Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Sweetfolly]

Thanks guys! She probably bought it as "Butterfly Sedum" - I kept telling her it wasn't a Butterfly Bush...

Yeah, our little front rock garden is out of control - Hostas, Violets, Violas, Bleeding Hearts, and Columbines coming up everywhere, with that one giant mass of Sedum.

Well, off to start all the chores for the evening. Have to make dinner (I do ALL the cooking, mom can't make toast!), get all the birds fed and locked up for the night, clean the brooders, candle all the Runner duck eggs in the 'bator (I have a batch on Week 1, a batch on Week 2, and a batch on Week 3 as of tonight!)....it's never-ending!

 

[Terri O]

You are sure busy Annarie! Now I am doubly excited for Chickenstock since it has become "Plantstock" as well! Gardening is my second passion aside from my animals--I too am a Master gardener! I am on my 3rd year this year. I think the bulk of my volunteering will be at the Hoard Museum in Fort Atkinson; they are doing an old fashioned herb/kitchen garden and a new border for the fence along the street. Cant wait to get started!

Your butterfly bush" is most likely Sedum spectabile or Sedum purpureum, it depends on the "toothiness" of the leaves and the final height of the plant. I have a vast Sedum collection in my gardens...it is a favorite plant of tortoises BTW! And one of my faves too...no wonder I love tortoises! I have a salad bowl type planter that I entered in the fair last year filled with Sedum and it won Best of Show! I was so excited (as were my fellow MGers) I hung that ribbon in my garden shed.

I supposed I'd better get out and lock everyone up...kids are all out tonight so I dont have to cook!

Guess I will do this

and watch a movie! Terri O

 

[bigzio]

Evening All... Spent to much time at camp today to be able to get much accomplished here today. That's a honest days work there too though. Ripped the old carpet out of the front sun porch, cleaned the floor for the new glue and carpet. Added two more rows of 12X12 patio blocks around the main firepit, then home and worked on insulating the new coop til 5, then back to camp for the monthly meeting...split firewood til 6, then the boys had burgers and beans and potato salad for the meeting meal before the buisness part of the meeting.

Kinda neat you folks are all flower smart. My daugter gave me a field guide to wisconsin wildflowers. It's neat to go for walks and figure out names of stuff you don't know. It works by flower color identification..kinda user friendly with information about it's use and history. It's a book they use for natural resources at point, and one I open quite often...always stuff to learn, eh!

Have Fun... ~ bigzio

 

[Terri O]

Good rainy morning to all! I didnt want to get up today...the rain sounded so nice and peaceful...alas, I must go to work. (unlike some of you other lucky guys

) Well, you put your time in I guess!
The parrots are quiet and eating their breakfast. I have discovered that they like for me to sit in here while they eat. They have a bean mixture and a veggie mix today....spoiled birds! Next time I will cook pasta with the beans--they LOVE noodles!
All critters are staying inside today while I work--just for the morning. Too bad about those stupid little birds that dont go in the coop at night--I guess they will get wet! Coffee's done--gotta hit it! Later--Terri O

 

[Kool Aid Queen]

oh look what i found in my coop this am(there are 2 ) hoping we see a few more as she has about a dz under her..
so does about 3 other hens i have lol and one is out in the wood some where hoping to see babies with her too

my question is this she is in the top nesting box about 4 ft off the ground do i help the babies get down do i need to put them in a separate
spot of the others dont pick on then any info would be great this is the first time we have had babies in the coop

 

[Amyable]

Plantstock,

sounds good to me! Hey Bigz, is that wildflower book of yours a little blue pocket type book? I've got one called WI Wildflowers too and its great, very easy to use.

KAQ, some folks do put the momma and babies down lower so the little ones don't fall out. I hope moving a broody won't break her off the nest though. Perhaps block them in somehow, and wait til they are all hatched then put them on the ground with mom?

 

[Kool Aid Queen]

ok another dumb ?? the one baby you see dry in the pic has gone under to the next nesting box where there is another broode mama should i put it back with its mama .. as the one it is with i think has about a week and a hlaf to go before she is ready to hatch???

and if i took the babys away to sell do i have to wait a few days or can i do it right away??

 

[Sweetfolly]

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I have a tiny little shade garden out by the duck pens, and there's always neat wildflowers coming up in there, and I have to go dig out the books to identify them. My new favorite (even though it's considered an invasive species!) is a Cypress Spurge that came up this year - it's so unique looking, I've cleared a place for it and I'm going to let it stay (but keep it under control, of course!). I inherited dozens of Audubon Society Field Guide books from my grandmother, I'm always learning names for the things growing around here!

I wanted to share these pictures with you guys - I think this is the most special spot on the entire property during the spring, we have a little grove of Pink Lady Slipper orchids - there have to be at least 20 of them:

Supposed to have an aunt coming to pick up some chicks I've been raising for her this weekend. I'm just hoping she shows. I really need to thin out the baby birds!

We're having a benefit here in Lyndon tomorrow to raise money for our cemetery - a few months ago, some stupid kid toppled and smashed a whole bunch of headstones (some of them were civil-war era stones that can never be replaced

), and we need to raise over $7,000 to cover just the damage that the cemetery committee is responsible for. Some of the stones will never be repaired because there just aren't family members around anymore to care.

So if any of you are going to be close, stop on by!

Kool Aid Queen - You can take the chicks away whenever - right away if you want. Hatcheries pack chicks up in boxes and ship them across the country the same day they hatch!

 

[Kool Aid Queen]

thanks annarie i had to put both babies under the light mama is sitting and one baby was cold and hardly moving it fell out of nest and the other fell out too and was running all over the coop so to keep then safe put them in brooder so mama will still sit and hatch the rest i hope now day by day we will be watching for babies lol


and i dont know what your flowers are but they are beautiful

 

[Aves]

Three salmon faverolle (about 10 weeks old) cockerels, free to a good home.

contact me at [email protected], from Central Wisconsin

I will try to post pictures if saomeone will tell how to do it.

Thanks

Aves