Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Folly's place]

Glad your roofing project is done!
Last summer we had the barn, chicken coop, and workshop reshingled. Wonderful! They did a nice cleanup, and ran over the ground with a magnet for nails. BUT I then went back over the ground around all the buildings at least three more times, and got nails every time! I don't know what you can do until the snow melts, but be careful out there.
ALERT!!! Today I visited the TSC in Williamston, and they plan to have chicks in mid February! It will be best if I limit visits there after that...
Mary

 

[1muttsfan]

I'm not even tempted. Placed a Sand Hill order in October, and want to breed my Arkansas Blues. No feed store chicks this year, cute as they are. I really wish for meat birds, but that is not likely to happen this year.

Hope Raz is faring well.

 

[JackieandChicks]

Just in case...this handsome full size Frizzle boy , just over a year old and finally mature, needs a new home

 

[SillyChicken]

If it is curved metal pipe, you generally can't bend it back, it will be more apt to kink. However a photo would help.

hope everyone is doing well.

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi Silly

 

[TreeTree411]

Hello fellow Michiganders. Just checking in, my flock is doing well, even in the extreme cold. How is everyone else doing?

 

[bigmrg74]

Glad your roofing project is done!
Last summer we had the barn, chicken coop, and workshop reshingled. Wonderful! They did a nice cleanup, and ran over the ground with a magnet for nails. BUT I then went back over the ground around all the buildings at least three more times, and got nails every time! I don't know what you can do until the snow melts, but be careful out there.
ALERT!!! Today I visited the TSC in Williamston, and they plan to have chicks in mid February! It will be best if I limit visits there after that...
Mary

Yeah, thankfully they didn't have to do a strip of the roof, just a trim around some of the edges and a little bit more work in the spots where the roof was really rotten at. There's a pretty good stretch of the barn along the back of the barn on the north side that will just have to wait until we get a good thaw until I'm going to bother with cleaning that up. too much snow there. And thankfully its not a spot where we would need to bring horses through.

 

[Folly's place]

We're doing fine here. I WANT SPRING!!! The snow is beautiful, and the chickens aren't interested in playing in it. The cabin fever isn't bad, but still...
Mary

 

[chickflick]

So quiet here. What cha all doing? Anyone hear from RaZ? Starting to get worried about him. Wish things would turn around for him.
Well, hope you all are doing well.

 

[uchytil]

Raz is not loving life at the moment but that's his story. Maybe he'll pop in. I'll let him know everyone is worried! The heavy wet snow has played havoc to a few tarp covered structures. Some salvageable and some not so much. Once the cattle panels are bent they won't ever be the same. The trick was to use poly plastic to allow the snow to slide off or keep up on manually removing.