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Originally Posted by Stacykins 

Does your crazy neighbor know about your beekeeping? Haha, I bet she'd have a fit if she figured it out. Thankfully, there are a lot of laws out there that protect the rights of keeping honeybees, even in urban settings, because of their valuable pollination service.

 

The front page of the Holland Sentinel just had an article about how the fruit trees are blooming, but the bees are not here... I have a feeling fruit is going to not be a prolific this year and we are going to see some high prices.

Speakng of growing... Better cover up plants tonight. Supposed to get to the low-mid 20s over night even in the lower half of Michigan. Makes me glad I haven't put anything in the ground yet. I will have to cover my strawberries though. They are already showing signs of fruit. How crazy is that.

My oldest saw a pic of a Flemish giant... He didn't believe me that rabbits could get as big as some dogs... SO, I googled pics, and now he wants. To bad I am allergic. Not really.
 

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Originally Posted by Olive Hill 

 

Well, by some freakish miracle we're now more than 24 hours in and Frederick (Fredericka?) The Garden Bunny is still alive.  To spite me, I tell you, to spite me. 

You are a saint and will be rewarded....lol.....that is what I kept telling myself last year when I had 3 orphans to mother.  My dog always seems to find a nest or two every spring. Last year she found a nest of 7 and 3 survived. She doesn't eat them, just plays with them (causing them to die) and brings them up to the house to show us. Well, when the kids seen they weren't dead that was all it took. So I hand fed them twice a day with some formula I got from the pet supply store, kept them in the warm cozy house in a little cage with nice fluffy micro fiber pillow filling stuff to hide under & snuggle. Kept them in the house for about 2 weeks, gave them water & fresh clover or alfalfa daily. Then we moved them out to the old rabbit hutch in the back. Kept them for about 3 more weeks then DH & kids let them go out back at the end of our property. I know they were big enough & old enough to survive on their own. Makes wonder with all the rabbits I see around my place if anyone of them are the ones we cared for.
 

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Originally Posted by 1muttsfan 

Babygrl has eggs pipping I am so envious!! Not a pip or a peep here yet. Not due:( until saturday tho.
 

Yeay! Still just a pip with occasional chirping. The little guy hasn't started to zip yet. DH and I are going out this evening so I am SURE that's when it will decide to fully hatch. I THINK that is the only egg that's chirping. It's one of Robin's (RBahmer) marans eggs. WOOT!

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Originally Posted by Wickischickies 
Chicken Grandma, I couldn't agree more!  I really hope Farmerboy's project works.  I am no longer a chicken owner as of this week.  From now on any new chicks I get will be tested for MG before being put in the coop and no one is allowed to pick up their chicks on my farm.  I have had no signs of it with any hatched chicks (three years of my hens hatching my eggs) until this year when I starting allowing other chicken owners near my coops.  One person who was here had one of their young chickens die of "natural causes" while they were here.  A week later my chicks get sick, they were just a couple of days old when that person was here.  I'm not saying that's where it came from by any means,  I could have had it this whole time when I bought my adults at the beginning.  Both them and I are newer chicken owners, and are not "chicken smart" yet.  One very expensive vet bill and the loss of my babies has made me a bit smarter.

So sorry to hear this. I have a friend ( more of an acquantance) )who has chickens and has offered a few times to come over and tend to my flock when I'm out of town. The offer is very kind and thoughtful but there are a few reason why I would never let her in my pens or coop. 1. The chickens she has are not hers, she lives with BF's family.   2. I don't know how their's are cared or what type of health they are in and 3. The fear of her bringing something into my yard. Not that she'd intentionally mean to bring any harm  but I know they do not tend to & care for their chickens as I do.....I don't think they are very strict when it come to bio security practices.
 

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Originally Posted by babigyrl22 

Yeay! Still just a pip with occasional chirping. The little guy hasn't started to zip yet. DH and I are going out this evening so I am SURE that's when it will decide to fully hatch. I THINK that is the only egg that's chirping. It's one of Robin's (RBahmer) marans eggs. WOOT!

 

 

 

Keep us posted and Pics please!!

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Originally Posted by Stacykins 
Does your crazy neighbor know about your beekeeping? Haha, I bet she'd have a fit if she figured it out. Thankfully, there are a lot of laws out there that protect the rights of keeping honeybees, even in urban settings, because of their valuable pollination service.

