Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Candy442]

Ds's hat. Just need to block it and weave the loose ends in. Although I goofed on the crown shaping I'm happy with how it turned out since it was my first time with fair isle.

Very nice! Love the pattern!

 

[Candy442]

Success. I was useful today. 28 ears of corn = 7 pints + 11 half pints canned. Can't believe how sweet it is..was eating raw while cutting off cob. Thought I had lost my window of opportunity after blanching & freezing 3 doz ears a few weeks ago.

Kind of freaky. Went to check on eggs & birds while canner cooling. What I thought was a hawk came whizzing about 10' above my head. Look around & there were about 8 circling & 4 in trees. Think turkey vulture based on going to Audubon society. But really didn't see red head, so maybe black. Appears not much to worry about with turkey, but maybe a little with black??? I'm freaking a tad, but birds seem to be taking care of themselves by staying under deck. Someone posted a day or so ago about having 9 in their yard (too lazy to back & search for post !)

Here are 4 of the ~10 circling...not great as I'm leaning over deck using iPad. Birds are under deck.

Nice crop of corn there those do look like Turkey buzzards, I seldom see other birds of prey circling in a group like that...

 

[Totalcolour]

Wow TC, I wonder what it is... Maybe feed the chickens at their own feeder and see what happens?

Hmm, I tried telling the chickens that but they don't listen to me. Nobody does. They also keep flying across the fence into the goat yard. Maybe it's something they picked up there!?!?!?!

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: Really nice, and it looks warm too!

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

Glad, beautiful. Faire isle is tough. My 1st f.i. Project was a pair of socks from a Lion Brand project books... The socks were purple with these hearts up at the top cuff, so the f.i. was really only over something like 20 rows or something. So I made the first, turned out perfect. Made the second, knitted the hearts upside down (by mistake), finished it off and I was so happy and proud but then I realized the flaw. Dang. Great job, lovely hat.

So backing up to mulching your pens with leaves. I did it last year and it was horrible in the Spring. I will never do it again. But I have ducks only, and ducks are a bit different, so hopefully my experience was unique that way. I had dead worms (so anerobic environment) and nasty mold at the lowest layers, it took me a full week to get it cleaned out, and then another week to get dried out. And Opa helped me with that. Thanks Opa.

Anyway, that's what I got. Congrats on your deer PK. Just a bit jealous and hope you get back to work soon.

 

[mara1]

Glad, beautiful. Faire isle is tough. My 1st f.i. Project was a pair of socks from a Lion Brand project books... The socks were purple with these hearts up at the top cuff, so the f.i. was really only over something like 20 rows or something. So I made the first, turned out perfect. Made the second, knitted the hearts upside down (by mistake), finished it off and I was so happy and proud but then I realized the flaw. Dang. Great job, lovely hat.

So backing up to mulching your pens with leaves. I did it last year and it was horrible in the Spring. I will never do it again. But I have ducks only, and ducks are a bit different, so hopefully my experience was unique that way. I had dead worms (so anerobic environment) and nasty mold at the lowest layers, it took me a full week to get it cleaned out, and then another week to get dried out. And Opa helped me with that.

Thanks Opa.

Anyway, that's what I got. Congrats on your deer PK. Just a bit jealous and hope you get back to work soon.

would using sand with de/stall dry over winter be ok? plan on covering run?

 

[preciouskitty]

Anyway, that's what I got. Congrats on your deer PK. Just a bit jealous and hope you get back to work soon.

Thanks! Was gonna not hunt again for a few weeks (told my boss to bring his daughter out this weekend...she loves my bow, has yet to get a deer); BUT, Based on an email I just got from our 1-star general, my return next Wednesday has taken a turn for the worse...may need that meat myself (JK, between DH & I we always fill the freezer..)

I was supposed to go back Wednesday regardless of whether budget battle solved or not (or earlier if they do solve it), however, that is no longer the case....more conflicting guidance from leadership in the Pentagon.

I was totally cool with a forced vacation thru tomorrow & somewhat ok with next Monday & Tuesday ... Already had put funds aside when we thought we were gonna be furloughed 11 days over summer & it was reduced to 6. While still not ideal, another 6 days unpaid wasn't gonna make me lose my house! But things shall get a little dicier if we go much past the end of next week.

Again..gonna keep a positive attitude & begin tackling all those projects I just never seem to have time for! Oh, and definitely sign up for unemployment, just to be on the safe side...work sent us all the documentation needed with the email.

A lot of people where I work are married; I really feel for those families where BOTH are furloughed.

 

[1muttsfan]

TC, that is too bad! Are they all young ones that are dying? When they necropsied the bird, did they take cultures for salmonella and for other diseases? Sometimes you can get birds that have a chronic infection that can cause death especially in young birds. Did you get a necropsy report back?

 

[RaZ]

Guess who just got another ticket in the mail?

Yup. This guy!

Oddly, it is the same ticket that was dismissed last month because the prosecutor decided that it was a non-issue. What the???

 

[Totalcolour]

TC, that is too bad! Are they all young ones that are dying? When they necropsied the bird, did they take cultures for salmonella and for other diseases? Sometimes you can get birds that have a chronic infection that can cause death especially in young birds. Did you get a necropsy report back?

I'm hoping that now they are getting bigger, they will stop dying. They were on medicated feed as babies, so it shouldn't be cocci, and the last necropsy we had done was negative for MG, Newcastle's and Salmonella. They are in a HUGE pasture, (1/3 acre) so it's not in anyway overcrowding. Just keeping fingers crossed for the rest of them. I hope these last 8 make it.

Also, we do the all out, all in thing. We got rid of everything at the end of last winter, and only hatched these out in July. So they are about 3 months old. We tilled and reseeded the pasture, so anything on the surface would have been turned under and then grown over. I'm totally baffled.