Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[1muttsfan]

Maybe a D'Uccle? Well, no feathered legs so not as likely. There are a few muffed bantam breeds.

Welcome chicxnducks to to BYC and the Michigan thread. Do you have a light in your brooder? A red light can sometimes help reduce picking behavior. I would probably try to reintegrate sooner than a week.

 

[swampducks]

Good morning! Raining here which is nice when it's still only 33.4 degrees outside. I heard sleet in the middle of the night but what is left on my deck is so soggy it's turned clear and will be melted shortly. They say only in the mid 30s here today but looks like spring is finally taking hold tomorrow, with 40s and lows in the 30s instead of 20s, and onward and upward till, dare I say it, possibly 60 this weekend? We've had one of those days already but it was windy and didn't feel 'right'.

Of course this spells doom for any more maple sap but DH has had a nice haul and made some very tasty syrup for our first ever try this year, so I an't complain.

Plus I've got 17 cute little chicks that need to move into the garage brooder, snow pleas to plant, and a chicken coop that needs mucking out, so it's not like I haven't got things to do.

Are we all keeping busy here in our lovely state?

 

[chickflick]

Chickflick!! How are you? Still in Davison? My kids are doing great, and now have a 15 month old also.

It will be nice to catch up with everyone.

Wow, you added another kid! Congrats! Yes, I'm still in Davison, but planning on moving back to the Lansing area by next summer, I hope. Kids and grandkids are all there and will make the babysitting much easier. I have 9 grandkids now, eight of them GIRLS! LOL Hoping to find somewhere that is chicken friendly.

We're having our annual picnic June 20th in Lansing. Look in RaZ's signiture to find all the details.

 

[BigHope888]

Talk me out of this, please....i know that a motorcycle would scare my chickens...but IT'S SO PRETTY.

http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/mcy/4968075833.html

 

[gladahmae]

Hi all! Been away for a few months, but I have a quick question.....

For anyone that got the welsummers from townline/tractor supply last year....how is the egg color? We got ours in mid-April last year and I don't know if they've started laying yet. We got basically no eggs all winter, and the girls are finally picking back up the past couple of weeks, but the coop the 2 welsummers are in I am getting cream colored eggs, and what i would consider a normal light brown egg. i'm not expecting great color because they are hatchery stock, but I was expecting something along the lines of the color an amberlink lays at least?

 

[birdman55]

morning..so just got my svart honas from ewe crazy farm...am so happy...great guy and great stock of birds..very happy

 

[Peep-Chicken]

morning..so just got my svart honas from ewe crazy farm...am so happy...great guy and great stock of birds..very happy

Cute chicks!

 

[snowflake]

Talk me out of this, please....i know that a motorcycle would scare my chickens...but IT'S SO PRETTY.

http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/mcy/4968075833.html

could tell you about the friend that ended up in traction for a year,, or the other friend that was lucky to live, with several broken ribs, a crushed leg, broken collar bone, and I don't remember what else, neither of these accidents were their fault. But you don't want to hear that. And bikes are fun, and very economical gas wise,soooo

THEY ARE TREATED 2X4S.....AND THEN I RIPPED THE BOARD IN HALF AND PUT ON THE BOTTOM INSIDE SO THE PANELS CAN REST AND THEN PUT BIG STAPLES INTO EVERY OTHER SECTION...WORKED WELL...I USED A PDF AND DESIGNED MY OWN SETUP...AND THE NEXT ONE WILL BE JUST A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT...

I WILL BE BUILDING ANOTHER STEP BY STEP ON MY FORUM BELOW IN BLUE...BUILDING PARADISE FOR THE BIRDS....SO COME JOIN THE DAILY ADVENTURE...IT SURE HAS BEEN A LEARNING EXPERIENCE...YEPPER....ANY QUESTIONS FEEL FREE AND POST THERE.

how much is your feed bill

Birdman, yoopergirl,

One of you two should start a" hoop coup" thread, that way I can join it. I finished my first last week or so and built a new foundation for the next one today.

I hope to have the one I'm working on (2nd) and the next (3rd). Finished with residence by the end of the week.

I am making mine with pvc perlins and perlits, about 10 by 12 foot floor space for maby 18 dollars of Pac.

would like to see the pvc use, sounds interesting.

Hello! I'm in Michigan as well. I just got two day old chickens. I have a LB, SLW, AA, and two JC. My LB is pecking the eyes of the JC and I dont know what to do. She's not attacking any of the others. I have moved my two JC in with my duck brooder and now everyone is calm. Is this a bad idea or what should I do?

are the chicks being picked on younger then the others? if so you may have to put a divider of some kind between tem, best if they can see each other but not touch

welcome back to the oldies, think I saw a couple names that I haven't seen for a while

 

[bigmrg74]

Talk me out of this, please....i know that a motorcycle would scare my chickens...but IT'S SO PRETTY.

http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/mcy/4968075833.html

no, go get it. My brooder is right next to my brother's 75 corvette. thing shakes the house when he fires it up.


So I was going to have one of my bosses bring a trailer over this week so I could load it up with chicken manure out of my coop so it could go back to being a tractor again. The plan was that she was going to dump it out in a corner of the yard at her new house and let it set all summer. They're moving into their new house sometime in June. However, her wife is being anal and worrying about having that manure in the yard when they might need to move around it or something. so I guess they're not going to get any until after they move in. So tomorrow I get to load up the spreader with the chicken manure to dump it out of the field, Unless somebody else wants it on Thursday.

 

[Folly's place]

Here in the Lansing area, Tractor Supply gets chicks from Townline, and your chick is a Old English Game bantam, either brown or silver duckwing. Ask at your TSC if that's the source of your chick. Mary