Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Lisa and girls]

Someone is a late bloomer and laid her first egg today or she's seriously slacking off! Lol

 

[Nigellas]

Anyone remember Juise? Juise - are you still on here? A friend of mine just posted this cute dragonfly craft tutorial on Facebook. I click the link to check it out and it's for Juise's blog. What a "crazy random happenstance".

PS, Nova - deal me in.

 

[RaZ]

Spell checkers must be in short supply. LOL

Says the queen of Novaisms.

 

[JoyfulPromise]

ANYBODY in Michigan who'e send me 3 or 4 EE fertile eggs in trade for white CHantecler, rare Canadian developed breed great for cold Michigan winters?? My girls are laying now and I'l like to add some colored eggs to my flock. Thanks

Hi ChicwannaB, We have a flock of 10 EE hens with an EE rooster. I was actually going to collect some eggs starting tomorrow to set for the Easter Hatch-along. I would be happy to trade you some EE eggs for a few of your Chantecler eggs! I looked up the Chantecler breed - never heard of it before, but it looks like a great dual purpose cold hardy breed! Don't have a lot of extra room, but I think I would like to add a few of those to our flock. Looks like you are only about 1 hour away from us, perhaps we could meet halfway? I would greatly prefer that to trying to ship the eggs. I will send you a PM with more details.

 

[chickflick]

Oh Nova, I've got to see it!! Please send to me!

 

[taprock]

Nova I could use a giggle.

 

[taprock]

Two chicks hatched today - more than a full day early. They were within minutes of each other. And now nothing, and it's making me nervous.
Chick one was a mix from our bantam coop. If I didn't know I would say it was a faverolle, but we don't have any right now so it must be a silkie cross, 5 toes, yellow, feathered legs, pink beak and yellow orange legs and no knobby head. The other is a Olandsk dwarf who still has his shell stuck to his feathers and dragging both parts with him. I told my son he should either be named Little Turtle or Shelldon. I sure hope more hatch but two will at least give me a chick fix.

 

[ChicwannaB]

Quote: YEAH, you are so close too.....I pm'd you, we can work something out.

 

[Stacykins]

Nigerian dwarf goats don't make very good snowplows! Their legs are too short!



My buck Georgie tried to tackle a drift, but ended up getting stuck! I rescued him and made him a path so he could follow me to the barn! His boer buddy had no issues, since Artie has longer legs than Georgie!

 

[ladyrsanti]

My poor husband is having a bad day. How bad was it? Not that bad but pathetic for sure. I think I've mentioned that he has an old car that doesn't run very well. The transmission needs work. It won't drive over 45mph unless he turns the overdrive off. Even still, he doesn't like to push it so he drives the 30 miles to work on the side streets rather than the expressway because he's too cheap and/or lazy to buy a new car or get this one fixed. Well... set that aside for a moment. He lost his cell phone on Tuesday night. He didn't know he lost it until the next day though. We called it and scoured the house, the car and the usual hiding spots but nothing turned up. Mind you, we're not worried that someone is using it. It's an old flip phone with no internet service. Who'd want it? But I did check our account and there's been no activity since his last call to me at 5:03 Tuesday night. The last call.

To start this bad day, my husband backs his already decrepit car out of the garage and knocks his passenger-side mirror loose. Oi! I saw him do it, though he thought no one was looking. I'm not sure he planned on telling me for a while (would not be the first time) but then I got an email this morning asking me to bring a roll of duct tape and scissors to lunch (I was meeting him anyway). It could have been that he needed it for one of his windows that shimmies down on its own but I knew. Oh yes, I knew. So yeah. Anyway, while I'm standing in the parking lot helping him duct tape his mirror back on the car, we discuss what might of become of his cell phone. Since it's not at home and not in his office or in the lost and found, he decides that he must have dropped it in the parking lot. Well, that was before the snow. We both look, almost comically looked over to the literal mountain of snow, seriously at least 15 ft high. Yeah, it could be a while before we find out. Come spring it might turn up.

He's currently meandering his way up to Traverse City in said geriatric car, sans cell phone. I made sure he had plenty quarters.

Think I ought to get him a new phone, a nice cheap flip phone.