Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[HollyDuckFarmer]

Maybe I need to shovel the radish bed. I don't want to. Wah. What about Leeks? Any Leek growers in the house? Not time for them to go out yet is it?

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

@Brennigan

http://www.agardenforthehouse.com/2013/03/transplanting-winter-sown-perennials-updated-bumped/

I like The Brownie Method myself.

 

[Brennigan]

Oooh, I've never seen this before! Thanks, @HollyDuckFarmer !

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I will be making the new core power protein drink. Everything in the process is automated! Even the skids are made with machine. I will be responsible for keeping them going!!! Never done this large scale; i have maintained small work equipment.... 2 weeks of training and i am determined to be good! In the future if i do well i could get promoted. The testing and screening to get in guarantees it will be competative!!!
So short answer more factory work but this time with good pay and what sounds like an interesting work team.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Some people dream of vacations, me i dream of coops, quecha fowl, and chocolate color. Mostly i am relieved to be able to get medical help for my pets and i should i find docs i can trust. I have not had good luck the last several years on that score, it is why i learned what i have...... it will be my mission to find what vets can specifically treat outside birds! I have thought about a dove aviary someday too.

Raz, are you allowed ANY kind of outside birds???

 

[NativeBeauty]

Weather appears to be on the up and up here in Battle Creek...I am ridiculously eager to begin growing my garden as well, but I must wait until my raised bed is thawed a bit more (it's presently under 2.5 feet of snow).
Egg production is wonderful for my three year old layers...I won't complain about the five today, seven tomorrow rate for a flock of thirteen (I believe my cross beak "pet" is the only non-layer at this time).
Daughters are fondly waiting for their Pekins for 4H and watching our bantam Cochins grow (have a mottled pair, a black pullet and a PQ mottled wheaten roolet?) Listening to the mottled roolet crow makes me laugh...sounds like a warbler and a rusty spring mixed together!
As for worming, I use Ivomec pour-on for mites only and I have used equine safgard paste wormer in the past for ascarids (that were expelled from a post quarantine newby, no need for a fecal). Pea sized for standards, popcorn sized for bantams and grape sized for the ducks....a follow up fecal showed no remaining ascarids. <----this was the only time I ever wormed my three year old flock and none of our market birds (as there is no literature for poultry withdrawal periods prior to butcher).

 

[NativeBeauty]

Question: does anyone use poultry nipples for their brooder/grow out pens? Do you prefer them or was it experimental? If the goal was cleaner/drier bedding, was it an effective change? How difficult was it to make the switch for the chicks? How do you elevate them over the brooder area?

I'm tired of damp wood shavings and overturned/spilt waterers (courtesy of the older bantam Cochins)

 

[jlynnet]

I think she's determined!

She's not even a year old yet. We finally have in and let her have some eggs.Hopefully she hatches something in a couple of weeks. We didn't have the hay down when my son gave her eggs, so they may have gotten chilled.

 

[uchytil]

Maybe I need to shovel the radish bed. I don't want to. Wah. What about Leeks? Any Leek growers in the house? Not time for them to go out yet is it?

Hahahahahaha! It's time to plant peas -really- under 2 feet of snow! The gardens will be a little late this year. That's just the way it is. I did leeks 2 years ago. A lot of work I thought. I got my starters on memorial Day and they did fine.

 

[uchytil]

I could search and read all kinds of tips but how about you? Egg eaters. What do you do besides removing the culprit(s) from the coop? I integrated some birds and had 3 eaters. They were removed and put with my GNH's because I only have one GNH hen. I still have an egg eater in the main I need to ID though. So, is there a way to "cure" this?