Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[mindylee]

I have Netherland dwarf bunnies here!
Super easy to take care of and love on.

Have 7 adults and 8 babies from 2 diff litters.

Everything is mini here... Bunnies chickens and horses! Lol

 

[Maah]

Oh you guys are killing me!

 

[Candy442]

.

That is adorable!

 

[mindylee]

Thanks
Her name is Boo and she 3.5yrs old and weighs 1.11lbs. And a momma currently.

I love her as she's so tiny and cute!

 

[Maah]

Mindy, how does she do in the winters being so small?

 

[mindylee]

She dose good. I have a nice big hutch with 4 compartments with built in nest boxes. My other hutch has cat litter pans with tops for nest boxes and all live in my barn. All are litter trained and have fresh food and water and lil balls with bells and salt licks and chewy sticks. Get snacks and spoiled rotten. Fresh cut hay several times a week.
No water bottles just bowls, easier in winter. All are snug as a bug with plenty of straw in box's to keep warm and all grow thick winter coats. She is my smallest and my biggest is 3.1lbs.

 

[preciouskitty]

try the fund generator you used before, every little bit helps

@RaZ
Count me in for a day's pay for the "work" program...maybe for a teeny jar of honey someday?

@mandalin
BEEEEAAAUUUUTEEEEFULLL first egg! So exciting e


The bunnies are SO cute...and, yeah, the DO taste good (had my first taste last year).

So. Last nite interesting. Girls kinda wanted to go in early, start getting them in run, see raccoon next door (this is 6pm, daylight), as I'm getting them in, it starts pouring, I get soaked. Do my count, 1 girl missing. See her under deck, can't even coerce her w/scratch. She moves to front stone patio & I can tell something isn't right. Look at vent & go, uh oh. Being her in. Think, gee, I've never had to "help" a girl. Well, long story short, she was able to lay it herself, soft shell, but back to normal after. Took her to coop & said raccoon is now in MY yard at wood line. Took care of THAT sort of business myself for the first time (usually DH deals with that kind of stuff).

THEN, I have a squirrel that thinks he is a chicken. He has decided to share in scratch treats, right along with the girls. They don't seem to care in the least. I went right up,to him & told him (her?) he wasn't a chicken, but just looked at me & kept scratching away in the grass with the girls & rooster (I was within a foot of it).

Finally, only got 2'hours sleep last night & don't feel well
Not much gonna get done that needs getting done here tonight except the necessities...

 

[flufssilkies]

Any one going to the Michigan livestock expo?

 

[Candy442]

Thanks
Her name is Boo and she 3.5yrs old and weighs 1.11lbs. And a momma currently.

I love her as she's so tiny and cute!

I have never seen ears that short or small..just so cute!

Mandalin, congrats on the first egg. That is always some fun to celebrate.

Kat,
I do not envy you with those "interesting" nights. We had the third loose pet dog attack on our flock last Weds. Gandalf, our Iowa rooster took on the 80 lb dog and is very badly mauled (my avatar pic of him taken a few days before). DH and I were both at work when this happened.
The dog was chased off by our neighbor but it came back twice. Two dead pullets, one missing pullet and my Silver Iowa rooster found with bad wounds. He is still trying to survive...we are helping the best we can but expect the worst. The neighbor said he lured the dog away from the hens, got away twice from the dogs jaws, but the last time the neighbor hit the dog with the shovel to get him off Gandalf. That was the first time the neighbor saw that dog in our yard and Gandalf ran away. When I arrived home about an hour later, I went to find Gandalf and he was in a dark corner of under our deck alive, but lost a lot of skin and two puncture wounds around his left thigh.

We have seen a raccoon around here but not that early. It comes to eat the outdoor cat food crumbs.

Since the dog attack, the flock can only go out when we get home from work and we supervise with gun in hand. Another neighbor saw the dog and snapped a photo of it. No one has ever seen this dog. It has a collar, but looks like it has been wandering a while.

DH and I have been busy because of that and other mishaps that were not our fault. When it rains as they say!

 

[Candy442]

Any one going to the Michigan livestock expo?

We will not since it doesn't have chickens. We use up our quota of livestock numbers for chickens only in our area although we would be able to have goats if not so many chickens