Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[GothChick]

Also thanks for everyone that voted! I doubt I will ever catch up to the number 1 person. I hate contests that allow voting as soon as the pictures are posted because then the people that enter later on have to try to catch up to people that have months worth of votes.

 

[GothChick]

Amyable- Our weekend is pretty open. We don't have anything planned yet.

 

[Celtic Chick]

I wish I would have known. I would have loved the orp & aussies. Oh, well. Always a bridesmaid........

I voted right after you posted it, too. That isn't fair. How many votes does the leader have? A lot of the pics I looked at were blurry.

 

[GothChick]

The leader currently has 220 votes. The rules say voting starts in August but obviously they are having a glitch then because its already allowing votes..... I also had a problem with pictures not loading and when people from Facebook would try to go and vote for me the captcha thing wont load so they cant put it in and it wont accept votes without it.

 

[Hurley]

Evening all.

Mukwonago has a really cool park with shelters, too. Have driven by it, they hold all sorts of different things there. Don't know what/if they charge, though. Never been to bong, will have to look it up.

Had to give a talk on cruciate disease to the techs today, they seemed to enjoy it. By the time I got through the "hey, since you're here"s it was after noon. So much for a day off. LOL

Got my first silkie egg today.

Just put in 6 Marans eggs, 11 or so Lavender Bantam Ameraucana eggs, the 1 Silkie egg, and 20-25 Ameraucana x probably Marans eggs. (There are other cockerels out there feeling manly, so if they made it through the Marans rooster the cross could be x Ameraucana or Iowa Blue or White Whitefaced Spanish or Wyandotte...think that's all of them.) NEED to get that last wall of the bachelor pen finished and more these boys out of my miscellaneous/layer pen.

Man, I'm loving my Iowa blues. Plucky little things and the heat didn't begin the phase them. Heat, what heat? The boys live up to their reputation, they'd breed a shoe if it was available. Can't wait til my little 2 pullets get to egg laying age. The 7 younger IBs are growing nicely and are out in the growout pen now.

No more losses in the heat. Recruited DH to hose the pen/chickens down a couple times a day which they appreciated (once they were cool, didn't exactly appreciate the sprinkling itself).

I need some cats that will chase grinnys. Little suckers have more troops than the army. Hubby has been waging war on them with a bb gun, but they keep coming. Wouldn't minds them so much if they weren't so bold as to sit in the chicken's pan and wait for me to feed them. It was getting out of hand. We've got one outdoor cat, but she's not much of an outdoor cat. She's an outdoor cat because she decided the house was her litter box. Pee on the rug right in front of me, earn your outdoor visa. She loves it, but a hunter she is not. Now my old Maggie that I lost this year...declawed, 8 pound, little slip of a calico barn cat that I got as a 5 week old kitten from a farm...THAT cat never learned to hunt with Momma, but she was death on mice. Hell on strange visiting cats as well. She was little, but NO cat would think of taking her on with her war cry. Miss my Maggles. She had a good 19 years on this earth and now rests under a pussy willow tree.

We'll probably get another indoor cat some day, but not now with the boys so young. 1 and 2 year old + litter box? Yeah, no thank you.

Think I'll go look at rabbit hutch condos/caging to separate a couple birds. Would like to show my silkies at least, but don't want them to get torn up. If they're starting to lay eggs, chances are the cockerel will get after their feathers.

 

[jvls1942]

good evening, Hurl,, what is a "grinny"?

good news, I found a welder who is willing to at least try to resurface my tiller tines.. He will do one and then we will decide what he will charge for all 16.. I have a plan..

I bought gas today ,,,, two cans.. that should get me through the rest of the summer with the tiller..

my dentist came home from his camping trip and looked at my tooth problem.. I do have just a touch of dry socket, or whatever it is called.. he assured me that in a week it will be no more than a bad memory. He said he could remove the bone spur, but that would only cause unnecessary trauma..

did you know that the tooth brush was invented in Kentucky? It's true, If it would have been invented in Wisconsin, it would have been called a teeth brush..

someone from Tomahawk contacted me about some guineas.. Wants to meet at Flt & Frm on Monday.. I hope this will not be a no show.. for 15 keets, I will take a chance..

Annie slow cooked the two turkeys that the weasel killed.. They looked like cornish game hens in the roaster.. just over 4 pounds total weight.. they were soo tender and delicious.. I said that maybe I should go out and open up that hole in that pen again..

