Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[catinthecoop]

Welcome cat! Hope you like it here on the Cheesehead thread.

I saw a bit of blue sky today too but it was very fleeting. We are supposed to get frost tonight.

The pear & pawpaw trees are loaded with blooms. Some of the apples too.

Yep, I saw frost on the lawn this morning, both pear trees and one of my apple trees is blooming....

 

[MizzHen]

Hi, I'm finally picking up my 6 chicks this weekend. They'll be two weeks old. I'll have to transport them in a car for about twenty minutes. Any suggestions on how to best do this without stressing them out? Can I just use a cardboard box with air holes cut in? Do I need to be concerned with adding a heat source for them at all? It's supposed to be 60 degrees outside and I can run the heat in my car also. Thanks in advance!

 

[jvls1942]

good morning,
I have to run to town first thing, then when I get home it should be warm enough to work outside. I hope I didn't forget how..

You can transport those chicks in a box. put straw , hay, shavings or paper towels in the bottom.
On the way to pick up the chicks, run your heater blower into the box to warm everything up. the chicks will be fine on the way home..

there is a lot of free lumber in pallets if you don't mind a little work.
How big of a coop are you planning ?
look on craigs list for free firewood. sometime it turns out to
be piles of scrap lumber..

Hope the counter bid is favorable..

...jiminwiscfinishedwithhiscoffeeandreadytoheadtotown......

ETA:
I am back from town.
fixed up another tow chain.
took another come along and dislodged the jambed chain in the 3 ton hoist.
gave the chain hoist a few cranks and
Ollie is free !!!!

bought a large package of styro coffee cups. now I can finish transplanting the Roma seedlings.

I think I will work on that for awhile.
too dam hot to work outside..

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

 

[jvls1942]

good afternoon,

good day so far. got Ollie unstuck, potted another 28 Roma seedlings. Annie donated 2 heavy aluminum baking sheets
that each holds 28 styro coffee cup planting pots. bought 102 more coffee cups. have 6 more seedlings to transplant. they are kind of puny , so i might just put them all into one pot and wait and see how they do..

spent half the day running around the place and turning off electric heaters. one was set at 80F.
my house is total electric.
each room has it's own heater.

If this weather keeps up through next Monday, I think I will be able to plant potatoes.

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

 

[corewassen87]

loving the weather. Picked up the yard and it's all ready to mow. Thinking tomorrow is a good day for that I think. Also gonna untarp the shed tomorrow and have it ready to roof and paint starting Friday after work. No overtime this Saturday for this guy!

 

[jvls1942]

loving the weather. Picked up the yard and it's all ready to mow. Thinking tomorrow is a good day for that I think. Also gonna untarp the shed tomorrow and have it ready to roof and paint starting Friday after work. No overtime this Saturday for this guy!

I have to get my mower set up too. I checked the battery, OK.
I have to fix the choke. I can start it , but I have to help the choke by hand.
I have to put fresh gas in the tiller, too.

I transplanted 28 more Roma seedlings. Now I have two trays with 28 plants each,

tomorrow I am going to put the hiller/cultivator back onto Ollie.
I think I figured out a way to use the discs to make closer hills.
I am thinking of hilling the whole garden. sort of a modified raised bed system.

the neighbor must have shot another venison. the dogs can smell that from a half mile away.. they came home with bloody faces last night, again..


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

 

[Daethen]

It was gorgeous out today. All I managed was some laundry hung out, vacuumed, and got bills paid. Hate that part. Need to move the tractor again tomorrow. Debating on how to let the new chicks mingle with the established flock without losses. I have had them in a wire dog kennel in the coop with the flock for the last week or so, but I am worried. Last year I lost one the first night they were together. Any ideas???

 

[Celtic Chick]

It was gorgeous out today. All I managed was some laundry hung out, vacuumed, and got bills paid. Hate that part. Need to move the tractor again tomorrow. Debating on how to let the new chicks mingle with the established flock without losses. I have had them in a wire dog kennel in the coop with the flock for the last week or so, but I am worried. Last year I lost one the first night they were together. Any ideas???

How old are the new chicks?

 

[Daethen]

They are around 10 weeks. Fully feathered but 1/3 to 1/2 the size of my other hens at this point.

 

[dustergrl]

Daethen, do you have your receipt from the last tree? Usually those things are warrantied for a year. But I bet the pear trees we have that the deer ate the bark off wouldn't be covered LOL

I have no advice about introducing the chicks to the flock but I also do the wire dog crate and find it to work fantastic! I brood from day-olds right in the coop.

Welcome cat! Hope you enjoy it here.

My chick is still alive and moving around more- has pecked at some food on her own so we will see... now have a sick rabbit with balance issues. Vet Friday. He's getting up there in age- he's 10 now, I think...