Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Terri O]

AMAZING...I am the second one to post in a morning? And only 3 posts to catch up on? I think we either have some slackers here or everyone went out for a party last night without VIcki and me!
THose alarming chickens woke me up again this morning at the same time...wonder what it is that comes through then? Now I am up and I have a headache; at least the inside creatures are all fed. Aztalan is having motocross races this morning and they start at 7! Speaking of....I have a little known fact to share with you all....our very own MXM used to be a motocross racer! WAIT--I suddenly "got" her name! MX =Motocross

Never made the connection.

Today I am traveling to MIlwaukee to get that roo and the quail. I want to go alone so I can listen to my CD book! I have not been driving as much as I used to for work so I rarely finish them before the due date at the library. Looking forward to it.

Yesterday was another hatching day here at my place! Yup--went in to feed the POL birds and looked into the kennel where I set a broody on some of those turkey eggs from my lettuce garden. THe cutest little white face was staring out at me! I took it out to make sure it was a poult...sure enough! I started her with 7 eggs and tossed 3 as they got "sloshy" so today I have to check if any others hatched. I tried to candle them on Friday with my new super bright flashlight and the eggs were all filled so I couldnt see a thing....maybe I woke them up in there? At any rate...I hope the rest hatch! Road runner also hatched another batch of chicks and the chocolate muskovy that I got from Carol has a bunch too....this should be the last for the year...
I do have a couple of goats that are looking suspiciously wide though....

Well all you guys have a relaxing Sunday...I will post a pick of the barred rock roo when I get him! Terri O--lookingforwardtoaroadtrip (hard to type with no spaces when you are trying to!)

 

[babylady4]

Relax is not in my vocabulary today...... I am still trying to motivate though, I need my coffee.......

Trying to figure out the configuration of this bedroom...... I need smaller furniture.

Off I go!

 

[CasieD]

Good Morning all!!

Just about to get outside and get to work on finishing up the new coop. DH is finishing the door and i need to finish the painting now that we picked up another gallon. Seems like we've been working on this project forever! But we didn't do much on it during all that heat last month. One of the Buckeye pullets died yesterday, not sure from what. It had been looking a little off but was eating and drinking fine. Everyone else in that pen are looking fine though. Still have the 7 Swedish Flower Hen chicks and 3 Wheaten Marans in the brooder, growing like crazy. Loving all the unique coloring on the SFHs.

Vicki - we were up north yesterday fishing on Ballard lake and drove through one of those forestry roads and saw several trucks with dogs and bait buckets. Figured they were bear hunters. We are a big hunting family, but I wouldn't like the way some of them disrespect landowners either.

TO - hope all those eggs hatch for you! So you have chickens, turkeys, ducks and goats.... what else you got there?! I haven't been around long enough to know what all everyone keeps.

Dan - I built a little hoop house to go over my 4 x 14 raised bed. Helps me extend the seasons. I'm sure your high tunnel is awesome. I've read Elliot Coleman's books too and he really knows what he's doing. Didn't he used to have a gardening show on TV a while back too? Hardly any true gardening shows on anymore, miss those. Where do you sell your veggies? Right from your location or do you go to farmer's markets in ER? We are up in the area occasionally.

 

[vickiw]

