Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[mxmarg]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys! Big Family, I appreciate you sticking your neck out and I'll be sure to not get caught in a dark alley with anyone you mentioned.... ;p

That being said, I

snakes so much! And turtles! Those little prehistoric beasties! But then chickens w/o feathers sure look prehistoric as well! And I was this close I tell ya to getting a tarantula in high school... so y'all really are my people

Now minks, I thought y'all were talking traps at first but this is mink farming? Here any mink I ever knew would gladly eat the heads of any chicken and you guys are perpetuating the species? lol Is there a dollar sign in the reason?

Terri O! Yup we's spitting distance! Waterloo! How neat that we're so close! What? You're talking about giving me chickens? Well gee whiz tell me more!

I was all hootin and hollarin about seeing our first red wing blackbirds of the season toooooo yesterday!

All my best, and thanks again for the warm welcome

 

[jvls1942]

ha,,,ok Dr you asked for it

windy out,,,bator is setup and adjusted per Jim's instructions, had a busy week with eggs and might hold off for another day or 2 in order to get another couple of eggs from the Wheaton Americana,,,make some oliver eggers if things work out (or roosters I can always take to FT

)

Jim, I pm'd Tomski too,,,maybe if things work out you could haul me a couple or ? cages, I could combine trip when I pickup Deleware chicks,,,,,give you a call one of these days soon

on the garden front I've had trouble with the rootstock seed for my tomato grafts,,,,PIA,,,,called the source they will send replacements but with this project timing is everything,,,now I need to order some more seeds for the scions,,,,grrrrr

nap time,,,,bbl

Yeah, we can work something out.. about now Ski might be regretting his offer ?? we are all like pack-rats, ya know?

If it works out, I could drop cages off on my way home..

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

 

[tiki244]

Hi,

I slept in and definitely neened it.

Dr Ha I have 4 W/Blue wheaton Ameraunana hens, 2 EE hens and a 1 blue, 1 black and 1 barred rock. They are all laying good now. The EE rooster is very sexually active. The Ameraucana rooster is afraid of the hens. I had them together in an outside pen yesterday. All I have to do is put wire up on one 5 foot area and a little wire on top of the door on the inside and I can have them seperate. Since i have been putting that~ off!~ today is a good day to do that. Now I have a good reason to do it. I'm so bad. LOL Should be enough time for the swap.20 days Especially the way the EE roo is at it! You may get a few mixes but pretty certain they will mostly be pure on these breeds with EE as the father. I will update to let you know if Ameraucana becomes more brave.

Back to reading.

Nice pictures everybody. I ran across a few picts that were funny. May try to upload them.

 

[jvls1942]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys! Big Family, I appreciate you sticking your neck out and I'll be sure to not get caught in a dark alley with anyone you mentioned.... ;p

That being said, I

snakes so much! And turtles! Those little prehistoric beasties! But then chickens w/o feathers sure look prehistoric as well! And I was this close I tell ya to getting a tarantula in high school... so y'all really are my people

Now minks, I thought y'all were talking traps at first but this is mink farming? Here any mink I ever knew would gladly eat the heads of any chicken and you guys are perpetuating the species? lol Is there a dollar sign in the reason?

Terri O! Yup we's spitting distance! Waterloo! How neat that we're so close! What? You're talking about giving me chickens? Well gee whiz tell me more!

I was all hootin and hollarin about seeing our first red wing blackbirds of the season toooooo yesterday!

All my best, and thanks again for the warm welcome

just for the record ,, we are not all lizard lovers .. some of us are normal..sort of..

we are not raising mink.. we are stealing mink cages.. sort of poetic justice..
raising chickens in mink cages..

 

[tiki244]

Welcome MXM


My computer was having problems yesterday!~ so I missed a lot.

 

[Tomski]

Tomski, you will have a hoot hatching quail.. I think they are the most fun of all eggs.. they hatch like popcorn going off. and quail can run almost as soon as they hatch..

I think those 1 x 1 wires would hold a full grown quail in..

Ski, that self description of you might confuse some people.. except for the part where you are standing next to your camper, that could be me you described.. except maybe you didn't go heavy enough on the good looking part..

Jim-
I'm looking forward to it... I wanna pickle the eggs for this year's Hunting Camp...LOL I have heard that once they start popping it's almost like corn! I can only hope to be so lucky!

I'm gonna have to make sure they thay are 1 x 1's - - - I'm pretty sure they were

So if I see a "pretty" boy leanin' up against the trailer with a cold beer in his hand... That's you?

couldn't help it....

 

[bigzio]

Afternoon All....Welcome mxm...nothing but good folks here....couple old ones (thanks bf4) we know who they are now....

You don't stir the pot FT....you smoke it....

nice house SF and nice fish pic Doc...it takes a while to get used to the combustion blowers, but once you get the hang of it, I think you will like it.

Good luck for those of you hatching and to those that are setting eggs tomorrow.

Been busy here lately, able to keep up with the reading though. Hope everyone is feeling better soon that is under the weather a bit.

bigz

 

[jvls1942]

I pickled a quart of quail eggs once.. it took 50 eggs to fill the jar.. I do not care to eat pickled eggs so I gave them to a nephew..

to peel the shells, after you boil the eggs, soak them over night in a strong vinegar water.. the shells become soft and peel very easily.. I have read this,, I have never tried it..

lllllllllllll jiminwisc llllllllll aka "pretty boy" to some

 

[MustLoveHens]

Afternoon All!
Well I'm back from my excursion with the DH and we went to a place/town called Orfordville to take a peek-see at a Bent and Dent grocery store. Kinda neat but you had to watch exp. dates.
We also went to a feed store account of his because he wanted to show me their new brooder that their local lumber company made. Man was it slick! So I ordered one and will take pics when I get it. I think I should have ordered two since we are doing another round of "Brood A Boat Load Of Chicks For Brothers" again. Luckily no ducks this year! Thank goodness! However while I won't need to brood ducks for them, the number of chicks to brood I think is about 250last I heard. I hope that number goes down.

Other then that I'm enjoying the beautiful but windy day! I feel very lucky that we have such nice weather.

OK, gotta go do something more productive then blab here.

 

[Susie"J"]

Thanks Jim hope DH can get some cheep. It's that time of year when cover is good with all the mud.