Surviving Minnesota!

[holm25]

I'm going to have Ralph smack you for me.

He probably agrees with me

 

[BantyChooks]

He probably agrees with me

He does,,, but even he can't resist free maple syrup..

 

[holm25]

He does,,, but even he can't resist free maple syrup..

 

[duluthralphie]

That bird is too good for Canadia

Way way way way way to good.....

 

[jerryse]

I have been outside a lot today . Not windy today . So I tilled a spot and planted peas . A little early for me but trying to squeeze in a harvest by June . Had a time trying to start my sawmill . Feel kind of dumb . A safety switch was not inserted far enough on the blade cover . Anyway sawed a walnut log into boards . Kind of a junk log as it was hollow in the middle . Taking a break .

 

[BantyChooks]

Way way way way way to good.....

Hey... been meaning to ask. What's defined as slate undercolour in the SOP? Does it have to be darker or can it be almost an off white?

 

[holm25]

Hey... been meaning to ask. What's defined as slate undercolour in the SOP? Does it have to be darker or can it be almost an off white?

It’s the same color as a blue chicken... But they call it slate...

 

[MNChickMom]

Nice birds everyone. Holms, if your Buff Orps are anything like mine.....late on day 21 or first thing on Day 22.

I am getting close to firing down (shutting off) my incubating and hatching for the year. It is getting dangerous and expensive..... Yesterday morning I had a "little run in" with the bleach. I thought I could quickly disinfect some of my chick feeders and waterers for the upcoming hatch expected on Friday. Poured a bucket of water in the rubbermaid tub, added the waterers and feeders and splashed the bleach into the tub and into my eye. So I rinsed the bleach out while attempting to tear out my contact with one gallon of warm water and the rest was 40 degree cold water rinse. Quick appointment with the eye doctor yielded a butt chewing for no safety goggles, eye drops and a medical bill.

The expensive part is that if I don't stop hatching I will have to build an addition on to the addition....and that may result in a divorce.

 

[BantyChooks]

It’s the same color as a blue chicken... But they call it slate...

So lighter than that would likely be a dock? The SOP says 'sometimes lighter shades' but I don't know if that extends to an almost-white that I see on the PC cockerel I am thinking of keeping. Yeah, I know, not very important, but I can't breed for perfection if I don't know what perfection is.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

So... I have a dumb chicken question. Orscheln had a bin of chics labeled silver laced Wyandotte pullets
#1 how can a baby chic be labeled as a pullet?
#2 half of them were black kind of striped other half brownish tannish. .
Wouldn't the brownish ones be golden laced?