Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Opa]

Everyone must have gone to bed early. No one has posted in over 11 hours. I can't say as I blame you for sleeping in. I just listened to the weather report and it was enough to make m wat to pull the covers up over my head and not get up til Monday. The forecast was rain everywhere except for the areas where it's snowing and it's supposed to quit later today expect where it doesn't. Tomorrow is supposed to be more of the same. Lucky us.

 

[taprock]

Very dreary. Off to drink the coffee and sit in front of my SAD light. Nice fish Opa. Farmerboy I think your cows were being envious of the chickens and trying to stir things up.

 

[1muttsfan]

Chicken Gun

Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.

British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers.

When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.

The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the U.S. scientists for suggestions.


NASA responded with a one-line memo --

"Defrost the chicken." (True Story)

 

[SillyChicken]

Anyone with goat experience....... the boys get a little rough on the new doe when it comes to any food sources including the trees in the yard. I've been keeping her separate, but it's not fair or good for her to be contained so much. Should I just let them figure it all out? I have been giving them treat food together to get them used to eating with her. Aside from their regular food separately. I'm hesitant to let her completely loose yet since I don't know how she got out... so I want to be able to be around to keep an eye on her.. thanks
Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

 

[ladyrsanti]

No goat experience but with sheep you keep the men in a bachelor pad, just like roosters... separate pens.

 

[Opa]

Goats have no table manners. The largest will shove the others out of the way until they have eaten their fill. My son always separates his goats turning feeding until they are approximately equal in size. Even as adults there is no way to prevent inequal feeding accept with supervision and separation.

 

[NovaAman]

1mutts... thats funny! Definitely my morning giggle!

 

[Elyssia001]

I've been going through City Ordinances for the area we may want to move into when we buy property to see which allow chickens and which do not.

So many of these are worded stupidly, such as one not allowing the sale of baby rabbits and chicks as pets, but doesn't seem to expressly forbid the owning of rabbits or chickens. Others allow pygmy pot bellied pigs but not chickens, and yet another first says it doesn't allow goats, then turns around and says it does! It steams me to think that anyone other than the two of us can dictate what we do with land we pay for ourselves. I'm more than willing to go underground with it, but Hubby isn't willing to upset the locals.

Makes me wonder if you can still purchase land outside of city limits in this day and age without having to buy 100's of acres. Any suggestions on how to go about it?

 

[Stacykins]

Anyone with goat experience....... the boys get a little rough on the new doe when it comes to any food sources including the trees in the yard. I've been keeping her separate, but it's not fair or good for her to be contained so much. Should I just let them figure it all out? I have been giving them treat food together to get them used to eating with her. Aside from their regular food separately. I'm hesitant to let her completely loose yet since I don't know how she got out... so I want to be able to be around to keep an eye on her.. thanks
Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

I'd personally let them figure it out. Some headbutting is going to happen, they will work it out one way or the other, whether it is now or later. As long as they aren't being to vicious, then it will be OK! I just did that recently, had to introduce my new girl Bailey to the other two. My girl Suzie, she was nervous of the newcomer and made no attempt to headbutt. Yoko, she definitely asserted her position as alpha goat with a lot of butting! But Bailey quickly learned how to avoid it, and after a couple of days are fine. Yoko actually cried for Bailey when I took her out of their pasture to trim Bailey's hooves.

 

[BobBry]

Defrost the chicken!!! I literally laughed out loud.

Thanks

Nice fish Sam.

RaZ, It was/is a nice poem.