Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[tiki244]

On my chick hatch #10 is out and havent heard what #11 is doing so we will see. When I take #10 out of incubator I will check on #11. Gotta go for now and will catch up later.

FT this one is for you. I got a nice photo of the partridge one too sitting in the grass with a chick looking out her wing. I will have to post after I get it transferred to a cd.

Sylvia and pal

 

[WIChookchick]

Well I am not dead, just been busy and not on the net.
One horse will eat around 4 flakes or so a day, most bales of hay have 9-12 flakes, so a bale for 1 horse would last 2-3 days max. So take 4 flakes x that by 3 horses, and 2 ponies who would eat 1 flake each per feeding OR the equivilent to 1 horse.. that is 8 flakes 2x a day, so 1.5 bales a day... at 3.5 a bale that is 5.25 a day = 157.50 per month, still cheaper than boarding 2 or 3 horses.

I took the remaining salmon favorelle to the barn, I haven't heard from her person. I will text her tomorrow, she is dealing with a death in her family, her father I think... but its been a few weeks now.

The wounded chick died, the pipper/zipper was out and dry, I had two more pipping and I went and checked on them this morning, and they were both dead in their shells...not sure why...
So still have 4 hens on nests so we will have to see how it goes.


I am offering some chickens to my friends here.
2 pairs of silkies, a blue splash roo w/ a black hen who still lays and went broody last year, and a low quality pair of white, 1 white that came back from Kristi as it turned out to be a roo.
2 ameracauna hen and pullet, this years hatch, the adult isn't laying colored eggs, just boring light brown/tan eggs.
And an unknown/unsexed chick a few months old, blue/slate colored. ( I got it as a straight run).
Also I will offer 2 english Cuckoo Maran pullets, clean legged but GORGEOUS, fairly friendly. I got 3, then got a call from the person who hatched them offering me a 4th for free.
LARGE pullets !!
Free.
I won't separate the pairs of silkies though.
IF you know some one who lives near you who wants some chickens. let me know.
I want to start over with the silkies, and with sooo many eggs possibly hatching.. I need to cut back on chickens.

Carol

 

[jvls1942]

good evening,

when I came home this afternoon, Annie asked me where the 3 little turkeys are ? I guess Marlene scooped them up when she collected the guineas.. Is she going to be surprised in a few weeks.. LOL

The chickens have started the turkey hatch today.. One in the CTV.. there should be about one per day for over a month.. that one turkey is still giving an egg a day, and Annie keeps sticking them under the clucks every day..

Deb, I never saw a paw paw.. I don't know what to do with them..
I suppose you could cook cook with them, or eat eat them, or maybe just feed feed them to the livestock .. ??

........jiminwisc.........

one more thing.. my pullets have started to lay eggs.. we have a dozen in the fridge already.. I thought they were guinea eggs so I was just leaving them in the coop..

 

[Susie"J"]

Autumn and Morgan visited today. They like to see the chickens.


This is Henny Penny and she thinks she is all that. She is our most friendly girl and one of the two of 13 that now are laying.
Happy Anniversary, thanks for the recipes, and the beautiful pictures this past week.

It was a beautiful weekend and I hope all of you got to enjoy it. Susie

 

[tiki244]

Awe cute kids Suzie J

I wish you had your coop done too Deb!

#10 is another cream one with stripes and #11 has pipped so it looks like I am going to get 100% hatch this time. WOW! Gotta wait for #11 to finish though.

WICC hope you find good homes for all your chickens they sound nice.

I fed my chickens a special treat along with their feed tonight. Shredded rutabagas and sliced cucmbers.

 

[Amyable]

Made it to Terri's and back...well almost didn't make it there, 2 wrong turns and a 2.5 hr trip turns into 3.5 hr.

Sorry Terri! Uh, we even missed Hwy K on the way home.

BUT the route we took was the route we were supposed to use anyway, so we got home in record time, 2 hr 10 min!

One of those sneaky roos of yours busted out and I had to chase him through the chicken yard, the front yard, the flower bed, the backyard, the patio, and into the 6-ft tall grass by the creek.

Bad naughty! Chasing a black chicken through a jungle at night, checked off my bucket list.

Fun visiting with you Terri, and meeting your fam again. We counted, you have 14 different species of critter, holy cats! Thanks for the roos and ducks and seeds.

 

[Cindlady]

Not much to say today. I worked in the garden today, I HAVE MELONS!!!

I did more weeding around them and there they were! Still going to be a while 'till harvest. Haven't seen any squash yet

I keep finding "volunteer" tomatoes!

Congrats on the hatches!

Oh Carol! I wish I could get some of those chickens fro you! Sure wish you were closer! I love a nice mix of hens!

Well, the broody quit. She was out free ranging this afternoon. I guess she didn't like the idea of just sitting there for weeks!

Anything about the south bash?

Night!

 

[kristip]

Quote:
Celtic- yes the write up is lacking on the shed, but in the store we were analyzing it and its merits for a coop= the gutter system can provide water for a rain barrel for either a chicken waterer or for plants around the coop. With the attached little shed, it is not huge, but we thought we could even cut a little hole between the little shed and "coop" to put an infinity feeder in there and keep the food part, with a garbage can of food, in the little shed section and the eatery on the coop side.
It has a couple vents and a window that opens. We thought it was big enough that we could leave doors open in summer during day and close up at night and in winter, it is spacious enough that if the weather is really cold, can leave them inside for a day or two.
DH was worried that alot of predators might have an easier time of chewing through plastic rather than wood or such. But this would be double the size of current coop.
Someone mentioned that one of the warehouse clubs had these for $6-700 which is cheaper than Menards.

Oh and for those looking at carol's birds... her blue splash roo is a gorgeous boy and her white silkie roo is a sweet boy. My dd was sad to let him go, but no roos for now. Wish I had the bigger coop to add more of those gorgeous birds, but she is enabling me with two new ones already!

 

[Tomski]

Meeting up with FrenchToast and getting a couple of Roosters this afternoon!

Thanks for everyone's help!

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[otonoh]

Good morning everyone Guess what, I found my first 2 eggs
one was white, one was brown. I have 1 wyandotte hen and 6 golden comets. Where did the eggs come from
Today I have to open their nest boxes that I had kept covered so they wouldn't poo in them.
My sons are so excited.

Are you guys adding lights now because the days are getting shorter?

thanks

David