Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Bigfamily4me]

I have a LATE bloomer. An androgynous chicken. Whatever you want to call it, my lav Orpington pullet is a roo. Honestly folks, it looks like a pol pullet and not a roo. But I heard the wimpiest crow for the first time out of it. How old is this gender confused bird? 6 months! It is a nice sized Orpington. It will be a decent size pot of soup.

I don't get how you folks with all the Roos keep them all. I can't wait to get them reduced in number. I struggle with doing it young, or grow them out so they at least give back to the family. I just hate to think of all the feed they eat before they're big enough to eat (since they're not meaties). I have 3 -4 Wheaten Marans cockerels to go, 2 lavender Orpingtons, a spare Icelandic roo. AND I'm still waiting to see what roo I have in the silkie house.

So CC and FT this means I dont even have a lav pullet anywhere. Stupid lavs.

Heatherinneedofcoffeeandregrettingtheredvelveticecreamforbreakfast

 

[Bigfamily4me]

Very stiff and sore this morning..... but I feel GREAT! The WI run was soooooooo much better than the IL run! Many more obstacles and much less running (thank goodness). We had much better mud too! The girls running this were doing mud wrestling after each mud pit so they could get muddy to the extreme! It was quite comical to watch.

Ghost, good luck with your Boxer. I hope it is nothing serious. I have a Boxer/Lab cross who is up there as well. She just turned 12 this July, I keep a close eye on her since she could take a turn for the worse quickly.

I guess I am suffering from CRS myself..... I can't remember much else.

More   for Dr.H of course. No one should fault you for showing emotion.... the ones who do not you have to worry about!

Off to do some shopping (if I ever get out of bed and get dressed that is....)

Later!

Yes Mellie... You were filthy, dirty, and gross. It matched the mind perfectly , right? And hey, the mud showed off the rack nicely, SO jealous!

My run went pretty well. The weather was perfect. They changed the route slightly so we had Bascom hill to run up. (GGGRRRRRRRRRR!) I was not happy with my time again. I don't understand why I'm running so much slower than last year. It really ticks me off! So now I'm getting stubborn and signing up for the Cow Chip 5k. I have 2 wks to shave 1.36 off my time. (yeah right!) But I'm going to TRY anyway! I'm a little sore today, but nothing horrible. Which is good, because I have to train hard the next few weeks.

Glad you had tons of fun dirty girl!

 

[Terri O]

I'm Baaaack! LOL! Well I might have missigned my last post--I didnt CATCH something but I did HATCH something! I went doen to feed Tommy and his cohorts and to dump the bator of eggs ans there was another quail in there! So I brought it up and it is happily sleeping with it's hatchmates.
The trap was sprung with the bait remaining so I guess a chicken must have jumped on it this morning and closed it. It didnt look as if there was an attack last night. Kind of hard to tell though because there are a LOT of feathers around in my yard...

DD26 said the FB is saying a classmate of herd died last night. A really nice kid (and family) but there isnt any other information anywhere...HMMM. Wondering what happened to him--he was a chef at the golf club in Lake Mills.

DD had scrambled eggs for breakfast--they smell SOOO good! Might have to have some for the 3rd meal in a row...can you tell I need to go shopping?

BL4--I LOVE the mud pic! My daughter says that you have an expensive hobby running in all the dirty girl runs! Good cause though--right?

Talk to you all later--TErri O

 

[Terri O]

Found this pic from DD26's camera and pasted it from FB...does it show up for all of you? Thanks--TerriOwonderinghowigotsuchaprettydaughter!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Found this pic from DD26's camera and pasted it from FB...does it show up for all of you? Thanks--TerriOwonderinghowigotsuchaprettydaughter!

shows up just fine!! Out to clean out our pen of meaties and move them to a bigger area. We cull all our extra cockerals between 4-6 months old- in fact we have one marinating right now- should be good!

 

[tiki244]

Cind I hear ya about the hips! and the knees too,,,,,,,

I have to catch up on all the reading now. My time has been monopolized by getting my pictures to work.(at least 4+ hours a day for the last week or mooree) If anyone is having trouble I may be able to help. May,,,,,,,,I can tell you what has worked for me and some good links I got from some very nice computer wizzes on BYC.


O wow what a nice picture Terri O I love it when the braid them like that. Very time consuming but it looks so smart!


PS I love my dude he is just a sweety and so very frightened of the rougher roosters. All my LF roos are gone and getting harder and harder to pic the small obes out. (still on rooster countdown duty) I have an extra MF D Uccke too~ too bad Terri you live so far away.


PPSS Did anyone hear about the Ovations? I only just noticed it because I have been over in the BYC announcemenys and such for the last week. Was news to me.!!!!

 

[Celtic Chick]

My run went pretty well. The weather was perfect. They changed the route slightly so we had Bascom hill to run up. (GGGRRRRRRRRRR!) I was not happy with my time again. I don't understand why I'm running so much slower than last year. It really ticks me off! So now I'm getting stubborn and signing up for the Cow Chip 5k. I have 2 wks to shave 1.36 off my time. (yeah right!) But I'm going to TRY anyway! I'm a little sore today, but nothing horrible. Which is good, because I have to train hard the next few weeks.

Hmmm...........couldn't have anything to do with having red velvet ice cream for breakfast, lunch, dinner & dessert, could it??????????

 

[chikenscratch]

Has a migraine ((

Let the chickens out. I've got to get the hardware cloth out (maybe not today) and staple it to any area that is between the size of a pencil tip and a nickel. Eh?

 

[Celtic Chick]

Here is mom and 2 of her new fuzzy butts! One looks like a Dom and the other is a black/lav orp split.

 

[tiki244]

How cute and mom looks so proud.!