 

When I moved here 12 years ago, I brought 2 hives with me set them out back. None of my immediate neighbors had a problem with that. They enjoyed the honey that I shared with them. That includes my now "crazy" neighbor. Out of the 7 houses immediately around me, 6 of them love getting fresh eggs from me. Three of the other neighbors like to bring the grandkids to see and pet the chickens. The people across the street have a daughter who was deathly afraid of bees. I showed her the difference between honey bees and yellow jackets and picked up a handful of bees to show her how they don't "attack" like she thought they did.

Unfortunately,  few years ago the city council passed an ordinance that specifically outlaws the keeping of bees of any kind within the city limits. This stand alone ordinance was based on the lobby efforts of one woman whose autistic grand-son was afraid to go outside because he saw flying insects that she claimed were "bees". Her target was a neighbor who had a hive and her dear grand-son tipped over the hive and got stung. 

For the life of me, I can't figure out why someone wants to control the life of a neighbor when what they do doesn't affect them in way way. 
 

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Originally Posted by Farmerboy16 

I lockdown 38 dipped eggs today! They are due on Sunday. Please pray that they hatch clean of Mycoplasma gallisepticum!

I have had several chicken miracles so it is possible!

 

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Originally Posted by Olive Hill 

 

Well, by some freakish miracle we're now more than 24 hours in and Frederick (Fredericka?) The Garden Bunny is still alive.  To spite me, I tell you, to spite me. 

Yea for Garden Bunny! 

Nova take care of yourself!  Anxiety attacks are no fun! and try get some sleep - lack of can affect every part of your health.

I posted my picture earlier of my handsome Bootsie boys, the d'Uccles.   They have always been best buds but this afternoon I find them just fighting full out.  A while later my son comes in with Socks who has a swollen closed eye.  I'm guessing injury but how do I know for sure it isn't a disease?  I put him in the guinea pig cage but he's still in the coop.

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Originally Posted by babigyrl22 

Yeay! Still just a pip with occasional chirping. The little guy hasn't started to zip yet. DH and I are going out this evening so I am SURE that's when it will decide to fully hatch. I THINK that is the only egg that's chirping. It's one of Robin's (RBahmer) marans eggs. WOOT!

 

 

 

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Originally Posted by 1muttsfan 

Good morning Michigan.  Still hanging out at the incubator hoping for peeps - nothing yet, but their "due date" is not until friday night/saturday am. 

 

Chicks are not fully feathered until 6 weeks.  After that they should be ok in an outdoor coop, if they are acclimated to the colder temps.  There is a big difference between 60 degrees and 30 degrees.

 

When removing ticks do not grasp the body of the tick, or apply any caustic or irritating substances.  Squeezing the body will basically inject the stomach contents of the tick through the mouth and under the skin.  Applying nasty stuff (or attempting to burn them) can cause the tick to regurgitate (vomit) before releasing.  Both of these two things can lead to infections.  Opa's instructions are great.  There is also a very inexpensive product called a Tick Twister that is really slick - removes the ticks without you having to touch them.

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Originally Posted by babigyrl22 

I've been staring at my incubator too hoping for peeps. I saw some wiggling but that's about it.  Maybe there will be some peeps when I get home.
 

 

I have ONE pip. I love when they hatch. I keep looking in there, but still, just ONE pip. Hasnt progressed. Come on  Easter babies.

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Originally Posted by taprock 

I have had several chicken miracles so it is possible!

 

Yea for Garden Bunny! 

 

 

Nova take care of yourself!  Anxiety attacks are no fun! and try get some sleep - lack of can affect every part of your health.

 

I posted my picture earlier of my handsome Bootsie boys, the d'Uccles.   They have always been best buds but this afternoon I find them just fighting full out.  A while later my son comes in with Socks who has a swollen closed eye.  I'm guessing injury but how do I know for sure it isn't a disease?  I put him in the guinea pig cage but he's still in the coop.

 

 

Can you flush out the eye and get a better look? See if there is a laceration or something in the eye? Normal contacts solution is sterile saline and perfectly safe for flushing out an eye (heck, I use the stuff if I get dust in my eyes). They can get a form of pink eye (avian conjunctivitis) too. I know pinkeye in goats is treated by using the injectable antibiotic oxytetracycline (LA-200 at tractor supply) in the eye as a drop instead.