Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Mom 2em All]

Raz-
Hope this isnt you or your house'

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region...s-into-home-after-police-chase-in-garden-city


Id like to be included in your PM, too, please.


And to whomever posted they got meal worms.

The beetles are what the meal worms turn into, and the worms dont lay eggs- the beetles do. Somewhere there is a link with lots of good advice on raising them up. Have fun!

 

[Stacykins]

Very good to know, I wondered where I would find a BYC of sorts for goats and rabbits, anyone know of one for rabbits?

Backyardherds also has a big section devoted to rabbit keeping.

 

[RaZ]

It wasn't my house.
There was a cop car that went screaming up the street about an hour ago. It nearly hit another car.
Half hour after that, the life flight landed at the hospital. I don't know if the events are related.

Just a side note, there were an awful lot of police officers at the courthouse today.

 

[1muttsfan]

So I was going through the Intro posts and came across one called -

"So What does the Ovation thing mean?"

And I wondered, Yeah, what does it mean? So I checked my profile, and there was a bunch of them - some of them very nice too. Here is a link for anyone else who is clueless like me - and thanks to anyone who gave me a thumbs up!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/699980/announcing-the-new-byc-reputation-system-ovations

 

[chicken grandma]

I think it is just instinct for goat to climb! Ours climbed on our picnic tables and onto our roof. We could not keep them penned.

 

[RaZ]

I stole this picture from a friend's FB page.

 

[Amy PT]

Raz, could you add me to your PM list, please?

Silly Chicken, I'm jealous. I love pygmy goats. And while we keep our hens illegally, I probably couldn't sneak goats into the city. If you choose to bring them home, I hope all goes well.

Our hens are 19 weeks now, and I'm getting so eager for our first eggs.

 

[chickflick]

Gonna have to PM a lot of people, RaZ. So many of us are into what you are going thru. Hope it went well.

Gotta go and pick DH up from the airport.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Don't think I can offer much advice about raising goats. One of my sons had several for quite awhile and his chickens moved in and out of the goat pen without incident. While I have been called an "Old Goat" I don't think that is enough to qualify as a Capra aegagrus hircus expert.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

. Some of the chicks were a little puny/shaky when they arrived in the mail. I have lost two so far. One of the Araucanas and one of the Coronation Sussex. Hoping the others make it. Just hate losing these little babies.

When i bought my porcelain booted bantam frome TSC, she was weak and shaky too. I put sugar in the water, and kept dipping her beak in every few hours the first 2-3 days. I didn't think she'd make it, she was so weak but she is now beating up on my standard size EE hens!

I have two more cases of bumblefoot to treat today. While reading about it, it said that gravel, rocky soil can be the cause. If so that explains it. Our place is more like a gravel pit than a field. I also have a beak to trim, which I have never done and am a bit nervous about. All the chicken care will come after school. Today is our first day. Hopefully my son will like the new curriculum we are using this year. School with him is usually a fight. He wants to earn more 4 wheeler time by doing his work so hopefully it is incentive enough to get him through the day.

You read about my iodine/sugar treatment? Beak trims and nail trims are a breeze. I do it with sharp rose pruners. Look for the opaque part of the beak at the tip, if you see inside the beak there is a whitish point down to where it gets opaque. Trim to that point, keep stiptic powder or some superglue on hand just in case. JUST WATCH OUT FOR THE TONGUE! They like to stick their tongues up to the trimmers sometimes!

Does anyone here have pygmy goats?
How much care do they need? Food?
Do you allow them near your chickens?

We have 3 pygmy / dwarf goats, even on rations they go through at least a bale of hay a week, the good green hay at that. We supplement with a mineral block also, they get grain when we can afford it, usually to help fatten for winter. Ours are not nice, they are fixed but they still do boy things and we can't let them out because they eat everything. Basically pain in the butt useless lawn ornaments. They don't hurt chickens though.