Hi all - finally getting a day to kick back so decided to catch up on the happenings of the cheeseheads.
Welcome all newbies!
Jim - new pup sounds great and really like the choice in name.
Hens/Roos & Cuties - congrats to you both and your kids. So much work by parents and the kids and so rewarding I'm sure when fair day finally arrives. I was working at our Green County fair this week and loved watching the kids with their animals.
Glad there weren't any injuries or major damage from the storms over the past few weeks. The storms have been crazy, we were hit in late June. It wasn't called a tornado but the way some of the trees and items were tossed around it sure looked like one. We lost a gazebo screen house and one of those tarp covered storage units, but the worst was the chimney and soffit. Wouldn't you know, we just finished that roof last year . . . but could've been worse.
Other than clean up from the storm we've been pretty busy with the gardens and birds. Our 160 meat birds were just released to their pasture yesterday and not a moment too soon, the roos are getting feisty. This is a really healthy bunch so far, we only lost two in the first couple of days. We were so pleased with the Black Australorps we had gotten from Abendroths last year that we decided to give their Cornish Rock X a try.
As far as our layers . . . we lost one of the older RIR's last week to a predator - major lock down for a while now. Too many young out learning/hunting for food. We even had a young Heron scoping out the gold fish in our pond (net over that now).
The good news:
We set six GLW and six Welsummer eggs under our broody this spring (thanks Hen & Roos!) and we ended up with one Wellie and five GLW's. They are now 13 weeks old and the Wellie is definitely a boy. He has a rather sickly crow right now but he's working at it. Since we already have our RIR roo we don't really want another. He is free to a fellow cheesehead if we can make connections. Here are a couple of pics, I'm not an expert when it comes to showing birds, but I think he's a real looker - and I'm sure with continued practice that will be a robust crow!
Stay cool everyone and if someone knows of a home for little Wellie Roo - pm me.
Welcome all newbies!
Jim - new pup sounds great and really like the choice in name.
Hens/Roos & Cuties - congrats to you both and your kids. So much work by parents and the kids and so rewarding I'm sure when fair day finally arrives. I was working at our Green County fair this week and loved watching the kids with their animals.
Glad there weren't any injuries or major damage from the storms over the past few weeks. The storms have been crazy, we were hit in late June. It wasn't called a tornado but the way some of the trees and items were tossed around it sure looked like one. We lost a gazebo screen house and one of those tarp covered storage units, but the worst was the chimney and soffit. Wouldn't you know, we just finished that roof last year . . . but could've been worse.
Other than clean up from the storm we've been pretty busy with the gardens and birds. Our 160 meat birds were just released to their pasture yesterday and not a moment too soon, the roos are getting feisty. This is a really healthy bunch so far, we only lost two in the first couple of days. We were so pleased with the Black Australorps we had gotten from Abendroths last year that we decided to give their Cornish Rock X a try.
As far as our layers . . . we lost one of the older RIR's last week to a predator - major lock down for a while now. Too many young out learning/hunting for food. We even had a young Heron scoping out the gold fish in our pond (net over that now).
The good news:
We set six GLW and six Welsummer eggs under our broody this spring (thanks Hen & Roos!) and we ended up with one Wellie and five GLW's. They are now 13 weeks old and the Wellie is definitely a boy. He has a rather sickly crow right now but he's working at it. Since we already have our RIR roo we don't really want another. He is free to a fellow cheesehead if we can make connections. Here are a couple of pics, I'm not an expert when it comes to showing birds, but I think he's a real looker - and I'm sure with continued practice that will be a robust crow!
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