Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

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.

Think hard about this..Maybe you could get him to build the addition before he leaves....

 

[BantyChooks]

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?

Not a Wyandotte person, but pullets means they've been vent sexed.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Not a Wyandotte person, but pullets means they've been vent sexed.

Oh ok. . I knew pullet meant female. . but I thought it referred to one that was fully grown but not laying yet.

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh ok. . I knew pullet meant female. . but I thought it referred to one that was fully grown but not laying yet.

Nope. Female under 1 yr, laying or not.

 

[hmarg06]

I want some of these!!! But not the milking kind....the eating kind.

We only have milkers left, we used to have a lot of Boer's, but sold out of those. We did process a couple of the last kids and they were pretty decent. Now all we have really are my mini milkers hehe

Can you steal that middle one and send it to me?

Wellllll they are mine, soooo depends on how good of a sweet talker you are haha.

 

[BantyChooks]

We only have milkers left, we used to have a lot of Boer's, but sold out of those. We did process a couple of the last kids and they were pretty decent. Now all we have really are my mini milkers hehe


Wellllll they are mine, soooo depends on how good of a sweet talker you are haha.

Oh, most wonderful person, may I rub your back for a while? Would you like some fresh cool water, or maybe a slice of fresh baked bread with butter?

 

[hmarg06]

I may be able to be persuaded with gallons and gallons of maple syrup . I don't know your import laws though so you may have to smuggle her in. Good thing she's so tiny I guess!

 

[BantyChooks]

I may be able to be persuaded with gallons and gallons of maple syrup . I don't know your import laws though so you may have to smuggle her in. Good thing she's so tiny I guess!

You may have all the syrup you can carry! I'm a very good smuggler.

 

[holm25]

Oh ok. . I knew pullet meant female. . but I thought it referred to one that was fully grown but not laying yet.

Birds that will be silver laced will have some brown on their head for sure...

 

[holm25]

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.

Lighter or darker I would think yes.