Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[LyonFuzz]

Is anyone going to buy/sell at the Imlay City swap April 30th? Just wondering if it's worth the trip for me. I appreciate any input

 

[mindylee]

Is anyone going to buy/sell at the Imlay City swap April 30th?   Just wondering if it's worth the trip for me.  I appreciate any input

That place will he packed!
Make sure you get there before 9am cause all the good stuff is gone by then!

 

[taprock]

I'd love some ducklings this season but it only will happen if one of the girls go broody. They both had started nests and had a large number of eggs when the past storm buried them under more than a foot of snow. Upset momma duckies! So they are starting over. Last year they were broody all spring and summer but we didn't have a male.

We still aren't back to bare ground yet but the rain last night helped.

 

[Candy442]

22 set, 2 clears...some too dark to see into well, most looked good on day 14 so will put the 20 into lockdown.
Have separation baskets, for 2 different crosses, to try for the first time.
Got the brooder setup yesterday and plan to move them to coop before first week is out(brooding outside is new to me-am looking forward to it).
May do another hatch in a couple weeks, if the CL and BCM hatching egg deals come thru..and build a hoop coop to grow them out in.

How many do you have in there?

We locked down 18. One hatched on day 21 and most of the rest hatched between 2pm day 21 and yesterday by 9 pm. I think we have three left that are still working their way out. Iamfivewire is keeping watch on the last ones, but the ones that hatched Saturday will be coming out today and we will have to put bands on them

for yours !

 

[aart]

Quote: Gratz!
Thanks!
Hoping for tomorrow...or next day.
Only had 19 locked down.

 

[snowflake]

The problem with cage-free, free-roaming chickens is sometimes you have to go on an egg hunt.
Today I found three eggs in a wheel barrow, they were still warm.
But the crazy find was one egg on the surface of a glass topped patio table. I just moved that table out to wash it down and before I got to it someone laid an egg on it.

You got some crazy chickens. mine lay in the box or in the garden under bushes. fencing off the garden seems to help persuade them to go back to the nest boxs

I found that using puppy pads below a thin layer of bedding worked best - just rolled it up each day and replaced it. Never again, though.

great idea on the puppy pads, wish I had thought of that back when I had brooder boxes. now just let the momma do it

 

[Folly's place]

One of my Wyandotte hens is broody, so she's getting ten eggs starting tonight. They will be mixes, white Chantecler and maybe BC Marans rooster over Chanty, SS, and Wyandotte hens.

Mary

 

[Folly's place]

Earliest crocus ever, March 19th! Mary

 

[LyonFuzz]

So I can sleep in.....I was planning on getting there close to 0600 If I'm making the trip, I want first dibs!

 

[uchytil]

I now understand why people complain about how messy ducks are. Since we got the second batch of 3 the mess has increase exponentially. Notice the spatter all over the wall behind them.

Yeah that's nothing. Ducks are the best though IMHO. I would rather have hundreds of ducks than 10 chickens. But, my chicken math is terrible and somehow we always seem to have about 60 around. Duck eggs are sooo good so I sell most chicken eggs and horde the duck eggs. There are a few clients who want the duck eggs at double the price of the chooks. That little rouen is cute, ha ha!