The Front Porch Swing

[Beekissed]

We got home from the mountains and found Jake had been hunting for his supper while we were gone....had caught himself a cottontail rabbit and had eaten half of it already and had also killed a big ol' mole, which makes Mom glad...she has a war on for those things in this yard. I love a dog that forages for his own food whenever possible and Jake is just such a dog...and he can only cover about 1/2 acre on his electric system, but he sure does make good use of his space.

All other animals were safe and accounted for, as per usual. Broody hen is still stuck tight to her wooden eggs and a practice egg, so took out the practice egg and gave her 6 WR eggs, which will be the first breeding with these heritage bred WRs. I'm just hoping I gave her the right eggs and we don't have a bunch of Australorps runnin' around in a month.

Will collect 6 more eggs over the next 6 days to place in the incubator and then slip the chicks to her when they hatch. Love having a broody in the house!

Will be getting more KC ducks on the 14th and hope to start breeding those when they mature so I can sell a couple batches of chicks to defray the original cost of the parent stock. We have a KC desert here in my state since Horsts will not ship ducks into WV, so I'm hoping to capitalize on that a little. I think someone else might have gotten the same idea because one man came down to TSC and bought almost a hundred KC ducklings.

 

[MistyMountain]

I am moving 30 miles north of Green Bay, 30 miles south of where I grew up.
First time to Lambaugh Field was last fall when we were house hunting.

Very cool! So I don't have to tell you about cheese curds and to make sure to find out what days the nearest cheese factory makes them, right?

We load up every time we head north to visit. I used to deer hunt north of 8 near Tony WI (western part of the state). So pretty up there. Your new home and property look beautiful!!

 

[chickenboy190]

Ok I'm game. What is it?

Where do you keep your chickens? Or have you started yet?

Lol. I have a coop. Yes, I have. Oh I'm not 16. I have 16 chickens. I fixed that.

Dat's a rather angry possum!

Yeah it wasn't happy.

 

[LindaB220]

Change of plans for this evening. Spilled scalding water on my hand/ wrist and arm. Sooo we have it in ice water to try and dull the pain.

Oh no, Sweetie, take care of yourself.

 

[TexasLisa]

OUCH!!! I am so sorry. I do know the pain, been there done that. I am so sorry.

Lisa

 

[chickenboy190]

So I have a couple squirrel traps and I decided I was going to try for some squirrels. So I find this hole in the ground. So I put the trap right in front of it. I never got around to baiting it. So a couple days pass. When I was checking my one trap that's close to that one. I saw that it had been moved several feet. So I go check it out. It had been set off. So I pick it up and see that the back of the trap had been chewed off or something and the animal got out! This was a live trap. So that was annoying. So tonight I set one of my larger live traps there. So I hope I can get whatever did that.

 

[enola]

Busy weekend around here!  Mostly just clean-up stuff....

This morning the Hubby let me sleep in!  The dogs kept pitching a fit, so he didn't go let the chickens out.  When I got up and went out, they were READY to hit the yard looking for breakfast!  I went out behind the coop into the edge of the woods to check the live trap.... Sure enough, we had a possum in it.  Chickenboy, you might not wanna read this........  actually, I'll put it in a spoiler!!!!

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

I called Hubby to get the .22 and he brought it down.  Hubby came down and shot her.... she also had 9 babies in her pouch.  Since the momma was already gone, he went ahead and put the babies down too....It made me sad, but they would just have been potential predators later in the summer.....

ANY WAY.......

We went to Lowe's to get the stuff to put in a nipple waterer.... Hubby didn't like the idea of a 5 gallon bucket, so he is going to make a pvc one.   He spoils me!   

We were down there working on it and he was watching the chickens and I made the comment that the flock looked a lot smaller, and how 2 hens and a handful of chicks made that big of a difference.  He replied "Yea, but you'll have more soon!"  I'm glad he's not grumpy about the eggs in the incubator and under the broodies.   I've been painting the little coop and trying to get rid of the mites in there so that it is ready for the babies when they hatch.  I'm trying to decide whether or not to move the 2 hens in there too..... I have 45 eggs set, so I'm not sure if they could handle all the chicks.... of course depending on how many hatch.....


