Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Colton]

Jeez, football is a lot of work, especially for the quarterback. That's me. It really wears on ya. 7:45 till 12, then 5:15 till 7:30.

That is a lot of time out from home and chicks. By the way all chicks are good, will post some pics as soon as mom gets home with the camera of chicks and brooder. All others are doing great.

So many tornadoes, lucky for us, haven't seen one. In the middle of that tornado pic, is that a road or the path of the tornado?

Oh and anyone following the older stuff, hen that got stung is fully recovered, using her eye and everything. Other hen is eating, got an egg from her today. And the limping chick is fine, only limps on a full out sprint, and it is still barely noticeable. So doing good. No more weak chicks either. Calling hatchery when mom gets home.

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[Colton]

CC, I forgot, about how many chickens do you have??

 

[vickiw]

Morning all. Well I'm closer to retiring, met with the UW benefits people Tuesday thinking I could complete the paperwork, drop it off at the Dept. of Employee Trust Funds, then just wait out the next five months . . . did I just type 5 MONTHS

hmmm just a little excited. Then we are getting ready to leave the meeting and I tell them "next stop ETF" and the response was . . . "they won't accept any application until 90 days prior the the retirement date". Ok fine!!! Since 90 days is the beginning of October and my husband's birthday is 10/9, I thought that would be a good day for me to deliver my retirement paperwork. Happy birthday honey - now I get to be home to "help" with all the projects on the "honey do" list. Oh and by the way did I tell you I've added to that list

kristip: I'm so sorry to hear your going through this - are the teenagers getting better?

bl4: you mentioned that you can't wait to see Amy's baby girl . . . I've been so busy and with so many posts the time I do get on I end up skimming (sorry all) and I must have missed this, when did she have her baby?

Amy: CONGRATS on the birth of you baby girl.

vickiw: I wish I would have read the posts before I placed my Amazon order. I ordered the square Nesco because it was USA made. I hope it will be as good as the Excalibur. Also wanted to chime in on the scratch, we also use a scratch mix as a littel treat (hubby seams to think they like he need a little bed time snack), but we add a little something depending on whats on hand things like cut up bannanas, a little shredded cheese, meal worms, and especially in the winter he'll mix in a can of tuna. Yes - these girls are spoiled.

Jim: good to hear about your DD#2 getting the State nursing home job, yes those are good bennies. I was a payroll and benefit specialist for 24+ years with Dpt of Family Medicine so I know these bennies well.

Amyable: So glad you, bl4, irishrovr and everyone else up in that neck of the woods is ok. It is most unfortunate that the church sustained so much dammage, but thankfully no one was hurt and it will be rebuilt. I was really saddend to see that 75% of the Maribel Cave Hotel is gone. We camped up there a few years ago and I thought that was such a cool structure.

Colton: So sorry to hear about your chics. I must say, your sense of responsibilty and maturity alway impress me. You do your parents proud!! I hope you have better luck with the replacements. By the way . . . have fun on the football field this fall.


unkadan: I'm right there with you on supporting the mom and pop operations. We buy our layer's feed at a little shop in Paoli and I believe she said the blend comes from a farmer near Westby. Although I do buy my meat producer from F&F due to cost. They had it on sale last month for $2 less than the price I paid last year so we bought 30 50lb bags which is what I used for 75 birds. I've read that fermenting the feed will give better results with less feed so we started this year's batch of 150 meaties on fermented feed. It will be intresting to see how far the 30 bags takes me with twice as many birds as last year.

irishrovr: on the zucchini bread, I used to bake the loaves and freeze them, but one year only had time to shred the zucchini and freeze it in 2 cup (what my recipe calls for) packages. That worked out so well and took up a lot less room in my freezer, so that's how I do it all the time now JAT (just a thought)

Oops sorry long post

Excalibers are 100% american made too! hubby and I have made a commitment to only buy USA whenever possible even if it costs a bit more. Like to think of it as investing in our grandkid's future.
Great idea about grating and freezing the zucchini!

lets all have a play nice Friday

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[vickiw]

great news Colton!!!!

