Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[chikenscratch]

Good Morning everyone!

Nothing like waking up in the morning hearing the garbage truck and running out in pajamas to get the garbage to the curb on time! The cold temp and adrenaline will wake me up faster than coffee every time, but its not as enjoyable (and it doesn't last as long)!!!

Is anyone else suffering from pressure headaches today or yesterday? Agh! I want to go back to sleep.

 

[Terri O]

Good morning all! I have missed you. Been busy, busy here as usual...actuall I dont know where the time has gone since Tuesday!
Sorry for your news DrH! (((((((

)))))))) That would be an "extra special" long distance hug! I agree with Cind...the little kitties are really good comfort!
Somebody said they need pics....I thought I posted this one...mind is GONE!

Yup--I DID post it! So whomever said they need pics...it is YOUR memory that is lost! LOL!

BL4 thanks for that link (a while back)
Also Kim thanks for reminding me about Premier. They do have good stuff. (hope you get all your $$$ stuff figured out too)

OdrH--you should also check out Premier...that electrical net fence might work for your ducks. But Muskovies will fly so maybe not (on second thought) I have a very large flock of them...they go across the pasture to the pond during the day and then return at night. I LOVE to watch them fly! Mostly it's the girls that fly cause the boys tend to get too heavy. I have somethat I have "selectively" bred...they have black caps and backs, the rest of their bodies are white. Just gorgeous in the air. I would be happy to share some eggs with you...I have picked up my first eggs this past week. Let me know! Oh yeah...I have some that go in with the chickens and others that stay out in the door yard. They are pretty big and I dont have problems with predators getting them unless they are nesting. The smart ones nest in the barn...so those are the ones that stay alive! Survival of the smartest.

OK--I am due to MXM's place in 5 mins....guess I better get moving! TerriOrunningatadlatetoday

 

[Hurley]

Terri, those sound very pretty, any pics? I am planning to build them a duck coop up closer to the house where the dogs scare off the predators, I think. I just worry if I put the coop out near the pond the predators will have a field day. That pond is one of their favorite watering holes, too, I'm sure. Considered making a coop on stilts with an inclined ladder going up, which would baffle most predators... Hmm, will have to think more. During their growup time, they're in the basement or the juvenile shed where they are safe, then can acclimate them this spring to the big outdoors and hope for the best, I guess.

Got any eggs handy? I could add some to the incubator. Give me an excuse to come visit ya, maybe Tyler will come along to see the horses. He's my "farm kid".

 

[jvls1942]

good morning, yeah, miss a half day and get 5 pages behind in my reading..

before I forget.. We have 10 goose eggs for free if anybody wants them,, they do not ship well, so a pick up would be best.. and the hatch rate is not the best either.. but you might end up with a couple.. we do not know who is laying them, either.. It is the wrong time of the year for the gray geese,but they are mating like crazy.. the Sebastopols are mating also, but they usually lay around thanks giving.. maybe they are just late this year ??
the geese are not very discriminating about color.. one of the young buffs decided that a gray was prettier than the buff goose so they have paired off and doing their thing.. I suspect that she is one of the layers..
and Baby Huey (gray) who has a mate, doesn't have any qualms about going after the Sebs..

I want to sell my Sebs.. I have no facilities to separate them from the grays.. and I have strict orders that I cannot get rid of the grays..

DrH, I am going to (re) post pictures of Ollie that you missed by not going back to read..

I talked to Dan last night about my gears freezing up in Ollie.. he says the best thing to do is change the gear case and put in fresh oil.. says I must have water in the oil.. It is 30 weight motor oil.. I said it is an enclosed container.. He said he had the same problem, once.. the water leaked in around the shifting lever.. IDK,,,,,I suppose that could happen.. I won't argue with Dan,, he was a maintainance man at Brokaw paper mill until he retired last year..

My idea of sliding the plastic tubing over the choke cable was a bust also.. the cable, although new, still freezes up.. I am going to take it off and dip it into the anti freeze from the radiator.. that should keep it working, I think..

anybody got any thoughts about any of this ? let me know what you know..

