Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[JustJohn]

HA HA HA!!! You beat me to it J.J. Good one. Sorry bout your aunt,,,, cancer is such a relentless bully!!! Sorry u cant make the bash I was hoping tohangs with me and meet you and your family,,,,,, where abouts do you hale from.. Do you home school your children?

We live in Newark township. Waay south and about half way across the illinois State line. No home school here. We deliver the 6 year old to the primary school each morning and wish them the best of luck. The 3 year old hangs with me each day and we find new and better ways to get outside, wet and dirty each day.

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I loved my alpine and toggenburg goats. I used cattle panels and rotated them around our property. They like browse, not grass. They are great at eating invasives like buckthorn and prickley ash. I didn't have a truck to haul hay because my husband had it in Colorado for work. So I rehomed my goats. The people send my pictures all of the time. I really miss them. I bought a truck last year and got two more bottle babies - saanen x nubian and they were the dumbest animals I have ever had. I did not enjoy them in the slightest. They cried ALL day. Luckily, I found a new home for them because I was going to sell them for butcher.
If I go to the swap I really don't want to haul chick for 4 hours, but I do want some of Delisha's black orps. So, if anyone is in need of a silver laced brahma (yes, brahma - they are rare in this color) I have a cockerel I would give away. His is pretty young yet, just a couple weeks old. I also have some bantam cochins: splash cockerel, white cockerel that need to go. And a bantam faverolles x cochin rooster. I will post pictures if anyone is interested.

 

[irishrovr]

Irish.....w/ the statement " pull behind " does that mean you do not have a 3- point ?........Drag....spring tooth or something fine? Size? what can you pull? You pulled a 2-16 plow.....soooooo .......!0 foot disc?.........Would like to help

Thanks, GS! The tractor man isn't here right now so I don't want to do any guessing. No 3 point, I know that much. The biggest issue is the ability to turn in the space I have inside the fence (plus the Super H is not a huge tractor). We're plowing up not quite an acre altogether. I'll have to get back to you later this evening with answers to your questions.

 

[PsycoPeep]

Stacy - thanks for the offer on the little goat. That's too far for me to drive, I know my husband already has fits with these swaps that I go to that are 3+ hrs away. He wants me to stick to within 2 hrs but that isn't always feasable. LOL!

 

[PsycoPeep]

All this goat talk is really making me want goats again... I miss having them around, they are so entertaining and great weed-eaters. Of course they are curious, destructive, don't want to stay fenced in...BUT they are awesome just the same! My husband is very surprised I haven't made him put up a goat pen yet...

Psycho Peeps - I just want to say. Be very careful what you buy at these auctions. Your lible to bring something nasty home with you. A friend of mine used to go all the time till his whole flock got whiped out by a disease he brought home. He had to even excavate all the ground where his chickens are. Now he only brings new chickens in in egg form for the most part, or from a flock he knows is closed. All I'm saying is to be very carefull.

It's a beautiful day today! Got the bedding refreshed in the coop this morning and since work hasn't sent me a huge load of stuff to do, I may just get somewhere on my garden. It's nice working from home sometimes.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Lisa

Oh, wow! And I was debating on what to do this weekend! I was at first going to go to a small animal auction about 45 mins away from me. Then changed my mind and was going to go to a craft & critter swap and meet up w/a bunch of chicken friends and buy some more chinkens, seeing as the lady screwed me over on Sat. But then my husband was encouraging me to go tot he auction cuz I can get things cheaper and a lot more and just go check one out to see what it's like. But that kinda scares me!

 

[PsycoPeep]

Jim - we're still HIGHLY interested in getting the Sebastopols from you. What color are they, anyways? And are you going to the Chickenstock bash? Should I pick them up then? That's in 2 1/2 weeks, is that okay with you?



Can I get advice on meat chickens, please? What type(s) are better ones to get? Doesn't have to be THEE best, just what are some of the better ones in general?

 

[PsycoPeep]

I loved my alpine and toggenburg goats. I used cattle panels and rotated them around our property. They like browse, not grass. They are great at eating invasives like buckthorn and prickley ash. I didn't have a truck to haul hay because my husband had it in Colorado for work. So I rehomed my goats. The people send my pictures all of the time. I really miss them. I bought a truck last year and got two more bottle babies - saanen x nubian and they were the dumbest animals I have ever had. I did not enjoy them in the slightest. They cried ALL day. Luckily, I found a new home for them because I was going to sell them for butcher.
If I go to the swap I really don't want to haul chick for 4 hours, but I do want some of Delisha's black orps. So, if anyone is in need of a silver laced brahma (yes, brahma - they are rare in this color) I have a cockerel I would give away. His is pretty young yet, just a couple weeks old. I also have some bantam cochins: splash cockerel, white cockerel that need to go. And a bantam faverolles x cochin rooster. I will post pictures if anyone is interested.

I'd be interested in the birds if no one else was! Silver laced ANYTHING is to die for! I do have a white bantam cochin already, but IDK if it's a cock or pullet. But I DO want a white cock for sure and I want splash, too bad it isn't a pullet! Maybe I'll know in the next week or 2 of my white is a cock or pullet. How much are you asking on the buggars? Do you have any standards for sale?

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I would give you all three for free. I just take any bantam cochin roosters to the butcher when I get my meat birds done and have them killed and tossed. I don't think I could stand seeing that tiny body in a bag to be put in my freezer. But at the same time I already have 5 roosters and I only need 2, so they have to go. The white bantam cochin is quite a bit older than the others. I heard him trying to crow this morning! And he was hen raised, so a little skiddish. I still don't know for sure if I'll be able to make it to the bash, but I should know tomorrow afternoon. I have a lot of people wanting me to deliver a lot of things, so hopefully I can go.

 

[kristip]

Anyone here have a guinea they would part with or a young one? Or know a good contact?

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I have a single guinea trying to hatch right now. I don't know why I'm so bad at hatching these things. I've been trying since March on and off and this is only the second one to pip.
Picture time!


Dark Gray dorking with her project orp chick


The ADORABLE silkie/bantam cochin/ black orpington rooster that I tried to give away last fall and nobody wanted him. I will keep him forever. He really accepts his place in the pecking order so he can stay.


White cochin cockerel up for grabs.


My donation to the raffle. Oh wait, I don't have a trailer to haul the beast.