Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Wrightsx4]

Nice Roos Are you going to be wanting some hens to go with those? I have a small flock of Faverolles i'm working on and hope to have chicks in the spring check out my sight I have alot of pictures of my boys and girls ( fancyfavie.webs.com )

Where are you in Michigan? I would love to find a local source of SF hatching eggs in the spring or summer. I checked out your web and your birds are very pretty!

 

[Farmerboy16]

Congrats Kimmie of the safe and healthy arrival of your grandson!

 

[Farmerboy16]

I am thinking of starting a raw milk share, as I am getting a gallon of milk a day from Bella, and I will be weaning her calf tonight, will be getting more milk as her calf will not be able to nurse. The calf is 5 months old anyway. And I might have a chance to buy a pure Guernsey heifer! The heifer might have her first calf within 3 to 4 months! So more milk on the way! Plus since Bella is half Angus, she will not produce milk as long as a pure dairy cow can. She can give a lot, but not as long. So, to me that is a great timing that a friend and I are looking around for a pure Guernsey, and he had found this farm that have 2 pure and bred Guernsey heifers for sale. One for each of us, just hoping that things will work out.

Is anyone close by interested in some raw milk?

Here is some links to raw milk-

http://nourishedkitchen.com/10-reasons-drink-raw-milk/

Guernsey milk-

http://a2guernseymilk.com/cm/the-news/48-information-about-guernsey-milk.html

Devil in the milk-

http://nourishedkitchen.com/devil-in-the-milk/?nucrss=1


Or instead of buying cow share, you can donate for Bella's upkeep and get milk in return.

 

[Fancy Favie]

Where are you in Michigan? I would love to find a local source of SF hatching eggs in the spring or summer. I checked out your web and your birds are very pretty!

Yes I am in Michigan and Thank you for the compliment I am strictly doing LF Salmon Faverolles and from the looks of it will be the only breeder of LF in Michigan so I am working real hard on keeping good stock I am planning on getting about 30 more to ad to my flock come spring time from breeders around the U.S so hopefully I will have a really nice flock within the next few years I do have a few of my own right now that i hatched out this year and there not looking to bad keeping my fingers crossed. So hopefully us Michiganders can have ourselves some really nice flocks of LF Salmon Faverolles I will keep you posted,

Thanks, Dana

 

[Farmerboy16]

Bella

And her 5 months old calf.
Maybelle

The pictures were taken a few weeks ago, the trees are just anout bare now, but its still them. lol

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I thought I would share the Araucanas in my flock. They're my group for the 2013 breeding season. Hopefully I can get reliable fertility, then maybe I can offer some hatching eggs.

Unknown colored. "Pullet" but probably a cockerel.
I have one that may end up like this, puzzling over it too! I have been wondering if it is the " dillute" I have been hearing about, they are wanted for the lemon color breeding projects! (That and cream, but cream can't get rid of red apparently so although the silver based dillute would be paler seems to me like it would be more reliable in the beginning??? but i'm a total newb to genetics)






Pullet # 4. Blue-ish, tufted, rumpless. More updated picture.
I like her! She looks like her eyes are smiling, is she friendly?



My splash rooster! Love him. Rumpless and tufted.


He hasn't started his molt yet, but I bet it will take care of some of the sun induced yellowing.
Do you have any front pics from him in the coop? I am still trying to decide whether my roo was silver with gold leakage, or splash?

That's so wild and cute!

Or instead of buying cow share, you can donate for Bella's upkeep and get milk in return.

PM me the details (cost, gallon per week?) I may be interested. I couldn't drink milk at all for years, even yogurt / cheese! Then i took a certain probiotic that made me able. When i researched why, i found that milk in stores lacks the necessary things to help digestion, and most people aren't getting anything out of it! So that is why they have to add the vitamins. I have also wondered about making my own cream and cheese, butter? I've heard that it is far superior to boughten as well!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

My mystery pale one, with a cucoo-ish looking one. I'm pretty sure the pale one here
is a boy too, since it's picking chest bumping fights!





Updated pic of the cucoo-ish one; Caramel with blue and dark charcoal bars, very pale butterscotch in the front !
Probably a roo



Updated pic on the whole group



Coop news- birds sound better. Tiny Sharma still sounds faintly raspy and does a squeak-cough if she overexerts, but her color is good and she's been in high energy and spirits again! Eating and pooping away. lol. (This was the porcelain booted hen that was acting off) (Not the d'uccles)
My auction hen is regaining her feathers finally! I was worried she'd be bald through the winter, thankfully she is getting pins all over and has stopped laying.
I took her saddle off so it didn't aggrevate the pins! I am curious to know what her back feathers are supposed to look like, and if she will have a beard or be clean-faced? Poor girl. I bet she is a spitfire when she gets pretty! lol. I keep telling her she's beautiful but from the look i get when i say it she clearly does not believe it! ha ha ha. I can't believe how many people will allow their birds to get balded? I saddle them during the winter and during the early spring breeding season so they don't get damaged when they are in the pens.

 

[NovaAman]

Fancy, yes, I am still going to be wanting girls. I can not get any more from Randy, he's only got a few, and I am just going to ASSUME they are related birds. The two lovely girls I have now, I am going to pen with these two. One to each, and a few of the other girls who are fav crosses... They are sister...

SO, breeding question, can I breed cousins? Or Uncle to neice?

Thanks for saying my boys are nice looking. I love them. And they are so timid! They will tolerate me picking them up as they come out of the coop, but not in the yard during the day. They've not gotten to where they will eat out of my hand, but they do come when called. So, for me that is good. I don't want lap roosters anyway. Lap hens, sure, but not lap roosters.

 

[Herducks]

Wish i was closer, i would love to get milk.

 

[Fancy Favie]

Fancy, yes, I am still going to be wanting girls. I can not get any more from Randy, he's only got a few, and I am just going to ASSUME they are related birds. The two lovely girls I have now, I am going to pen with these two. One to each, and a few of the other girls who are fav crosses... They are sister...

SO, breeding question, can I breed cousins? Or Uncle to neice?

Thanks for saying my boys are nice looking. I love them. And they are so timid! They will tolerate me picking them up as they come out of the coop, but not in the yard during the day. They've not gotten to where they will eat out of my hand, but they do come when called. So, for me that is good. I don't want lap roosters anyway. Lap hens, sure, but not lap roosters.

I dont see why you couldn't breed them I am by all means no professional YET !!! But I would definately be interested in doing some swaps of purebred chicks from you when you get some I have about 15 hens and 2 roos so they should get me started pretty good just trying to figure when would be a good time to start hatching I have a incubator and a brooder so i guess if my hens continue to lay I might just get an early start, We will have to stay in touch on our breeding programs Thanks.....