Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[dcba flock]

That looks very similar to the black copper Maran that I just got? Possibility?

 

[Hens and Roos]

Afternoon-sunny here, will have to head out in a few minutes to check our maple sap collecting buckets- have 25 gal sitting and waiting to be boiled down, we will probably start this later today and tomorrow.

sdelfe- cuckoo marans chicks will have a white spot on their head- bigger white spot = boy, smaller white spot = girl usually

delisha- boy if I had room to start up another pen, I would be so temped to take you up on the BCM chick....have to resist as DS(7) is getting a pair of bunnies within the next month or so....

 

[sdelfe]

The guy told me it was a cuckoo maran female but she looks so not plump and fuzzy like the orpingtons I got from him. She does have a real small white spot on head.

 

[JustJohn]

Can anyone help me identify this chick? When I bought chicks I wanted a Black Australorp and a Cukoo Maran. It just looks so different from anything I have seen online. It's not a fluffy chick. My daughter says it looks and runs around like an ostrich.

I'll go before Jim and say It's not and ostrich

hold it up next to a cukoo marans chick. If it is lighter in color, it is a male cukoo

The yellow spot is also a sign of cukoo marans

 

[JustJohn]

Afternoon-sunny here, will have to head out in a few minutes to check our maple sap collecting buckets- have 25 gal sitting and waiting to be boiled down, we will probably start this later today and tomorrow.

sdelfe- cuckoo marans chicks will have a white spot on their head- bigger white spot = boy, smaller white spot = girl usually

delisha- boy if I had room to start up another pen, I would be so temped to take you up on the BCM chick....have to resist as DS(7) is getting a pair of bunnies within the next month or so....

25 gallons? WOW

I have about 10 gallons and 4 drips, 5 drips, 6 drips I am starting to cook today. I will just do smaller batches this year. After last years March debacle, I do not want to miss a drop.

 

[sdelfe]

Thanks guys for the identification! I swear the more I look at my new chicks the more confused I am. I am a first time chick owner. I guess I will learn.

 

[sdelfe]

If anyone is interested there are 2 Hatchrite incubators for sale on Craigslist. I saw them under Wausau.

 

[Hens and Roos]

25 gallons? WOW

I have about 10 gallons and 4 drips, 5 drips, 6 drips I am starting to cook today. I will just do smaller batches this year. After last years March debacle, I do not want to miss a drop.

I should probably start it right now since it is sunny out, because I don't have any empty pails if I need to have one when checking the trees

best go see what I can do about that.......

have a kettle on the burner and was able to empty 1 pail and used that to collect another 5 gal from our 4 trees.

 

[JustJohn]

I should probably start it right now since it is sunny out, because I don't have any empty pails if I need to have one when checking the trees

best go see what I can do about that.......

I feel ya

I wait and panic too, and think maybe an extra tapped tree this year.

TerriO If the sap is not running out of your tree today, please retap it over about 8 inches.

in other words Check your dripper!!!

 

[raimnel]

HI! again! homeschool, school work, work, house work, bills, shopping, critters, sleep (lack there of)..... I'm tired just thinking about whats keeping my busy.
Maple syrup mmmmm I would LOVE to learn how to make it. is it to late to learn and collect yet this year? If I read about it REALLY fast..... It would be nice to watch the process. or is it like butchering, you need to "wing it" to learn lol NOT that I need something else to do. lol
We are almost out of maple syrup and the kids LOVE belgian waffles lol (we just bought a belgian waffle maker at Kohls, and got a steel YAY)
almost time for work, I hate late nights, early mornings. later