Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[morrisonmanor]

BTW, anyone in south central lower MI or northern IN looking for some shingles (perhaps for coop, or patching your roof), PM me. I have quite a bit in my garage that I would like to get rid of.

Where are you located?

 

[EverMystique1]

X2!

Gorgeous

Exactly what I said when I saw the piv. Gorgeous!

 

[EverMystique1]

I was actually asked if they were doves by a Canadian couple that stops by to look at the birds when ever they are in town. They buy eggs too. I LOVE Mr. Ed...

There are so ma.y beautiful roosters on here.

 

[Lisa and girls]

Mamas and babies going through our back yard. I've never seen turkeys this close and with their little ones too. Delayed going out to let the chickens out but worth it.

 

[Lisa and girls]

Last day of Tylan for my little tweety with the bubbly eye. She's cleared up nicely. Although she has been giving me stink eye. She hated it. Like I like doing it.

 

[Candy442]

While we are sharing pictures of the "boys", here is our one cockerel named TwoTone. I thought he was a she until last couple of weeks. He was in the Easter Egger pullet bin!

As a baby, he was two sides of different, one dark, the other light which made him interesting to me. Our only boy, he "peeps" still at 17 weeks, but yesterday he was off by himself practicing his "strut". I wish I had a video of it, so funny. AND he did his first "rooster" thing and chased off a baby rabbit near his "girls". He has a very sweet disposition. The Reds still throw him a warning peck ever so often and he runs to the two EE pullets for buddy protection! The pictures were taken last week at 16 weeks old.



TwoTone's left side

and below his right side

His beard has black and white in it too, so far he is wonderful and glad to have him. His tail has dark green shine in the black feathers. It would be nice if he continues to "peep" but we are out in the country and no problem having a noisy rooster...heck, my "reds" are pretty noisy!

 

[Candy442]

Last day of Tylan for my little tweety with the bubbly eye. She's cleared up nicely. Although she has been giving me stink eye. She hated it. Like I like doing it.

The stink eye for bubbly eye

glad to hear Tweety is recovering!

 

[Candy442]

Actually, I knew that!

Wasn't allowed to swear as a kid...BUT, my GF was Greek..and "scata" meant, well "poo". But when they used it, well you catch my drift. So that is what I would use as a teenager...

And, I let ya guess on "bovine scatology".....we use that one at work a lot....

LOL, my mother related a GF story. GF was first gen in America from Germany. She never forget one time they were walking in a field with cows when my GF grabbed her, pointed on the ground and said with his german accent, "Watch out for the koo shyst!" She got to learn what "sh*t" was in german language that day...

 

[gladahmae]

Re: worming

I'm planning on just doing a routine worming every fall when they molt or egg production slows down. I also worm all adult chickens that I get......I don't know for sure what conditions they came from, what they ate, where they scratched, so I worm them during their quarantine time.


Speaking of molting, when does that generally start? My girls haven't molted yet (ran a light in the winter) but BIL's molted this spring, and they're basically the same age. I can see that feather quality is really deteriorating and they're looking a bit rough these days, so I'm assuming it'll be maybe next month or September? I feel like they're already gearing up for it, or at least a 'resting phase' since I'm only getting 4 or 5 eggs from 12 girls right now.

 

[NovaAman]

I love two tone! He's so interesting to look at!