Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[unkadan]

nice day = tired ole guy here

also burgers on the grill, always a spring treat

I set 23 of the biggest darkest eggs I had from the last 4 days as well as 4 from my Wheaton Americana,,,,so IF I don't cookum or dumba$$ something else up I'm in for the hatch

nice picture FT,,,,been outside in the sun all day but it sure looks like a face on his arse,,,,,just sayin

nite all,,,,rain day tomorrow here,,,I saved the inside painting project for that.
I do have a plastic bucket so no worries about it rusting out with age

 

[FrenchToast]

Beautiful day.
Hubby and I took an Atv Ride down to visit the neighbors. We have to feed the neighbors chickens and bunnies on Friday.
Saw a couple of sad things. First of all there was the coyote that he killed a few weeks ago. Its skinned carcass was laying by the barn door along side of a pile of raccoon skinned carcasses.
Then when we went in the barn to see the bunnies I noticed that they only had three bunnies. I asked if they ate them, since they do that, expecting them to say that they did I was surprised to hear what they did.

She said they pulled a prank on ther brother in law. I said did you put them in there yard or something? No they let them loose by his deer stand so they would eat up all of his corn !!!! I asked what happened to the bunnies?
They said they either went wild or were eaten by the coyotes, fox or ???
I don't know, maybe they died more humanely then being butchered by a human but ?????? I didn't like to hear it either way. Poor bunnies. How scared they must have been.

Then we ride up to the other neighbors to see if any calves have been born. No but they are keeping their daughters ponies at their place in a pen where they usually have the calves.
I knew from talking with them that both ponies had foundered in the past but had no idea how bad until I saw them.

I'm talking elf slippers on all four feet. Then a neighbor that rents from them in a trailer home came out. He said that they had the feet trimmed in the fall but never keep up on it. The mother told her she should put them down and the daughter said no she wants to keep them around for her 2 yr old . WTH can a pony with elf slipper feet do ? They have got to be in horrific pain.
They are to cheap to let a farrier go to their place. They pack up their horses into a trailer packed in like sardines and drive all the way to Bonduel to the Amish to get them done !!! *** !!! Over 200 mile round trip.
Sometimes I really really HATE People !!!
Ok, better calm down. I can't let these people get to me. All I can do is be right by my animals.

 

[kristip]

Well we set up our incubator this morning with lots of nice eggs in it. it is taking a while for the humidity to drop back down and the temp to get back up. That surprised me, but looks like it is almost there. We had a fantastic day outside.. first there was lots of tee ball and soccer with the kids in our yard. Then we worked on the new silkie house( old bunny hutch) and cleaned up some stuff so that next weekend, pending the good weather, we can build our addition to the run. Yeah!

Oh and I had a friend bring over a pal of hers who was visiting from around the Lacrosse area who is interested in getting into chickens. I walked her around my coop and brought out some girls and told her some tricks I have learned from my resident experts on BYC... and told her to come find us here! Hoping she does.
overall it was a wonderful day. Hope you all had one too

 

[ParkfieldFarm]

Happy Birthday mx!! I was going to say--if you're raising just one silkie with other birds from chicks and all of them are growing up together, you shouldn't have a problem. My first four birds were a Sussex, an EE, a Silkie, and a Campine, and they got along together like champs. The silkie did NOT think she was smaller than the others. They would all fly up onto a fence and she would just walk back and forth below, confused as to why she couldn't get up there, then wait for someone to lift her up. They were great friends and would go off from the rest of the flock of 20 silkies to roam around the yard together.

 

[kristip]

I had older birds and introduced a bantam cochin and silkie and they are fine in there with them. Now I have a small herd of silkies so should be better, but they did ok/.

 

[mazojoe]

Well it has been an exciting and beautiful day around the homestead! My first hatch was scheduled for today and it has been a TON OF FUN!

Friends and family have been stopping in all day to witness the little girls/guy coming out of their shells. So far 15 of the 30 eggs have hatched, and I have seen pips in 13 of the remaining 15! they are so cute and many random colors from the barnyard mix of Black Sexlink Roo over Black Sexlink hens, Welsummer, and Red sexlinks. oh and some true breed Jersey Black Giants

I have to get some sleep and get up in a couple of hours to see what else has hatched!

 

[FrenchToast]

Thanks again Tiki !!

Here is another shot of Mr Lav Roo !!

 

[Bigfamily4me]

How do you like my Lavender Orphington Roo ? Thanks Tiki !!! Nice job on the photo !!! You'll have to teach me how to do it !!!

Yes I can see a face in his butt feathers too! But what a gorgeous bird!!! Jeepers woman... Can't you get me some eggs or something?! (noooo I must stop. I will not be an animal hoarder.... Oops... ADDICT like FT...!) Yes... I know I am funny... I just candled the eggs I have in the two bators. I tossed 4 more. But I am stil left with 18 sqiggling chickies in eggs in the hovabator, and 5 squiggles in the Brinsea. Fantastic! I am SUPER excited because I still have 6 Lavender Orps viable! I have some wheaten marans and lots of BCM working too. So it should be fun in 10 days or so! What's the rule of putting different aged chicks in one brooder? Don't do it? Only do it if a week apart in age? Help! And I do so love giving people a bit of poop... Good thing FT gained such a sense of humor with age...

 

[Bigfamily4me]

Thanks again Tiki !!

Here is another shot of Mr Lav Roo !!

Sigh... Just gorgeous!!!!

 

[FrenchToast]

Happy Birthday mx!! I was going to say--if you're raising just one silkie with other birds from chicks and all of them are growing up together, you shouldn't have a problem. My first four birds were a Sussex, an EE, a Silkie, and a Campine, and they got along together like champs. The silkie did NOT think she was smaller than the others. They would all fly up onto a fence and she would just walk back and forth below, confused as to why she couldn't get up there, then wait for someone to lift her up. They were great friends and would go off from the rest of the flock of 20 silkies to roam around the yard together.

That's good to hear but it is best to keep them separate. More important is if the silkies are of show quality vs hatchery quality. The bigger crested silkies can't see well enough to be kept with Large Fowl or to free range. The hatchery silkies which I call the generic silkies usually don't have big top knot crests and are a lot more active and can see and do a lot more and even like to roost where most of the fluffier ones don't. JMHO