Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I had someone that was supposed to pick up call ducks not show today too. I didn't try to call or email. They're not hard to find homes for so their loss.

 

[jvls1942]

I just came in from the garden.. I got the weed shield rolled out in the tomatoes, and then I covered it all with a good layer of hay.. It seems like it is going to rain at any moment.. I hope so.. I watered everything this morning, so a good soaking rain will settle the hay down nicely..

I still have 3 of the 7 pups left.. I turned them loose in the yard .. then I sat in a chair and watched them get over their initial caution.. they paid very little interest to the birds as they strolled by.. then they all made a pile at the base of the apple tree and took a looooong nap.. they hardly woke up when I carried each one back to their kennel..

No I will not be bringing them to Wave's swap, unless someone wants to buy one..

laters.............jiminwisc............

 

[tiki244]

MY "GIRLS" GAVE ME A BIRTHDAY GIFT!

4 hens, 4 eggs with no "misfires" and nobody attacked any of the eggs!!!
Only thing is now one of them is definitely laying her eggs near the "human" door instead of the nest boxes!

I can tell by the egg that its the hen I call "crockpot". She's the one that is always underfoot and loves to be picked up and paid attention to and was also the one that just got over acting ill and had the "misfire" (soft/no shell) problem so I'm thinking that it might have something to do with her getting extra attention when she wasn't feeling well???? Anyone have any imput on this?

Is Crockpot young? Maybe it is she just hasn't got the hang of it yet? Just guessing. I am no expert at these matters though. Is she an Ameraucana? My Ameraucana's are goofier than all get out!!!


HAPPY

BIRTHDAY!.


It is funny how people miss appointments to buy livestock. Yet flock to the swaps to get the scraps. I guess they would rather save a penny than buy a quality well cared for animal.

I finally have an appointment with someone tomorrow for a silkie pair. We were just both really busy last week.


Apyl was dinner tough at all? The first one I ate was a bit tough. But I cooked it at the temperature I would a store bought chicken and that didn't seem to work to well. Then I read someplace it is best to let it set a while so the rigor gets out of it. Then I put it in salt water for a day after butcher and cooked at about 200*. I think the taste is so much better than store bought chicken. Now I think store bought chicken tastes rotten. Silkies are especially good meat. I dont eat chicken very much at all now because I am getting worse at killing them.


TO that frog is sooo darn cute!!!!!! I almost stepped on a lil' froggy in the dark the other night. Glad I didn't. Him and my mod game hen that hangs around the porch were seranading each other in th dark. I could hardly tell which was which.

 

[vickiw]

Is Crockpot young? Maybe it is she just hasn't got the hang of it yet? Just guessing. I am no expert at these matters though. Is she an Ameraucana? My Ameraucana's are goofier than all get out!!!


HAPPY

BIRTHDAY!.


It is funny how people miss appointments to buy livestock. Yet flock to the swaps to get the scraps. I guess they would rather save a penny than buy a quality well cared for animal.

I finally have an appointment with someone tomorrow for a silkie pair. We were just both really busy last week.


Apyl was dinner tough at all? The first one I ate was a bit tough. But I cooked it at the temperature I would a store bought chicken and that didn't seem to work to well. Then I read someplace it is best to let it set a while so the rigor gets out of it. Then I put it in salt water for a day after butcher and cooked at about 200*. I think the taste is so much better than store bought chicken. Now I think store bought chicken tastes rotten. Silkies are especially good meat. I dont eat chicken very much at all now because I am getting worse at killing them.


TO that frog is sooo darn cute!!!!!! I almost stepped on a lil' froggy in the dark the other night. Glad I didn't. Him and my mod game hen that hangs around the porch were seranading each other in th dark. I could hardly tell which was which.

Thank you for the Birthday wishes! I wish Crockpot was a bit younger but all my birds were supposed to be 18 mo. old when I got them (my guess is one is more like 24 tho). That's what has me a bit puzzled too. She was laying in the boxes just fine until she had a little bout of something for a couple days this past week.

Not an Am, she is a Aussie/Wyandotte (?) cross originally from the Sunnyside hatchery. They call them "Special Blacks".

 

[tiki244]

Maybe like you said she got some special attention and really liked it. Thinking she will try for some more. lol *hugs* That is sweet that you have rescue hens.





