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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    I’m less concerned with making coop litter into compost and more wondering if 12-18mo is long enough that it won’t be too hot and have too much nitrogen. And about potential pathogens in the poop. Our soil is on the sandy side and shavings can help retain moisture. Maybe? Going to see if I can...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    I’m a failure at composting. The shavings basically have sat there and I have done absolutely nothing with them. I mulched my tomatoes with aged coop litter one year and got an obscene amount of fruit, but that was also a pretty perfect summer for growing conditions.
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Looking for some garden advice! I have a problem every year with grass in my garden. And purple thistle, but I just keep pulling that out. ANYHOW, I'm looking for some suggestions for a better mulch to put into my veggie garden so I don't spend the entire summer nagging my kids to go pull...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    We usually only have lice problems when I have starlings in the coop, and I figure that if I’m not gonna eat eggs (because of sevin in the nest boxes) for a week or 2, I may as well worm them too. If the wild birds brought in lice, they may have brought in other stuff. That kind of stuff really...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    I use the “shake n bake” method. Put sevin in an empty feed bag, chicken goes in up to it’s neck, and shake. Repeat in 7-10 days. Clean the whole coop. Replace with minimal shavings, dust the nest boxes. Re-clean after the 2nd treatment. I usually take this opportunity to also worm all of my...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    We got probably 2-2.5in yesterday. It BETTER all melt today because we are supposed to have outdoor baseball practice today. I keep checking tsc for dark brahmas but they haven’t had any since mid March. I think one of my “sapphire olive eggers” might be a cockerel since most of the consensus...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    The chicks got evicted last night. Helped the other coaches cement in the posts for the bases at the fields, reconfigured our back yard fence a bit because the dogs keep digging up next to the deck and the last thing we need is for them to compromise one of the footings.
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Bought a bunch of gladiolus bulbs today. Anyone have some insight as to when is a good time to start planting those???? I’m planning on planting 20 of them every 2 weeks. But I’ve never grown them before so I don’t know what I’m doing. Also had a friend of ours message me that the ffh they...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Well I have 8 chicks in my basement brooder now. Hopefully I can recruit the kids to help me clean out the chick coop this weekend when it warms up and get them out under the hover brooder. I stopped at TSC to get a bag of feed for the lavender orps, and the manager sold me 4 EE pullets for...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Got home Saturday from a week at Disney. This weather can take a hike. 14 degrees this morning? No thanks. But. Some local friends of ours (friends in that we are on a few FB swaps together and I have picked up chicks for them when we have been traveling and were stopping anyway) messaged...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    I had cut way back on numbers in late summer (gave away a bunch of 3 and 4 year olds that would only lay regularly (5-6eggs/week each) from April-June and then maaaaaybe 2-3 a week until September and then nothing until March. I "only" lost 8, but it was pretty irritating since I was FINALLY...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Stopped into TSC today to look for salt to melt the 6+in shelf of ice in front of our mailbox, and somehow ended up looking at chicks. They had "assorted brahmas" and at least half of them were dark brahmas. Of course. I've wanted those for 5 years. The manager of the other TSC near us said...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Ugh. The black flies were sooo bad the first week it warmed up here. I’m glad they seem to have dissipated a bit. I’m going to throw caution to the wind and plant the rest of my veggie garden this weekend. I like to use the NMC barbecue as my “cutoff” date since the weather always seems to be...
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    7wk old lavender ams

    Lol! Of course here I was thinking I had allllll cockerels and I might have allllll pullets. There goes my entire “breeding” plan for this fall.
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    7wk old lavender ams

    I have 4, and they pretty much all look the same as far as posture/comb so I’m only posting pics of one. 7 weeks old 2 days ago. I usually do ok at figuring out genders, but since they all look the same it’s proving to be more difficult.
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