Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[fuzzybutt love]

Quote:Originally Posted by GrandRapidsGirl Thank you, i think? Do you mind if i post this on my "notes" pages? I keep handy info about diseases and dosings on a note page here on BYC
Quote:Originally Posted by gaitngirl Idk off hand, but that is one of the forms for chickens. I hope you didn't just bring it home to your girls with those boxes. It's one of those ones that's carried in dander, and blows for miles! I would NOT use those boxes if you haven't already. Perhaps overkill, but that's one of the few of the chicken diseases that actually scare me.

 

[ladyrsanti]

Certainly is getting warm. Just came in from watering the chickens and picking the corn that was ready to harvest and I'm sweating like a pig. I researched the origin of that phrase and it actually refers to the condensation of water on smeltered iron or "pigs". A more appropriate animal would be a horse. Now they really know how to sweat. Some sweat so profusely that it actually lathers.

Oh yeah, pig iron. Never thought of that. Learn something new every day. Reminds me of Fayette. Anyone ever go out there to the ghost town/furnaces? One of my favorite places in MI. I could visit every year and not get tired of it, between the ghost town and the lake. *sigh* I want another vacation please.

 

[uchytil]

Oh yeah, pig iron. Never thought of that. Learn something new every day. Reminds me of Fayette. Anyone ever go out there to the ghost town/furnaces? One of my favorite places in MI. I could visit every year and not get tired of it, between the ghost town and the lake. *sigh* I want another vacation please.

No, whre is this? Is Fayette a town?

 

[FawniesFleet]

My new baby chicks from dwalters. Mutts r the best!

 

[FawniesFleet]

we call her little orphan Abby bcz my bro hen didnt want her:-( so im her mommy

 

[FawniesFleet]

ginger the name suits her if you've ever seen the movie chicken run. she's organized!lol

 

[ladyrsanti]

No, whre is this? Is Fayette a town?

It's on the very end of the garden peninsula in the U.P. along Lake Michigan. It's a state park. Used to be a smelting town back in the day, abandoned (wanna say the last resident left/died in the 70's or early 80's). They're working on restoring the buildings but it's a pretty awesome ghost town with a nice campground nearby along the lake shore. Highly recommended.

 

[dwalters]

ginger the name suits her if you've ever seen the movie chicken run. she's organized!lol

that's too funny because it kept escaping the brooder here too lol

 

[Opa]

The pictures of Fayette certainly brought back memories. When my youngest son, who is now 40, was about10 months old, we were camping in the UP. I carried Scott everywhere in a back back that held him quite high. As were were exploring the old town the two older boys and I decided to go into the old coke oven. I ducked down to enter forgetting that Scott was on my back. That oversight resulted in his head striking the door jamb. Obviously this resulted in extremely loud squalling amplified by the shape of the shape of the brick oven. Fortunately I raised some very hard headed kids so he wasn't hurt too bad.

 

[RaZ]

More of the ant/grasshopper story. After being an ant on Saturday, I was a grasshopper on Sunday. Today I'm back to being the ant.
It is 88 degrees and muggy as all get out. Why am I prepping for winter?