Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Bigfamily4me]

I didn't think anyone saw me peeking through the window!  

Same chit different day.   It's hot.  We need rain.  Still carving and planting stones...

Oh Tom... Becareful looking in the windows... Sandi seems to be naked all the time now...

 

[Amyable]

Cindlady~don't know what kind of soil you have but my DH drove a sandpoint well near the gardens with an electric pump on it we just plug in with an extension cord to water the gardens or as a backup, and it can easily be converted to a handpump (which we have) if necessary.

Yes, this is what I want to do!! We both want a sandpoint, but I feel it would be better if it could be converted, for when the power is out. Please share how you did that!

Drumroll............................................got coon #2 this morn! Another big 20+ pounder. Took care of this one myself. I think I might skin it. Talking to my dad about it last night, he asked if we were gonna eat it? I guess my great uncle used to cook 'em up, all dark meat. Hmm. Not sure about that one.

Anyone here ever tried raccoon??

Rains to the north, rains to the south, just a sprinkle here. Let's hope things shift in our favor, getting dry again.
Nice to see ya Tom!

 

[Amyable]

Oh Tom... Becareful looking in the windows... Sandi seems to be naked all the time now...

 

[Celtic Chick]

Oh Tom... Becareful looking in the windows... Sandi seems to be naked all the time now...

Why do you think he's been looking in the windows?

 

[Huntress78]

Good morning all. I'm new to the site but glad I found this thread as I have a 'regional' question...I'm looking for Brahma breeders in N.E. WI. Do any of you have, or do you know of anyone who has, pullets for sale?


Amyable, I am a taxidermist and wouldn't recommend tanning a summer coon as the fur quality is not good and much of it may fall out during the tanning process. Coon meat is very good as slow roasted BBQ....parboil first. Congrats on your catch!

 

[judge]

Amyable- i have heard of "coon feeds" that they used to do at town picnics in towns not far from us. They say it was really good, but I don't think I could do it.
They say we should get some good storms here later this afternoon. Hoping its not too terrible since I hate storms.
have a great day all

 

[vickiw]

Hi Amyable

It's easy to convert a sandpoint to a handpump. Usually drive a sandpoint with a handpounder, threading on more pipe as you go, right? So, when we hit water, DH added an elbow to the top of the pipe to be able to connect the shallow well pump which just sits on a couple cinder blocks that we cover with a crate. When we need to put on the hand pump we just disconnect the pump, screw off the elbow, screw on the handpump, prime it and away you go. Strong elbows

and you have water

What we didn't do, but should have, was add another length of pipe, box it in (to stabilize and make a platform for the hand pump) and put the shallow well pump up on top. Then when we needed to use the hand pump we would be more at shoulder height. You have to back drain it and of course anyway after use and drain it completely before things freeze up in the winter,so as long as your motor pump can pull that extra height ok, there is no difference.

Hi Judge!

we're somewhere west of you and we are rumbling right now and radar is showing a nasty line an hour or two behind that. Got our generator ready!

 

[unkadan]

good morning,

2 of nature's light shows already this morning, some heavy rains as well,,,,needed that in the garden

cool breeze required a long sleeve shirt for the first time in weeks,,,,

the birds are still locked up, when the rain slows they get opened up, my chickens enjoy the rain, if it thunders they head to various shelters or head back in I figure they can do what they want they have survived all this time despite what humans do with them

made a big farm style breakfast and now I am considering an early nap it's been a long time since I felt that I could take some down time,,,,this cool rainy day fits the bill

might make an Antigo run to FF and the butcher shop later today or tomorrow have a list going and that would make another use of a lazy rain day,,,heh heh

Amy congrats, I've eaten coon a few times at wild game feeds, still not good enough for me to process and cook one here

CC thanks for defending Squinty IF she does get her license I'll approve a trip to visit you

Heather did you cut into that gross looking growth?

bbl,,,,,,,,post nap

 

[Apyl]

Good Morning everyone and welcome Huntress78 .

Amy - I wold cook the coon, why waiste it Croc pots work wonders on all kinds of meats and a some BBQ sauce

Vicki - We have a sand point as well , but its our house well. We have a handpump well out in the yard but I need to fix the pump part the washer disinagrated,both are only like 14 feet deep and my step-dad did the house one and the other one was already here. We have a pretty deluxe pump though for the house thanks to my step-dad being a Union pipefitter forman.


Well hopefully today will be a cleaning day. The kid's friends are going somewhere today so no extra kids running around. I think I may also primer the ceiling where we had a leak, it looks bad and for now we cant replace the ceiling so I guess painting it will mask it a bit. Boy the joys of living in a old trailer. I can't wait to get some money saved up so we can use DH's VA loan to get a better place. But anyway, still no white eggs found and the kids have been all over and I've been looking as well. I'm thinking they may be in our "island" its a big 50' x 20' pile of branches and down trees covered in thorns and brack berry plants. So of course there is no way I'm going in it. Oh I forgot to mention my DS of course is exploring farther on the property now and he ended up some how ticking off some hornets and got stung 5 times. All on his legs, poor kids was red all over and swollen as can be. Luckily he's not allergic like my dad. Well I guess thats about it. I hope everyone has a great day.

 

[vickiw]

Ok, I have a puzzle for you knowledgeable chicken folks

Here's the background for those not following my "chicken tales". I have 4 large "special black" hens that were in pretty rough, ok, really rough shape (lots of missing feathers, completely bare butts & heads, dry skin, no shine, badly underweight), the 1 I call Stirfry with what appeared to be severe vent gleet, when they were rescued in early May. I was told at the time they were 18 months old. recently (2 weeks ago?) 1 went broody so of course she has stopped laying, the hen that I call Soup and was in the best shape, by far, than the others when I got them is still laying a nice large egg almost every day, that leaves the 2 (crockpot and stirfry aka pasty butt) that were in the worst shape when I got them. 1 of them (not sure which for certain) has layed a thin-shelled egg for at least the past week (prior I would find one occasionally) and 1 of these 2 chooks is not laying at all for about the same period. No one is showing any signs of egg bound, tummy bloating, etc with good appetites, active, nice shine, no nasty bugs, and all seem to be otherwise fine. Any ideas why the stop laying etc.? I have been trying to up their protein with dehydrated mealworms (til I ran out), scrambled eggs, etc. as well as free access to oyster shell of course. I also have been adding just a sprinkle of DE on top of their feed for the past few weeks. I have been adding diluted save-a-chick to their water lately because of the heat. We have been getting pretty hot even up here but not like you poor folks in the south! I did switch their feed to Purina Layer crumbles from Nutrena pellets several weeks ago (with only 4 chooks it takes me several weeks to go thru a bag). I bought a new bag of Nutrina pellets 2 days ago and plan to switch them back tomorrow because I do NOT like the crumbles!

Ok, don't think I left anything out. Oh yeah, they have access to a run and almost every day are allowed to "play" in the larger fenced in grass yard area around the gardens for a couple hours (especially during the heat of the day).

So, any ideas why the thin-shelled egg from one and no egg from the other? I should add that one of them was in the pattern of several days of good eggs, then a "mis-fire" aka no shell or very rubbery, then over a couple days it would improve until back to normal eggs then it would start over.