Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[uchytil]

 

[uchytil]

Small turnout. We have to do better, lol. No excuses!
No other pictures...spent all my time gabbing with my peeps.

 

[chickflick]

We need your input. Why have we dropped in numbers in the last few years? It seems since the bird flu scare a few years back is when we dropped. It's such a nice time to meet your fellow chicken lovers. Good food, good company.
Tell us what you want. Tell us why you don't come. Tell us what we can do to get you to come. We spend money on the pavilion. I have to reserve it in January. So, please. Give us some input on what you want. If you're even interested in going. Be a good peep.

 

[1muttsfan]

Thanks John!

Rose it's mainly distance for me, also I work some weekends and my schedule is difficult to change ( I was on this last weekend). I would love to see folks more often, and hook up occasionally with the few that are within striking distance.

 

[yorkchick]

Tell us why you don't come.

Ummmm.... I blame Raz??.

That whole “shower and put on deodorant before you come” thing was way too much pressure?

Okay, that’s not why.

I fell off the BYC map a few years ago. But lately I’ve been lurking on the Michigan thread. I marked Chickenstock on my calendar. I have some good friends who now have a few chickens, and I was hoping maybe they, or at least one of them, would come with me to CS.

I had a “maybe” from one of them up to the day of. Then she decided not to go.

I actually continued to dither all morning on Saturday whether to go by myself or not. Let’s just say the social anxiety won out.

So suggestions on how to get me to come next year? Ummm... is a personality transplant on the table?

 

[RaZ]

Ummmm.... I blame Raz??.

That whole “shower and put on deodorant before you come” thing was way too much pressure?

At least I didn't ask anyone to sing karaoke.

 

[bigmrg74]

Had a rough day yesterday. Sassy our old broodmare coliced again sometime Monday evening/tuesday Morning. Mom found her in the morning and called the vet and then called me to get me over to help her out with that. Got her up and into the indoor arena and then the vet was fairly optimistic about her then. Got to work and was just hoping to hear a report from Mom that somebody just had a big epic fart. But it didn't come and the vet later on in the day wasn't as optimistic about her prognosis when he examined her later. Said that her gut was probably too twisted up to recover. So we opted to put her down last night because surgery isn't really a good option for Colic on horses and at 27 she's fairly old for a horse. buried her this morning and then went and got an apple tree to plant next to her today. She loved Apples and I though that she would like that.

 

[Folly's place]

So sorry! We have three buried out here, all were mid to late twenties. It's hard!
The apple tree is a very good idea too.
Mary

 

[aart]

Had a rough day yesterday.

Condolences.

 

[aart]

Tell us why you don't come.

Just not my thing.
When CS started this thread was rocking with quite the 'community',
I couldn't keep up and didn't fit into that dynamic anyway.
It was great that y'all were able to commune IRL.
I've been involved in other forums where a group just all really clicked and we had a lot of fun, but stuff changes and relationships evolve or devolve.
It's a bummer, but...Don't be sad it's over, just be glad it happened.