Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[RIRJen]

It's that time again! PICTURES!
One of our white showgirl hens



Our two nubian kids


My son thinks it's HIS truck!

Bambi

He insisted on holding the bawkbawk lol

Some of our English Lop babies

 

[NovaAman]

Ah, how sweet. You need to get pics, chick.

 

[sarah92480]

Super cute goat pics!

Hey everyone, how's things? My hen is still being broody. Silly girl...hope she gets over it soon, I don't have time to build a brood box until Wednesday.

Anyway, hope all my old friends are still doing great here! Since I quit my office job last summer & started working at a clinic I haven't had time to be online much, which is why I haven't been around in a long time. But I'm gonna try to log on more frequently to catch up.

Hope everyone had a great day! Weather should be nice again tomorrow thankfully.

 

[taprock]

Silly, thanks for the input.  I don't expect the cross beak to live to a ripe old age.  It spends a lot of time at the food dish, and I noticed that the deformity is causing it to breathe differently.  Still, it seems to have a good quality of life.  Once that declines and/or if it turns out to be a roo, we'll have some tough choices to make.  Our birds are like our pets and while I can't stomach even thinking of culling it, I certainly don't want it to suffer.

I had a very expensive young bird who was injured and developed a cross beak as a result. I decided I would not cull because I could still use it for breeding. It lasted for 5 months and then we culled it. Yuri lost weight, couldn't eat well even though I trimmed his beak every other week. He ended up covered in mites when no one else was, I'm sure they know who is weaker. He ended up get a minor foot injury that wouldn't heal because he was undernourished. It was tough to cull him but he was so miserable looking at the end that keeping him alive seemed cruel. After seeing what he went though I will cull chicks with it in the future.

Well, since I got just  one response to my quest for a buddy chick, I ended up going to FFH and brought  home 3 buddies for my lone chick.  I have no idea what they are.  Two are very tiny, one double their size.  Came home and put them in with lone chick and the two tiny ones scurried under lone chicks wings.  Lone chick is being a mamma to them!!   Lone chick was eating and I tried to take pic of the others and she hurried to the tiny chicks and got them under her wings!  Babies raising babies.  Lone chick is only 7 wks old!!  The other chick seems terrified!  Afraid to move.  Hope she relaxes soon.  Guess I need to think of some names for these chicks.

We had a single bantam faverolle hatch a couple years back. She considered us her flock. After three weeks I was able to get three chicks to put in with her. They tried to follow her around and she ran from them. It was more than a week before she wasn't scared to death of them.she was the friendliest chicken we ever had and came when we called her.

 

[RaZ]

More publicity...
http://www.thebackyardprovider.com/2013/05/13/poultry-keeping-is-a-crime-in-garden-city-michigan/

 

[Trefoil]

What? I'm the first to post this morning?
Good morning everyone, get a cuppa and join in. Of course I'm only here this early because I'm hoping for a call from the post office telling me to come pick up my chicks, but that still counts.
That was a good article Raz, hope it spurs some action.

 

[kimmie6067]

What? I'm the first to post this morning?
Good morning everyone, get a cuppa and join in. Of course I'm only here this early because I'm hoping for a call from the post office telling me to come pick up my chicks, but that still counts.
That was a good article Raz, hope it spurs some action.

I am here barely, so sleepy! I have chicks suppose to be hatching today but nothing so far. I have a box to pick up and the po to large for the box well I have a mail box that is huge. I am waiting for more eggs can't imangine it being eggs.

Kimmie

 

[Wrightsx4]

Good morning!

 

[RaZ]

Okay, okay, I'm up.
Working on the first cup of coffee and trying to get cold, stiff joints to work.
Tuesdays are docent day at the gardens and today looks a tad gloomy with a chance of liquid sunshine.

Wow, even more. http://oakparkhatesveggies.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/what-the-cluck-indeed/#comment-19202
Thanks for the link, BFM.

 

[chickflick]

That's so cool. More media. Maybe Garden City will be shamed into doing the right thing!

Good Morning!