Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Stacykins]

If you are going totally non-electric for winter water, i highly suggest rubber dishes. They are sold at TSC and are a kind of rubber tire material. The ice sticks to the other dishes, and they can crack when you are trying to chip it out.

The rubber dishes bend, and the ice don't stick so all you have to do is flex the dish and it pops right out!

This is what I use. Sometimes it can be hard to pop out the ice if the rubber pan was full, and it froze solid overnight into a big block. If a night is going to be especially cold, I turn over the pan when I put them to bed at sunset. It isn't like they'll be drinking overnight, and I am out there when the sun comes out with fresh.

My goats have deeper, rubber buckets for water. They get fresh too twice a day. Usually a thin crust of ice forms by midday, and I just use a rubber mallet I carry with my while outside to break it up.

 

[Fancy Favie]

3 Chicks so far

I now have 5 Faverolle chicks i'm going to wait till there all Fluff for the next pic,

 

[NovaAman]

I would Love to have one of your Roo's there gorgeous i have a young one right now just waiting for him to get his colors in and possibly might do atrade or trade some chicks later in the spring totally up to you.... I know its a bit cold for the chicks but i'm prepared... Plus wanted to get a head start for my next future Flock

Sheesh, I have maama hatch chicks in the winter. LOL. I am pathetic. I just let the mamas who've proven they are good mamas do it. The ones who have proven they aren't, they don't get to do winter babies. So, that's just my little cochin girls Skeeter and Skatter. They are such good mamas that Skeeter was still letting her silkie chick sit with her in the nest up until a few days ago. I had to put the chick down from a leg injury... So bummed... And Skatter's little trio, they are well feathered already, but she still mama's them. SO, I miss my green egg.

 

[Fancy Favie]

Sheesh, I have maama hatch chicks in the winter. LOL. I am pathetic. I just let the mamas who've proven they are good mamas do it. The ones who have proven they aren't, they don't get to do winter babies. So, that's just my little cochin girls Skeeter and Skatter. They are such good mamas that Skeeter was still letting her silkie chick sit with her in the nest up until a few days ago. I had to put the chick down from a leg injury... So bummed... And Skatter's little trio, they are well feathered already, but she still mama's them. SO, I miss my green egg.

I tell ya what though i got some pretty darn cute mixed chicks faverolle/brahma cross some are very unique and did hatch out a green egg she is kinda the only EE out in the brooder i feel bad for her kinda a misfit so much smaller than the other older chicks

 

[NovaAman]

I run an extension cord off the back of the house. When I know it's going to freeze over night, I turn on the clamp light I have over the waterer. Just a 75 watt bulb keeps it thawed. I make sure though that the side the water come out is the side that the light is on. With more birds this winter, I might have to put a second waterer out. I figure If I tried the 3 gallon waterer, I'd not be able to keep it thawed enough, so I stick with the one. A few of the girls also have longer wattles, and so does the polish, so I do not want to use pan style waterer. Don't want to risk those getting frost bite .

 

[NovaAman]

I have fav/lt. brahma mixes...
Had the most beautiful rooster... He was that mix



The girl behind him is the same mix, and so is my pretty Hawkarella and her sister....

 

[NovaAman]

What is this hen? My oldest wants one..

 

[Fancy Favie]

I have fav/lt. brahma mixes...
Had the most beautiful rooster... He was that mix



The girl behind him is the same mix, and so is my pretty Hawkarella and her sister.

your gonna love these girls then and of course theres the lil japanese bantam that made friends with pippi

 

[RIRJen]

Need to rehome my 3 banty Red Pyle hens. About a year old...lay small pinkish eggs. Located near lansing. asking $10 for the trio! They are just not mixing well with my flock...the sussex are trying to eat them LOL

 

[NovaAman]

your gonna love these girls then and of course theres the lil japanese bantam that made friends with pippi

LOL, they'd match a bunch of my girls! The fav mix in the back looks a lot like my faverdottes... (Gold laced wyandottes/faverolles) The boys were gorgeous too. Anyway, here's my faverdotte hen with my why faverolle hen Shehsheh in the back.

And a distant pic of the faverdotte boys who were never very come to me friendly unless I had a handful of treats, but didn't get close...