Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[bigzio]

Busy as heck here today...I put in more than a honest day's work today. The grass is cut, the beans are picked, and I did manage one large bale of grass clippings for winter use. I will pick cukes again tomorrow.

Keep havin fun...bigz

 

[jvls1942]

well, I made it to the fixit shop without any bad incidents.

then Annie took me to the Log Cabin for breakfast and let me play a penny machine on her nickle..

I ordered a battery post shut off switch from Amazon today.
can't find the short in the electrical system that keeps draining Ollie's battery .
I had this same problem with my Farmall A. put the switch on it and took care of that headache..

Brent, better pick those cukes early tomorrow.. looks like it is gonna be a few wet days coming ..

 

[babylady4]

We had excitement today; a semi T-boned another semi at the railroad crossing. Of course this is the only exit out of town to New London..... so I had to take a mega detour this morning. They had a hard time getting the one truck off the tracks, and on top of that the one truck took out the control box for the railroad. The accident happened at 5:40 AM, by 4 PM they were still working on the control box.....

That's the news at 11 here.....

 

[jvls1942]

We had excitement today; a semi T-boned another semi at the railroad crossing. Of course this is the only exit out of town to New London..... so I had to take a mega detour this morning. They had a hard time getting the one truck off the tracks, and on top of that the one truck took out the control box for the railroad. The accident happened at 5:40 AM, by 4 PM they were still working on the control box.....

That's the news at 11 here.....

!! What ??!! No weather ? no sports ??

 

[Daethen]

Picked the beans and 8 gallons of cukes today. Used some of my good dill and made about 30 pints of dill pickles. Also had to pick the broccoli again today. Got to pick the first 5 ripe tomatoes so they will be nuts in a sort time. And I mowed 2 acres of lawn. Time for bed.

 

[babylady4]

Weather was sunny and warm; Spotrs, Cubs lost to the White Sox 4-5.

 

[chickendreams24]

I might eat the birds with resp. symptoms only but my birds had infection and/or lesions on their organs...no way I'm eating that. 
It's hard to say when your flock will be safe. Different diseases can live without a host for different amounts of time. Some viruses can live on cotton clothes or even in your nose hairs for hours to days and be carried around. Clean up all poo and bedding from the culled birds, bag or burn. Wash everything you can and give a bleach water rinse...spray the coop with bleach water and let dry too.

Went on the steam train in Laona this weekend. Friends of ours were camping there with their horses and 'robbed' the train several times....the kids loved it, lots of shooting, yelling, horses rearing. If you have kids I'd recommend going on a 'robbery' weekend but adults who are into trains and/or our logging history would probably enjoy it any time. They have a very nice museum and the engine is the only one of it's kind left and is 100 years old this year.
http://www.lumberjacksteamtrain.com/

Thank you for the reply. Yes I certainly wouldn't eat a bird that had any lesion on its internal organs or anything I was only wondering if the respiratory infection could make them inedible and what everyone's opinions on this was. That being said the flock responded beautifully to the oxytetracycline and the two worst birds that got the tylan 50 shots as well. All are seeming to be a well recovered and I'm hoping were out if the woods. That being said we are still planning to go through with a couple necropsies after discussion with the vet to see if they will see anything. We have been being very careful about keeping possible contamination from the unexposed chicks in the house washing our boots and hands outside and changing when we enter the house then washing hands again. It makes chores more time consuming but we are trying to do the responsible thing. I'm really hoping we treated in time and that this will be just a bad memory.

We also lost 5 more birds last week to predators but never got q look at the predator. I believe the fox is back. Thing had an appointment with a bullet just as soon as we can. This brings our predator losses for the year up above 15. We have now lost more birds to predators than we have original birds left from last year(5 were sold). I am frustrated and discouraged beyond belief. With as hot as it's been we just can't leave them cooped it's not right but we fear letting them out. Of course the awful heat has been hanging here like a cloud and what is usually a pretty breezy places has had several days of dead calm sweltering heat which also doesn't help the birds. We cut out another window now hardware cloth and have plans for at least one more. I hope we get this thing soon.

Our hatch went well though we had many more dead in shell eggs than we had hoped for. We also lost two after hatch, we have one more that is iffy. One was just never right the other was put down after hatching with pulled out intestines due to the yolk sac being wrapped around the leg. What a week. Ugh.

I woke up last night to what I thought was a tornado. There was damage to my duck pen as well as a tree down on the pig and horse fences. Oddly enough nobody was hurt because the ducks decided to sleep in a different pen last night.

Oh my!!! That's quite the mess glad everyone is safe.

 

[jvls1942]

Picked the beans and 8 gallons of cukes today. Used some of my good dill and made about 30 pints of dill pickles. Also had to pick the broccoli again today. Got to pick the first 5 ripe tomatoes so they will be nuts in a sort time. And I mowed 2 acres of lawn. Time for bed.

what do you do to tomatoes to make them nuts ?

 

[corewassen87]

What a beautiful morning. If it wasn't for a second job I'd be outside working this morning for a couple hours. Got home 25 minutes ago and I'm off to work again. Stay cool today and don't work too hard. Gonna be a scorcher

 

[mamaof2wi]

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