Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[SillyChicken]

Has anyone on here made pumpkin pie out of pumpkins? I have a bunch I froze but don't have a recipe. I'm used to the canned stuff.....

 

[gladahmae]

Has anyone on here made pumpkin pie out of pumpkins? I have a bunch I froze but don't have a recipe. I'm used to the canned stuff.....

I have/am going to this year. I follow the same recipe for the canned stuff.....i just look at the back of the can for the volume each can holds and use the same amount of the pumpkin puree. Just a heads up though, real pumpkin is going to look a lot more yellow than canned.

 

[RaZ]

Here is what is keeping me sane right now. It's two bags of Jim's Special roving from Zeilinger's in Frankenmuth. I'm spinning it as I knit and making a huge slouchy sweater, the famous Skappelgensern sweater. I put it on my ravelry page. http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Ladyrsanti/mammas-hjemmestrikkede-genser-skappelgenseren

Last year when someone mentioned that wool farm, I got a visit from the city to check out a complaint that I had sheep in my yard. Beware the trolls.

 

[SillyChicken]

Last year when someone mentioned that wool farm, I got a visit from the city to check out a complaint that I had sheep in my yard. Beware the trolls.

You should have gotten some hogs instead!

 

[RaZ]

I do have a Hog in my garage.

 

[Amy PT]

Lady, I passed this place this morning, and wondered if you knew about it. Seems like something you and your family might like?

http://thegeekgroup.org/

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Sometimes you can help the sick; in my mind where i make the distinctionn is in WHAT the ailment is. My flock carries crd but that has not been an issue and the babies i have hatched from them are strong little buggers.

For the stuffed up one smell her nose. Coryzoa has a strong smell. Has she been bullied from the feed dish? Is she a spring hatch? A spring peep would not usually be molting the first year. A bullied bird would be succeptable to illness; Check for sour crop too.

I firmly believe that in flocks the one who show symptoms are the weakest perhaps but i do believe that they all would be carrying it already. To this end my weak ones get the raw yolks to eat from the strongest. In this way they get the antibodies for it. Not always but mostly the ones i have helped have been stronger after against sickness than before.

 

[iamfivewire]

@1muttsfan : we are east of Lansing (rural Williamston) & have some eggs . There are prob other people that may be closer if your dad happens to see any eggs 4sale signs, but wold be glad to sell a dozen or 2

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Oh and lopk in her beak if you can to see if she has gunk in there ? A couple sicknesses will cause growths and gunk to build up so that they can't eat.

you should make every effort to figure out any and all symptoms just in case ! Even if you do decide to cull you still need to know what your flock has been exposed to.

I am a bleeding heart but even i know sometimes it has to be done; i just like to give them every chance they want. When they give up then i do.

 

[ladyrsanti]

Thanks for the info but she is already gone. She did have sour crop but I don't think it was the cause, more like a side effect. She was too weak to be drained and the time I tried, she had trouble breathing. I could be wrong about that not being the cause. I'm not a vet but that's just the way it seemed to me. She was a year and half old, had been sick like this last winter too, had terribly curled toes, strange mutant feathers and shouldn't have survived this long so it's not any shock to me that she didn't make it. Anyway, I didn't have to put her down. When I got back from the Dr., she was gone. Just a kink in an already downer day. The rest of the flock seems healthy by all outward appearances. Hope it stays that way.

I hope you were joking Raz, about the sheep thing. I would hate to have caused that.

Amy, that place looks awesome. DH would love it, even though he's a software engineer. I had heard of one opening in Detroit but didn't know there was something similar here. I might get in contact, just for fun. If nothing else, for the sake of the robotics team.