Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Sammster]

Yesterday, I found my beautiful Sunny dead under the roost when I opened up the coop. I bawled like a baby. I don't know what happened. I couldn't bring myself to do a necropsy. She's bagged up in the freezer, and I'll bury her in the garden when the ground thaws.

She seemed fine the day before when I visited them in the afternoon and took them chickie snack.

Fly high and free, my lovely Sunny Bird!

Oh, Sally. I'm so sorry

 

[Sally PB]

long blooming catmint

Is this the same as catnip? Would it attract the feral cat(s) in the area?

 

[Chickin Fairy]

Is this the same as catnip? Would it attract the feral cat(s) in the area?

I can't answer the question about if it's the same as catnip, however I grow regular catnip in a container on my deck and the feral cats leave it alone. Keep in mind mints spread like weeds, so you'd have to research if it will do that and overtake your beds/yard.

 

[MIchickenlady]

Yesterday, I found my beautiful Sunny dead under the roost when I opened up the coop. I bawled like a baby. I don't know what happened. I couldn't bring myself to do a necropsy. She's bagged up in the freezer, and I'll bury her in the garden when the ground thaws.

She seemed fine the day before when I visited them in the afternoon and took them chickie snack.

Fly high and free, my lovely Sunny Bird!

Oh, so sorry about Sunny

 

[fuzzi]

Yesterday, I found my beautiful Sunny dead under the roost when I opened up the coop. I bawled like a baby. I don't know what happened. I couldn't bring myself to do a necropsy. She's bagged up in the freezer, and I'll bury her in the garden when the ground thaws.

She seemed fine the day before when I visited them in the afternoon and took them chickie snack.

Fly high and free, my lovely Sunny Bird!

If you were closer I would offer a real hug.

 

[Sally PB]

Keep in mind mints spread like weeds

Catmint. Duh. I won't be planting that. I have enough trouble with brome grass and sheep sorrel.

 

[Folly's place]

But mints are wonderful! Also oregano spreads, given half a chance.
I had catmint and catnip out there and no cats seemed to care. Catnip grows wild here, so maybe it's not an attractant because it's so common.
And the chickens will demolish any plants you really want next to their housing, unless it's trees or shrubs protected by rocks or large gravel at their root zones.
Mary

 

[TheDandyLion]

I have Walker's low Catmints, they do not spread like a peppermint or spearmint. They stay pretty compact. My oldest has a width of about 2-3 feet though. Its easy to propagate as it just takes splitting it.

https://www.monrovia.com/walkers-low-catmint.html

 

[1muttsfan]

A lot of mints spread through root growth. Catnip does not, although it does seed freely. But it can be easily controlled by pulling up or hoeing plants that you don't want.

Catmint is a different member of the mint family. While it does spread, it does so slowly and can be easily controlled.

And oregano at least up here tends to be very happy to spread. And the bees are ecstatic over the blossoms when it is allowed to go to bloom. It has taken over my yard in one area where I used to have it growing in a garden, and makes an excellent mowable ground cover that stays green even in dry weather

 

[1muttsfan]

And I got seven eggs today! One of them a little brown bantam egg, good girl.