Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[chickwhispers]

Got my new little silkies ... Just in time for the storm!

 

[chickwhispers]

Sorry for your loss of your duckling BattleFires.
And your loss of your Bees Stacykins.

Bees are so important! I hope you can get them replaced easily.
Opa, your granddaughter's picture is adorable!

 

[mindylee]

Got my new little silkies ... Just in time for the storm!

Awwwwwww! Cute! Im hopefully gonna get silkies too. Somehow.

 

[chickflick]

Silkies are so adorable!!

 

[chickwhispers]

Thanks! My old (as in former) neighbor raises them. Started those when I started with my egg layers. Great minds think alike! Anyway She gave me the neighbor deal! Love my neighbors!

 

[Amy PT]

they lost her on the operating table. Bawling. I'm going to do an emergency hatch. It was a wad of straw;

Oh fuzzy, I'm so sorry.

Anyone know where to get a rabbit nest box? I may just make one. Have to go see what kind of lumber I have.

I'm no where near a pro, but I've had a few pet rabbits who were happy enough to give birth in a heavy duty shoe box. Good luck!

 

[1muttsfan]

I ordered bees from a place in Maine called Gold Star honeybees, for delivery in mid-may. Planning on building a top bar hive - you know Raz they look a lot like a big sawhorse, very camoflage in nature

Consider the aroma of manure spread on fields to be the smell of your food growing. Of course moving to the city protects you from objectionable farm odors, dust and noise.

 

[chickflick]

Oh, I got one of those! (Shoebox). And since I don't plan on breeding that will be perfect! Thanks so much

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

@ladyrsanti
You know, now that you mention it, I do recall you stating that the dairy farmer has been doing this all winter. I guess we are fortunate that the farmer here doesn't do this more than once or twice before planting. As it is somewhat warm, I have the windows cracked & heat off to get some fresh air in the house. Luckily the winds are pretty much calm, but I have noted while outside with the VERY happy free ranging chickens, I do get quite a whiff of the manure!

It depends on how many cattle are kept and whether they are in barns or open yards. We had to haul SO many loads of snow out of the open cattle yard this winter. It must have took all day with 2 spreaders to clear snow from the big yard at our main farm. The barns get cleaned a couple times a month though, a lot of broke down straw in that stuff. So it could be poop/snow mix not 100% poo. Anyway, most places don't store it in comp piles so it gets spread whenever the barn gets cleaned. I'd much rather have clean healthy cattle than nasty ones. I honestly don't smell it anymore unless its the hog barn getting pumped out, then its...

 

[fuzzybutt love]

D The vet i went to is a gentle man. I saw him work with some coketiels af my neighbor's when i was a teen. I didn't know where his practice had moved. I don't understand why he could not hear the fluid in her lungs. My flock carries mycoplasma, it very well could have been that. There was no easy answer. I could have treated her myself, i have treatedsour crop. I could have lost her to complications, i lost the second hen i treated. She could have had pneumonia, and slipped away, the bumblefoot could have killed her...

I have wracked my knowledge and there was no easy way. I did not want to take chances with her; i suffer greatly with her loss but i can not be angry with him. I was so happy to finally get her to a real dr; i don't always have confidence. It was a God awful shock to the gut when i got the call. Never saw it coming. My only condolance is that she was happy the last days of her life and got to get clean in a dirt bath, got to play in my straw piles as i cleaned. She was happy at the vets as i had told her we were there to get that out and make her better. I fussed with her feathers and she groomed. I walked back with the girl and fixed her cage, the girl put her in and i did not hear any fussing. It was not her first car ride, i slipped her into town the hottest nights of summer so she could share the air conditioning. I held her in my bed, i asked hercmany times to stay but a night now and then was all she wanted before demanding vocally to be back with her family. Her last moments were under anethtisia, i know she felt no pain. Just me. I wish with all my heart she would have let me spare her this winter. She must have known somehow her days were numbered because she waited to lay until i arrived each day this last month; exactly like her mother did before the heat stroke. I