I stepped off my diet yesterday.. was out of town and had to eat at a restaurant.. I had a shrimp basket and a couple of DD#1 chicken strips.. OK< back to the diet today..

these pictures are just for DrH........











whoops,,,it keeps printing this one over and over.. I don't know how to delete it and I am afraid to try the fourth view again.. just supposed to be the other side of the tractor.. Use your imagination, I guess..

I am not going to do anything with the tractor until after this weekend.. I don't want to be down if we get the snow they are predicting..

......jimdodgingallthegermsthatthefluepeoplearespreading......

 

[jvls1942]

Me again,, Hurley.. Muscovys are not as water crazy as the Mallard type of ducks are.. sure they will take a bath , but not daily.. You might get an exception to this.. If you are going to make a shelter, you have to make sure you train them to use it.. and make sure you give them DEEP bedding underneath to keep the frost from them,, they do not pull their feet up under their wings like geese and Mallard types do.. they just lay on top of the feet which are in contact with the ground.. that is why you see so many Muscovys with missing feet.. their feet freeze like potato chips.....and then fall off.. you prolly know all this,, but maybe somebody else didn't..

 

[Hurley]

I appreciate the info, don't know as much about Muscovys. I tend to deep bed all my coops, anyway, so hopefully they would do well. Figure if I pen them in with their coop until they settle in, then start letting them out shortly before dark to free range so they come back quick, and work them up to free ranging, that they should do fine.

Oh, if anyone is interested, I see there's an estate sale with chickens, muscovys, some incubators, feeders, etc. tomorrow. Not sure what a Favorite Commercial Incubator is, but there's one available. Considered going myself, but I'm on call and that's a little to far to be away. Really wanted to see it, though. Could use a nice incubator.

Link: http://janesville.craigslist.org/atq/3474139759.html

 

[jvls1942]

I appreciate the info, don't know as much about Muscovys. I tend to deep bed all my coops, anyway, so hopefully they would do well. Figure if I pen them in with their coop until they settle in, then start letting them out shortly before dark to free range so they come back quick, and work them up to free ranging, that they should do fine.

Oh, if anyone is interested, I see there's an estate sale with chickens, muscovys, some incubators, feeders, etc. tomorrow. Not sure what a Favorite Commercial Incubator is, but there's one available. Considered going myself, but I'm on call and that's a little to far to be away. Really wanted to see it, though. Could use a nice incubator.

Link: http://janesville.craigslist.org/atq/3474139759.html

Leahy makes the Favorite incubator,, unless they updated it, it is a wooden type .. I D K if it has an auto turner or not.. I don't think it does.. It could be a very old unit.. 110V electric..
Not very large capacity.. might be one or two shelves,, 40 to 80 eggs.. Not an incubator that I would pay more than $50.oo for nor drive half way across the state to pick up.. FYI

 

[Dr HaHa]

BL4 ya I know what you mean been needing go back and redo our bath. Like the color but the the chimney leaked and I had to respackle the ceiling seam and when I added the drywall to the porch side it knocked the spackle off a couple of nails heads and now the kittens have managed to pull more out. Dang kids! So a total repaint is ahead.

Thanks for reposting the Ollie pics [needs tin] think I'd pull that cable and get it as dry as possible like hang it over a wood stove for a couple of days. I guess to me a silicone or graphite lube would be the way to go and of course the straightest path to the carb. If not possible they make cables with internal coating. But try lubing the ends first that's usually where they are sticking. The dipping in anti freeze idea bothers me the cable should be prelubed and that might remove that. Can't figure out how to check my pm's with the new site set up. TO did you get my pm reply? Going out to make a handle for the door think I have the final draft in my head. Got 5 eggs the last 2 days that makes me happy too.

 

[Hurley]

Jim,

Yeah, thanks for the info. Impossible to find on google...favorite...incubator? You get everything under the sun. Really was more interested in picking through the auction. Mom used to take me to estate sales as a kid, thought about taking one of the boys, but a bad weekend for it. If there happened to have been chicken stuff at the sale, alls the better. Love to poke around.


On a different note, looking at this cute little coop for a breeding pen for this spring.

 

[delisha]

Perfect for a Trio of breeders