Try again.