Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Dr HaHa]

Good Frozen Windy Morning Everyone! Cind know what you mean about the eggs when I first started getting eggs I over estimated production and had people calling asking where their eggs were. WICc when he was finished you should have asked where your cut was. It makes me sick to watch the eggs factories on TV. Jim I know all about those ghosts. I blame the chickens, the cats, and evaperation too. bl4 glad you made it home OK a lot of people didn't.

TO DA glad you checked in know your busy with school and all. Now if BBCB would check in I'd feel better. I do the same thing as you Bigz except for the daily cleaning.

The temps really knocked down the snow the last few days and now see that it might get replentished on Sunday.

Looks like a good day to make a final materials list for the bathroom. Thinking it might be wise to do it now before it gets wet-er down there. Enjoy the day!!!!

 

[jvls1942]

good morning all, the big egg producers say, " but the eggs were fresh when they were put into the carton.. LOL I can't help it if it took a month to sell them.. " LOL

If you are going to sell eggs, it is better for you to be short of eggs,rather than having them piling up in the refrigerator.. people will gripe, but they will wait.. mostly...

Annie came in yesterday and said that the floor in the chicken coop was like concrete.. WET uncured concrete, LOL... just hard enough to walk on but you sort of sink to your ankles...

I never clean the coops in the winter.. I just keep adding bedding.. the bio-mass insulates the chickens from the cold concrete floor..

I use fresh chicken manure on the garden, I just do not use it on root crops like carrots , beets , potatoes , etc.. It is great for corn..

all the Democrats skipped the state..,, Now if we can just get all the Republicans to join them and none of them come back, we will all be better off.. LOL I wonder who paid for the bus, meals, hotels ??

I also wonder, why are there two "G"'s in egg ? I think it goes way back to when printers set the letters by hand.. they got paid by the letter, so they added extra letters wherever they could sneak them in.. LOL

 

[raimnel]

Jim u quack me up! 2 "g"s in egg.

and I'm glad someone elses coop is like wet concrete

I'm afraid I'm gonna land on my butt, it's slippery concrete!
We get more than a dz eggs a day more like 18-20+. we take dz 1/2 to our piano teacher every week (for barter

) she was like "thats not gonna be to many is it?" I'm like "ya, I bring that in in 1 day." It seems like we go in waves of selling eggs, one day I'll have 6+ dz in the fridge and the next day I sell 6 dz. People are always like "Oh no I couldn't take your last eggs!" and I just say "that's ok if I need any I'll just go squeeze a chicken!"

I get the weirdest looks when I say that.

Hello It's not far from the truth, when I need an egg theres ALWAYS eggs in the coop! (I think the chickens are afraid that I will squeeze them!)

My whole point was that we go in waves of selling eggs here, If I have an abundance (ie I can't fit anymore in the fridge!

) I just post on facebook and I get calls for them. or I text my buyers. sometimes I even give deals if I have too many. got a few new buyers?!

anyway... I calibrated these hygrometers and they are all low by 12-20%? what gives? one from last year was 10% low last year and is now 20% low?

and yes I need ducks that quack! but those cow ones are so cute

just thinking, the ones I seen were much smaller than my 'scovies?

later, I gotta go watch a show online cause my &^%$% DVR didn't record again!

 

[WIChookchick]

It turns out the word we use today is Norse, there was a similar sounding one in Old English or Middle English as it was called.
I found this on the internets..tubes. LOL

Where did the English word egg originate?
"The egg...tracks it name back to a prehistoric Indo-European source related to words for 'bird'...The Old English term was oeg, which survived in Middle English as ey (plural eyren)....But in the fourteenth century the related egg was borrowed from Old Norse. For a time the two forms competed with each other (William Caxton, in the prologue to his Book of Eneydos (1490), asked 'What should a man in these day now write, eggs or eyren, certainly it is hard to please every man'), and the Norse form did not finally emerge as the winner until the late sixteenth century."

So when the vikings came over they walked on eggshells,

raided but really didn't do a whole lot so sorta laid an egg

. . and went home with egg on their faces

I guess they counted their eggs before they hatched....

I know I know bad pun, no biscuit!!
Carol​

 

[jvls1942]

that makes sense, the German word is eir ..

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

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if you took II to 45 you drove right by my house, I'm 1 1/3 miles past II & 76 on II

 

[Terri O]

Aack! You missed a visitor BCC! I am getting turkey eggs now! They are light pink with darker pink speckles...shaped like a guinea egg but much bigger! FUN!
Dh has the fan in the incubator...now I need to go and get a hygrometer (I think the one from the reptile place is not too accurate but I will look at it) THen we will be following Jim's instructions and getting going on these eggs! OK--Jim--you said to poke overflow holes in the troughs? I seem to have lost that part of the directions! COuld you please post it here or resend on my email? I hate to be a pest...

OK--taking doga to the dog park! Terri O

 

[jvls1942]

TO I poked pencil sized holes in all four sides of the styro base, just at the high water line.. or; right at the same height as the top of the reservoir and just below the screen..

these are for overflow in case you overfill the reservoirs.. the water should not come above the screen where the eggs will be laying during lockdown...,,, or if you are hand turning them..

I plugged all the holes in the bottom of the base . there was one at each corner next to the foot pad, and one directly in the center.. Yours might be different.

then I also cut slots in some of the dividers between the reservoirs so the water could flow into all of the reservoirs equally.. You can skip this if you want to..

 

[Amyable]

Almost to 600pgs, we just can't keep quiet

L O V E the warm weather, so do the birdies. I pulled my Ancona roo from the group, his wattles swelled badly from frostbite before the temp turned. Threw together a makeshift quarantine pen using a big outdoor rubbermaid storage chest and a pallet. That same day he escaped and flew the coop fence and got pummeled by my Ameraucana roo

I must have shook up the pecking order, huh? So back into quar for him til he heals, and reinforced the door. Yesterday I found a couple hens in there with him, must have sqeaked through the pallet. Conjugal visits I guess.

All the bators are getting loaded up,

Looking forward to the pickins at the bash. I still volunteer to organize another plant swap if folks want to do that again.

WI sure is in the limelight lately. Maybe ... no I better not.

 

[jvls1942]

just came in from outside. something drained the juice from the battery in the blazer.. I had it up to 98% charge an hour ago so I went out to take the charger off.. ????????? down to 35% charge ?????? that charger does a little trick that I can't figure out.. something clicks and it reverses the charge like that.. It did the same thing to my tractor once..

BigZ, if you want some manure tea, bring a mop and a bucket over here.. My driveway and back yard is floating in s%*t. all that manure the neighbor dumped on the field up the hill from us has run down here with the melting snow.. It is frozen now, but just wait until it thaws again.. some of it has even found it's way into a small spot in the basement.. Annie has a towel dam going.. If I had access to some thawed out dirt, I could build a dike outside to divert it away from the house..

it looks like a big brown ice rink out there..