Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Dreamzchaser]

My PT recommended an "under the desk foot peddler" to use for keeping the legs going. The good thing is you can do it while reading, watching tv, knitting, etc. I have a connective tissue disorder and have to be careful with how I get my exercise in.

OH! Ding! Light came on. I have one of those. ALl I have to do is find in which box did I packed it when I moved here.

 

[1muttsfan]

Try roasting your vegetables in the oven. You can use carrots, parsnips, onions, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes with skins on although fewer of those, and cherry or small salad tomatoes. Peel and cut everything up into pieces about the same size, maybe the length of your finger and an inch or so around/thick. Cherry tomatoes can be roasted whole, small tomatoes should be cut in half and put cut side up. Toss all your vegetables with olive oil and seasoning, I use Mrs Dash - it's tasty and low salt. I also sprinkle on a little salt. Spread them on a baking sheet and cook them at 425°, stirring and flipping them once, for about 25 to 30 minutes. They will shrink down as the water leaves them, and should turn a little brown. They are like candy.

 

[Sally PB]

It is nothing but Peppers, onions, garlic, cilantro and culantro when I can find it in GR.

Those are all very good for you.

I like bananas but not too ripe. If they are too sweet,and soft, they taste too mushy and sweet. I llike them semi-green as they are hard and not too sweet

More good for you stuff.

I use tomato sauce in some dishes and when I grow them, I make sauce and can them.

Yup, good.

squash a type of pumpkin that I do eat. I put it in beans and other stews.

Oh, yeah.

There already are several vegetables that you like. Find different ways to cook them and have them a lot. Try a new one every now and then. As they say, eat the rainbow.

Sugar is toxic to your body.

Processed sugar is something that was at one time a luxury item. Then it became a "rare treat." Now it's a commodity and it's in everything. Whether the thing needs it or not! Like soups, sauces, dressings, chili, stews, lunchmeats, and, and, and! I just read a book on the body, and when they talked about the pancreas, there was a lot on the ways sugar is a poison to that organ. Bingo. Diabetes.

and the sodium is insane!

Yup.

The "Western Diet" is going to kill us after it bankrupts us.

 

[Sally PB]

The integration saga continues.

This morning, I opened the pop door, giving the littles access to their half of the run. They came out, and almost immediately, the hens got interested. Lark, my bottom-of-the-order hen, kept trying to peck one of them through the fence. She actually got ahold of one by a couple feathers I think, but it got away and they went back inside. They did not come back out. They looked out, stood in the doorway, but that was it.

Like several people have said, the bottom hen becomes a bully because finally there is someone lower than her. I think this may happen here.

I am assuming I just let this play out, even though I hate the thought of my Lark Lady being a meanie...

@aart, when can I get rid of the huddle box? I'd like to take it out, as it is blocking some of the light that comes into that area of the coop. It's supposed to be low-mid 60s at night, and the littles are 6 weeks old today.

 

[aart]

@aart, when can I get rid of the huddle box? I'd like to take it out, as it is blocking some of the light that comes into that area of the coop. It's supposed to be low-mid 60s at night, and the littles are 6 weeks old today.

At 6 wks they don't need it for 'heat' but be prepared for them to make a big fuss for the first couple nights it's gone.

 

[Sally PB]

At 6 wks they don't need it for 'heat' but be prepared for them to make a big fuss for the first couple nights it's gone.

Thanks! Then away it goes tomorrow. They can fuss all they like; I can't hear them when I'm in the house.

 

[Dreamzchaser]

The integration saga continues.

This morning, I opened the pop door, giving the littles access to their half of the run. They came out, and almost immediately, the hens got interested. Lark, my bottom-of-the-order hen, kept trying to peck one of them through the fence. She actually got ahold of one by a couple feathers I think, but it got away and they went back inside. They did not come back out. They looked out, stood in the doorway, but that was it.

Like several people have said, the bottom hen becomes a bully because finally there is someone lower than her. I think this may happen here.

I am assuming I just let this play out, even though I hate the thought of my Lark Lady being a meanie...

@aart, when can I get rid of the huddle box? I'd like to take it out, as it is blocking some of the light that comes into that area of the coop. It's supposed to be low-mid 60s at night, and the littles are 6 weeks old today.

WOW! So different in my case. Sophia the only Naked neck hen I have is the last in the big girls and with the small ones. They little Sebrights peck onher and run after her every time the big ones are not around,

 

[RaZ]

I went to HD and got me 6 bags of potting soil for the front beds. and a few garden blocks. I

In that load of stuff. I had over 20 bags of soil. So much good stuff that was going into the trash compactor. The thing was, no one could lift those bags into the garbage shoot. Lucky me..

 

[Folly's place]

Potting soil in the trash compactor??!! Crazy!
Glad you got this stuff.
Mary

 

[RaZ]

I meant to mention this last week but I forgot. The Meijer store here has chicken feed and water founts and feeders. The price is outrageous. $22 for a 10 # bag of organic feed. The water founts and feeders are also over priced.