Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[snowflake]

How do you go about killing them and then putting them in the crockpot? I wish I could do it maybe if I saw it done?

there are several good videos on U-Tube

And to lighten the mood...Just how did chickens learn to enjoy fish so much? I just can't imagine a chicken baiting a hook with a nice, juicy worm while drinking beer and waiting for a bite.

Hi Everyone! Real name is Charity. Live with my parents and 3 siblings on our first real country "farm" - 2 1/2 acres with a huge garden and almost 50 chickens, 5 ducks, and 2 dogs. We are just south of Lapeer, almost exactly 1 mile north of the town of Hadley, MI. My younger brother raises Cornish broilers in the summer in hoop houses on our back acre, about 3 batches of 100 chickens.

This may a hypothetical question...
Some reading about goats suggest that they can adapt to other animal species as companions. Can a goat really have a chicken, cat or dog as a fellow herd-member?

I'm just curious.

I have known people that will get a goat to keep their pony company??

Um, I have cows, and the goat will be living in the same pasture with the cows.

Anyway, good morning everyone! Been up since 1:16 am! Now back home from work.

Sorry farmerboy, would not want to get up at 1: I would have to go to bed at 6: PM

chickens aren't even in bed yet

 

[SillyChicken]

Um, I have cows, and the goat will be living in the same pasture with the cows.

Anyway, good morning everyone! Been up since 1:16 am! Now back home from work.

It's going to depend on the goat... she may or may not like the cows. Go for it and then decide how to manage it later...She may be fine alone, but coming from a herd of other goats, she may not readily accept a cow. I'm not trying to burst your bubble or anything! Can't wait to see her!

 

[Stacykins]

I have a hen who is not doing so well. She is inside now, in my brooder. She was so lethargic and limp, I could barely tell she was breathing. I can tell she is dehydrated, her eyes are sunken in and her skin doesn't snap back into place right away. I syringed her some electrolyte solution mixed with corn syrup.

When I found her she was very cold, and in the coop. She was in a nest box with a broody, snuggled as closely as possible. At first I thought was was laying an egg. But when I lifted her up to check under for other eggs, she just kinda hung there weakly and didn't protest. Not normal! Her feet look like they have some frostbite damage, too.

She does have an injury though. On the underside of her beak. I found it when I was giving her the solution. When I dripped some water IN her beak, a drop appeared under her chin. I thought I spilled. Nope, there is a hole there. The mean rooster I butchered yesterday HAD been beating up on my girls. So I think if she got wounded, and most of the water she drinks on her own drips through her wound before she can swallow, she quickly got dehydrated. I know dehydration can set an animal up for frostbite, too.

 

[NovaAman]

Nambroth made a plaster to fix her birds beak. ... Poor girl hope she pulls through.

 

[theron]

Hi Joyful, sorry I can't help you with ducks, but you might try Theron, he breeds some. And welcome to the Michigan thread

I don't breed welsh harlequins, but do breed calls, runners, and muscovies.

 

[chickflick]

Just had sandwiches with our German lunch meat! DH ordered some rom GermanDeli.com. It's so good.

Cold. Had some sun but now dark clouds are moving in. We've had snow flurries on and off.

newbie. Great place to sit and chat awhile.

 

[taprock]

Stacykins, hopefully you have found the problem, and in time. Poor girl.

I'm cooking up chicken soup today. Usually when I make soup I don't do the stock from scratch, today I am. Our own boy ... kinda odd to have your food named, but i guess it works. He was a little tough so soup he is for my sick DH. Hubby on day four of the flu, in bed and sounds like he's trying to cough up a lung. Although both my son and I got shots, the soap, hand sanitizer and can of Lysol have been our friends. We'll see if our chicken has any healing effects.

 

[1muttsfan]

Chickflick, is that 6 years award new or did I just miss it? Congrats anyway!

 

[1muttsfan]

Well, I see Krisrose got one too! You guys are founding members

 

[snowflake]

Well, I see Krisrose got one too! You guys are founding members

congrats all you award winners, very cool



Got 1 egg yesterday, got 6 today, yesterdays sun must have made them feel a litter better,