Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[boris159]

Tim Henson, I am just glad the BO girls found such a good home. Now I am getting the "I told you so--too many chickens!" mantra only once a day. Two weeks ago I had to take 11 dozen to a food pantry in Hastings, and 6 more last week. The warm fuzzy/good feeling of donating is nice, but doesn't buy feed. My roadside sign "BROWN EGGS 1.50/DOZ is not bringing in the customers. It was a 'chicken math' thing last March at the feed store.
Gladahmae, I have used the wildlife netting on the upper part of my garden fence for years as a deer guard, but only vertically. stretched snug, it will shed snow.
Ron Estrada, may I add a voice to the chorus of NO fall chicks in the basement? I did it for a week last March, the smell----worse than wet feathers. Is there an update on the Planning commission? A problem might arise later if they say no chickens, and then find you got some anyway.
Last year my 6 GLW wouldn't touch sunflower seeds or heads. This year I learned to feed sunflowers before the seed hulls get hard, as today they ate the hulls and all. Tomorrow I will hang some in the coop!

 

[tdhenson86]

Tim Henson, I am just glad the BO girls found such a good home. Now I am getting the "I told you so--too many chickens!" mantra only once a day. Two weeks ago I had to take 11 dozen to a food pantry in Hastings, and 6 more last week. The warm fuzzy/good feeling of donating is nice, but doesn't buy feed. My roadside sign "BROWN EGGS 1.50/DOZ is not bringing in the customers. It was a 'chicken math' thing last March at the feed store.
Gladahmae, I have used the wildlife netting on the upper part of my garden fence for years as a deer guard, but only vertically. stretched snug, it will shed snow.
Ron Estrada, may I add a voice to the chorus of NO fall chicks in the basement? I did it for a week last March, the smell----worse than wet feathers. Is there an update on the Planning commission? A problem might arise later if they say no chickens, and then find you got some anyway.
Last year my 6 GLW wouldn't touch sunflower seeds or heads. This year I learned to feed sunflowers before the seed hulls get hard, as today they ate the hulls and all. Tomorrow I will hang some in the coop!

I'm glad there is some more peace in the Carpenter house.

They are beauties to say the least!!!

 

[NovaAman]

Boy they are lovely. I am regretting not having room! I do not have a single BO... Maybe next year... Probably not. I have a project for next year. I have 2 pair of SF to start breeding... I know... I probably will put both girls with one boy, and leave the other boy to the rest of the mutts. LOL, until I need some fresh blood.

 

[Amy PT]

Aw, the Opringtons are beautiful. When I showed my husband, he said, "let's get orpington chicks in the spring." I reminded him that we only have the space for 1 full size or 2 bantam.
And then I discovered that there are bantam orpingtons! What?! Does anyone here have them?

 

[tdhenson86]

I love Buff Orpingtons!!! If you want bantams, check on the paypal hatching eggs swap thread. There have been some BBS bantam orps on there. Not sure of quality. If you want some good quality ones, try HallFamilyFarm on here. They have some very nice birds.

 

[Trefoil]

Don't worry all, I plan on keeping my birds in a run. All the dogs in my neighborhood are kept inside invisible fence, as is mine. Now if I can just find the little electric collars to fit my chickens...

OMG, I can totally picture it.

 

[SillyChicken]

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[gladahmae]

We have used the wildlife netting with success over the top of the run, here in Rockford MI. The trick is, you need to staple it in place over the top of your run so it is fairly snug, and doesn't droop. The first time we put it on we left it really loose and snow did it in the first winter. How big is your run area?

Interesting. Hmmmm. Maybe we will try it! Our run is like this: there are 2 blocks on either side that are approx 14x20, and then a strip across the front of the coop that is about 6x12. So our coop is like a peninsula, with a big run the goes around 3 sides. I was looking at it last night and it's bigger than I thought, so i'm not sure how well it'll work.

 

[taprock]

Morning. Cold. Headed for coffee after I free the chickens.

 

[Herducks]

So I found out I am very poor planner. I did not realise until lockdown time I have Indian runner ducks and seramas due to hatch at the same time. That is a poor mix in the hatcher!!