Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Momma K]

Well another batch of tomatoes are in the oven cooking down and then it looks like I might get a break for canning for a few days.  The plants are still loaded but it looks like it will be 3 or 4 days before anymore are ripe.  Granny just showed me an ad in the local newspaper advertising tomatoes for $20 per bushel and $24 for romas.  I guess I raised red gold.

 

That's about the going rate, I buy them at the farm market for $18

 

[Stacykins]

Not chicken related, but I just started my first blog! Devoted to my Nigerian Dwarf goats, my Mini Yoopers, eh! Link is in my signature

 

[Brethren49619]

Ok, going to get a little pic heavy here, but will try to be gentle.

I need your opinions and experience. Here are my Buff Orps. They are 18 weeks. Any guesses as to gender and how much longer to POL?

Least developed, pullet I think




Pullet?




Pullet?



Roo (though no crow yet) Behavior says it all.


I'm guessing within 2 weeks for the 2 more advanced pullets? What do you think??

 

[RaZ]

My BOs started around 26-28 weeks.


Fenton just became chicken-friendly.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2012/09/fenton_joins_few_other_cities.html

 

[Brethren49619]

Black Austrolorps, 18 weeks. Same thing - Time to POL and gender guesses please.

Roo?




Pullet?




Pullet?



Up in the air on this one...

 

[Brethren49619]

My BOs started around 26-28 weeks.


Fenton just became chicken-friendly.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2012/09/fenton_joins_few_other_cities.html

Did they look like this around 24-26 weeks then? Just trying to guess how much longer I am going to be waiting for eggs.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Ok, going to get a little pic heavy here, but will try to be gentle.

I need your opinions and experience. Here are my Buff Orps. They are 18 weeks. Any guesses as to gender and how much longer to POL?

Least developed, pullet I think
pullet



Pullet? looks kind of like a cockerel




Pullet? ??



Roo (though no crow yet) Behavior says it all. roo


I'm guessing within 2 weeks for the 2 more advanced pullets? What do you think?? I agree

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Black Austrolorps, 18 weeks. Same thing - Time to POL and gender guesses please.

Roo? I think pullet




Pullet? pullet




Pullet? those neck feathers make me want to say cockerel



Up in the air on this one... can't see the neck feathers on this one but the head makes me say pullet

 

[NovaAman]

Roger is gone... I can't find him. I can not find a feather trail, no body, absolutely nothing. I searched my yard, the neighbors on both sides and down to Bill's and nothing. Just nothing... He's just gone... I am so devastated... I know he's just a chicken, but he was a darn good chicken... What would take off with a chicken and not leave a trace? I even went searching in the woods down the animal trails and nothing... He was there this morning when I let everyone out and went to work, but not when I got home. I hope that he didn't get stolen... He'd be easy to steal, but not much of a meal...

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Nova, I am so sorry