Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[aart]

Hang in there, Silly...sometimes there is no resolution.
Never got the chance with Dad, did with Mom, neither were much comfort.
I still 'talk' to them, and as I age myself it brings some enlightenment.

 

[SillyChicken]

Thanks aart.

 

[FinnatCygnus]

Hi from Michigan, new here.


Although, Part of why I am here is a farming addiction...

I went to buy a GQF Sportsman size incubator and ended up with two old redwood Leahys one of which won't fit through the door.


YAY where to put them. Week before this I bought a 25ish ft x 6ft chicken egg mobile, good thing we have 20 acres.........

-Finn

 

[aart]

Hi from Michigan, new here.

Welcome aboard!

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome!
Mary

 

[gladahmae]

Decided to go in a slightly new direction with my birds....I'm in on FB group, and posted, but I'm ISO a trio of BLRW and a trio of lavender orps. Remember I'm up by Traverse City. Would prefer juvies up to 2 years old at the oldest.

 

[wcbpolish]

Anyone else have geese laying? My young Africans are gracing me with a sprinkling of eggs around their yard. 5 so far: 2 frozen, one in a contact's incubator, 2 in "limbo" (posted for sale) and I plan to start saving eggs to hatch next week

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi Finn, welcome to BYC and the Michigan thread

I hear you all downstate have lots of rain. We are having a little ice storm, temps hovering around 31 and 1/4" ice so far, although right now the roads are passable again.

Silly, so glad to hear your husband's surgery went well.
Having just gone through hospice experiences with Dad (5 short weeks) and Mom (less than a week after 1 1/2 years chemo), I would say that as sad and stressful as the time was, it gave us time with them that can not be valued. Time that if they had died suddenly we would not have had. They were both themselves, unafraid and not in pain, to the very end.

As far a winter/early spring hatching, chicks hatched in cold, inhospitable weather may survive, but compared to chicks hatched in better weather they never quite achieve the same growth, and therefore potential for production.

 

[RaZ]

I received 1 1/4 inches of rain so far today. It held off for several hours this afternoon and the sun came out. So nice to be outdoors without a coat. I managed to get the frame built for the tent garage and the snow blade put on the UTV. What poor directions. Good thing I'm an engineer and could figure out what was supposed to go where.

It took all afternoon mainly because I'm still working one-handed. But the plow is ready. That means we won't get any more snow. But I have lots of mud to push around.

 

[aart]

Got about 4" of rain in the last 48 hours or so...mostly last night and today.
Supposed to turn to freezing rain tonite.
Lotta flooding and rural roads washed out.
My swales, drains, and barriers all held up so no flooding of garage or chicken run.