////////jiminwisc///////////

 

[jvls1942]

well, it had to happen sooner or later.. tonight there were 5 guineas in the pine tree.. I got the water hose and blasted 4 out of there.. the last one moved up too high to reach anymore.. He will be just a pile of feathers in the morning.. I hope the other four don't catch pneumonia.. a couple of them were pretty soaked..

the baby peacock is begging to be held.. he will shut up if somebody would just pick him up.. but i am way down in the basement and everybody else is upstairs.. there, somebody picked him up.. do you think he will get spoiled ?? LOL

the big peacock was showing off his tail this afternoon.. It doesn't have those long non-feathers yet,, but he is still a pretty sight..

I am going to get up real early if it does not rain and till the corn one more time.. then I have to find the peas.. there are a lot of weeds that need whacking.. that rain and warm made more than just the corn grow.. the cukes and squash that I replanted is all up and ready to start vining.. It is not very far behind the first few plants that did make it..

the kale type plants are doing real good.. I noticed some holes in the leaves, the guineas must not be doing their job too well.

The new neighbor mows his grass right up to the edge of my garden.. then he leaves a strip of tall grass.. I suppose he doesn't want to impose.. but it is his yard that looks crappy as a result.. I will have to talk to him and tell him it is OK to cut it.

I have not started up my mower yet.. I am concentrating on the garden this year.. Nobody that cares comes to visit anyhow.. and if they do mind, there is the lawn mower,, have at it.. LOL

..........jiminwisc..............

 

[babylady4]

Since I seem to have started something.....

http://www.fourpawsvetclinic.com/content/view/34/54

About halfway down the page...

"Hunting is not instinctive for cats. Kittens born to non-hunting mothers may never learn to hunt. " This quote should not say 'hunting' but how cats are taught the killing bite.

I would think that like everything else there would be the exception to the rule. Since barn cats are usually decent about hunting down prey, at 5 weeks a kitten would have been shown what was needed to do, and in time perfected the skills. I have 4 fat lazy indoor cats who have never chased anything, who were all born to a mamma barn cat. The difference here is mamma had her babies in the house and she never showed them anything about hunting. We used to have the occasional bat in the house, and we have had a mouse or two; my tubbies will just let the bats fly around and follow them with their eyes (like a good TV program), or let the mice run wherever they want to. We have put our Budgies all over our fattest cat and he will just sit there like a lump. They have no idea that perhaps these things could make for a tasty snack.

Right now, I am sorry I ever said ANYTHING about this....

Amy, I AM happy to hear that your kitties will be great hunters. I was just trying to be helpful, obviously my first mistake.



Jim, take better care of that tooth (put a cherry on it)!

BBP, take good care of that foot!

BigZ, why would you cull a roo with sight in only one eye? In time he would compensate for the missing sight in that eye, right?

EAA traffic has begun in Oshkosh...... not looking forward to the next week...... I think I'll go to Door County on Friday and pick cherries.

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I was a little confused about which hen got attacked yesterday. And since I almost cut my foot off my mom locked my chickens up last night. It was my mother hen. All but one of her tail feathers is missing and she has a huge chunk of skin out of her back. The other mother hen jumped into the nest box tonight leaving her 3 new babies on the floor. So injured mother now has 5. Poor thing, she has to be in pain and she is just vicious if you try to touch her because of her chicks. I just poured a little peroxide on it, sprayed it about an hour later with that new vetericin or whatever its called and poured a little stop bleed on it. I'll have to keep a close eye on her to make sure nobody starts pecking at her wounds. Now I'm thinking coyote. The dog must have gotten there just in time. I will glade have someone shoot those. They're not cute like mink. And I like the fox around here. Coyotes have a way off chasing them off. Well, I suppose the attacker could have been a fox, hmmm . . .

 

[WIChookchick]

Well I truly think I ticked off a chicken god some where.
I went to feed my ducks and give them new fresh water, they were fine yesterday morning..
THIS morning... my call duck drake and two of TO's "borrowed" ducklings are MIA.. from a locked stall in the barn, right next to the geese one stall over..
No feathers, bodies nothing...
SO I grabbed the white mallard hen and the last duckling and put them in the large chicken stall, of course the duckling abandons new mom to hang out with the chicks.. they are
small and fuzzy so must be ducks right?!?
I am going to email Elaine to see if she wants them, unless some one here does.. the duckling should be a muscovy cross from TO, mom is a normal boring white
mallard hen.
SO angry, sad and giving up on ducks at this point.
Well its late, and I am finally tired.
Good night all!
Carol