Wisconsin "Cheeseheads" - Page 2139

My chickens eat my clematis and no one has died. I also have burning bush and they don't touch it. The hawk took one of the older babies. I'm pretty sure it was a rooster. My call duck also lost one of her babies yesterday so now she's in a cage with the remaining one. We have Pullets: special blacks, browns (red sex links), Straight run: bantam cochins and OEGB in a few different colors. The browns and blacks are getting a little old to shove under a hen. They have been there since Tuesday.

Hey all

Busy day here so I just got caught up. Can't remember what to comment on!!  DH and I hit the Edgerton garage sales since we were having out city wide sales event.  Some sales were great others were not.  Then came home and mowed the lawn.

 

We are planning of going to see that new Johnny Depp movie Dark Shadows tonight in Stoughton.  Dinner and a movie at the little Cinema Cafe they have. Hopefully I can stay awake through it. BTB and Ichabod were absolutely wired last night and the kitchen was their play ground.  Kept me up half the night.outta one thing and into 20!

 

Well, I'd best be off to change into clothes that are not grass encrusted...

Have a great night!

We went out of town last night to the cities and put all the chickens into the barn.  They had previously been separated at night into two coops.  The one coop inside the barn had 3 adults and 6 teenagers.  The other coop had 21 younger teens, while fine for them to roost and sleep, NOT big enough for them to stay in for a full 24 hours.  I don't think, anyway.  The two groups free range together during the day. So we thought putting them all into the barn (not coop - just the open space barn itself) that they would be ok for the night and not try to kill each other.  There is more than enough space for them to move around and get away from an aggressive bird.  Well, we got a couple that are a little bloody.  One has a bit of a bloody cheek and another has a bloody toe.  Should I do anything?  My daughter got a washcloth and cleaned off the bloody toe, but I haven't seen the one with the bloody cheek yet, hubby just told me about it.

Looking forward to babies in the next few days!!!! 

 

I hope this weather holds too BigZ, I would like it to extend into Sunday as well....   photo shoot planned for the day... 

 

DH would like me to go look at a tractor with him so I better get going.... 

I just got back from my oldest DD soccer game, they won 2-1.

 

BBP- sorry bout the chick

 

EM-they will be okay. Just separate them as usual and the injured will heal fine.

 

Tonight we are having chicken & vegetable stew over hand-made biscuits. YUM!! The chicken was donated by Blinky (our 1st rooster). He is the only bird with a name to date.

He got his name after DH had cut his head off and the bird kept blinking.

 

 

DH has painted the boards that we will use for the trim around the windows and nest box. He also has built the nest box in the garage, tomorrow we attach the nest box to the coop and cut out windows!!! The chicks will be happy with addition of sunlight and increased ventilation I think
 

SO had these delivered today-DELISH!!

 

3 eggs are still a work in progress-thinking they will hatch tonight. Will it hurt anything if I check the eggs before going to bed?

silly chickens! they're not suppose to hatch till tomorrow NIGHT, I have 4 out and 2 zipping 3 of which are silkie! lol which is good I got someone wanting to pick up some silkie TOMORROW lol  he's picking up eggs for hatching, the silkies are just a bonus.  ask and ye shall receive lol he asked if I knew of anyone who had silkies lol I told him I would in 1 week (a week ago) so he scheduled the egg pickup when the chicks would be hatching. lol

I attended a bridal shower today fun fun then my DD got sick THANKFULLY she didn't

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 when we were there lol

 

while I was there my DH and dad moved our duck coop toward the house and OUT of the standing water (for my sake)  Now we can put Crusty and the call in the coop and the 6 ducklings will go in the bigger box until we put them all together  hopefully they like each other.  they have been spending SOME time together (swimming) lol

 

ok I gotta get going  that and my fingers are not working tonight lol

later all

 

Oh and HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE MOTHER'S OUT THERE! more than likely I wont be on here tomorrow!

Those strawberries look kinda gross. I don't thnk you should eat them. Because I have a kind and generous heart, I would take them off your hands. It would be hard, but I would do it for you!!!

11 chicks.   what happens whenyou mix a leghorn (white OR brown) with an EE? IDK I'll tell you when one hatches lol  I see 2 Dels, 4 RIR (possible RIR/del), 1 EE, 1 Americana and

3 silkies.  one has a little brown on it?? looking at the egg it came out of, It MIGHT be splash silkie/ cochin Frizzle! lol  how many days was it that one has to wait to see frizzling? 3 days?

 

ok I got a thought to ponder for ya.....  I/we have 3 incubators running on my kitchen table (we eat at the island) also on the table is our microwave (no place else to go with it) 1 'bator is NEXT to the micro and 1 is behind the micro the OTHER one is the farthest away from it.....  THAT one is the one with the most chicks thus far.... Do you think that being near the microwave will hinder the hatch in ANY way shape or form??  when I set the eggs I did NOT put ANY of my silkie eggs in the bator next to the microwave.  Most are in the one that is farthest away.  some are in the 'bator behind to microwave.  Whatcha think?  any ideas?

good night all!

ps no church for us tomorrow, got sick kids :(