Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[snowflake]

Had a fun morning helping Daran pullorum test his flock, we got about 1/2 done, He has some lovely birds!!, The blue turkeys were awesome, his cat liked to clime up the back of your leg and sit on your shoulder,the billy wanted to be right there checking things out and the emu's were a hoot, pulling things out of your pockets and making sure everything was checked out.
His roosters were very well behaved. Not one went after us even though, we were tormenting the hens.I think the Icelandics were my favorite, they have such pretty colors. Although his tiny rooster was VERY SWEET!!.
Got to meet his mom and some sisters and brother, Very,very nice people.
Was REALLY getting cold by the time we decided to stop

Wish the weather had been nicer, would have liked to have gotten a look at the cows and pigs. but it was raining and windy and cold all morning

 

[snowflake]

Raz, sorry things didn't go better, I think they are so afraid that every one will want chickens and stink up the city.Well I know you won,t give up, and I hope the next round you win. you may have lost a battle but we are hoping you win the war..

 

[RaZ]

They mentioned that. The prosecutor scared them pretty good I think. We will be over run with wild chickens, rats and other un-approved critters.

 

[cuppycake]

They mentioned that.  The prosecutor scared them pretty good I think. We will be over run with wild chickens, rats and other un-approved critters.

The horror! The next thing you know people will be growing their own food in gardens and putting solar panels on their roofs and drinking raw milk! Oh, the humanity!

 

[gladahmae]

RaZ, sorry.

This morning my coop was an Island... or a coop with a moat...

My coop is no longer an island, or has a moat. It is now a flood plain.

AND to top it all off, I don't have muck boots. I have to walk through water that is several inches above my ankles to get to the coop, and yeah.

Oh NO! That's terrible! I begged my husband for muck boots for Christmas and he rolled his eyes about it, but in the end I got them. Our soil is really sand and we're on a hill, but it still gets sloppy up here!

Our rain is freezing. The cars are getting a nice layer of ice on them as I type. There's a good chance we'll have a snow day tomorrow. Just thinking about that makes me want to

will you share your brine recipe?

It's nothing special! Just the Pioneer Woman turkey brine recipe and I half it for a chicken. (So kosher salt, brown sugar, apple juice or cider, orange rind, bay leaf, rosemary, peppercorn, garlic, and water). Sometimes I throw a cinnamon stick in there, or swap the apple juice for veggie stock, or skip the apple juice and squeeze the juice from the oranges I use the rinds from. I like her roasting directions too.

Unfortunately some shelters have rules putting all pitbull-type dogs to sleep and if you try to drop one off no matter what the reason.

This is true. I'm fostering for one of the rescues in my area and they pull the pit and pit mixes from the stray holds that will mesh with their available foster homes since several animal controls in our area can't adopt out those breeds.....they can let other rescues take them, but they can't do a straight adoption to the public. In fact, I've got a cute little 5mo old mutt (mama definitely has some pit in her) who thinks that she can't be more than 2 feet from me sleeping under my table right now. Careful! She might cuddle me to death!

 

[jrsckn]

This is true. I'm fostering for one of the rescues in my area and they pull the pit and pit mixes from the stray holds that will mesh with their available foster homes since several animal controls in our area can't adopt out those breeds.....they can let other rescues take them, but they can't do a straight adoption to the public. In fact, I've got a cute little 5mo old mutt (mama definitely has some pit in her) who thinks that she can't be more than 2 feet from me sleeping under my table right now. Careful! She might cuddle me to death!

Awww, that is the real danger from bull breeds, being loved to death. I've got 5 american pitbull terriers and compete in weight pull and conformation events. Word gets around and dogs start showing up and people come out of the woodwork asking for help. The breed needs help and our agencies are making it worse.

There was a story on the news a few weeks ago about a woman who tried to drop off her pit mix because it bit a family member and AC wouldn't take it unless they paid the euthanization fee. She didn't have the money so she had to keep the dog or go to jail for abandoning it. She kept the dog and it ended up biting her child. Can't wait to see how much money she wins in a lawsuit.

 

[NovaAman]

Snow... I have that same problem. When I moved one of the feed skids to use for them to walk on in the sleeping area, then went back to clear the food that had went through the cracks of the skid, it was moldy, I stepped in the area, and SUNK. Moles had used it as a convienient way to come up and under. Now when the rain finally goes, I am going to have to do something about that. My first thought when I sunk was "Great, now raccoons can get in easy! The hole is on both sides of the run wall.

About the pit who bit the kid... I doubt she's going to win anything if she does sue. They will say that she knew the dog was dangerous, yet chose not to have it euthanized. They will make it her fault. And in a way, unfortunetly, it is. I would have pulled the 60 bucks out of my somewhere to pay the fee. Heck, I did and my pit never bit a person, but bit another dog that provoked it, didn't even break the skin. Just grabbed him and shook him and let him go. The owner of the other dog even said that Baby never threaten her, didn't even harm her dog, but she still called the animal control, and I still was going to have to have my dog under observation, and possible $500 fine... BUT since mine was the pit, and if another incedent had occured, I would have been is serious doodoo for having a dangerous dog who had already had previous incedents. I put him to sleep, cried my eyes out, and buried him in the back yard with one of the neighbors chickens that had just died. I loved that dog, he was so stupid that if you had come in the house once, you could come in the house again and rob me. but I also know how this society is... It will be made out to be her fault, it is her fault. She should have came up with the money, or taken it to a farm, the woods, and did the Triple S. Anyway, hope her kid didn't suffer a serious bite. Sorry too if this is offensive to some.

 

[Amy PT]

Raz, I'm sorry. I really didn't think it would go that way for you.

 

[Fancy Favie]

((bang bang bang!) I'm calling to order the meeting of the chicken addicts...
Hello, My name is Jenny...and I seem to have a problem...

The incubator this morning...


Already in the brooder...


My chicks hatched from the silkie eggs I picked up while visiting my family in NC....



I don't have a problem...(remember first stage is denial!)

None of us have a problem its everyone else LOL

 

[Fancy Favie]

Thanks Fancy for the offer but she was out running around when I went back out this afternoon... I do know of a couple of trailers for sale depending on price range. The ones I know of are between $3500 and $4500 though. I wish I had the money for one of them... Would be nice to have something a little lighter than our heavy steel one

I actually want an enclosed utility trailer that would work for me