Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[troyer]

So true, brother. This line has brought back so many great memories. Catching frogs and polliwogs was always worth the occasional leech.

Catching the polliwogs and putting them in a gallon container to watch them develop and mature is such a lovely memory. We did our absolute best to mimic the natural environment of the polliwogs, to give them the best chance of maturing. It's such a good memory that I did it again 4 years ago. It was just as much fun as what I had remembered it to be. The leeches were just part of the curiosity of enjoying and discovering nature. Thank you for bringing those great memories to the surface again!

 

[Folly's place]

Loved swamp wading! Now, probably not. But growing tadpoles was great.
ALERT! That lovely highly pathogenic avian influenza that had been found in migrating water fowl on the east coast has hit way too close. Yesterday the USDA announced that a commercial flock of turkeys in Indiana got sick, tested positive, and are now all dead.
Damn!
Time to pay attention the the news on the USDA site, and keep our poultry inside under roofing, away from wild birds.
Mary

 

[Sally PB]

tested positive, and are now all dead.

As in, dead from AI, or euthanized? I guess it doesn't matter.

Very sad, and very scary. My neighbor (with 35 chickens) and I live on the Flat River, and I hear a lot of geese calling. I don't if there are ducks on the river or not.

 

[GardeningWithMyChickens]

Honey, they might be big in Texas but in Florida they have crazy glue on them. Once they land on you, they will not leave you no matter how much you dance,lol

 

[Folly's place]

Apparently this strain of AI is not so terrible for us, but pretty deadly for our poultry. Those turkeys were getting very ill and were tested, and then the flock was euthanized.
I'm worried here, we have lots of Canada geese and ducks coming through. The wild water fowl don't get sick, but our poultry will not do well with this one.
Mary

 

[Swiss]

What to do??View attachment 2990049

They're directions for how to get around the pole without getting lost!

 

[troyer]

They're directions for how to get around the pole without getting lost!

Thanks!

 

[Dreamzchaser]

Ah Dreamz, you always make me smile. What was that movie from the 50s or 60s. "Creature from the black lagoon"? That could be me. I've dived from Isle Royale to the cenotes of the Yucatan. Shipwrecks from Virginia & North Carolina to the waters of Catalina Island. I love the water. Ocean, lake, or knee-deep stagnant swamps. Come visit for a week and I'll teach you how to swim. Swamp wading is a two-week course.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I love the water but I like it even more when it is safe,lol I can visit but no swamp wading for me. I do not want to ruin my hair do,

My brother's fault that I do not know how to swim. He took me on a boat ride ride in a hurricane back in PR when I was a child. Those waves were fierce crashing unto the boat. The water hit my face so hard that I remember I was crying and looking at him while he laughed. He also caught many sharks. One morning around 4am, we all got up to a huge stomping noise, like a huge rock had fell from the sky. My mom and I got up and he was out there. He threw a huge shark that he caught and laughing because it tried to get him, so he got him instead. The biggest thing I had ever seen. So that is why I am afraid of the ocean. (needless to say sand getting in places sand should not be). Lakes and swams, I have heard so many stories about bacterias and of course, the black monster,lol It is not too clear water and that scares me. I do not eat fish from anywhere but Ocean because that is what I grew up with. The ocean fish have a special taste, like naturally salt seasoned,lol A friend gave me some fish when I first came to Michigan and I did not liked it at all. I do not taste anything even if it tastes like chicken.

 

[Dreamzchaser]

What to do??View attachment 2990049

I guess it will depend on which way you are coming from towards it,lol

 

[Dreamzchaser]

Well, I am going to see if I find some thread about composting. I have been throwing all the chicken crap in a corner of the yard. I hope I can do something with it,lol Which I was thinking, why did I threw away a year worth of water bottles? I can build a green house,