Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Dreamzchaser]

Just stopped while getting bp and then a shower. Noticed that thw top has chicken wire, so spent all morning in the heat changing it to hardware cloth but I am as drained as the battery of the drill. Once the sun goes down some, I might go and do some plastic at the bottom.

They came and dropped a huge dumpster in front of the house. Got my old beat up chevy out under a tree. Girls just looking at all that I was doing. Funny that I knocked the box of screws and washers so sat on the grass to pick them up and they came to look at me going through the grass fishing small screws. They began to ask me why I was pecking on the grass and they were not. So I grabbed some and put through the hardwarecloth and they stopped bugging me,lol

They had not been out today. Too hot. Got some bottles with water on the freezer to bring them after shower.
Mrs Mary, hail did nothing but hit me hard on my head. Vehicles and skylights are ok. The roof needed to be repaired but between the chickens, winter and financially tightness, I thought it could hold until being able to have it completely replaced. They will be here tomorrow.

Just pray so it does not be too expensive for me. Hub not working since February and it is making a big hole in my disability.
Peace out for now. I stink,lol

 

[aart]

More fox kits in Michigan.

Avian influenza confirmed in 3 red fox kits from Lapeer, Macomb and St. Clair counties​

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources received confirmation Wednesday evening that three red fox kits died from highly pathogenic avian influenza.

The fox kits, collected between April 1 and April 14, came from three separate dens in Lapeer, Macomb and St. Clair counties, according to the DNR.

The DNR had received a report from a wildlife rehabilitator in southeastern Michigan about the fox kits exhibiting neurologic signs of HPAI before death. The kits were observed circling, tremoring and seizing. Two of the three died within hours of intake, while one appeared to respond to supportive therapy but then died in care. An additional kit that was a sibling of the Macomb County kit did survive, but developed blindness, making her non-releasable. The surviving kit will be housed at a local nature center.

https://www.thetimesherald.com/stor...peer-macomb-and-st-clair-counties/9746966002/


I would think there were other kits in those dens and the mama foxes. What about those???

 

[aart]

Cooler...HAH...not by much!

 

[RaZ]

Well, hope you all had a good laugh about my ordeal.

I did laugh. Not AT you but with you. I lost it with the image of boots, nightie, and umbrella.
I'm glad that you survived your ordeal and all is well. You'll get things fixed up in no time.

 

[Sally PB]

Hot out, but the air is very dry, so it didn't feel as bad. I planted 30 more hills of potatoes and 3 rhubarb plants.

I have laundry on the line for the first time this season. Oh, I love how it smells!

 

[aart]

Hot out, but the air is very dry, so it didn't feel as bad.

For sure ,25% humidity really helps!!

 

[1muttsfan]

Even up here it was 80 today. Too hot for us northerners for sure this early in the year.

Work this morning, then came home and got the garden weeded and my onion starts and peas planted, and a few flower seeds here and there. Put up the little chicken wire fence around the garden to keep the nosy girls out. Too hot to do anything else after that.

We had some rain this morning, not nearly enough, it has been so dry up here. I'm afraid of the woods around my house catching fire and burning us all up. One of the girls at work this morning said she heard it was supposed to rain around 1:00 or 2:00 and I said you must not see those flashes of lightning or hear that thunder!

Supposed to be 80 again tomorrow, then back down into the 60s again next week.

 

[1muttsfan]

Dreamz, I know it sounds a little barbaric, but if you let all of the birds out into a space with enough room, such as your coop and run, they will sort all of their issues out and learn to get along together. Then they will all be able to go in and out as they need to, rain or sun, and you will not have to micromanage them so much.

 

[chickflick]

I agree. You're making way too much work for yourself. My bully Sunny use to beat poor Henri up so much it looked like I had a rooster. Now, they sit on the roost next to each other without a problem. Let them work it out.

 

[Dreamzchaser]

I did laugh. Not AT you but with you. I lost it with the image of boots, nightie, and umbrella.
I'm glad that you survived your ordeal and all is well. You'll get things fixed up in no time.

Lol, just did not want to mention it all because would had been xrated. Hub really laugh so hard that he got his pain back. Told him why people believed in karma,lol