Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

That’s terrible!! You will need to throw out everything it touches and fumigate the whole house!

 

[CindyinSD]

I think I’d like to put my red “color yield” meaties and my buff geese out in my Suskovich tractor. Together. They’re all about three weeks old. I feel pretty confident the meaties will be okay. I’ll park it on the south side of the house in reach of an outlet for a heat lamp, tarp the back (which will leave only the front uncovered), and point it south.

The meaties are pretty well feathered. The geese have no feathers. They’re still covered with down. They’re getting too tall for their brooder, though. I’m not sure what else to do with them (they are three geese and a gander). I also have four turkey (BBW) poults who are still doing okay in their brooder though they’re getting a bit tall also. I could take out some of the approximately 8” of bedding, though. I’m not sure they’re up to the rough & tumble of hanging out with the meaties. I’m thinking I’ll keep them inside for a while yet.

Temps have been in the 30’s overnight. Grass is beginning to come up—tiny, but growing. I have turned off the heat panel for the meaties, but the garage is heated. Many were sleeping clear on the other side of the 6’ galvanized tub.

I could keep the geese in the garage, in the meaties tub for a couple weeks longer, but I think they’d like the tractor better if they’re up to the cold nights. I’m going to need that tank for my next group of around 30 poults & chicks on May 10th.

Thoughts?

 

[duluthralphie]

As long as they have heat they should be fine anywhere. 30 is a tad cold for birds not fully feathered. We will assume geese are birds for this conversation, even though science tends to place them in the reptile class.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Good morning and Happy Easter, Peeps

 

[ketojenn]

Good morning!

My daughter feels there is something wrong with the Easter Bunny

 

[Cebarmlds]

Good morning!

My daughter feels there is something wrong with the Easter Bunny
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that's no bunny. Have you scarred your daughter for life ?

 

[ketojenn]

Lol. No. Her and her brother are currently fighting over who gets the dinosaur.

 

[CindyinSD]

Good morning!

My daughter feels there is something wrong with the Easter Bunny
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Ohmygoodness that’s so great! Best mom ever!

 

[CindyinSD]

I sent this pic to my daughter. She’s gonna be bummed she didn’t see it in time to copycat. Next year...

 

[CindyinSD]

Thanks, @duluthralphie ! DH is gonna be bummed not to get the geese out of the garage just yet, but this will still make him feel better... until the next lot get here. I’ve told him about them several (many) times, but he’ll still be shocked and dismayed (only partly feigned) when they show up.

So... do the geese and the chickens need gradual introduction or when the geese are properly feathered up, can I safely just toss them into the same paddock with chickens and turkeys?