Surviving Minnesota!

[shawluvsbirds]

Is that real manure on those fancy boots or faux crap?

More like mud and pine savings.
I had to do a sniff test to be sure.

 

[duluthralphie]

More like mud and pine savings.
I had to do a sniff test to be sure.

Taste test work better

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Taste test work better

come on over I'll let you have a taste.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . About 2 inches of snow yesterday . 1 degree when I got up .

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Edith -the other Mmm-laid her egg on the coop floor this morning. I’ll get golf balls in the boxes again. Pullet training....

DS went on the lake and tested a few holes for ice depth. 5 inches and counting —

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Shaw those boots look like they are Minnesota boots not down south boots.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Shaw those boots look like they are Minnesota boots not down south boots.

Nah just feed store boots I got on clearance sale
I keep telling you people it DOES get cold here! You just won't believe me.
It's 12 degrees today according to my car.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I wish they would put Carharts on clearance....Just sayin....

Yah Shaw I think you and Jerry are getting more Winter than we are up here. whoop...shhhh...did I say it too loud?
I got our walk behind snowblower that has sat for 20 years in for a new carb kit and going over. Because I keep hearing about the snow we're going to get this year. And I want to blow my chicken path out and not have a 2 foot ice path that you slide off into the deep if you get off of it. DS seems excited that I got it going. I hope he keeps his excitement!
DH said he would V plow it out for me but I can just see the rolled sod come spring on my lawn and do not want to deal...

 

[Molpet]

DH said he would V plow it out for me but I can just see the rolled sod come spring on my lawn and do not want to deal...

does he have shoes for the plow?

 

[Molpet]

study about MN deer movements (for CWD)



Given the small sample sizes, we cannot make strong conclusions about differences between sexes or years, but the patterns emerging are very interesting. For both does and bucks we have observed a few animals traveling extreme distances compared to the rest. The extreme travelers skew the averages, which is why it is better to report the median distance traveled. In 2018, the range (minimum and maximum) of dispersal distances by does was between 2.5 to 77 miles, while for bucks it was about 3 to 23 miles. This year, 2019, the range of dispersal distances for does was between about 3 to 29 miles, and for bucks it was about 2.5 to 54 miles. At this point, we don’t know why certain deer choose to disperse long distances from where they were born.

As of Aug. 10, 2019, of the 173 deer that have been GPS-collared and released since March 2018, 66 animals remain available for tracking via GPS. There have been 45 known mortalities due to hunter-harvest (n=14), poor health (n=6), vehicle collisions (n=5), agency culling (n=4), unknown cause (n=4), and capture-related issues (n=12). A significant number of collars from the 2018 release cohort stopped working (n=80) due to either hardware malfunction or collar expansion failure. The manufacturer corrected these issues and there has only been one collar failure to date from the second release cohort of 64 GPS collars.

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/cwd/dee...ail&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term