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I saved all four hooves from the large doe I shot this year. I would like to make something out of it for deer camp. Two things come to mind immediately. A coat rack or a gun rack. I have both cherry and oak 5/4 finished boards for the backing board. The hooves are straight just like when I took...

I have flying squirrels on my 2 acre house lot. I first saw them about 25+ years ago one evening jumping from one oak tree to another oak tree. Since then I have seen them come to my bird feeders many times at night since they are nocturnal rodents. I see them mostly in the winter when they have...

I have grey squirrels that come to my bird feeding areas in mass. I have a good friend whose family with two teenage girls loves squirrels. I shoot 15-20 squirrels every year for him to cook up as family meals. This number hardly puts a dent in the local squirrel population as I have oak woods...

I put in an acre of iron and clay cowpeas this year on my farm near Almond in Portage county WI. They grew great on a field that had paper mill sludge dumped on it for fertilizer this spring. I put in some black oil sunflower seeds to give the vines something to climb. When I looked at this plot...

I posted previouslyu about how I stumbled onto a single axle eight foot cultipacker and bought it for $200. It was loaded onto a 16 foot flat bed trailer by a skid steer at the sellers farm and brought 8 miles to my helpers house for a rebuild/repair. The first thing to go is the old wood block...

lf you have ever heard the expression " even a blind squirrel finds a nut in the woods sometimes" that would apply to me this weekend. I have been looking for a 7 foot cultipacker in WI for quite a while. My helpers dad drove the 25 miles one way to visit him last week. He takes the back roads...

I am looking at a used 7 foot single axle cultipacker this weekend. It needs new end bearings per the owner. I am wondering if anyone has added towing wheels to a cultipacker. Then you can just flip it over when it is headed to the fields and flip it again to use. I have rocky roads on my land...

I have found chicken of the woods mushrooms growing on or near oak trees on my land in summer. This year I found a nice one in July. I was checking out some clearing that the township had done recently along a road that is on the West end of my land. It has an exposure for about 50 yards onto my...

I believe I may have planted my dwarf Essex rape seed too thick in several smaller food plots. Is there anything I can do to get the overall population of these fields down to more acceptable levels? I got rains the day after the seeds were cultipacked and it looks like every seed germinated.

My acreage is in Southern Portage county Wisconsin. I have an abundance of turkeys, average amount of morning doves and a few grouse. The other day I saw my first quail ever on my land. I have owned this property for over 27 years. The quail family was in a patch of buckwheat that was getting...

This is for WI guys only. Does anybody host a camera for the WI DNR snapshot program? Or perhaps have a friend or relative who does. Are you happy with the program or is it a hassle? What type of camera are you given to use? I applied to host a camera and the DNR will be opening up Portage...

My helper on the farm was driving along the East line of my land in southern Portage county WI. He found a HUGE mushroom that was growing on the West side of an oak tree. Sent me a pic of it with a soda can for a size comparison. It looked to be the size of a volley ball. It had an orange tint...

Wisconsin has a hunting and trapping season for raccoons. It runs from mid October to mid February each year. With that comment in mind, let me just say that I found a raccoon that had been hit by a car in front of my house last week. The weird thing about this raccoon was that it was almost a...

Anyone with a conventional septic with a drain field use any kind of treatment for it? My buddy who is a master plumber sells Bioclean and has advised me to start using it as my septic system is approaching it's useful life term. It was first installed in 1970 and then had an addition to the...

If you have made artificial licking posts on your property, what type of wood did you use? How long does the pole need to be? What height above ground do you put the branch? What about locations? Did you dig a post hole for it or is there another way to secure them upright? I have rocky land...

I had my land in Southern Portage county certified for Synagro to dump paper mill sludge on it 27 years ago. Paperwork, DNR permits, and any neighbors within 500 feet of my fields signed waivers were required before any applicaton of sludge could be done. (It stinks to high heaven.) The product...

I bought a 50 pound bag of iron and clay cowpeas this year to try something different. I have never planted them before. I believe a 50 pound bag will cover .75 to 1 acre. When do I plant them? I am in southern Portage county Wisconsin. Should I add something like black oil sunflower seeds to...

The past two years I have had a problem with a thick green coat of algae building up on the surface of my pond. I do not believe it stops any critters from using the pond, it just looks terrible. Has anyone used an algaecide in an outdoor pond that will prevent this from happening? I am guessing...

I visited my land in the town of Almond, Portage county WI today. There is still snow in the shaded areas and the ground is real greasy. I wanted to see my winter food plots. 5 acres of RR corn is gone. Small RR ag soy bean fields are gone. However, my 6 acre large RR ag soy bean field is...