Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[tdhenson86]

I'm good td, how bout yourself??

Built a quail pen last year then had a bad hatch, looking for some babies to put in it this spring.

Got some new birds ordered: getting Col Wyandott, Speckled Sussex and more Dominiques in early April. Got a potbelly pig and he's tearing up the yard.

I'm glad to hear they're doing well and that you're well! Sounds like you've got your hands full. I had three potbelly pigs for one year. They learned how to open their gate, how to trick electric fences and get out, and once I went to hog panels, they would dig underneath. They're cute, but I had such a hard time keeping them contained. Good luck with yours!

 

[swampducks]

We've boiled about 250 gallons so far. Pretty sure we'll do about 500 as it's been slow this year. I'm too busy with my goats also. Babies are happening and even though I thought I was ready I'm NOT!

Last couple of days DH boiled 34 I think he said and got 3 quarts. He made me French toast for supper tonight as I a threw my back out yesterday collecting sap. Didn't know tapping trees was so dangerous! As this is our first year I'll take your word on it being slow. I know it got too cold last night and today and nothing is running right now. Good thing though, I hate leaving DH in the lurch like this but I can barely move! NEED MORE DRUGS.

 

[swampducks]

Does anyone else have dogs or puppies that LOVE to eat the chicken poop? I have 2 puppies 8 months and 4 months that will graze the yard all day and eat the chicken poop. I definitely don't want to stop letting my chickens out. So I was wondering if anyone else had this problem and if anyone had any suggestions. Thanks

My 4 and 9 year old labs love it. Drives me nuts but they're not barfing it up on the rugs and the vet didn't seem to bothered by it so.....

 

[swampducks]

After 70 years there are still things in life that leave me wondering. Like how a chicken can still walk after laying an egg like this one. The other egg is a jumbo.

I've got a Golden/Comet/Isa Brown laying wrinkly jumbos like that. I'm guessing her laying days might be winding down.

 

[Stacykins]

In May I will be traveling below the Mackinac Bridge for the first time in...three years! Well, I've gone further south in Wisconsin. But not in Michigan. I will be going to Hopkins, MI to pickup a little Nigerian Dwarf Buckling!

 

[birdman55]

hey peep...ever find those button quail
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/959958/2-free-button-quails-in-ma

 

[uchytil]

In May I will be traveling below the Mackinac Bridge for the first time in...three years! Well, I've gone further south in Wisconsin. But not in Michigan. I will be going to Hopkins, MI to pickup a little Nigerian Dwarf Buckling!

Watch out for Trolls. Adding new blood to your herd. I'll bet this new guy has a great lineage! I'm a wreck, been up every few hours checking the twins and Momma. Two days old and I think I added 2 years to myself...

 

[Peep-Chicken]

hey peep...ever find those button quail
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/959958/2-free-button-quails-in-ma

Thanks birdman, I actually sent them a message a few days ago

 

[Opa]

It's been said that if you do the same thing over and over you might be in a rut. For more than 18,000 mornings I've have done the same thing; drunk coffee while working a crossword puzzle. Years ago another NCO and I would see who could finish the puzzle in the Army Times soonest

It's a habit I continued thru the years and when newspapers went on line, about the same time as when I retired for the second time, I started working 3 puzzles each morning.

Working crossword puzzles is one of the exercises that is supposed to be a great for older folk to retain memory function. Since I can't remember what the other things were maybe I should start working 4.

Yesterday I freshened the cotton scent balls on the traps I keep set around the chicken coop with some pork grease. I always check the traps at sunrise so no animal is in them any longer than necessary, and this morning's check was nil as the last few mornings have been. However, keeping vigilance is still the best method to lessen predator risk. The next few weeks it probably the time of greatest threat. It's breeding season so the four footed creatures are roaming more than usual. Also the airborne risk is higher as migratory raptors are once again heading north.

 

[aart]

It's been said that if you do the thing over and over you might be in a rut. For more than 18,000 mornings I've have done the thing; drunk coffee while working a crossword puzzle. Years ago another NCO and I would see who could finish the puzzle in the Army Times soonest

It's a habit I continued thru the years and when newspapers went on line, about the same time as when I retired for the second time, I started working 3 puzzles each morning.

Working crossword puzzles is one of the exercises that is supposed to be a great for older folk to retain memory function. Since I can't remember what the other things were maybe I should start working 4.

Yesterday I freshened the cotton scent balls on the traps I keep set around the chicken coop with some pork grease. I always check the traps at sunrise so no animal is in them any longer than necessary, and this morning's check was nil as the last few mornings have been. However, keeping vigilance is still the best method to lessen predator risk. The next few weeks it probably the time of greatest threat. It's breeding season so the four footed creatures are roaming more than usual. Also the airborne risk is higher as migratory raptors are once again heading north.

Ehhh...good habits are good, ruttish or not.

Hey @Opa ...do you still have Wellies? Someone in the FB Welsummer group is looking for some in Michigan.

How's the arm???