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    I'm a little slow

    Mar 18th I drove to Townline Hatchery in Zeeland MI, about 60 miles from home to pickup our Buff Orpingtons. Of course I had to take Chauncey (our springer pup) with me. We got the chick in good order, born the same am, ended up with 25 pullets and probably 3 roos. The dog loved the chick...
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    Our soon to be new home

    Quite awesome, be very thankful for it. Congratulations. When is the open house?? There will be some happy chickens on that big place. Sawyer
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    Not sure if this goes here!! Egg questions

    As I understand it if the temp of the room is about 72 deg, the eggs will start a very slow incubation process, that is why keeping them between 55 and 62 deg is imperative when getting them ready to incubate. So far we refridgerate... I got that out of a link here yesterday, printed it a home...
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    Growing chickenfeed?

    Cabbage is quite easy to grow and stores well hanging in a root cellar as do many other root crops and winter squash type plants. Corn has to be dried to grind, air dried in a crib works but attracts mice rats etc. These grain mills can be motorized or bicycle hooked up, will do lots of...
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    Feed store...... MORE PICS ADDED**

    Wildsky... He said to me, oh you're welcome to go and take a look at them as well - but don't dare bring any home.... I always thought the hens ruled the roost like they do at my house. Sawyer
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    Hi There from a Michigander Newbie

    Swampducks.... Welcome Hello from Croton twp, Newaygo co, bout 35 mi n of downtown Grand Rapids. Just started this year (winter) with some feebie chickens, 9 hens, 1 roo, EE's, bout 30 eggs per week so far on a regular basis. Have gotten a bit crazy and am incubating 14 eggs right now and...
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    Putting Faces With Names (Submit Your Mug Here!)

    A beautiful day in Michigan very early spring of 2007. Myself and (from left) Kayla getting kissed by Chauncey and Smokey on the right. The husky girls were teaching the young Springer Spaniel pup how to lead up the sled. Sawyer
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    I just spent an enjoyable 20 minutes.....

    I do it for a different reason. Our Rural delivery gal who works her bunns off plowing thru snow sleet rain and all kinds of stuff. She has to do a mail count this week, the post office picks the slowest weeks and twice a year they have an amount that they get paid by. Funny thing, I always...
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    Michigan

    Welcome Steve: 30a with corn & soy, might be able to mix your own feed with a couple of other things. Price of corn is going up from what I hear, probably chix feed too. Sawyer From Newaygo area, 40 mi n/of Grand Rapids...
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    Partridge Chantecler

    Ok, I'm proably hooked.......lined.......and sinkered. Got my first chickens a month or so ago, as some may know, 9 EE's hens and what looks like a Leghorn mix roo. Very happy with them. Got the ok from DW to get more, may already have a market for eggs, everyone wants them without the work...
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    "The Waiting" Support Group

    Now I will have to get off my butt. I just faxed my order in to Townline Hatchery in Zeeland, Mi. 25 pullets/2 roos, Buff Orpingtons, will pickup on Tues Mar 18th at their location. Saves the stress from the USPS. Second choice would be 25/2 ISA Browns in case they don't have the Buff's...
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    baking bread

    Struggling bread maker here, learning however........ I had a hankerin' for Scandanavian flat bread or "Rieska" like my grandmother used to make every day. Still have not gotten it down.. Maybe the difference is I didn't have the barley flour she used so I ordered 10# which showed up UPS...
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    Can you name these three dog breeds?

    1; I agree with the Chesapeke bay retriever... Weimereiners are called the Grey Ghost...probably not. 2: Sounds like a Basengi.. or a Foxhound.. I do love dogs, we currently have five....... Sawyer 3: English Springer/Brittany Spaniel sounds good but I think they are two...
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    First time incubating question

    I'v already asked Heidi (from my area) about this, but the more info the better. It has regularly been below freezing here in mid Michigan but my girls have been laying eggs and the Roo seems to be doing his thing too. Most of the time when I collect eggs they are cold, but I have no way of...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    I apologize if this shows up posted twice. These are the first eggs we got, just took a couple of days to get the photo. The brown ones on the right are the last store bought eggs we had. The rest are all from our EE's, check out the big dog in the back left corner. Lots of difference in...
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