Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Farmerboy16]

Welcome to all newbies!

Liked all the pictures!

Raz- Thanks for keeping us informed on the fellow farmer's fights.

So I buy an incubator - and now I have a broody hen!  I want to let her have a few eggs, too, but I think it's going to be too cold.  And she's hogging the nesting box - but that didn't seem to deter the other girls as she had 6 eggs under her!  What to do!

I have 2 broody silkies sitting on eggs now.

 

[Brennigan]

I will - I just got 5 and am very sure they are pullets.  I want to grow them out a few weeks to be sure.  

Where are you - if you go to FF in Holland, they have all females and 3 males - someone feather sexed them.  Of course, that is still a 90%...


I am in  Zeeland....

I am confused at who is addressing whom! Was this about the welsummer? I'd just like one. I am in Holland. : )

 

[fuzzybutt love]

So I buy an incubator - and now I have a broody hen!  I want to let her have a few eggs, too, but I think it's going to be too cold.  And she's hogging the nesting box - but that didn't seem to deter the other girls as she had 6 eggs under her!  What to do!

Put the eggs you really need hatched in the bator and let her have some you could live without; date those. She'll collect more but anything that hatches more than a day apart will likely get left to die in the shell. Take the new eggs laid by the others away. If her eggs turn out to be duds (candle at a week) slip the bator ones under her at lockdown. Her temp and humidity are better than any bator. if she turns out to be a broody quitter no biggie this way.

 

[JackieandChicks]

I am confused at who is addressing whom! Was this about the welsummer? I'd just like one. I am in Holland. : )

Yes, one welsummer Wow, is there another who wants one too? I a confused. If I have commitments, I can get another from FF and grow it out to be sure....

 

[JackieandChicks]

So it seems that I have two people interested - Brennigan and Candy442? I can get another to grow out if I have a commitment...

 

[Candy442]

I am confused at who is addressing whom! Was this about the welsummer? I'd just like one. I am in Holland. : )

LOL Brennigan,

I am so sorry, you are right! I made a wrong assumption there

Sorry Jackie, I was looking for Black and/or Blue Copper Marans. We thought about Welsummers, but decided on the Maran's for our flock. We only would add two or three at the most.

 

[JackieandChicks]

Put the eggs you really need hatched in the bator and let her have some you could live without; date those. She'll collect more but anything that hatches more than a day apart will likely get left to die in the shell. Take the new eggs laid by the others away. If her eggs turn out to be duds (candle at a week) slip the bator ones under her at lockdown. Her temp and humidity are better than any bator.

if she turns out to be a broody quitter no biggie this way.

Now that's interesting LOL! I might just do that

 

[gladahmae]

Well the weather sure sucks today! VERY gusty winds here, and of course, a snow day. I think I may take advantage of this to print/plot my FINAL garden plan of the year. I got everything I need to wintersowing yesterday, but forgot the duct tape to hold the milkjugs shut. I may just get a bunch put together and have DH pick up the tape on his way home from work (NOT taking 3 kids to the store for tape!).

I know i have dill, poppies, hardy hibiscus, and coneflower seeds in my drawer......and I have an ebay watch-list FULL of other things to get once DH gets his paycheck deposited. I grabbed some hollyhocks yesterday, and my son just HAD to have watermelon seeds. We have NEVER had success with those, but we will continue to try i guess.


Does anyone have a favorite pickling cuke variety?

 

[uchytil]

Well the weather sure sucks today! VERY gusty winds here, and of course, a snow day. I think I may take advantage of this to print/plot my FINAL garden plan of the year. I got everything I need to wintersowing yesterday, but forgot the duct tape to hold the milkjugs shut. I may just get a bunch put together and have DH pick up the tape on his way home from work (NOT taking 3 kids to the store for tape!).

I know i have dill, poppies, hardy hibiscus, and coneflower seeds in my drawer......and I have an ebay watch-list FULL of other things to get once DH gets his paycheck deposited. I grabbed some hollyhocks yesterday, and my son just HAD to have watermelon seeds. We have NEVER had success with those, but we will continue to try i guess.


Does anyone have a favorite pickling cuke variety?

That's the spirit! Pretty soon everything will come full steam - meat chicks, seedlings, mucking out goat pens, spreading manure, cleaning the windblown pasture, and trimming back some bushes and trees. My wife makes the pickles but I make the pickled banana peppers, sliced and whole!

 

[RaZ]

A strange day here. The sun is out and it is snowing. Strong winds from the south make it feel warmer than the 40 degrees. Then 3 minutes later, it all changes to very dark clouds and a cold wind. At least the snow is melting at a slow pace. There is still a lot on the ground
What a difference it made sending Calvin to camp. I didn't realize just how intimidated the canaries were. They are filling out and have full crops much more so than when Cal was with them. And I'm getting eggs. One of the BO's laid her first today. It was a rubber egg and got partially eaten before I got to it. Funny how laying an egg seems to be an acquired skill.