Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[1muttsfan]

Yay!! to Garden City

 

[RaZ]

Yay!! to Garden City

Counting down the hours.
More details to come. Once the deal is complete.

 

[RaZ]

Going to have to move these guys...

 

[chickflick]

Do you have cages to move them? I've been away camping for three days and there are no more details, or anything else for that matter on this site. Bet you are getting excited! Now to sell your house and your mom's.

 

[MIchickenlady]

Howdy from Mid Michigan!
Humid today....does humidity affect your chickens?

 

[RaZ]

Do you have cages to move them? I've been away camping for three days and there are no more details, or anything else for that matter on this site. Bet you are getting excited! Now to sell your house and your mom's.

I have one but a friend has a couple that I can borrow. I'll need to build a coop before I move them so that will give some time for the littles to get bigger before the move.
Mom's house is listed, just need a buyer. I'm clearing out the stuff there. Some I can use but most will be donated to charity.

 

[RaZ]

Howdy from Mid Michigan!
Humid today....does humidity affect your chickens?

Sure does. Keep lots of fresh, clean, cool water for them. Ice cubes in the waterer is one way. A shallow dish with cold water so they can stand in it. Just be careful because it will get hot in the sun. Hope you have shade for them.

 

[dyorto]

I've been finding quite a few soft shelled eggs in the poo boxes below the roost. I have 6 new layers. Is that pretty common to find?

 

[1muttsfan]

It is not unusual for young birds to lay soft-shelled eggs, sometimes it seems to take them off guard. They should get better about laying in the boxes and your egg should be more consistently shelled after the first few weeks.

 

[bigmrg74]

Had a fun weekend of trying to fix some fencing for one of our horse lots. They have busted some of the old wooden fence posts in that lot and my brother and I were both in agreement that it would look better if we replaced those posts with new wooden ones instead of driving metal posts in. anyways, Saturday we get started in on the project, and I had the bright idea to use the post hole digger on the tractor to at least drill down next to the post stumps to get them out of the ground. It's been pretty dry and the ground is hard. Figured that would at least make it a little easier to get the stumps dug out enough that we could get a chain on them to drag them out. It was even easier than that, got them to pop on out just after a little shovel work. Got a couple of posts done that morning before I had to knock it off and get cleaned up to go to work.

Sunday morning, we're back at it, got one post stump drilled out, and that seemed kinda difficult, although those holes did have a couple of rocks in them. The next post, we kept on drilling at it, but it didn't seem like it wanted to go down anymore, even with as much as I wiggled the auger around as it drilled. finally pulled the auger up and got to looking at the drill tip. worn the gorram thing down to the point that it didn't want to dig in anymore, just kinda float. So off to Adrian we go to get a new tip.

First store we went to, FFH, didn't have any tips in stock, and their augers there all had a screw tip when ours was more of a propeller type of a bit. No good, so off to TSC. They had a tip in stock, but it was a screw type, and its connection to the auger shaft was going to be different. And we thought about just getting a whole new auger shaft and all, but we really don't use it that often to really justify replacing the whole shaft when we really just need the one part, so order it online and continue with fence repair at a later date.