Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[chickflick]

Oh gosh!! I guess it's new. Didn't notice it. Yeah, Krisrose and I have been on here a long time now. Seen many people come and go. Miss some of the old one, but that's the way things go. Thanks guys!

 

[Opa]

Just came in from watering the birds and the cold cuts right through to the bone. I think I'll spend the afternoon reading and trying to stay awake til bedtime.

Supper tonight is going to be egg noodles in a mushroom sauce and leftover smoked chicken mixed in. It's amazing how many different dishes can be prepared using smoked chicken. I think that we only have one or two smoked and vacuumed sealed chickens in the freezer so I quess that I had better contemplate smoking some more.

 

[SillyChicken]

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.

what about a little super glue and paper towel or tissue to help secure it? Always works in a pinch. Hope she pulls through.

 

[SillyChicken]

Just came in from watering the birds and the cold cuts right through to the bone. I think I'll spend the afternoon reading and trying to stay awake til bedtime.

Supper tonight is going to be egg noodles in a mushroom sauce and leftover smoked chicken mixed in. It's amazing how many different dishes can be prepared using smoked chicken. I think that we only have one or two smoked and vacuumed sealed chickens in the freezer so I quess that I had better contemplate smoking some more.

mmmmmmmmmmmmm smoked chicken! Today for lunch we had home made canned chicken soup! We can the soup and add the noodles when we heat it up. Tastey!

 

[SillyChicken]

Brought wee man home today........ OMG......... I'm in love! He's so sweet! We picked up a portable play pen at a consignment store works perfect, and will be great for future bottle babies! DH has been very very supportive of my insanity and thought the play pen was a great idea! It went from baby staying in the garage or basement to he's now in the living room where I planned all along....... darn I'm good!.

 

[NovaAman]

My baby!! LOL, nothing wrong with a house goat!

A story... A tragedy has struck my coop...

So, last night, I cooked up a back of stuffing that I didn't quite like from Thanksgiving. I took it out to the birds just before they went to roost so they'd have an ice warm mash of num nums to carry them through the night... Oh... how bad a mistake this was... So bad...

I went out early in the afternoon to shovel, and bring left over chopped up french toast to the birds. Oh, boy they were happy birds with that. AND now the bad part... Florus, my beautiful Florus has been injured. He's be defaced. Shaved. Plucked. De-bearded! Yes! That big black beautiful beard is GONE! Over night! IT IS GONE! Those capital "b's" plucked him clean!

I am guessing he was a sloppy eater of the great and powerful stuffing. I am thinking, he was saving tidbits in his beard for later snacks. I am thinking, those evil faverolles girls took it into their pea brained heads to "help" him clean up... My poor beautiful Florus...

I think they were just getting even for his beginning days of teen ager love, before he became a good rooster... who gave them treats first... built their nest... when they were first penned together and he made their first weeks hello....

That's a womans scorn for you. Or spite for you... yup.

 

[teeville5]

Aw. He's a cute little guy.

Speaking of, I found this on my fb news feed. Called Goats yelling like humans. Hilarious! We were laughing our bus off.

 

[Trefoil]

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.

Hey, does anyone know of somewhere nearby where I can get hatching eggs or even already hatched ducklings of the Welsh Harlequin breed? My younger sister REALLY wants to raise them, and she has been looking for some good quality ducklings or hatching eggs. If we could find some within a reasonable driving distance that would be Awesome!!! She would really like to get eggs set by the first of April, or ducklings by the first of May if at all possible. Thanks!

Hi
Charity and welcome. If you are unable to find your ducks locally, I have an order in at Meyer Hatchery for May 14-16 delivery date. They have Welsh Harlequin ducks, if it helps, you can add your ducks to my order, but I'm not ordering ducks so it may not. I live in Millington, which is about 30 miles + or- from Lapeer.

My baby!! LOL, nothing wrong with a house goat!

A story... A tragedy has struck my coop...

So, last night, I cooked up a back of stuffing that I didn't quite like from Thanksgiving. I took it out to the birds just before they went to roost so they'd have an ice warm mash of num nums to carry them through the night... Oh... how bad a mistake this was... So bad...

I went out early in the afternoon to shovel, and bring left over chopped up french toast to the birds. Oh, boy they were happy birds with that. AND now the bad part... Florus, my beautiful Florus has been injured. He's be defaced. Shaved. Plucked. De-bearded! Yes! That big black beautiful beard is GONE! Over night! IT IS GONE! Those capital "b's" plucked him clean!

I am guessing he was a sloppy eater of the great and powerful stuffing. I am thinking, he was saving tidbits in his beard for later snacks. I am thinking, those evil faverolles girls took it into their pea brained heads to "help" him clean up... My poor beautiful Florus...

I think they were just getting even for his beginning days of teen ager love, before he became a good rooster... who gave them treats first... built their nest... when they were first penned together and he made their first weeks hello....

That's a womans scorn for you. Or spite for you... yup.

That kid is adorable. Sorry Nova about poor Florus, but you know what they say about what goes around comes around.

 

[Stacykins]

Aw. He's a cute little guy.

Speaking of, I found this on my fb news feed. Called Goats yelling like humans. Hilarious! We were laughing our bus off.

Yea, I saw that. The ones who sounded the most human-like were actually sheep!

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

what about a little super glue and paper towel or tissue to help secure it?  Always works in  a pinch.  Hope she pulls through.

I will add that I have used a coffee filter + superglue to repair fingernails...it has worked for me. Hope ur bird improves Stacy.