Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Hurley]

Grew up on a farm in rural rural Iowa. Mom always had a big garden and I can't begin to guess how many quarts of tomatos I squashed through that strainer with that wooden peg thing. (And given that I hate tomatos, that was a bit like torture to me at the time.) 72 tomato plants one year, I remember distinctly, lol.

Anyway, now that I'm a "big girl" with boys of my own, and finally have my little slice o'heaven out here on our acreage, I'm wanting to put in a garden next year. I've already begun covering the prospective plot with coop cleanings. Figure they'll til in right nice. Planning to start with tomaters...hate the things in their natural state, but if you cook them until they aren't tomatos anymore, I do like them. So...spaghetti sauce and canned tomato juice for chili are in the plans. Wished I had paid more attention to that part of it when helping mom, but she'll probably be tickled to come out and refresh my memory (and visit her grandbabies!)

Love my chickies, love the chicken in the freezer that I grew myself, love the eggs. Need the garden, too. Would love to plant some fruit trees out back. Right now it's growing scrub and wild willows. Think I can do better than that. Anyone know if cherries will grow here?

Waiting impatiently right now for some pips in the incubator. OK, so they aren't due even until after tomorrow, but you never know. They may go early, right?

 

[Raiquee]

Hurley) You dang right they grow here!! Quite a few varieties too, both sweet and sour! That's what the thumb of WI is known for

I go up there picking them, cause I don't have cherry trees myself. My friends (in Ocono) planted a small orchard of bing cherry trees. Doing well minus the fact the dang deer love them lol. You can plant apples, pears, nectarines, cherries, figs, peaches, plums. Really anything not tropical! A lot of species have "cold hardy" which is what we need. I am nestled in zone 5, but I know more Northern WI is zone 4. Never the less, I believe all those are capable of growing in Zone 4 too! Plus Palmyra I think is fairly close to me....

 

[Hurley]

I love about anything cherry...flavoring, fresh, candied, juice, heck even cough syrup.

Favorite raw cherry? Ranier. Hands down. Bout make myself ill on them every year. Hehehe.

 

[raimnel]

Hi all, It's been awhile.
Sounds like you all had a good Christmas! Hope you all have a wonderful New Years as well.
later

 

[Hurley]

What do you DO with quail, anyway? Don't know much about them. Pets? Can you eat them? To look at? I've seen many people that hatch out a bunch of them, but wondered what they did with all those little guys.

 

[Terri O]

Well I am getting them to eat, for eggs and for looking at! Well, I hope to be able to eat them anyways...sometimes that doesnt work out so well for me. Mostly because i just LOVE birds; and I think I have (or have had) all the other kinds already! New adventure !

Well--I actually just popped in here to say goodnight--I have to go and shut the doors and then head to bed! I have to make a cheesecake in the morning now cause I got "lost" in you tube vids for about 2 hours! Oh darn...now I hear the people back from the hockey game already!
Good night all! Terri O

 

[Hurley]

Are quail eggs tasty?


How do you eat them? I'm picturing tiny little cornish hen quailets in the oven, hehehe. Quail stew?

Just curious. I could see me raising some. Are there some you can raise that can range the backyard of Wisconsin? We back up to woods behind our acreage and have a pond and creek out back with some tall tree lines and brush cover. Any quail native around here?

Good night, sweet dreams, happy almost New Year's Eve everyone. Tomorrow Thomas and I are heading to The Big Backyard for some good times. (Me to get records done while watching him smidge about, Thomas to get socialization time while playing full out like a mad man.)

 

[babylady4]

Hurley you should PM FM on that one, she eats a few for breakfast every day.

 

[purelypoultry]

Howdy all, It has been way too long since I have been on here. This fall I took a job working 50-70 hours a week in addition to the poultry business so I haven't had ANY time to be on BYC lately.

I am looking for some help I made this post here https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=434538 about the Purely Poultry Template. My web developer insists that my website needs a bit of a freshening up, and need to choose a new template.

I WISH I was moving faster on the redesign, but my web developer will not let me. LOL she says DO NOT BE IN A HURRY! I say but but but but.... she says NO. lol. Do it right or not at all she says so here I am asking for your help. If you wouldn't mind replying on the post linked to above that would be greatly appreciated so that I can keep it all in one place.

We will be having chick days this spring for pickup. Our chick catalog will go out in late January, so if you would like one please sign up soon. Also our email newsletters are starting to go out EVERY month now as I have an editor helping me with it!

 

[purelypoultry]

Hurley, Quail eggs are tasty. I had many quail eggs when I was in China. They were usually hard boiled and set on the table in a glass with the water still boiling then you peel them and eat them with a little salt.