Surviving Minnesota!

[R2elk]

Hey Ralphie be careful working those bees .

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Any stings in soft tissue can swell immensely.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have lapper bees, they love me.

 

[jerryse]

Snowing here . So I have a pic of my pear tree in the woods for deer . Ayers going to bloom for the first time . I have planted many trees for deer but this is the one success . Plus a pic of red worms . I have lots of worms here . Red , garden or angle worms and night crawlers .

 

[duluthralphie]

We have ice on the pumpkins this morning.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Got about 2 1/2 to 3 inches of snow yesterday . Some melting yesterday . Should hit 58 today . Might need boots today as melting continues . Hey Holm you OK ? Just wondering since you work at Menard's .

 

[Staciewoeste]

Where are you getting them from?

They might send you a female to replace the male, but they won’t take a chick back.

That would be a bio-hazard to everyone that buys their chicks and illegal under USDA and state regulations.

As I said I have owned them, they will give you 3 eggs, maybe 4 a week for the first season. The second season a couple eggs a week. By the third season you will have forgotten what their eggs look like.

They will stop laying sooner than the egg laying breeds. I had one that lived to be nearly 6 years old. Of course, the last three years she was a complete freeloader, not laying any eggs.
However, I still liked her, she was friendly and the “Eve” of all my toads.

Jerry or R2elk would most likely know more, they are far better read and have more experience than I have.

They are my Elders.

I ordered from Runnings. I am not opposed to butchering them also, it is good for my kids to learn from that. I may try them out and if they aren't producing well, maybe butcher for soups...we will see, I just want eggs for the family and my kids to learn about raising animals. I have already set the expectation that we may butcher them at some point.

My boys want a boy, so we will see. I don't want the crowing or any mean rooster. So we will see. We think one may be a boy, by looking at feathers and behavior.

 

[duluthralphie]

Runnings gets their birds from Hoover’s.

They are a good bird for eating. Way too good to just be soup.

I know some people don’t care for crowing. I enjoy it. Of course, my flock is not normal. I think I have more roosters than hens

Jerry you should move north. No snow up here.

 

[Staciewoeste]

Runnings gets their birds from Hoover’s.

They are a good bird for eating. Way too good to just be soup.

I know some people don’t care for crowing. I enjoy it. Of course, my flock is not normal. I think I have more roosters than hens

Jerry you should move north. No snow up here.

I was told that if I let them ly eggs for a couple years their meat will be tougher and I should then use it for soup. I guess it depends when I would actually butcher them.

 

[duluthralphie]

I was told that if I let them ly eggs for a couple years their meat will be tougher and I should then use it for soup. I guess it depends when I would actually butcher them.

I misunderstood. Sorry. I thought you meant the roosters while young.

An older bird is tougher. When I was a kid they were referred to as stew hens. You can always pressure cook them or grind them into burger.

 

[Staciewoeste]

I misunderstood. Sorry. I thought you meant the roosters while young.

An older bird is tougher. When I was a kid they were referred to as stew hens. You can always pressure cook them or grind them into burger.

That is a really good idea about grinding it up. Definitely for the rooster if we get one and do not want to keep him. I heard rooster rainbow dixies can get really big.