Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Peep-Chicken]

Our driveway is a ice skating rink! So all the way to the coop I'm slipping and sliding. At least the paved part isn't icy though.

 

[taprock]

We seem to be the only small area in the state together ice, so I got the day off! So I finished my coyote quilt.

It may take a while for my fingertips to be back to normal but it's done.

Now to go look at the coop, and it's snowing again, so I guess it was a quick 12 hour warm up.

 

[mindylee]

We seem to be the only small area in the state together ice, so I got the day off! So I finished my coyote quilt.

It may take a while for my fingertips to be back to normal but it's done.

Ooooooooh that looks so warm and beautiful!
I just traped a coyote today. My very 1st one!

Now to go look at the coop, and it's snowing again, so I guess it was a quick 12 hour warm up.

 

[annagarret]

This time of year, I'd rather have snow. Melting snow has no where to go the ground is too frozen. My coops are going to be a sloshy mess! The chickens at least can move around in the dryer area. This has been a crazy winter so far.

I agree

. I hate this rainy mess

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Quote:Originally Posted by preciouskitty I've had a hen do a funny noise like that and give chase, it means "i'm going to kill you" i think. A very angry odd sound, like a yowling cat in a way. You say she's BEEN sleeping in the nest box; my question is then how much do you cherish these other hens? I've tried lots of tricks and though she may always be on the bottom of the order my best advise is to keep the gentlest birds only. There will still be fighting, but temperament is a huge deal in birds. I keep my human friendly ones seperate from my wilder ones, and what a world of difference!!!! They are much happier in their seperate groups. The non friendly ones will eventually have to go, since i don't have room or patience for their anti-social pecking order stuff. Sucks, because one of the worst is the speckled sussex rescue; beautiful girl! But lungs and fights like a man even with the gentle roo i just got. Once you take out the worst offenders the others will scuff around a bit and a new order will be established, sometimes even the low girl gets to be queen in the end !

Quote:Originally Posted by RaintheRooster Check her feet, and everything else. Put your ear up to her back and listen to her lungs; i second whoever said that it could be sickness. Also second the idea of more food and water dishes, since the meanies can't possibly hog ALL the dishes at once. Water is huge in the winter since they can dehydrate quick.

Quote:Originally Posted by NovaAman ha ha ha ha ha! I TOLD you that some boys are just born that way!!!! I get a lot of crap for hugging on the roos, but dang how can you NOT if they are just standing on your feet and staring up like that!!!??? LOL .

Looked at my bumble foot surgery job and changed bandage today; i didn't mention it yesterday but i used red cote on that when i did it, too. Tired of these bumbles coming back, i'm not getting it all out or the antibiotic ointment just isn't strong enough....I think it is looking like it's supposed to.... I will be so excited to get them into a different coop this spring. I'm starting to wonder if there is something in the coop itself that is re-infecting??? I bleach often in the summer, even the wood perches but i am still getting the bumbles, all 4 of the girls got them back in various stages of infection. So 3 more to go. I did read in damarow's book that you can inject 1/2 a cc of penicillin into the infection, but i imagine it would only work in the earliest stages since the solid parts if there are any need to be gotten out.

This is the thread i'm using to get my info on treating https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ow-to-and-causes-of-bumblefoot-graphic-photos

 

[annagarret]

Have a question for anyone.....while out feeding and watering my birds I let them out of the coop for little. I was watching them and noticed one of my hens ate a small piece of red plastic that was on the ground

I couldn't believe it....I am concerned now that it won't digest and that it will kill her. Or.....do you think it will pass through her...

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

@preciouskitty
@ladyrsanti

I just use a mix, and sub Kahlua for the water. I used to have a homemade Kahlua recipe, I will have to look for it.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

if it wasn't stringy plastic, and was decently small she'll probably poop it out. Nothing you can do, really. But look for it if she passes it, knowing chickens another one will just re- eat it...........

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

Have a question for anyone.....while out feeding and watering my birds I let them out of the coop for little. I was watching them and noticed one of my hens ate a small piece of red plastic that was on the ground  I couldn't believe it....I am concerned now that it won't digest and that it will kill her. Or.....do you think it will pass through her...

If its small she should be fine. I butchered my last batch of meat birds and a few of them had some small plastic pieces in their crops(trash blown into the pasture) and one even had a metal bolt :/

 

[Farmerboy16]

And since I have been publicly embarrassed for forgetting it was you who does this, you can throw a water balloon at me at CS14.

Sounds good to me

In case you forgot what I look like, this is me...The good looking guy standing on the left.

Hey!

In case you forgot what I look like, this is me...The good looking guy standing on the left.

Farmerboy, better wear your raincoat!

I sure will!

Raz.... LOL! I think Farmer gets a freebie balloon lobbing in your direction just for that! (good one though )

Yup, sure will!

Daron! Do you see what RaZ did?? RaZ you are naughty. Daron and I are going to have some fun with water balloons, I see!!

Yeah, I just saw what RaZ did! Not very nice of him! I will bring a few water balloons to throw at him! Its this guy on the left! I am on the right, so don't throw any at me.

BTW, THANK YOU Chickflick for taking the time to get the date for Chickenstock!

I'll have some help with mowing the lawn soon.... This is penny, a little Jacob's ewe. I got a call last night that the owner wants to pull her from her herd because she is so tiny that she is getting pushed around too much by her larger ewes. She knew I loved Jacobs.. I have also been wanting to get wool, I'd really love to learn how to spin and yes, knit. So, hopefully, she'll keep my doe goat company when I pull the boys to another pasture. (I know they have different mineral needs).

I am thinking of getting some sheep to raise for wool and meat. Just tried lamb for the first time, and I liked it.

She is adorable! Her patterning is so different from mine. I have one runt too, who doesn't have any horns at all. She holds her own though, headbutts with the best of them. But yeah, no copper allowed for the sheep. It's toxic to them. Most feed stores and even mills will automatically bring out the goat minerals when you ask for sheep minerals. You have to check the labels carefully, in my experience. I've taught a several clerks a thing or two about sheep.

I will be asking a few questions about sheep raising.... Thinking of Icelandics and/or Suffolk or something.