Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[naglady]

We dont have any hawk problem in the city, but our dog loves his chickens and plays with the roosters all the time.
He's never once shown any real aggression or desire to eat them, maybe he's too dumb to think they are food.
One thing that helped is we always had him and the chicks together growing up and a CLOSE eye on how they played together.
Now he loves them and if he hears a strange sound outside he really wants to check his freinds.

Some pictures to check out.



As they grew up everyone would even eat together, a habit he still has. Any advice on getting a dog to stop eating chicken food?
(and yes my dog and chickens love potato chips)



Our Houdan roo and him are always playing around on the balcony / run. He's got a little scar under his nose from when the rooster was learning his strength after growing up. Worst the dog has ever done is pull on the Roo's tail feathers but not even enough to bend them after he lets go.


Cant wait to get everyone back on a farm where they can run around more.
Living on the balcony works, but its not enough\

cute pictures

 

[Amy PT]

I think that the breeder who figure out sex linked bantams would make a lot of money. I would like to end up with 2 bantam hens. But, it's important to us to raise them from new chicks. I think we might get 4 and hope that 2 turn out to be female.

 

[naglady]

They are beautiful! I'm about 99% sure from the pictures that they are actually "Indian Rivers". They are a cross between a Delaware and a New Hampshire. They will not breed true (chicks will be red, white, and a number of colors). Here is a picture of them taken from Cackle Hatchery's website:

and a picture drawn of them on Cackle Hatchery's website as well:

They are very pretty chickens!

Thank you tdhenson86,I think your right, only the rooster doesnt have black tail, but does resemble him.. they said the hen lays everyday.. nice size brown egg i seen one in the nest box when i went to pick them up.
would mating him to either a isa brown or a new hampshire would that produce good egg layers.

 

[tdhenson86]

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Mating him to another Indian River will give you good egg laying. If you can find more new hampshires, that will give you great dual purpose chicks that would likely look a lot more like a New Hampshire. Isa Browns are a hybird as it is (usually, the combination is rhode island white X rhode island red), so if you introduce that blood, you'll have another line of genes to deal with. You could also introduce Delaware blood if you like how these look.

 

[Chambertin]

NovaAman-

Chambertin... Please don't take offense, but your avatar just trips me out... LOL

Its quite the picture. From a crazy TV show I got into from freinds across the pond.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Britain

BobBry-

How very sad. Overpopulation sucks.

You bet it does.
There are a many things different here, but even with communism its not half as different as the media wants you to think.
The MAJOR difference is what pressures and annoyances overpopulation steamroll into the culture.

With over 1 billion people to track just think about how easy it is to scam, cheat, run away, and do whatever.
I'm saddened by a lot of the truth about human rights violations and so forth, but believe me once you put feet on the ground and see the culture you would be screaming for harsher punishments.

When we bought our house the company just up and left, took us a few months to straighen it out and even then nothing on the contract was fixed and anything of value had been stripped. I'll stop there before it gets too long...

Cant wait to get back home.

 

[naglady]

Mating him to another Indian River will give you good egg laying. If you can find more new hampshires, that will give you great dual purpose chicks that would likely look a lot more like a New Hampshire. Isa Browns are a hybird as it is (usually, the combination is rhode island white X rhode island red), so if you introduce that blood, you'll have another line of genes to deal with. You could also introduce Delaware blood if you like how these look.

thank you, i do have one we think is a new hampshire.. she is a awesome layer, but not big eggs.. i asked about the hen that came with him, she may be a 1/2 sister.. so probably not a good match to hatch eggs from.. or will it be ok.. thinking of using my one isa that lay huge eggs and lays everyday also.. especially for being over 2 yrs old;

 

[Farmerboy16]

Has anyone ever had a 1,500+ pound cow jump on your foot? I did, and yup, it hurt like crazy! Thought that she broke it. Thankfully it was when I was finishing up for the night. I do not bruise easily, but there is a faint hoof shape mark on my left foot. Next time don't try to pick up the manure scraper off the floor next to the cow. It scares her.

BTW, my sweet girl did not do it. It was one of the cows at work...

 

[Farmerboy16]

Did you know...


That a cow can slip on a orange peel? I did, it was hilarious!!! It happened at work a few night ago. My friend brought two oranges, one for me and one for him, and we threw the peels out of the parlor as we ate the oranges. But my friend did not throw the peels out well, some landed on the threshold where the cows come in to be milked. One of the 1,500+ pound cow stepped on a piece about the size of a half dollar and slipped as she was coming in. At first we thought it was ice that she slipped on, but when we realized what it was, we laughed so hard. It was her rear left foot that stepped on it. What a night!

And no, she did not get hurt, nor did she fall, she caught herself, and cows have 4 legs, so they don't fall easily as us two legged humans do.

 

[HooverHenHouse]

Does anyone have any doberman connections? We are looking into adding one to the family, want a puppy, purebred-but affordable as papers dont matter. Great home with lots of land and invsible fence intstalled, and a bonus of having connections at the vets as I was the receptionist there for 5 years.

There is one on the fb for sale group, a red, that the owner will not reply back on (frustrating)....and a few other dobe pups for 500-600, Were looking to spend less.

 

[kimmie6067]

Has anyone ever had a 1,500+ pound cow jump on your foot? I did, and yup, it hurt like crazy! Thought that she broke it. Thankfully it was when I was finishing up for the night. I do not bruise easily, but there is a faint hoof shape mark on my left foot. Next time don't try to pick up the manure scraper off the floor next to the cow. It scares her.

BTW, my sweet girl did not do it. It was one of the cows at work...

No but I did have a horse step on foot, and boy did that hurt