Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[MIchickens]

Ok...so this chicken math thing is a scary dangerous thing. I'm in Wisconsin right now for training and I have already found where all the local hatcheries are at and I have been on craigslist out here and searched for chickens. I started out only wanting a dozen or so hens...I now have 41 chicks being sent to me around the 28th of this month. I had to order most of those straight run, but I have a guy who will take all my roosters. unless any of you want some blue laced red wyandotte roosters? Is there a chickens anonymous group on here...lol

 

[taprock]

My nine month old Orloff rooster finally crowed! The girls haven't showed any interest in laying yet though. If any one is interested I do have two other younger Orloff boys. I won't get rid of them until my test results are back but if any one is interested.... They are super sweet, I call them puppy one and puppy two because they follow me every where. They are seven months and haven't crowed or shown any interest in girls yet. And... I finally broke the single digets and got a dozen eggs today. Still not good considering how many girls I have but at least the numbers are on the way back up. They are only getting 3 1/2 additional hours of light, I haven't changed it since fall.

 

[1muttsfan]

If you are going to process birds after leaving them for a while you should gut them first, regardless of the temperature. The interior of the bird stays warm longer, and bacteria in the gut immediately start multiplying into the surround tissue as it breaks down - a process that begins immediately after death. If you freezes them ungutted, the bacterial degredation continues as the carcass thaws.

 

[naglady]

fuzzy butt- love the photos, and love the big green egg.. your hens are beautiful..
no worries of politics from me..

Mi chickens- i am guessing fosteria is a distance from me..

.. wish i lived closer to you i would take your roosters..




here is a couple pictures of my americanas.. they were coming out of molt, not laying and the gold/gray one was mean to my prissy my first hen ever.. so i sold them. and the pecking order thing, was pretty brutal if you never seen it b4.. especially being new to chickens.

 

[HooverHenHouse]

Anyone near the Lansing/Jackson area want an.unbearded columbian silkie...I dont want to know what your doing with him, I raise my chickens as pets, so don't want to know if their going to be used for something else. But i need to downsize my roosters.

 

[gwenirish11]

Does anyone here have any Marans for sale, preferably BC, Blue Copper,Wheaten, Blue Wheaten....I am looking for pullets but will consider chicks or maybe hatching eggs if I can get my hands of an incubator. I am also looking for a Ameraucana or Araucana not an EE. Please contact me personally ASAP Thank you!!!

 

[snowflake]

Ok...so this chicken math thing is a scary dangerous thing. I'm in Wisconsin and I have already found where all the local hatcheries are at and I have been on craigslist out here and searched for chickens. I started out only wanting a dozen or so hens...I now have 41 chicks being sent to me around the 28th of this month. I had to order most of those straight run, but I have a guy who will take all my roosters. unless any of you want some blue laced red wyandotte roosters? Is there a chickens anonymous group on here...lol

we had a chickens anonymous but they gave up and left

have fun with your chickens, did you get all the same or different breeds??

If you are going to process birds after leaving them for a while you should gut them first, regardless of the temperature. The interior of the bird stays warm longer, and bacteria in the gut immediately start multiplying into the surround tissue as it breaks down - a process that begins immediately after death. If you freezes them ungutted, the bacterial degredation continues as the carcass thaws.

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Does anyone here have any Marans for sale, preferably BC, Blue Copper,Wheaten, Blue Wheaten....I am looking for pullets but will consider chicks or maybe hatching eggs if I can get my hands of an incubator. I am also looking for a Ameraucana or Araucana not an EE. Please contact me personally ASAP Thank you!!!

there was a guy Jerry, sold french black copper marans( feather footed) he was going into blues last yr, don't know how successful he was, he had very nice birds

 

[gladahmae]

Well, i'm treating my poopy-butted splash wyandotte pullet for vent gleet. I'm not 100% sure that's what it is since she has had this problem since day 2 or 3 from hatching, but we figured we'd give it a try. Other than a trickle of whatever it is coming from her vent, she's completely normal. Hoping that a week of ACV, Epsom Salt soaks, yogurt, and monistat (if necessary) will clear things up. We did bring one of the EE pullets in so she wouldn't be alone during treatment. I said something to DH about just culling her while I was cleaning her very disgusting butt off yesterday, and he said we'd give it 10 days and that he's had enough dead chickens to last him awhile.

I think the loss of our 8 girls was harder on him than I originally thought.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Glad, I hope things go well with your hen and she improves.

hillbilly hen do you have a light on at all, and what breeds do you have and how old..

I no longer have chickens. Snowflake has most of what I had. But... when I did have them I had a light on a timer during the winter because I had one or two hens that would "drop" their eggs on the droppings board. They could not see to get down to the nest boxes early in the morning. I just had the timer set to go on about an hour before sun up.

HH,
OK is better than lousy or some descriptive terms for how you're doing. I'm glad you are OK . Hang in there. My big High Bush Cranberry does not have many berries this year. Hope the weather this year is more normal than last year.

Thanks Bob. I have hopes that the weather will be more normal this year too. I miss the apples. I hope you get to feeling better too. Do you have any of thoes ice grippers to put on your boots? They are worth having.

 

[ladychicken&Ducklover]

I dont post much on the Michigan thread, so I dont know if Im doing this right,

I apologize if this ends up in the wrong place..

Over the past week, I lost my whole flock to a weasel.

I am so sick about it, more for my Polish Roo who is now alone and Im so concerned.

I wont go into it much because we did everything right , had them for 2 years with no problems.

Please, someone adopt my WCPR . Im thinking someone who has a young flock that can grow up with him. I dont know. Ive never

had this happen .

I live in Northern Michigan, Champion to be exact. Its in the Upper Peninsula not far from Marquette.

He is so sweet and so lonely, please HELP.

Feel free to PM me.