Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[jvls1942]

What are 3 week old chicks going for? Buff orpington and welsummer if that helps...?

are you selling or wanting to buy ?

purebred or crossbreeds ?

how many ?

where are you located ?

 

[ACSchueler]

I am looking to sell. 12 buff orpingtons and 2 welsummers, they should be pure bred as I have a couple mix of the two in the group and you can definitely tell the difference. They will be 3 weeks on Monday. We are located near Sheboygan.

 

[bigzio]

I would say between $3 and $5 for the 3 week old chicks AC. That's what I would charge anyway.

I would think that residue from a sevin dip would be more severe than a light dusting spaced 10 days apart....that's my opinion. I've never been sick or had bad tasting eggs from my dusting program. I also have dusting areas with sand and wood ash for the long term, but add the 5% sevin a couple times during the summer,or when northern fowl mites show their presence during winter....the best part is that my birds don't suffer from vermin that persist using weak chemicals that don't get the job done right. Plants aren't the same as chickens...northern fowl mites don't and can't live off the host (chickens). And when residue is detected in eggs, it's so minimal it doesn't matter, other than being detected.

 

[chikenscratch]

Del I'm glad to hear your news of cancer free! And congrats on getting all chicks sold! Tomski welcome back!!!! Join the conversation. Glad the thawing is working for you all and you're keeping warm (mostly). I think it's past due for good ole puxatawny phil. How old is he anyway and why do we ask him to tell us we're going to get more winter?

Terri, your pups are cute, anyhow.. they look Border Collie-ish .. I would like to have a border collie and a Jack Russel.. who said it was cold ? it was -20 when I sneaked up on sleeping Gus and got this picture. No he did not just get hit by a car,, he is stretching his legs and got up right after I snapped the picture .. ..........jiminwisc............ .......

Theo looks just like Gus. Although, he is not as fond of really cold temps. I'd love to join the hatch, but the dang birds still aren't laying. Seven of them and I get one egg a day if I'm lucky.Ugh! DH and I will be enclosing the rest of the property once it gets warm enough to drive posts into the ground. Doing this will allow us to keep Theo out of the garden, allow us to reseed the run, and keep the rif raf off our land! Not much else here and as far as extinct birds, I too say go for it but frost bite might be an issue for ya! Sclark was that you in the picture with your grand daughter?

 

[Celtic Chick]

What thaw is it you speak of, cs? Don't think we'll be seeing any of that soon.

We only got 6 eggs today and 3 of those were cracked.

 

[Cindlady]

Hi All!

Yes, what thaw? Those couple of days last week when it was barely over 32?

Nothing new.... night all!

 

[jvls1942]

What thaw is it you speak of, cs? Don't think we'll be seeing any of that soon.

We only got 6 eggs today and 3 of those were cracked.

I am guessing she was talking about thawing pipes..

I have the big dogs in the house.. the pups are in their coop with heat on..
I had to lock the kitchen door,, Gus knows how to open it.. It is a lever type handle and he figured out how to push it down and the door will swing open,, we have the same latch on the outside door, but that door swings in,,
we have one of those screen doors at the patio door that if you push on it, it will open,, it took only a short time before Gus had that door figured out..

......jiminwisc...........

 

[BayBay Peepers]

the way you just described would be live weight,,  split your share in half and it comes to roughly 150 pounds

I don't shop for groceries,,,,  I mentioned this to my wife, and she said that hamburger is $4.90 a pound,,  so what you paid is well within the ballpark..

I would not buy beef with a go between,,  go directly to the seller..
If the go between says that he is the only one that the seller will deal with, find a different seller.

I appreciate your input. I feel much better knowing hamburger is that high anyways. I suppose bot happy meat is so expensive, but happy knowing I'm in the ballpark. Next time I'll have to call the farmer myself I can't imagine it'd be that big of a deal if they want to sell and I want to buy

 

[Sclark73]

Del I'm glad to hear your news of cancer free! And congrats on getting all chicks sold!

Tomski welcome back!!!! Join the conversation.

Glad the thawing is working for you all and you're keeping warm (mostly).

I think it's past due for good ole puxatawny phil. How old is he anyway and why do we ask him to tell us we're going to get more winter?
Theo looks just like Gus. Although, he is not as fond of really cold temps.

I'd love to join the hatch, but the dang birds still aren't laying. Seven of them and I get one egg a day if I'm lucky.Ugh!

DH and I will be enclosing the rest of the property once it gets warm enough to drive posts into the ground. Doing this will allow us to keep Theo out of the garden, allow us to reseed the run, and keep the rif raf off our land!

Not much else here and as far as extinct birds, I too say go for it but frost bite might be an issue for ya!

Sclark was that you in the picture with your grand daughter?

Yes that is me, I didn't want to share one with me in but.....it was the newest one I had of her on my phone.


I'm currently using wood ash, Sevin dust and DE for treating of lice/mites on the rescue birds and it's worked tremedously. Also for the scaley leg mites, been using VetRx and also a friend and it's making a huge difference. In the past I've tried many other approaches with little success.

 

[wyoDreamer]

In the past, DH had a friend/co-worker who raised two beef and two pigs every summer. We bought a half beef one year and the butcher called us and asked us what we wanted for cuts. I really didn't know much beyond we like our steaks cut thick. Well, the steaks came and were about 1/2 inch thick, a little too thin for good grilling and the ground beef was way too fatty. The next year we ordered another half, and when they called for cutting instructions, I knew what we wanted. I asked her if there was something else they could do with the rib steaks, because we were not really happy with them. Sure she says, we'll leave them as prime rib.
Oh, I guess we will settle for that.

And we don't really like T-Bone steaks, no good way to cook it right, the tenderloin part cooks too fast and the sirloin part cooks too slow. So I ordered Sirloin and tenderloin steaks - an 1 1/4 inch thick. I asked for the ground beef to be as lean as they could make it, and I wanted some of the beef tallow wrapped in 1 pound packages also. They were really nice about it all. The steaks were still cut a bit thin, probably closer to 3/4 inch than an inch, but OK for grilling. and the ground beef was still a bit greasy, but not bad. When DH picked up the meat, he got talking to the butcher. The butcher couldn't say enough good about our friends animals. He actually bought a 1/2 beef for his parents and in-laws to split.

I don't remember the name of the place, it was south of Eau Claire.