Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[weegarden]

If anyone has Cindy's recipe for her green goop (or Cindy if you see this) would you please send me the recipe in a PM?

Thanks!


We had a great time this weekend as usual! I hope we are able to attend next year and that graduation does not interfere. Nice to meet you Vickie! Maybe by next year I will have my tin can on wheels......

Hi cuz.

It was nice meeting you too! Can't wait for next year!

Raining here again today, and did it ever pour after the bash yesterday....the weeds in the garden are growing more healthy every day. When in finally dries up enough...the tiller will be back, in full force and taking control over the weeds once again.

Hot ham and cheese tonight on ho-made bread turned into toast...life is good.

bigz

Our barbecue chicken was very good!

 

[weegarden]

Welcome pc! Ya should have come to the bash with Mellie this weekend. Talk about a fun time!

Happy birthday Mel! Thank you so much for the Cheesetopia buffet. Talk about yummy! And thank you for the 'schroom.

So glad Vicki made it to her first bash. What a beautiful family. We hope you will make it an annual event. It sure was a great time.

Brent, please thank your lovely daughter so much for all the paper products. It is appreciated so very much! She is so thoughtful and generous. As are you and your wonderful wife

Awww, Thank you. We got to meet a lot of beautiful people this weekend! I agree about the cheese and all of the other treats! The paper products were also great! It was so nice to get out and experience a little untouched nature! We just loved the whole thing!

 

[irishrovr]

Anyone interested in Russian Orloff chicks? I have seven that hatched on April 24th - Don't know if m or f. PM me if interested.

 

[chikenscratch]

Hi! My cousin Babylady4 tells me all about you! You sound like a fun group! I'm in Salem.

Welcome pc

Welcome pc! Ya should have come to the bash with Mellie this weekend. Talk about a fun time!

Happy birthday Mel! Thank you so much for the Cheesetopia buffet. Talk about yummy! And thank you for the 'schroom.

So glad Vicki made it to her first bash. What a beautiful family. We hope you will make it an annual event. It sure was a great time.

Brent, please thank your lovely daughter so much for all the paper products. It is appreciated so very much! She is so thoughtful and generous. As are you and your wonderful wife.

Yes, Mel the cheese spread was fabulous, awesome time! Brent- thank you for all that you, Suzie, and Jenny do!

I didn't know about it. Perhaps next year. This past weekend I was at a Women's Herbal Retreat in Almond learning all about the plants! I just moved to Camp Lake on 16 acres of woods and now have 16 chickens. I love it here!!

Have you had chickens before?

anyone here ever raise peafowl chicks.

Horror stories?
advice before I buy chicks?

JJ

Nice to have you back JJ!

If anyone has Cindy's recipe for her green goop (or Cindy if you see this) would you please send me the recipe in a PM?

Thanks!


We had a great time this weekend as usual! I hope we are able to attend next year and that graduation does not interfere. Nice to meet you Vickie! Maybe by next year I will have my tin can on wheels......

Hi cuz.

Cindy- we are all starting to run low on our green goop and would love the recipe!!! Maybe you could share? I use it for everything.

 

[jvls1942]

good morning, still working in my first cuppa.

JJ, Yeah, where the heII have you been ?

I did hatch and raise a few peacocks .. they are much the same as turkeys, except they are tougher . If you can raise chickens, you should have no trouble with the peafowl.

one piece of advice about them, spend as much time as you can, one on one. otherwise they will mature and be quite stand-offish and even wild.
If you can hand feed them treats, that is about the best you can do.

I am going to give my weed whacker carb a good cleaning today. If that doesn't help to run, I will order a rebuild kit.
from the looks of it, I think the cleaning should do it, though.

If I can get this whacker going, I have two more to fix .
one of them has cutters on the bottom instead of a string. they are for digging in the dirt for small tilling jobs or weeding between the rows. I never had that one running,
DD Barby picked it up at a rummage sale.

.....jiminwisc.........

 

[corewassen87]

What's the verdict on a wire floor or a floor of any sort in a chicken tractor? My research confuses me

 

[JustJohn]

life keeps gettin' in the way of my chicken thread trolling, but you are all still where I go for advice before I make a poor decision and buy the chicks anyway.

any advice? anyone?

JJ

 

[Celtic Chick]

life keeps gettin' in the way of my chicken thread trolling, but you are all still where I go for advice before I make a poor decision and buy the chicks anyway.

any advice? anyone?

JJ

On where to get them? I have no advice there, sorry.

What's the verdict on a wire floor or a floor of any sort in a chicken tractor? My research confuses me

We have a homemade tractor with a wire floor in half and a solid floor in the other covered, insulated half. We used hardware cloth for the floor but the squares are too close together for the schmidt to fall through. On the other hand, larger squares leaves potential for coon or other predator hands to reach inside. Pick your poison I guess. I think I would opt for the larger holes since I clean my tractor more often than I have attacks (that I am aware of). If it does become an issue, you could always go over the floor with hardware cloth later & have a double layer of wire instead of doing the cloth first then ripping it out to go with bigger holed wire?

 

[Daethen]

I have no floor in my chicken tractor. If your land is mostly level that should be fine.

What is this green goop I am hearing about???? I am curious now.

 

[jvls1942]

I have a tractor that I haven't used for a few years. It had a 1" square wire floor in it which I removed.
I never lost a bird to preds in that one.

If you feel you need a floor in it, why not go with large squares, and then along the edges add a layer of smaller squares for about 6 inches in ? Or make a flange around the outside perimeter with wire mesh ..

I think having a floor in the tractor sort of defeats the purpose of having a tractor. A tractor should allow the birds to eat grass as you move it around the yard ..

otherwise, isn't it just a coop ?

JJ. go ahead and get the peacocks ..

...........jiminwisc..........