A few photos from Wisconsin

[Mac in Wisco]

We are members of an organic farmers' cooperative. We get $1.75 a dozen for the eggs. The extent of our work is to pack them on filler flats and put them in the egg cooler in the barn. A truck from the cooperative comes once a week to pick up the eggs and haul them to a processing plant where they are processed, packed, and distributed for retail sale. Since it is a farmer owned cooperative, any excess profits from sales are paid back to the farmers as dividends.

 

[annie3001]

wow!!! got yourself lots of chickens i see!!!!!! they look pretty happy tho!!!

 

[annie3001]

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nice .. very nice!

 

[Talihofarms]

Mac,
Nice set up.

I'm a little south of you, on the Ill. side.
I hope your ready for Weds. storm.
This could be the one that makes 79 look small.





Best of Luck

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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The snow doesn't bother us any as we don't have to go anywhere. I just have to clear the driveways so the egg truck can get to the barn. I have a big honkin' snowblower for that...

 

[Talihofarms]

Pretty much the same here.

We are more concerned with loss of power.
Luck we have gen back up.
kids love the idea of missing school.




Its starting to get heavy right now.


Best of Luck

 

[Mac in Wisco]

In two years here we've only lost power once, in stark contrast to when we lived in West Texas and the utility co-op could barely keep the power on. Last month in a snowstorm our pole-mount transformer went bad. It had been there for decades, yet a new house had been built here and a 100 amp service installed for the chicken barn. It finally gave up the ghost. The crew had to respond from the other side of the county, yet they had a new, larger transformer hung and the power back on in an hour and a half.

 

[b.hromada]

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[Mac in Wisco]

Snow is wonderful. It insulates everything and keeps it from freezing so deeply. The grass is still green under there. As soon as the snow goes everything is green again and growing like crazy.

I lived in the southwest for a number of years. Two seasons there, green and brown and it still got cold as heck. Snow is what makes winter, winter and the summers even more wonderful.