Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[MIchickens]

I have ninja or dive bomber chickens! man...they are so fun to watch. My brooder is 8 feet long so they get a little flight time. They get wound up and all take off from one side of the brooder to the other. And they look like they are flying up to attack the other's.

 

[Trefoil]

For at least the past 20 years, industrial gases and gas mixtures have been commonly used during packaging for preservation purposes and to improve the taste and appearance of various foods. This process of packaging in an atmosphere other than air is known as modified atmosphere packaging.
In 2004, a new three-gas mixture used for packaging of red meat cuts and ground beef products was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and is gaining in popularity. This mixture is 0.4 percent carbon monoxide, 30 percent carbon dioxide and 69.6 percent nitrogen. The CO gives meat the bright red colour. Look at the butcher case in any Meijer's, all of that meat is bright red.
Countries in the EU are quite a bit better than the US at protecting the consumer from big chem-ag corporations but they have some problems of their own as well. Consider the current scandal of horse meat being sold as beef.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-02-21-carbon-monoxide-meat_x.htm

What worries me is that the USDA isn't checking, so we may very well be eating horse,rat, or whatever in our hamburgers.

Quote:

Thought this was kind of cute... "The Egg Makes Its Move In A New Version Of Which Came First: The Chicken Or the Egg?"

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2...npr&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130211

I still think the chicken came first, but that was a cute video

 

[Lisa and girls]

That's interesting because this was shortly after Christmas too (just that I found the issue yesterday).  So do people give hacker kits to loved ones for Christmas now? 

LOL who knows

 

[snowflake]

Sorry this happened, Thanks for the reminder, was thinking it is past time I changed pass words

Love the baby chick pics, and the big chick pics.

Hope your sick bird gets well

 

[Farmerboy16]

For at least the past 20 years, industrial gases and gas mixtures have been commonly used during packaging for preservation purposes and to improve the taste and appearance of various foods. This process of packaging in an atmosphere other than air is known as modified atmosphere packaging.
In 2004, a new three-gas mixture used for packaging of red meat cuts and ground beef products was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and is gaining in popularity. This mixture is 0.4 percent carbon monoxide, 30 percent carbon dioxide and 69.6 percent nitrogen. The CO gives meat the bright red colour. Look at the butcher case in any Meijer's, all of that meat is bright red.
Countries in the EU are quite a bit better than the US at protecting the consumer from big chem-ag corporations but they have some problems of their own as well. Consider the current scandal of horse meat being sold as beef.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-02-21-carbon-monoxide-meat_x.htm

[COLOR=FF0000]What worries me is that the USDA isn't checking, so we may very well be eating horse,rat, or whatever in our hamburgers.[/COLOR]

If you want to stop worrying whats in your foods, then buy directly from a farmer or raise your own. Lady- My bank card was hacked too right after Christmas too! $200.00 taken of my account from someone in AZ! Thankfully the card company caught that and voided my card, but did not let me know. So, it was a bit embarrassing when I was trying to use my card to buy some things at 4 different stores, but was declined every time. So, I had to go to the bank to find out what is wrong with my card, and that is when I found out that it was hacked. Got refunded, thankfully! But its been over a month now, I still had not gotten a new card yet! Can't buy gas without going to the bank to withdraw money for it and other things.

 

[SillyChicken]

Farmer... I couldn't agree more about buying beef direct!

I know of a butcher shops that still make their own sausages and smoked bacon (A&A Market in Vandercook) and they are way better than the stuff from the store.
Hopefully some time this year I'll be making a trip to Germany. I had been to Austria a few years ago and I loved it there. We had talked about moving there on a few occasions, but there are a few things we are not ready or willing to give up, and we're not keen on the idea of paying the catholic church.

I don't know how we can get away from identity theft these days... if you haven't been a victim yet, you will be.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Our steers will be ready to be butchered by the end of summer or fall, and it will be our first time to eat our own beef. We bought two steers as calves from the farm where I use to work. One to go to our freezer and the other is to be sold to cover the cost of raising both of them. So, if anyone is interested in buying a whole or partial pasturefed holstein steer for beef or whatever in the fall, let me know.

 

[taprock]

I seem to be a dismal failure at culling birds. I have an Orloff - Yuri who was injured in the fall and ended up with a crossbeak. I was 90% sure it was a rooster but hadn't heard a crow or seen an egg so I figured it was worth waiting. If it was a hen I would wait to cull until after I had some eggs. So Yuri is very underweight even though I trim his beak. He is also the worst with mites - they seem to know he isn't healthy. Then this week he injured his foot. The toe is black as is a spot on the side. So it was either bring him in and treat or cull. I was undecided until I saw him sparing with another boy yesterday. I don't need another rooster, I would consider if he was a hen. So my DH said he would take care of him and didn't. So using Opa's very simple directions (obviously not simple enough for me

) I went to do the deed this morning. Now I'm the sensitive type that can't even stomp a mouse. So I finally get the nerve up and get him relaxed and give his head/neck a good pull. I feel separation (must not have been enough) and lay him down, only to have him stand up and look at me and toddle off to the door.

So I do it a second time with the same result. Third time I think I must need to get a better grip on his head... and can't get it to move at all.

So he's back in the coop until I get the nerve to try again or my DH comes home. I have never claimed to be a farmer.....

 

[naglady]

kimmie sorry about your hen, hope she spruces up,

bobbry you roosters are beautiful what kind are they


I like to know how my chicken is process and with no chemicals.. thats why i started doing my own, if someone offers me some old chickens, and dont mind what i do with them then i will process them.. and sometimes i get some really good layers out of the bunch..


farmer thats pretty smart idea to recoop some of your cost. i know someone that bread their cow, she is going to have a baby, then eat mom and repeat cycle.. but i like your way better..



taprock all i can say is omg.. that is to funny, i think that is what would happen to me..

sorry for laughing..


whats a good incubator thermometer/hygrometer.
i am up to 7 fertilized eggs in the fridge.. and when i pulled out the incubator i got i noticed there wasnt one in there..

 

[RIRJen]

Happy 5th Anniversary to me on BYC!

Been busy here, hatching out chicks and bottle feeding my daughters new nubian doeling. (pictures soon!)