Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[gaitngirl]

I should have been more specific. Monday is the MAEAP inspection for verification. That is the state agency that verifies farm operations as being environmentally sound as well as meeting GAAMPs and other state and federal criteria.

As an example, all of the wineries in Mission Point, near Traverse City are MAEAP certified.

I am promoting this programme as it makes good environmental sense. For us, our animals and our dear Mother Earth.

Oops! Sorry - I thought it was the Garden City Chicken PoPo checking up on you . . .

 

[RaZ]

Today I rested and got some laundry taken care of. Not a very productive day.

Are you kidding me? Any day that I can get a load of laundry done is a banner productive day.

 

[snowflake]

I could not imagine having to do the coop clean out again. DH wore me out yesterday just getting some landscape block put in around the flower bed. The landscape timbers that were there had started to rot. They have only been there about 15 years. Today I rested and got some laundry taken care of. Not a very productive day.

you need to not beat your self up, every one deserves a day off and you need to not over due, Your health is more important.

I am looking for pics of Delaware and Basque chicks. I have had some hatch (Basque rooster,) I am hoping at least 3or4 may have been from my Basque hen, pics on line I found were not real helpful
Just hatched today and momma's are not to willing to share. hoping to get a good look tomorrow if they leave the nest.My Jersey Giant has gone broody to so I may try to slip a couple chicks under her. 3 hens may have to share the chicks that hatched. Not even sure how many yet. didn't want to harass the momma's encase there are still 1or2 hatching.

 

[snowflake]

nice blue bird Laura,

Gait hope your duck is doing better,

good luck Raz, did you get your soil test back yet?

 

[Trefoil]

Thanks. The muscovy must be doing somewhat better. I just checked on her again after I finished mowing and she ended up laying an egg, too!!! I thought about vet wrap - it's somewhat stretchy but I thought it might still be too constricting to let her swallow food . . .

I would just keep using the blu coat or scarlet oil, once she's better and out again, it should even keep the others from pecking at her.

Caught the baby skunk this am.. and relocated it.. hopefully i dont see anymore. i will be setting these traps for awhile to make sure i catch all the predators in the area.

, skunks are very useful for varmit control. They eat a lot of grubs, I was surprised that it went after your chickens, I had a week old chick escape from the brooder and it was loose with the skunk for 2 days before I could find it. I was lucky it was during our heat spell but it had to have been eating and drinking the skunks food. Hopefully you've gotten your coop predator proofed, its a lot easier than trying to keep predators away.

I was going to bring some bee balm to share/ trade at Chickensock.

OHHH, please do.

It must be the time of year when the momma coons take their babies out hunting. For the last 2 nights someone has been tipping my grain barrels over, I think this time I've got them coon proofed but I'll find out for sure tomorrow morning. I love the baby coons, I just wish they would find somewhere else to "hunt". They must not like fermented feed, they haven't
gotten into that,,, yet.
Good luck with the inspection,Raz

 

[tjbeckman]

Looking for a wyandotte roo. I have a columbian and love him. I am in Millington (thumb) and will not be able to make it to CS. Please let me know what you have

 

[gladahmae]

Looking for a wyandotte roo. I have a columbian and love him. I am in Millington (thumb) and will not be able to make it to CS. Please let me know what you have

Well I'm nowhere NEAR you, but I'm going to have at least one BLRW cockerel to rehome in a few weeks.


I love fostering for my rescue, but sometimes it's REALLY REALLY HARD. Yesterday our foster went out on trial adoption for a whopping 3 hours, and since he went out we took on a "return" 10 month old pup. (so after picking up the 3-hour-this-isn't-going-to-work foster and we'd already picked up the new one, we have 2 fosters and our dog again, and we REALLY prefer to just have 1 foster at a time or things get too crazy) Pup is fully house trained but not crate trained at all. And I don't let new dogs have free-run of my house at night for at least a week. The result? He whined almost the entire night.

We ended up baby-gating him into our very large bathroom to get him down from a bark to the whining. I'm exhausted, to say the least. And I have to work today.

The new coop area is almost ready! WOO HOO!! It just needs some finishing touches and some paint.....

 

[jrsckn]

I have 1 black australorp and 4 buff orpington cockerels available if anyone wants them. They are about 8 weeks old, starting to crow and fight already; I don't have the space to grow out that many cockerels for the dinner table. I'm in the Durand/Flint area. If not my, dogs will enjoy a chicken dinner

 

[uchytil]

I could not imagine having to do the coop clean out again. DH wore me out yesterday just getting some landscape block put in around the flower bed. The landscape timbers that were there had started to rot. They have only been there about 15 years. Today I rested and got some laundry taken care of. Not a very productive day.

So now, today, maybe just sit on your porch and enjoy the hummingbirds? I have some so I know you have, hmmm, a hundred, or so. Last time I was there they just about carried me away, ha ha. Take care...John

 

[uchytil]

Uh, oh. I made a big (huge) mistake. There was a sign that said free kittens