I hope everyone has had a wonderful and extremely blessed Sunday!  Prayers for everyone!  I've got to jump off here and make supper!  We have home-made ice cream churning in the kitchen sink!  (The ice-cream maker bucket leaks... )  

I trapped a possum last week, she also had babies. I did not mind doing her in....... but killing the babies made me physically ill. I kept reminding myself about the 3 hens that laid blue eggs that some varmint got last week...

I am getting soft in my old age

 

[LindaB220]

We got home from the mountains and found Jake had been hunting for his supper while we were gone....had caught himself a cottontail rabbit and had eaten half of it already and had also killed a big ol' mole, which makes Mom glad...she has a war on for those things in this yard. I love a dog that forages for his own food whenever possible and Jake is just such a dog...and he can only cover about 1/2 acre on his electric system, but he sure does make good use of his space.

All other animals were safe and accounted for, as per usual. Broody hen is still stuck tight to her wooden eggs and a practice egg, so took out the practice egg and gave her 6 WR eggs, which will be the first breeding with these heritage bred WRs. I'm just hoping I gave her the right eggs and we don't have a bunch of Australorps runnin' around in a month.

Will collect 6 more eggs over the next 6 days to place in the incubator and then slip the chicks to her when they hatch. Love having a broody in the house!

Will be getting more KC ducks on the 14th and hope to start breeding those when they mature so I can sell a couple batches of chicks to defray the original cost of the parent stock. We have a KC desert here in my state since Horsts will not ship ducks into WV, so I'm hoping to capitalize on that a little. I think someone else might have gotten the same idea because one man came down to TSC and bought almost a hundred KC ducklings.

A good day all around. Good for you. And Jake.

You gave us a website a while ago and I lost it. Now i have it back. Looked up feeding chickens rice bran, which I have some. It turns out it's good for them.

http://www.feedipedia.org/node/750

 

[chickenboy190]

Change of plans for this evening. Spilled scalding water on my hand/ wrist and arm. Sooo we have it in ice water to try and dull the pain.

Oh I'm sorry!

 

[chickenboy190]

Busy weekend around here! Mostly just clean-up stuff....

This morning the Hubby let me sleep in! The dogs kept pitching a fit, so he didn't go let the chickens out. When I got up and went out, they were READY to hit the yard looking for breakfast! I went out behind the coop into the edge of the woods to check the live trap.... Sure enough, we had a possum in it. Chickenboy, you might not wanna read this........ actually, I'll put it in a spoiler!!!!

I called Hubby to get the .22 and he brought it down. Hubby came down and shot her.... she also had 9 babies in her pouch. Since the momma was already gone, he went ahead and put the babies down too....It made me sad, but they would just have been potential predators later in the summer.....


ANY WAY.......

We went to Lowe's to get the stuff to put in a nipple waterer.... Hubby didn't like the idea of a 5 gallon bucket, so he is going to make a pvc one. He spoils me!

We were down there working on it and he was watching the chickens and I made the comment that the flock looked a lot smaller, and how 2 hens and a handful of chicks made that big of a difference. He replied "Yea, but you'll have more soon!" I'm glad he's not grumpy about the eggs in the incubator and under the broodies. I've been painting the little coop and trying to get rid of the mites in there so that it is ready for the babies when they hatch. I'm trying to decide whether or not to move the 2 hens in there too..... I have 45 eggs set, so I'm not sure if they could handle all the chicks.... of course depending on how many hatch.....

I hope everyone has had a wonderful and extremely blessed Sunday! Prayers for everyone! I've got to jump off here and make supper! We have home-made ice cream churning in the kitchen sink! (The ice-cream maker bucket leaks... )

Nah I don't care. But thanks for putting it in a spoiler for me! Yeah they are predators. And I don't like predators around my chickens so don't ask me where I came up with the idea of me training one......