Glad you are doing so well Amy! Only sending healthy baby vibes to you here

Sitting at my kitchen table enjoying the beautiful day, nice breeze blowing thru, just chillin' watchin' my peeps chasing grasshoppers and whirlibugs. Life is truly good. Oops, there goes the buzzer on the washer. Back to reality, sigh. oh well, still blessed, life is still very good.

 

[JustJohn]

Ditto on the grating and freezing zuchini.

Ihave nothing helpful to add to any of the other topics, so I will refrain from any comment that might further hurt anyone's feelings.

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[Celtic Chick]

So many tornadoes, lucky for us, haven't seen one. In the middle of that tornado pic, is that a road or the path of the tornado?

I believe that is what is left of the old driveway. You can kinda see it a little better in pics on this website. It looks like you drove up, and perhaps a valet took your car & parked it while you entered at the front door? Pure speculation there, though.

http://www.witowns.com/maribellcaveshotel07.htm

I think I have around 40 chickens.

ETA: I am very happy to hear all your chicks/chickens are doing much better. Good job!

 

[Celtic Chick]

Ditto on the grating and freezing zuchini.

Ihave nothing helpful to add to any of the other topics, so I will refrain from any comment that might further hurt anyone's feelings.

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Now that's funny.

 

[RBerryChicks]

Is it safe to come out today?
No, no baby yet and only Lord knows if its a girl. Have 4 weeks to go. BL4 is sending girl vibes every which way she can.

X2 on the Maribel Caves Hotel.

Here is a nice shot I took of it a couple years ago:


And here is the pic from the news after the storm:

The radio newscaster just said they upped the tornado count to 5. And not a single siren went off anywhere?? Nice.

Heather, if you cheer up I will post a new belly pic. Then I can be the comic relief for the day.

Oh that really is sad . . . beautiful pic you have of it. I too have pictures but not nearly so nice as yours. I will join the others in sending good vibes, ahh heck I'll even join Celtic Chick and make it "girlie vibes" that'll do it

Jeez, football is a lot of work, especially for the quarterback. That's me. It really wears on ya. 7:45 till 12, then 5:15 till 7:30.

That is a lot of time out from home and chicks. By the way all chicks are good, will post some pics as soon as mom gets home with the camera of chicks and brooder. All others are doing great.

So many tornadoes, lucky for us, haven't seen one. In the middle of that tornado pic, is that a road or the path of the tornado?

Oh and anyone following the older stuff, hen that got stung is fully recovered, using her eye and everything. Other hen is eating, got an egg from her today. And the limping chick is fine, only limps on a full out sprint, and it is still barely noticeable. So doing good. No more weak chicks either. Calling hatchery when mom gets home.

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Colton: Your the quarterback - we cheeseheads have our own Aaron Rogers in the making now how cool is that. True this sounds like a lot of hard work, but I have no doubt you are up for the task. Enjoy and so glad your hen is fully recovered.

 

[chikenscratch]

Thanks to Vicki (Delisha) for having me over today...and for the eggs of course!! I've got my box cut up and I'm just waiting for DH to come home with a bag of shavings. Should I wait for Colton's eggs to come to switch over? I forgot to ask you that.

 

[vickiw]

I just got bit by a chicken!!! :cd. To be specific, one of my young pullets! Little stinker left quite a scratch!
They escaped again from the extra play yard so hubby fixed it by making the fence higher and I was trying to scoot them out there when Gravy tried to turn back. I blocked her then tapped her on the butt with my foot to get her going in the right direction. She wheeled around, stretched her self up, puffed her wings, raised her hackles so far out she looked like something out of Jurassic park,and then bit me on the foot!!! She took one look and I think she knew that was a major booboo because she instantly wheeled around and did a submissive squat!
I scooped her up and gave her beak a good shake before carrying her out to the yard. I didn't yell because I was just establishing dominance, not trying to frighten her. Used the same technique on Noodle when she was being a bratty teenager and now she is my sweetest young lady (at least to me ) . They should all three start laying any day now then their world changes, I hope