Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Terri O]

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No, but thank you on the barnyard mixes. I hear they're mostly roos!

Yes, I'm still thinking about trading roos. I do owe Bf4 some aussie eggs. And by the way she is going, I don't know if she'll be able to wait until next year.

I know we should get 'er done soon............I guess I'm just a little chicken to give away my Moosie.

Ya know CC--We can just trade for a while and then you can have him back! I just want to get a few Doms to compliment my B&W theme! It certainly does not need to be for ever. I figure I will end up with a few roos so I wont "need" his services any longer. Lord knows I have enough roos around here anyway! Oh yea, I have this special thing I do with the eggs...I put blue and pink food coloring in the pan and whichever way the pointy end points I know what sex the chick will be.[I cant give you all the details...] I gave DrH a few girls just so he wasnt disappointed...SSSHHHH-dont tell him!
I am so gald the wind has stopped for now! It is very calm outside and I finally could pull the drapes back to have just a little light!
Seriously have to find something to make for dinner...potato pancakes? Maybe with some ring bologna...HMMMM...perhaps! Terri O

 

[Terri O]

We use dog crates and put some strips of cardboard up the side a ways so they can't crawl through- this works good and gives us several weeks of grow time.

Here is a pic of my "chick TV" from last year....

I think DrH has and actual TV cabinet that he puts them in? Or maybe it is just a box...I know that there was a bunch of discussion last year about knobs for the TV! LOL! H&R's set up is good because it gives the chicks a bit more air that a tank would. You have to be really careful using a tank that they dont get too hot or you will have "pasty butt" all over! I try to concentrate the heat on one end so they can move to the other side to get away from it...I may eliminate it all together this year because it was a huge pain with the dogs! Most of the time I couldn't even watch the "tv" cause I had to have a towel over the front so the BCs would let the chicks alone and lie down!
FT--I cannot imagine that your lab has bigger energy issues that my border collies! Good thing they have an "off switch" most of the time! I hear labs get pretty nice by the time they are 8 or so...then they die! (sorry) I need to make dinner.....stop procrastinating! Terri O

 

[Tatters]

Yep, I'm alive, though froze my tush off this morning shoveling snow and picking up garbage (wind made a mess of things for trash day). Looks like everyone is doing good and posting all sorts of cute furry/feather creatures

 

[Celtic Chick]

My chick TV has always been the rabbit cage that DH brought Jasmine bunny home in 4 years ago. Now that she has arthritis & had to be moved indoors, I had to find other accomodations. It is alot more difficult to find a quality cage where the majority of the top opens, as I have come to realize. The cage pictured is from Marchiorio:



There is a smaller opening in the front, but the top opening is much larger.

 

[babylady4]

I am very happy to have survived my drive in to work this morning. In Waupaca County is was OK, the wind was blowing the snow off the roads and it was a little slick but everyone was going a reasonable speed.... get to Winnebago County and it all changes to sh!t! Wind starts blowing snow EVERYWHERE! I now know what whiteout conditions are....... I decided to play it safe and NOT take the 41 bridge, instead I took the Algoma Street overpass. Very scary to be driving your car upward into absolutely nothing at all, and not be able to see anything around or below you. I was hoping that once I got into town the buildings would cut the wind and I would be able to see more.... no such luck. It took me over an hour to get to work today, a drive that usually takes 40 min. I am not one that is usually afraid of the driving conditions; most of the time slow and steady will get you to your destination... this was a little scary.

Had to go out and get the ducks a new waterer, something went haywire in the one we have, electricity was going through it but the heating coil was no longer working so the poor babies water would freeze....

Raim, where do you get FG DE and Fleet???? The only stuff I have seen there is the DE mixed with the clay. The FG DE is pure white (as far as I know).

Playing 2 pools at work for the Powerball! I hope one of them pays off!

 

[Apyl]

My chick TV has always been the rabbit cage that DH brought Jasmine bunny home in 4 years ago. Now that she has arthritis & had to be moved indoors, I had to find other accomodations. It is alot more difficult to find a quality cage where the majority of the top opens, as I have come to realize. The cage pictured is from Marchiorio:



There is a smaller opening in the front, but the top opening is much larger.

Good I'm not the only one My cage is one that we had for DD's guinea pigs. I scrubbed it down and closed off one end to have a warm side. I need to still pick up a heat lamp.

 

[WIChookchick]

Well I gotta call from DH who said he was in a ditch about 3 miles from our home. I was in Jefferson at the time and had to call the insurance co to have them send the road side assistance/tow truck for him. he called back a bit later saying that a good samaritan with a truck and a tow rope got him out of the ditch.
Thank you God!! there wouldn't have fee, if he were with in 6 feet of the road, which he was.. but still...

glad to know everyone is safe (at least I hope so... I haven't read days worth of posts-yet)

 

[Celtic Chick]

Good I'm not the only one My cage is one that we had for DD's guinea pigs. I scrubbed it down and closed off one end to have a warm side. I need to still pick up a heat lamp.

When my chicks were small (last year), I put cardboard around the sides to keep out any drafts too. As they got older, the cardboard slowly came down, one side at a time. I see nothing wrong with your set-up. My girls survived just fine, and I've raised 3 generations in the same cage. Although, as you can see, they outgrow being "inside" the cage rather quickly.

 

[Celtic Chick]

Carol, I am so glad your DH is ok!

 

[Celtic Chick]

I just candled the eggs. Only 2 had any possibilities. The rest were clears.