TO sorry for all the losses. Hope you catch the critters.

 

[Terri O]

Good evening to all! What a gorgeous day it was. I got lots done but spent too much time at F&F looking at plants and electric fencers...and other stuff too...way too much stuff to be exact! Yup--I definitely will have to make the garden bigger! Since you talked about Buttercup squash Jim I, decided to get some seeds for that (I usually only grow Butternut) and then I saw some for Sweet Dumpling and I remember having some of that from the CSA last fall so I got that too! I am going to have squash growing ALL over! I will probably put the winter squashes in different areas of my yard and just let them go nuts. That seemed to work well last year. One time when I grew them close together they crosspolinated and my Zucchini had orange flesh and smelled like pumpkin! That was add for sure.

I hope you had a great B-day Vickie...nice of your girls to give you such a great present too. I dont think that chickens really have the mental capacity to remember special treatment during an episode in their lives...but I'm not one, so who knows?

Maybe they do.

well I might be back later...I have to close up and get the traps reset before it is too dark to see anything. We had a new cat visitor on the porch tonight...and my grill frog is still there under the burner cover...must be a good place for bugs!

BBL--Terri O

 

[FrenchToast]

MY "GIRLS" GAVE ME A BIRTHDAY GIFT!

4 hens, 4 eggs with no "misfires" and nobody attacked any of the eggs!!!
Only thing is now one of them is definitely laying her eggs near the "human" door instead of the nest boxes!

I can tell by the egg that its the hen I call "crockpot". She's the one that is always underfoot and loves to be picked up and paid attention to and was also the one that just got over acting ill and had the "misfire" (soft/no shell) problem so I'm thinking that it might have something to do with her getting extra attention when she wasn't feeling well???? Anyone have any imput on this?

It's hard to say but I just a thought. Maybe she doesn't have any control and is just dropping them and happens to be by the human door? Especially if she is just getting over her misfires.

Something you'll probably never know the reason but glad she isn't misfiring any more !! I'm betting she will start laying in the nests once she gets regular again and things become normal.

Happy Birthday !!!

 

[ChickenLover WI]

We have has a lot of coon and possums out here at my house darn things every time I walk outside at night there out there but can't shot because to close to road.

 

[ChickenLover WI]

coon

ok wildlife experts... need your thoughts. We have noticed that every night one of the 5 birdfeeders attached to a pole just outside the back door is knocked down every night. We were thinking deer or coon... but got these pics- huge cat? coon? woodchuck? porcupine? not sure... Notice the fuzzy lump in bottom left of bright pic. It is not there ( and nothing is still outside) in that corner so I am guessing that is our fiend... this is why I said porcupine...

 

[babylady4]

TO I hope you managed to solve your critter issue.... the kids want to know what Call was eaten.

Taffy has 9 of the 10 eggs hatching (one died in the shell after pipping, I did not hold out much hope for it since it never really broke thought the membrane). I have zipped all the shells but NOBODY is coming out! I do not see too much blood in the veining but I do not want to risk having them bleed out in the shell..... ugh this is just so difficult to sit by and watch.

I managed to weed one whole side of my flower bed today!!!!

Of course, I HAD to weed it since I went to the Master Gardener plant sale today and bought a bunch of new plants! I put in a False Indigo, a blue butterfly bush, some candy cane Phlox, some Foxglove, another Creeping Phlox by the mailbox, Lavender, Cleome, and some Parsley. I have to weed the other side to plant the rest of the Foxglove, the Hollyhock, and another Phlox that is deep red.

Just checked the eggs.... no progress. I am afraid that tomorrow I am going to wake up to a bunch of dead babies.....

Half the eggs are so cracked up the babies could just give a little shove and they would fall right out.


DD went with the BF to a cattle show yesterday; he ended up placing third. I think she had a good time, she is used to horses not cows so it was a little different for her.

DH is out playing with his Tractor. He has the engine ripped apart, I think he is giving it a good cleaning. This is the best Christmas in July present for him..... now it would be great if he would finish the dang house!!!!!

Baking another Carrot Cake tomorrow so I can take it to work with me on Wednesday. Anything is better than the icky cakes they have catered in.

I suppose I COULD make the garbanzo bean cake, but that would be a lot of bean cake to make for the whole plant.