Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Candy442]

Hubby saw an Oriole today! Love it!
Brooder all set up for the chicks, may they arrive tomorrow...
Mary

Mary, It looks like I have two BLRW boys in my pack the others are female but only three are shown in the picture. What else are you expecting?

Well, I have finally made progress on improving life for my poor lonely peacock, Maurice. I am paranoid about his safety since I have had so many losses to predators, and he’s been very safe in the barn... but I’m sure also lonely and booooored.

I started a thread over on the Peafowl section with questions about finishing the pen and predator security, but I know many of the Michigan peeps are really good at predator-proofing and such. I’d appreciate any thoughts any of you have if you get a chance to take a look:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/advice-on-outside-pen-for-peacock.1370963/

Thank you and hope everyone is staying healthy!

Hello York! I am not familiar with Peafowl needs, but we NPIP tested a flock for a gentleman who had one that roamed free. It would roost on the roof of the coops or in trees! HUGE bird too . I hope someone here can help with your question though.

 

[Folly's place]

Mine are just three weeks old, so too soon to sex, although some of the Chanties are looking 'boyish', as they should. I have five BLRW pullets, and again, too soon to see if any are cockerels after all.
Yesterday's shipment are French Marans, Buckeyes, and SS, five of each, all pullets (maybe!). Hope they come today!!!
Mary

 

[aart]

4 chicks alive and well.
Last egg was a no-go, DIS.

 

[yorkchick]

Hi Yorkchick! I hope Maurice appreciates your efforts

Hi, Muttsfan! Many thanks to you, Folly’s Place, and Snowflake for your advice over on the other thread. Michigan peeps FTW (as usual )

As to whether Maurice appreciates my efforts...

Ummm, pretty sure he looks at me as his jailer. According to him, he was doing juuuusssst fiiiiine as a Free Bird. How I ended up with him is a neighbor (same one with chickens, who gave me the flight netting) called me up one day.

Neighbor: Susan, your peacock is at our house.
Me: I don’t have a peacock.
Neighbor: .... Well, would you like one?

So they caught him and brought him over. (Several years prior to this, I had gotten a stray peahen from a different neighbor, but sadly, she‘d died significantly before Maurice appeared).

Anyway, I know that some peafowl will stick around if you let them free range, but I figured Maurice has already shown his inability to stay put by showing up at the neighbor’s house. (He must have come from a fair distance, too, because nobody nearby has peas). So he went into the safe, but boring, room in the barn.

I think he might forgive me if I can find him a girlfriend.

 

[Folly's place]

No chicks from USPS today. Hope for tomorrow!
Mary

 

[kcan2]

As to whether Maurice appreciates my efforts...

Ummm, pretty sure he looks at me as his jailer. According to him, he was doing juuuusssst fiiiiine as a Free Bird.

Maurice sounds just as ungrateful as the rogue rooster that I rescued. Not unlike Maurice, he too seems to possess the entitlement mentality.

No hummers spotted as of yet at the 45th parallel!

 

[Candy442]

We haven't seen Hummers around here yet either! I do not have their food out, so maybe I should. Normally they buzz my head where the food normally hangs to remind me I need to get a "move-on" but nothing yet!

I do have spring lettuce sprouting in my deck boxes though I love to grow my own and am a bit paranoid to buy anything at the stores I am not able to effectively sterilize before eating...

 

[Folly's place]

Cackle chicks not here yet! Shipped Wednesday, so maybe some alive tomorrow. All will be dead by Monday though.
I'm really sad and upset about this! May they come tomorrow...
Mary

 

[1muttsfan]

Surprise surprise, a hummingbird report from up here in the upper peninsula. of course it plunged to 26 degrees last night and it's only 34 now. Hope the poor little guy is still alive. I'll have to put my feeder out during the day and bring it in at night so it doesn't freeze.

 

[aart]

Cackle chicks not here yet! Shipped Wednesday, so maybe some alive tomorrow. All will be dead by Monday though.
I'm really sad and upset about this! May they come tomorrow...
Mary

OhNo, that stinks!!
Any tracking available...call the hatchery and/or the PO?