Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[bigzio]

I have 12 rainbow layers coming from Sunnyside on June 5.
I hope they turn out to be decent layers. I have no experience with them.
Hope the hens turn back on for you EE. Once they get used to the fresh digs, they will be happy again.

They hate change,
even if it's good for them LOL!

Stay Safe ... bigz

 

[TOR]

got 20 chicks. 1 squished so 19. Bought some regular price went back next day they were 1.70. CHicken craze must be over. Still fighting the coons bought 3 new 1 1/2 coil spring traps. My traps are old rusty, 1 broke setting it.
Bought some round up ready sweet corn seed, guess gonna try it in back field. last field I plant. Not into round up ready, anyway. Stop earworm problem.
Plant next field Monday .65 acre so.
Will plant new area offered to me 30 min away by tractor 10th thru 20th hopefully. This guy has 20 acres tillable no one planting it, Driftless region some of it sidehill..
A guy called me running the Sunday farmers market in Onalaska wanting me to go there..guess they lost their sweet corn guy. With the short picking time maybe make appearance a day or 2. New oppurtunity.
Garden mostly planted.
Easter egger I have has done good with egg laying, Americaunas different breed I believe.
So far coon winning, but think that will change soon.

 

[jvls1942]

we have at least 3 coons visit every night
they turn on the motion light. I think they do it on purpose so they can see the food better. we stopped leaving the cat food out at night. i don't know what those coons are finding to eat. I hope they take the hint and go scavenge somewhere else.
I really don't want them here when the corn gets ripe.
it rained hard yesterday. that should settle the freshly dragged garden. I will wait a few days and drag it again. then rototill it and scatter buckwheat seed all over. then I will plant my corn. Serendipity . smallish ears, but so good for freezing/canning,.
we do the cream style .

 

[lagrange chicks]

I had a coon taking the covers off my tender plants in the garden, I would put them on before dark and off in the morning. From there it went to the coop which is next to the garden and tried its hardest to find away in, on the rollout nest box, on the roof and run. I decided to set the box trap and got the largest possum I ever caught and he got let go. Next night caught a huge boar coon which fed the turkey vultures for a few days.

 

[jvls1942]

If we can't get our coons to leave peacefully, I will be setting some box traps,.
have to trap some red squirrels again, too.
i feel like Daniel Boone.
it rained twice since i dragged the garden .
i am going to add a couple more tines to the cultivator/drag/chisel plow
i have a volunteer soft maple growing at the edge of the garden. i don't want the shade so i will cut it down. it is about 3o feet tall.
the squirrels have gratiously planted a few black walnuts around the property,. i will cut those down, too.

 

[jvls1942]

six days and the beans are sprouting.
no sign of the beets yet.
I added one tine and moved two others on the cultivator. have a real nice arrangement now,. should speed up the dragging process.
it rains about every other day. can't drag when the soil is wet.
the tomatoes are about ready to be tied for the first time. I hope to stay ahead of them this year. I don't want any branches hanging down the side of the planters.

 

[lagrange chicks]

Most of my beans are up and the corn is about the same. We get rain maybe once a week and barely enough to wet the ground. Tomatoes and zucchini are doing great along with the carrots and radishes, I think the chipmunks are chewing up my radishes though. I know the garden needs the rain which some is coming but that's going to make the weeds take off to and I wont be weeding any time soon due to Mohs surgery on both shoulders last week with both needing skin grafts, skin graft site was my thigh which hurts worse than surgery sites. Hopefully by next weekend I will be able to get some stuff done around here, canceled our family camping trip to the U.P. on the 12th already.

 

[bigzio]

It's war against the coons here too now. First time I ever had a problem with them. Big coon managed to get under the coop and into the pen and then worked his body against the pen and the building to get high enough and bust a window screen and get in. Killed 8 hens and injured one. Moved the live ones to my other coop and will do a completely new run and secure
the perimeter better around the coop.
They are now the enemy.

Hope you recover quickly lagrange chicks.

Stay Safe ... bigz

 

[TOR]

Ive been so bz, the coon keep coming the chickens have been back outside. from 18 to 3.
Long story short the chikens were back in barn and the coon moved a old milk crate there was a small hole. I forgot about it. I had board over it. Put milk crate with barbell wieghts in it and belt pulley for 8n against board.. The coon made the whole bigger and managed to move the milk crate. Has to be 50 lbs.
Gonna fix hole tonight gather chickens that remain, gonna be a long night. Just taking break.
Went to plant field corn for a guy, now theres another story. 30 to 40 minute tractor drive..................he tilled the field and there was bunch ROUND UP READY CORN LEFT IN it from whoever planted it last year. I get there salt shaker corn cobs everywhere. guess what field was full of volunteer corn..

I was going to plant sweet corn there, now trying to find what burns down round up ready corn without being residual.

I see these old tractors on their tractor drives around the coulees, not for me.

I have set traps in barn but have 3 misses now. This coon is older and smart. Using honey and grain.

Sorry to hear bigz.
They will keep coming back now.

Hope things het better la grange

 

[EagleEyes]

They are now the enemy.

They always have been. So you guys with the coon problems, is this only at night?
I would think during the day the chickens could outrun them if they were out of the coop/run.
The coons got 15 chickens?