The weekend homestead project: Working at a Minnesota walleye fish hatchery.
If you have seen the movie "Meet the Fockers" you are familiar with the phrase "you can milk anything with teats", "I've got teats Focker, can you milk me?"
Fish might not have teats but you can milk them! Kind of......
The build budget at the off grid tiny cabin has been a bit dry lately so when a temporary job opportunity presented itself I jumped on it. I've been working some overnight shifts at a fish hatchery. It's a really interesting process and it's been fun to be part of the process of hatching fish for release into area lakes. Walleye, bass, northern pike, crappie, sunfish, bowfin, bullhead, perch, carp and suckers all wind up in the net but only the walleye are stripped for spawn. It's just a seasonal job and will be over in about 6 weeks then it's back to the land and the weekend homestead for a few weeks.
8 май 2024