Hi CasieD~we're a big hunting family too but we are also a long tradition, on both sides, of Sportsman and sportswomen! What is sporting about standing beside a road, watching a radar screen until whatever is being chased is either been run to total exhaustion or terrified into shock so that it just finds a place to hide, surrounded by howling dogs so you can walk up and shoot it? Or, more often than not, it fights for it's life trying to protect it's young, shredding to pieces those poor dumb dogs just doing what they were taught and trying to please their masters? Worst (and we've seen it), if anyone tells you "bear" dogs only run bear, they're flat out lying. A few dogs, maybe, that manage to actually survive to be mature and trained, yeah, but more often than not they are young dogs that get all hyped up by the chase and take off after ANYTHING that runs. That anything can (and has) includes, young deer, someone's pet (a dog on his own property) or if they go tearing thru the back of the pasture where your flock is free-ranging and start to panic, you get the picture and this area has seen it all. The dogs are not to blame. The "so-called" hunters that fail to train and STAY WITH their dogs are. Most states no longer allow dog packs to "hunt" like this, unsupervised, (staring at a radar screen till a blip stops moving is not supervision) and NO other state, even Alaska, allows hunting of wolves with dogs for blatantly obvious reasons. At least once a year someone comes to our door looking for their "trained" hunting dog that ignored their call in and his screen shows it running around somewhere in our back 40, or just beyond because it's just a half trained pup or, usually, because the dog has been "butched" as they call it and is disoriented and in shock. Some idiot put a half-trained pup in the woods in front of us last spring. They did look for quite a while but that pup was never found. One other thought. Why are bear dog hunters allowed to practice with their dogs during the peak times in the spring when does are fawning or in the late summer when everything in the woods is trying to get their young, including deer, ready for winter? No other dog hunters, pheasant, duck, etc. get to "practice".

 

[tiki244]

So good to hear all the news. Everyone is so busy makes me tired thinking about it

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I culled a dozen cockerels yesterday.

No sense in letting them grow out they wouldn't make a meal combined anyway. I still have a whole bunch left. That really took it out of me I think it was the emotional drain more so than the physical. I am hoping next weekend will be good at the swap/sale. Need to get rid of quite a few chickens. The judge told me to ask $7 a bird. Up from $5 last year. They are nice quality. Anybody want bantam cochin pairs free? Too bad most of you live so far from me.

The judge has just a few mink cages on his barn wall. They are almost too big for my purposes. (I want to put some banty roos in there to keep from fighting over the winter) So I have to make some modifications. He has some show cages, I was eyeing those up but he doesn't want to sell them....yet.

 

[Celtic Chick]

CC: How old are your boy(s)? Do you have more than one?

I have 2 LO and 1 mottled that I am thinking are boys....and don't want to get rid of any. However, I also don't want fights in the middle of the winter!!!! I will have 17 LF hens. 2 banty/LF hen mixes. and 1 banty hen. So aprox 8 hens per girl if I kept them-but it doesn't make any sense to hang on to 3 roos ANd I have a "Farmer Steven" as he called himself, respond to my craigslist posting.

Ang, I have 3 LO roos. I bought 3 chicks from a gal up in West Bend & wouldn't you know it, all 3 turned out to be boys.

They'll be 6 months on the 20th. I have 17 LF hens & 5 roos. Well, one roo is Jack, my lil pipsqueak banty that I keep separate with the kids & rabbits, so I guess he doesn't count. And then I have another roo that must be an XXY because he has no clue he's a boy. I've never heard him crow, so he doesn't count either. So I guess I have 3 roos & 17 hens (4 aren't "hens" yet. Still kids, but at least they're girls). So far so good with no brawling, just a little chasing around but we will see. DH wants me to get rid of one of the lav roos.

And I have a broody sitting on what I hope are lav eggs, so we will see.

Vic, where abouts are you located? If your eggs don't hatch, you could have some of my chicks. They would all look stunning with some BSLs. They would be LOs, BOs or Doms.

 

[CasieD]

