Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[kristip]

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Can you shoot me some pictures.. I would be interested in looking... wait.. where are you again? I am south of madison.

 

[kristip]

Carol- so sorry to hear about your friend. We might be able to take a hen here. Wish I had room for more, but DH might shoot me if I keep adding right now. Still trying to get rid of our bunnies without breaking the kids hearts in the process.

 

[FrenchToast]

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Will do. I've never had raw milk but I would love to try it. Plus I would rather buy from a small farmer that treats the cows humanely and the cows actually see the light of day.

 

[FrenchToast]

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OMG are they the cutest little things !!!

 

[kristip]

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[Cindlady]

Carol.... Hope she dose ok. My best wishes for both of you. Who would take over her farm? Could you work with them until you move?

Not much going on here.

 

[Dr HaHa]

Good Morning Everyone! Well except for Carol's friend. Hope she comes out of it OK!

otonoh you could temperarly section off you coop and use it as a brooder with a heat lamp or that heater. You won't need much room for 8 chicks. Just be sure the sectioning is high enough. You'll be surprised how high the lil buggars can get once feathered. We have 20 slw eggs gonna hold off for 30 to set. Hope Buster has been doing his job! Getting 5 a day from the 5 hens. So 2 more days then 21 lessee 2 plus 21= ..... Think the paint brush is dry

gonna tape off the walls first. Insulating the back side of the bathroom and using up the last of the drywall too. Looks more seasonal by the end of next week.

Have a good one!

 

[WIChookchick]

The horses are pretty much left untouched, as there are 40 of them. They have all had ALOT of training, if not broke, then were halter broke, and handled every day as they were stalled and given grain at night, for 4 yrs,
So you can always go out with a halter and catch them. And they are caught a few times a year for farrier work, spring shots and the ones that might get sold or ridden have coggins pulled.

The family will have to liquidate some of the horses as 40 is too many, or there abouts. 15 or so are broke, possibly up to 20. 3 belong to a good friend of the family who is in prison, and should get out this year.
One of his horses was the former stallion that sired a lot of the offspring, now a gelding, with a sway back so bad you could swing on it, his other gelding has cancer but is not in pain, but he won't make it past this year, and his last horse is a 17hh paint mare, whom he last saw as a weanling.
2 other horses belong to a UW professor who doesn't have time for them, they are mid 20's and upper teens now, he sends a check every month. 1 belongs to a dead beat who know she needs to move her horse out asap.
And my 2.5 (I was in the midst of purchasing/trading one that Joan and I rescued that she wanted, for a filly she has). I pay board for 3 so .. I don't know if they will give me the rescue horse back, or if they will give me
the filly and I just pay them the rest whenever.

The family will likely sell the unbroke 5 yr olds, and several of the broke ones, except for 2 favorites. The rest will be kept and cared for. I will likely be part of the showing of the horses, getting them, and
getting them cleaned, brushed and ready to be sold.
Joan was hoping the economy would improve to the point she would at least get her training fees back, every broke horse had at least 90 days pro training, and if a pinto are double registered, and if solid are registered half arab. I am not sure HOW they will sell them. I know if they had an auction on the property, Joan would never forgive them, and would I don't know what it would do to her.
30+ years of breeding great bloodlines, well conformed horses...

Update on Joan
According to a family friend who talked to one of her daughters last night. It was not AS bad as she had thought.. but still somewhat bad.

I will know more today.


Carol

 

[WIChookchick]

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There is a bunny and poultry swap in Madison this weekend.. would you like me to take your bunnies with me as I will be taking 2 roos of mine and 3 of some friends there...
Let me know
Carol

 

[Dandelion Acres]

kristip wrote:

Carol- so sorry to hear about your friend. We might be able to take a hen here, although cute factor or eggs encourage DH. Wish I had room for more, but DH might shoot me if I keep adding right now. Still trying to get rid of our bunnies without breaking the kids hearts in the process.

Bunnies? Did someone say Bunnies????? We are always willing to take Bunnies out here. Middle son really likes bunnies more than anything else. Shoot me a PM with what you have and maybe we can work out a meeting-swap of bunnies for chicken tractor?????​