A "prepper" is someone who is becoming more self-sufficient to protect his or her family from disaster--economic downturn, natural disaster, zombie apocalypse, the usual stuff. We used to call it common sense, our grandparents understood it. Anyway, if you're into gardening, canning, chickens, and everything else that a homesteader would do, you'd be considered a prepper.
My dad was a "prepper" big time. We have machetes, toilets and the chems and bags to go in them, ration packs, cases of small bottled propane and the stove/heater attachment. Got candles, eternal, water additives for safe water, tarps, hand crank radios... Well, you get the picture.
Hello everyone it sure was a beautiful day today. Anyone raise Polish chickens I have 6 that are 3 months old they all stick together and run around like they are crazy do they ever settle down?
I fed the other chickens some scraps of squash that I baked it is funny to see them eat then rub theirt beaks on the ground like they were wiping their faces.
Mine are 21 weeks tomorrow. I have been told at any time it should start. Once they look mature, they should act mature (lay eggs). I have heard squatting at your feet or around the roo, scratching around in the nesting boxes. I have read when their abdomen turns soft and when three fingers fit between their legs.
Hello everyone it sure was a beautiful day today. Anyone raise Polish chickens I have 6 that are 3 months old they all stick together and run around like they are crazy do they ever settle down?
I fed the other chickens some scraps of squash that I baked it is funny to see them eat then rub theirt beaks on the ground like they were wiping their faces.
They will be like that until the girls start to lay and then they get lest scared. I have 3 that were chicks this year and crazy compared to my older ones. Now they are like puppies wanting to be held.
squatting, egg song, interest in the nest box, red wattles and comb. When I see any of that I put them in the nest box so they are familiar with it.
My roo I said I had to get rid of now really has to go. He had been acting aggressive to me but hadn't touched me. Yesterday I was putting out feed and he got me from behind. Poor dumb bird couldn't help himself and didn't know he was sealing his own fate.
I got all my baking done yesterday so today before the bow shoot I have only to clean the hall and bathroom and print out score cards. Looks like a beautiful day ahead. Actually the next week looks wonderful. Looks warm enough and dry enough to do a good coop cleaning before the fall settles in.
I was reading the OLD "Michigan" thread and there are thousands of posts so I skipped to the end, and well nobody is introducing themselves anymore and making friends, cuz they are already old friends by now!
I shall barge in anyway.
I am in northern MI, smack dab between Burt and Mullett Lakes. I got four girls new this spring, two have begun laying, still waiting with fingers X'd that the other two won't end up needing their names changed if you know what I mean. Ethyl, Grace, Jaunita, and Lucy are Easter Eggers (2), Golden-laced Wyandotte, and ISA Brown, respectively.
Here is a little pic of them ignoring me:
I also have a lot of pigeons, have been keeping them for years but always wanted chickens. So far I am enjoying them immensely, even if they seem to find me a little alarming. I find a lot of good info here on BYC and hope to make some chicken-addled friends here.
Glad there is a Michiganders thread! HI to everybody!
I have no idea where those lakes are. I am in northern MI as well but I'm afraid if I said I was between Hubbard and Jewell Lakes no one would know where that was! So, I'll say I'm halfway between Alpena and Oscoda.
