Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[bigzio]

Nice Sunday here ...gotta love Summer while it is here! Wish I had all your egg customers to help with their cost Cind.....I'll have to start going to the farmers market and sell them to the sellers that want to sit there.

Nothing else new here....bigz

 

[irishrovr]

I haven't seen a groundhog for two days now - keeping my fingers crossed! Praying for a little rain here soon. A little free watering would be a nice break for the pump and pressure tank.

 

[bigzio]

Hope the vermin stay away irish...we had the deer type vermin last night...they ate a whole 50' row of beets that were days away from harvest and being canned.....they pull the beets out when eating the tops and then eat the beets.....I only grow the cylindrical type from sandhill....delicious when they make it harvest.....it's no wonder why the venzun tastes so good around here.....

I can taste revenge.

bigz

 

[Celtic Chick]

Just passed that area is a 12x20 root cellar. There will be food stored in that building - better place for a storm cellar I think. One of the neighbors called it the building that collapsed...



I won the first battle and the door inside the barn will be wire mesh on the top 1/2. Compromise is that it will have a solid plywood panel that can be put in if we need to heat the space. They are MY chickens as he keeps saying, but he has really bonded to them. I am almost afraid to tell him that sex-link chickens have short lives. But, he is already making plans for extra coop space - as he said to me "IF you decide to raise purebred chickens." He already has decided that "I" will be getting more chickens. lol!

Wyo, the door inside the barn? Do you mean the one from the coop to the root cellar? I hope not, or your food will get filthy dusty.

It would be perfect for the outside door though.

You could possibly install a dog door in the lower half of that outside door & just build a run off of that. Just a thought.

Too funny on your DH deciding that you need more chickens.

 

[wyoDreamer]

The root cellar is a totally separate building - for storage only. Making jokes with Jim about tornado shelter - sorry to confuse.

The concrete room for the coop is off the barn. The door into it is in the barn. The chicken door will be in the window opening, with a ramp inside and out for the chickens to get up to it. The window will be replaced with the chicken door and the rest will be wire mesh for ventilation.

I now have a question for anyone using the poultry nipples - how high do you have them? what would be a good height to install the pipe with the nipples at? I will make a temporary booster platform for the chicks, but I don't want to have to move the pipe as they grow.

 

[jvls1942]

The root cellar is a totally separate building - for storage only. Making jokes with Jim about tornado shelter - sorry to confuse.

The concrete room for the coop is off the barn. The door into it is in the barn. The chicken door will be in the window opening, with a ramp inside and out for the chickens to get up to it. The window will be replaced with the chicken door and the rest will be wire mesh for ventilation.

I now have a question for anyone using the poultry nipples - how high do you have them? what would be a good height to install the pipe with the nipples at? I will make a temporary booster platform for the chicks, but I don't want to have to move the pipe as they grow.

I think I would have the nipples at least a foot above the floor,, then you can make a platform for the chickens to reach it.. keeping in mind, that the bedding might tend to get deeper as the days go by ..

 

[Cindlady]

Hi All!

Yep, I'm between 4 to 6 dozen short for orders. 1 family buys most of them every week. The daughter got to Nationals in women's boxing on my eggs so hate to restrict how many they can have. If I stumble upon some started layers cheap I may grab them, but I can't handle many more. Wish you were closer, I'd send you costumers!

Nothing else new.

Night All!

 

[bigzio]

Late Morning to all....we got the rain you were praying for Irish, and then some...over a inch with straight line winds...I have branches down all over to clean up.

I could use them Cind for sure.

Sounds like a threat for more this afternoon. The lawn will never turn brown at this rate....dang!

Stay Safe...bigz

 

[birds4kids]

Rocked pretty good here in Greenville, haven't heard totals but I would guess at least 1.5" here, some tree damage but the weak stuff was taken out by the tornado 2 years ago. I was worried about the chickens and almost went out at 4:00am to close the coop door but by the time I was done checking the weather and making sure I didn't have to wake up my other girls to get them in the basement the edge was coming off the wind and the wife would have been upset if I went out in that, she is a worrier.

Yesterday I almost moved the chicken tractor over by the garden and had I done that it would have been less protected and I fear might have tipped over, they have never free ranged and don't want to start in those conditions. So now summer storms figure into my tractor movement plans.

 

[Firstchic]

Here outside of Clintonville, if it stormed, as my DS says, I did not hear a thing.....slept right through it. All is fine here, no brances down so I guess it was not too bad.