Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[NovaAman]

Jen, those pyles are so pretty! How flighty are they?

 

[SillyChicken]

Ugh, they did it again, I can't get out there in time to rescue my EEs eggs before they get eaten, I think I am going to have to build one of those nesting boxes where the eggs roll to where they can't get them, if I can get them to use them that is.

They aren't eating there own eggs, they are only eating the EEs eggs

See opas signature..he has the answer to your problem!

 

[SillyChicken]

I went out to tend the turkeys and found my best turkey hen had blown her vent out....... badly enough to warrant putting her down. She was my brooder girl and a good mom, she was also the friendliest one I had..

Some days this farming stuff sucks.

 

[chicken grandma]

Oh no! So sorry Silly!

Beautiful chickens and chicks~

 

[BobBry]

Sorry to hear that silly.

 

[BobBry]

Bry and I have been busy painting the bathroom and kitchen. Were to have our almost 40 year vinyl replaced before Thanksgiving, but the new covering was back ordered so we had a house full of family here on the old scuffed up stuff. Scuffed up is a gross understatement. Today they started to tear up the old stuff. Of the thirty fertile eggs we set in August we have to date two sure pullets and maybe one more, along with seven cockerels. Seven of the thirteen that hatched, males. What happened to 50/50 ? And we are not supposed to have roos. Bry has said he couldn't eat them. I might do that though. They look at least as large as the pheasants I remember from years long past.

 

[Opa]

Of the thirty fertile eggs we set in August we have to date two sure pullets and maybe one more, along with seven cockerels. Seven of the thirteen that hatched, males. What happened to 50/50 ? And we are not supposed to have roos. Bry has said he couldn't eat them. I might do that though. They look at least as large as the pheasants I remember from years long past.

If any of those are Welsummer cockerel they are from Calico Woods stock and you shouldn't have any problem getting rid of them.

As soon as I can get a little more coffee down my neck I'll be heading back to the woods in quest of a deer.

 

[afveteran88]

Goodmorning Everyone. Kinda new here, been going to the site for about a year and learn alot. Just got my first incubator last week. Can't wait to fire it up. My (50 or so ) hens have almost all stopped laying so will probably have to wait a while to use the bator. I live in Monroe County. Anyone close to me?

 

[Wrightsx4]

Good morning and welcome!

 

[RIRJen]

Jen, those pyles are so pretty! How flighty are they?

Actually they're not bad at all. They get a little flighty if it's only one, but when the three are together they are really calm. They can definately fly though!! While the speckled hen was chasing after one of them it pretty much flew around the whole coop trying to get out. I've got them in their own coop for now...I don't want anything to happen to them...and that speckled hen was bound and determined to peck their heads off lol.