Hi CasieD~we're a big hunting family too but we are also a long tradition, on both sides, of Sportsman and sportswomen! What is sporting about standing beside a road, watching a radar screen until whatever is being chased is either been run to total exhaustion or terrified into shock so that it just finds a place to hide, surrounded by howling dogs so you can walk up and shoot it? Or, more often than not, it fights for it's life trying to protect it's young, shredding to pieces those poor dumb dogs just doing what they were taught and trying to please their masters? Worst (and we've seen it), if anyone tells you "bear" dogs only run bear, they're flat out lying. A few dogs, maybe, that manage to actually survive to be mature and trained, yeah, but more often than not they are young dogs that get all hyped up by the chase and take off after ANYTHING that runs. That anything can (and has) includes, young deer, someone's pet (a dog on his own property) or if they go tearing thru the back of the pasture where your flock is free-ranging and start to panic, you get the picture and this area has seen it all. The dogs are not to blame. The "so-called" hunters that fail to train and STAY WITH their dogs are. Most states no longer allow dog packs to "hunt" like this, unsupervised, (staring at a radar screen till a blip stops moving is not supervision) and NO other state, even Alaska, allows hunting of wolves with dogs for blatantly obvious reasons. At least once a year someone comes to our door looking for their "trained" hunting dog that ignored their call in and his screen shows it running around somewhere in our back 40, or just beyond because it's just a half trained pup or, usually, because the dog has been "butched" as they call it and is disoriented and in shock. Some idiot put a half-trained pup in the woods in front of us last spring. They did look for quite a while but that pup was never found. One other thought. Why are bear dog hunters allowed to practice with their dogs during the peak times in the spring when does are fawning or in the late summer when everything in the woods is trying to get their young, including deer, ready for winter? No other dog hunters, pheasant, duck, etc. get to "practice".

Wasn't disagreeing with you. We aren't bear hunters and have never used dogs for any type of hunting. Our family just enjoys being out in the woods and hunting deer on our family land. I love having a freezer full of venison come winter time!

 

[Angiebubs]

Here are my suspected 3 roosters-any hopes they aren't roosters?
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3798051584706.159754.1079733024&type=1&l=fb1ede1682

 

[vickiw]

Oh Casie! sorry I sounded so strong

didn't mean to, I guess I am just too passionate about hunting (and killing) with integrity and showing proper respect for the sanctity of life for all things. It was the way I was raised. My dad was an interesting mix of avid hunter and conservationist. He loved his hunting but he always said, and MEANT IT that if you aren't going to eat it you have no reason to shoot it. He once threw his own brother off the land for shooting a fawn. He understood and made exception when it came to protecting human life and/or property but he always only shot then after all else failed and he never liked it, always bowing his head in prayer afterward. He had no use any man that would treat any animal cruelly, especially one as loyal and loving as a dog. He wasn't against those that used dogs to assist them with the hunt (tho he never did) but had NO use for a man that would make the dog hunt for him without any care for the welfare of the animal willing to risk it's life to serve him.

This dog bear/wolf hunting thing just hits too close to home when we have these so-called hunters right in our backyards, sometimes literally, half the year. I won't go on again, I'm sorry

, I really really didn't mean to be so harsh, forgive me?

Hi CC!

what a sweet offer!!! Thank you! I love LO's and BO's, they are so pretty!!! or a Dom too would look wonderful with my girls but I'm afraid that I am no where near you. I am a little over an hour north of Wausau.

 

[unkadan]

hi folks

tired and no real reason why ,,,,no big physical projects today

did cut and clean 10 lbs of garlic, the best went 1st of course,,,I just sliced and placed 1lb of cloves in the dehydrator for start of a 1st powder batch,,,fingers crossed

had a 6 pt buck that insisted he was going to eat out of a chicken feeder, funny to watch Jake chase him away, then get distracted and the dam deer would be back at the feeder b4 the dog came back to the house,,,this was repeated 6 times in the course of a couple hours,,,naturally I now realize pics would be good,,,,,

he'll be back and I'll shoot him,, this time with the Canon,,heh heh

more beans, broccoli, maters,taters,,yada, yada, yada

Cassie no wind problems since I anchored the middle of the hoops to the ground, the dbl plastic inflated roof is the key and yes I sell everything here at the farm at this point,,,,with 2 restaurants that I supply and deliver to

man has used dogs to assist in hunting for eons, the use of tracking collars can be a very good thing or abused as you have seen vickie,,,,these periods of "training" are all related to another form of revenue generation by the DNR
unethical hunters will always be a portion of the mix, unfortunately there is little enforcement of the laws that do exist due to cutbacks on field workers to maintain the overpaid appointed hierarchey

bbl broccoli cheese soup if ready