Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Dr HaHa]

I got the nicest, neatest pic of everyone in the mail today. Thank you so much Bigz and Suzie!!!!! It's going in a frame maybe with some matting. What a profressional job! Plus I found some quick rise yeast in with it! Bonus!!!! It just so happens I'm going to do some more baking this rainey weekend. Found a recipe for cin/raisin bread and want to make brat and burger buns. Made wood till 11 and now feeling kind of weird, more than normal. Was going to go back out tomorrow morning but think maybe I'll do some more weeding and wash up a 6 gal bucket with a rubber seal for a 25lb sack of flour. Plus a million other things. But did manage to get a tree done from dropping to shed. The lil ducks all look so cuddly and soft! Had to seperate the the girls this morning the big girls get too upset because the lil ones are going in THEIR nest boxes. Seems to work got 8 eggs today only 6 yesterday with them in with them. Thanks again B&S!!! That was really nice! Enjoy the evening!

 

[bigzio]

Afternoon to All... glad the pic arrived safe and sound Doc. The post office lady is our neighbor and I knew it would arrive safe....she has a really big stick!

Butiful day today...ton of weeding done, and the rows look sweet.

Yep, thanks for sharing all the pics. Jim raises Muscovy ducks. I'm not Duck smart but learning some. I was reading in Backyard Poultry Magazine that a muscovy bred with a mallard will produce sterile chicks called mules that don't reproduce. Just thought I'd share.

Cut the broccoli today. Suzie makes a goody broccoli salad. Been eating alot of the green onions too!
Lovin, this time of year!

Stay Safe.... ~ bigz

 

[Terri O]

Back from work and relaxing a bit before I get stuff together for the 4H meeting tonight. It isw our last one before the fair so I am sure it will be a hectic one!
That was a very interesting site (muskovy central) Annarie. I learn a little more each day. OK--my teenage ducklings are actually my chocolate muskovy's first hatch. I am pretty sure the dad was a white muskovy but also could have been a Roen. Frankie (the girl duck) hangs around with both of them. If Mr Mr was still alive (and I think he was) then it could also have been him (a pekin) The Mom of the brother and sister "magpies" was a white muskovy...no idea on the dad for them. Does anyone have any idea if mule ducks quack? If they always do if a female, then mine are not mixed but if they dont, then they might be! (make sense?) After I get rid of all my little muskovies then I will pen those two and see if I get any fertile eggs. Now are the mules only male? Or are the females also sterile and do not produce eggs? I guess that would be an important question to answer...because if I get no eggs then we have duck for dinner!
I had the most disturbing thing happen to me during chores this morning! I noticed that one of the eggs in a duck nest was out in the middle of the floor and looked to be broken open. So I went in and picked it up expecting that there would be a stinky mess inside. To my surprise there was a perfect duckling beak and it was opening and closing! The egg was pretty cold so I put it back under the Mom. That rascal got up and took the egg back out of the nest and started pecking and eating at it!!!!!!!! I was disgusted! Poor little duckling! I have not been back out to the barn to see what happened in the end; I can just imagine though...

Well, I am nice and cool now--even have a goosebump or two! Outside I go...later--Terri O

 

[Sweetfolly]

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Since the white is incompletely dominant in Muscovy's, if daddy was the white 'Scovy, then your teenagers are Chocolate Pied (which is what I thought they looked like anyways) - they have patches of White from dad and patches of Chocolate from mom.

When I saw those Magpie colored ducks I thought, "Oh crap, she has Muscovies too...

". It makes it so complicated!

So, actually if mom was a White Muscovy (and in that case I suspect that daddy was a Pekin, because Pekins are usually Black "underneath" their recessive White genes, hence the Black & White Pied coloration), you don't have mules (that would be if dad was a Muscovy and mom was a Mallard-derived breed), you have "hinnies". A female hinny will lay eggs, but apparently they won't hatch, and a male hinny is sterile. Basically, mules and hinnies cannot reproduce.

I got all of that from this website: http://home.comcast.net/~out1rider/page17.html

beckyschicks - My ducks all live in their uninsulated 4' x 8' plywood pens over the winter - with lots of straw bedding to snuggle down in, they do just fine - it even got to 16 below zero one night, I did make an extra little box for them to all cram into overnight when it was that cold, but they were just fine. Ducks don't need elaborate housing, and you don't have to worry about combs getting frostbitten - you should definitely get some ducks!

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

 

[babylady4]

Eventful two days!

Took the oldest DD to the local teen dance last night, and FM was gracious enough to let me intrude for a few hours. After picking up my DD and her friend, we jumped onto the highway beside a semi. This guy passed me and on the way home we followed him, watching him weave from the shoulder to across the centerline. I thought it was the wind at first so I waited and watched for a while before I called the county cops. I am glad I did before he killed himself or somebody else!

Today I finally tackled the grouting job...... I did not think it would take me almost 5 hours to grout and clean up!!!!! I swear I have tennis elbow now! I am so happy to have that job behind me, now all I want to do is paint and get the toilet in!

Now, time to relax with some vino and a snack!

Later!

 

[Terri O]

So BCC--are those geese Pilgrims or Toulouse/Embden?

Annarie--thanks for yet another good addy and the info! So you think that the teens are going to be white and brown then when they grow in their adult plumage? That is a shame that those others are probably sterile...I kinda wanted to see what would happen if they bred. I might try it just for kicks anyhow...just in case her eggs could be fertilized. I will use my magpie colored pure muskovy that I somehow obtained in my crazy gene pool here. I will get a pic of him tomorrow. He is absolutely gorgeous...kinda like the one that FM showed us but 4x the size!

The 4H meeting was LOOOONG! So much to get ironed out before the fair. We had a ton of stuff to make for our stalls yet and still some research needs to be done! I can say that I will be plenty glad when it is over. I have the Cultural Arts section to worry over too--I am the Superintendent. If you get to the fair you can look me up! I seem to live there all week...good thing I am only 6 miles from the grounds. We did camp one year but that was a whole other thing to worry about! Not doing that again.

OK--I am going to bed--sweet dreams all! Terri O

 

[pongoid]

Anyone been to the Stamm House in Middleton, WISCONSIN?

 

[babylady4]

TO they look like Embden/Toulouse crosses to me, but I am a novice at this kind of stuff. I had a Toulouse as a kid.

What the heck, where is Dr. H???? Maybe he slept in...

Arm is feeling better today; darn, I was hoping for something to seize up so I could get out of going to work...

Have a great day everyone!

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

nope, the gander and buff goose are show quality Pomeranians, the other is a pet pom, they friendliest geese I've ever had, even during breeding season and now with babies they don't attack you