Recent content by ladyrsanti

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Longshot: Not NPIP certified so local pickup only, Kent Co. MI. These chickens landed in my lap and I'm not a professional breeder. I put a dozen in my incubator and they are all developing, so fertility is good. Colors will be a mixed bag as I don't have the setup to separate for color...

1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Have had chickens for about 9 years. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? About 50 chickens, but also 5 ducks, 2 muscovies, 15 quail, 3 turkeys (3) What breeds do you have? pavlovskaya, Bielefelder, Blue Andalusian...

I was gifted a flock of pavlovskayas from a family member who was moving and couldn't keep them and I want to hatch eggs. My issue is that two of the roosters don't have the muffs and beard. One of them has a very Polish mop on his head to boot. Should those two be removed from the breeding...

I'm going to sound like a complete imbecile. My turkey hen went broody on a clutch of eggs that were a mixture of her own and muscovy eggs (which take a week longer, I knew that). But I let it go because of work and stuff. Things were crazy. A muscovy hen was originally sharing the nest but...

I lost a bird yesterday to a fox (not the first but the first in a few years). My muscovy hens like to hang out in the sheep pasture at dusk, well after all the chickens go to bed, and the fox got in and nabbed one. It couldn't get her out though, so the fox ate it right there at the fence :(...

Does anybody in West Michigan breed muscovy ducks? Please let me know. Looking for hatching eggs or chicks when available.

Hope everyone is doing well since I popped in about 150 posts ago. Loved the story, Raz, about the cell phone. Cool to hear that the cremani's are making their way into MI. When I started out in chickens they were pretty much just a myth, complete with misinformation. I don't know that I...

Hey all. Been a while. We've been enjoying the fall. My husband and I drove around the entire U.P. last weekend and had a blast. I found a house I wanted to buy on Stonington Peninsula. Old, run down place with a barn, abandoned but for sale. I can dream, right? Anyway, he got the car...

Does anyone buy this brand of chicken feed? I think it's from Walmart. I don't shop there and have never heard of it but I have a customer that would love a tote made from one. If you happen to buy this brand and could save a few bags, let me know. PM is fine.

I'm looking for empty feed sacks again, woven plastic feed sacks. I turn them into totes and sell them on Etsy You can see them here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HudsonHobbyFarm. It's not the most profitable venture for the work involved but I do enjoy doing it over the long winter so I'm...

Went to the Fallasburg festival yesterday. It was nice. My son had a Fusion gig there in the afternoon. They're a rock orchestra group with the high school. He and his viola have just been accepted into the Grand Rapids Youth Symphony and his brothers play cello and violin so we're all...

Sorry about your loss uchytil. We lost our 19 1/2 yr old cat last summer to cancer. We'd raised him from birth as an orphan. It was hard putting him down. Then this spring we had a barn cat explosion and socialized 9 kittens for adoption, kept one. All over again. I ended up selling a...

Haven't been around in... oh... about 150 pages. Hope everyone is well. I was wondering how much people in MI sell duck eggs for? I sell my chicken eggs for $3.00/doz for comparison. My khaki campbell ducks are just starting to lay so it will be a while before I get enough to sell but I get...