Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Fitting name. I usually throw sticks at him... doubt that would be able to knock him out.

I doubt you could actually it with a thrown object, unless it is a poorly constructed snowball, which I understand you have years of experience throwing.

 

[holm25]

My grandpa knocked one of my guineas out with a stick. He flipped flopped and laid on his back. He came back to get rid of him and he was back running around..

 

[BantyChooks]

I doubt you could actually it with a thrown object, unless it is a poorly constructed snowball, which I understand you have years of experience throwing.

Decades. My very first word was "snow", spoken as I clumsily rolled towards the igloo door in my entirely too padded reindeer-skin coat.

 

[BantyChooks]

My grandpa knocked one of my guineas out with a stick. He flipped flopped and laid on his back. He came back to get rid of him and he was back running around..

You southerners seem to have an affinity for knocking your birds out. Maybe you need anger management courses?

 

[holm25]

Article in Duluth paper today about the possibility for a brown Xmas here.
Would not hurt my feelings. The article indicated above avg. temps in December, but I believe that is not accurate. The last few days have been warm and we got some rain previously which did a number on the snow.

Holm's I suggest a cross for that heifer of Red Angus, Shorthorn or Limousine if you must have exotic.

One other point is that when it comes to tossing bull I have heard Ralphie is hard to beat.

I’m trying to decide between S A V America and S A V President. One is a son and one is a grandson of the great Blackcap May cow I so greatly admire. I’m for sure going with a S A V bull from Schaff Angus. Nice guys what know what they’re doing.

 

[duluthralphie]

I’m trying to decide between S A V America and S A V President. One is a son and one is a grandson of the great Blackcap May cow I so greatly admire. I’m for sure going with a S A V bull from Schaff Angus. Nice guys what know what they’re doing.

I made a decision much like this today..

I had a choice between peppermint or apple cinnamon tea... I went with peppermint ...... apple cinnamon is really more for days I feel like kicking up my heels.

 

[duluthralphie]

The era of Cuddles has passed. Cuddles was found non-responsive under his feeder at 3:12 pm today. Efforts to reverse rigor mortis and revive him failed. The first responders refused to give him needed CRP.

Here are a few Cuddles pictures. This is him in January 2016 wearing his stocking cap in sub zero weather..

This was November 2015 when he kicked butt in New Ulm.

These are just pictures he posed for over the winter of 15-16 as he sat in confinement in a heated cage to keep his comb intact. Note to all... keeping a rooster in confinement for 6 months with no contact with any living creature except yourself, will turn them into a lap chicken that follows you like a dog...

I will miss him. I was trying to decide whether to breed him or a cockerel son of his. I guess I will use the son now.

 

[I Love Layers]

My grandpa told me a story on Thanksgiving about how someone he knew had a horse drawn implement and was out in the field when a small rock got thrown up and hit one of the horses in the head and dropped it dead.
Another one my grandpa told me about a friend was that this guy had just bought a pair of mules and he got them home and was bringing them out the barn when one reared up and hit its head on the door frame coming out, and dropped dead. Poor guy didn't even get his new pair out of the barn before one died.

 

[Cebarmlds]

RIP Cuddles

 

[memphis]

Ralph....sorry to hear about Cuddles. Being a huge SS fan I loved your stories about him. He was quite the gentleman.