Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[shantibirdy]

Frizz......you will hate carrying water in the winter. I promise. Make sure you get a setup that involves a hose at the very least. For the last four years I kept the hose in the basement, and took it out through the basement window every night to water the horses and ducks. You don't have to worry about it freezing up when the hose is kept inside. Then last year, when the tornado wrecked my barn, I fixed everything up and got water hydrants installed. The water line is below the frost line and the hyrant drains itself when you shut it off so it doesn't freeze up. I thought I had died and gone to heaven!

You don't want to worry about horses having enough water......they will colic, especially in the winter, if they don't have enough water. Make sure you have electric nearby too so you can put in a tank heater. I have one for the horse trough and one for the duck pool. And yes, I spend a lot on electricity!

 

[jvls1942]

got the box part built on the garden cart.. and I have a witness.. Sandi (French toast), and her hubby stopped in for a nice visit today..

I just had a phone call from Brian, my blue egg supplier.. he is bringing me a dozen peafowl eggs on Friday.. Offered me some more blue eggs, but I am up to my ears in americauna.. I ran an ad on craigs list today..

 

[MustLoveHens]

Evening all!!

CD-no I don't plan on eating these rabbits but I do plan on eating their off spring though! I wanted to get some meat rabbits to become a little more self sufficient/self reliant. Plus both my dh and I like rabbit meat. Not to mention with 8 dogs, the rabbits can help supplement their kibble! If all goes according to plan, The Californian is a buck, and the NZ and Champagne are does. I would like to get one other buck and another doe to add to the heard once I decide on a breed. So far the Cali and the Champagne are really friendly but the NZ is so-so. She has a wild look to her eye that I don't really like the look of. She is young so she might settle. I would not be surprised if I have kindling issues with her.

So, for those of you like Terri O who need to Milton Mill Tour info handy-here ya go:
The address for the Cargill mill is 1425 E High St, Milton Wi 53563.
The tour is on Thursday June 2 (yes tomorrow!) at 1 pm
The tour lasts for about 20-30 mins and the rules are NO open toed shoes and NO cameras.
The people who are coming from Mad City Chickens are very excited to meet any BYC'rs who come. As far as I know the mill manager will try his best to be making/milling chicken feed at the time of the tour so we got to see the process for making chicken food. I cannot wait to see this amazing mill in action! I also cannot wait to meet everyone!!

Ok, now that that is out of the way....
I mowed the lawn today...again...I honestly think I mow every three days! The grass grows worse then the weeds do!

I have some veggies starting to sprout in the garden but since dh planted I have no idea what is where! The corn sucks..either the squirrels raided after he planted or they just don't want to come up. I have one lonely little corn plant sprouting. Ah well, the tomatoes and peppers look good though!

Well, I've gotta go to the market....Chat again soon!
Cheers!

 

[kristip]

Wish I could make the tour- would be interesting, but not with my schedule and kids schedule.. life gets busy with little ones!
Hope everyone had a great day. Heading to Milwaukee this weekend to do the family thing. Zoo time though and we all love that. Here is to hoping it does not rain while we are there.

Anyway... having a hard time telling what sex my two 15 week olds are.... anyone here have any thoughts. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6563622#p6563622

 

[WIChookchick]

Kristi - I was in your area, and didn't have your number on THAT phone.. grrr.

Well thing with my former land lord went from frosty and threatening to her seriously apologizing...

She supposedly sent it to the wrong address... SURE she did. But after me saying I had talked to a person at the WI dept of Consumer protection and having a call into the tenant resource center..
AND Picking H&R's brain- THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

H&R
She is sending the deposit via overnight mail so it should be here tomorrow...

On another note.. one of my older black cochins went broody.. SO I shoved a bunch of eggs under her.. should be hilarious to see what hatches out, since my main roo is a blue cochin bantam.
I did shove a few silkie and cochin and cochin/polish eggs under her tonight.. so we will see!

I have to call Dorne tomorrow, Still haven't heard from Sweet Folly.. hope she is ok!

Goodnight all
Carol

 

[kristip]

Bummer carol... would have loved to see you. .. and I know the kids would too. they talk about you and your neice all the time! And the horses of course!
Good luck with those babies!

 

[Dr HaHa]

Good Morning All! Bigz an EXTRA 15lbs? Not possible. Glad to hear your garden is in! Came home from running errands yesterday and thought about walking the Hwy fence line to cut some wild stuff, didn't happen. Neither did cleaning out the shed. Too windy have some sheets of things in there didn't want to chase it into the next county. Plus there's a lot of other sheet in there too!

But I did get the new plants in plus needed to replant about half of the grn beans. Then had to reconfigure my garden pump from tearing it apart to pump flood water last fall. Primed it plugged it in and it took off, course it only had to lift the water about 2 feet.

WCc glad to hear you might have your deposit on the way! Sounds like a lot of excuses to me. Forgot to say good luck kee on the interview! MLH I hear ya on the mowing! The brocolli seems to like the weather too! Jim yes it's hard to walk away from things and go fishing but ya gotta do it! We need to go again to get some more crapeyes in the freezer. Hope you get the sleep thing straightened out! Have a whipoorwill that's been getting me up 4-4:30

Rai eat something you'll be no good to anyone if you don't!

TO If I had gone fishin I would have gotten blown off the lake. My neighbor drains his garden hose everyday in the winter and lays it on flat ground and doesn't have a problem. Dornes I'm with ya on the humidity! Kinda windy but am heading to the woods today. Gonna call the BFF and try and talk him into coming over to till his food plot and show me which trees he wants out of the way for his deer condo. Maybe I can coerce him into helping me get the 9 big blocks into the splitter too. Better get movin! It's Friday for most of you workin stiffs and garbage day for me.

 

[Dr HaHa]

OOP's jumpin the gun here. It's Thursday! Dang it I was so looking forward to taking the garbage to the curb! Forgot to mention that Peatwo is now standing up to Buster. Saw him yesterday, when Buster goes on the attack Peatwo crouches down and jumps up at him. Keeps his center of mass low, smart boy!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Quote:
Nice try there DrH!

shorten the work week by 1 more day this week

Carol glad to hear that your deposit is on it's way!

Hi to everyone else

off to work on painting a garage today and clean more open units- have 4 open for the month- 2 which will require a bit of work.

 

[Dornes]

Another breezy cool morning. I am loving this weather!

Good luck on the interview Kee!

Carol - glad to hear the deposit is finally on it's way. What a run around! I can't wait to meet today and get those chicks from you

My kids are all excited that there will be 10 new baby chicks here today.

My second order from Meyer should be here this morning. I am off to the post office here shortly, they better be there - if I have to make another run to La Crosse today I am going to be ticked. The GAURANTEED delivery date on this shipment of express mail is June 2. They better be there, or some phone calls will be made. Not sure if Meyer will refund shipping or if the post office does that because it wasn't there on the delivery dates... anyone know anything about this?

Worked more on the coop yesterday, got the final osb placed for the roof and the second side on as well as some hardware sheet for some ventilation areas. I can't wait until it is done. Have to make another brooding box today for my 8 chicks from meyers. I also ordered a meal maker, should be interesting to see what I get from that!