Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[1muttsfan]

I'm fascinated and hope you share some pics and/or the process and results.

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[wcbpolish]

I let them know. He shouldn't have been adopted out. Any feral is going to be a crap shoot. Unfortunately.

Our barn cat had kittens in the past week or so. 3 that I see. Little, eyes closed. They'll probably end up too wild to handle. If you anyone wants one, I'd give them away happily when they are big enough (if I can even find them then!)

poor Bender...Sorry Raz.

Bugs arrived yesterday. Boy, you wouldn't think that a bug could just stank so bad on their own like these guys do. I can't imagine how a few 50K of them would smell.

Please post pics of the final product I gave the prof some Polish chicken skulls to clean for me awhile ago. I still have one polish and a guinea skull. Great to show the kids at school and have them try to figure out what animal they are from

 

[gladahmae]

I love when things work out. I was supposed to get chicks shipped from Meyer next Monday, and I've been checking the temperatures and if it *says* Tuesday's low will be 22, that means more like 15 for us. I've been [obsessively] checking their website to see if more availability would open up for the BLRWs, and don't ya just know that a BUNCH are now available for the April 23rd shipping date. Used the very handy chat feature on the website and got my order adjusted to the later date AND was able to add 2 more pullets. This should also help solve my chick-shuffle connundrum as I'll feel much better about putting my current basement chicks out with the current hover brooder chicks as 1 month olds with 2 month old,s rather than 2 weeks olds with 5 weeks olds.

Also, I was digging through my inbox today and realized that at least 2 of my hens are actually nearly FIVE years old. No wonder egg production was SO AWFUL outside of the warm months these past 2 years! I moved the one with the palest/grey-est comb into the small coop with ms. no-toes last night. Holy cats is a 5 year old orpington a big heavy bird!

 

[gladahmae]

Double post. Ugh.

 

[gladahmae]

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Ok what’s the deal with the eggs I’m pretty sure my ISA Brown is laying? Every single egg she has layed for 2 weeks (about 3/wk because she’s going on 3 this spring) has this shell lump. This egg is also misshapen, has ridges, and is slightly flat on one side, but the other ones have just been big eggs with this shell end. Just “old age”?

It’s also big enough it won’t fit into a slot in a jumbo egg carton.

 

[RaZ]

Do your hens get extra potassium, like from bananas? Mine will lay "lumpy" eggs after eating bananas. Something happens when the potassium reacts/blends with the calcium of the shell. Not up on the sciencey part.

 

[gladahmae]

Nope. Just layer feed.

 

[RaZ]

IDK Chicken biology is sometimes like chicken math...doesn't make sense.

My tom turkey has a completely bare chest. He has been sitting on the nest from time to time with both hens. They are fully feathered. Today, I caught one turkey hen eating an egg. She took it from the nest and went outside to eat it.

And if the day wasn't odd enough, a chicken laid an egg in the driveway, in the rain, about 200 feet from the coop. Fun with chickens.

 

[snowflake]

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[snowflake]

the bumps i was told are from to much calcium.