Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[ldelahanty]

Happy Birthday RAZ! Hope you had a great day! We have just been crazy busy working with chickens for fair! Hunter is taking Gravy and his pullet Goldeneye for showmanship and Gravy's beautiful blue eggs for the open and 4-h shows. Fair is the first week in August...there is so much to do and o little time!

 

[ldelahanty]

Gravy in her favorite spot...the zucchini!

Miss Houdini all grown up 5 months old!

 

[taprock]

Sad day, I lost my Snowball to heat stroke. She somehow got herself in the big birds run and couldn't find her way out or to the water. After we found her we gave her water and put ice packs around her but it was too late. It was not that hot today so I wasn't worried about letting her out. She sticks to her little yard and coop and rarely leaves it. She follows the rooster around most of the time.

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

So sorry Tap!

Back to ACV- I believe you can go up to 3T p/ gal. I know I likely add at least that much to my FF. I only rec'd Bragg's b/c it is the only brand that I've found locally to me with the mother, Trefoil... But indeed, many recipes to make (or grow?) your own. The most interesting/easy one I saw used a container of frozen apple juice concentrate. PK-- don't toss those jugs when they're empty, just refill them with regular-old-cheap-pasturized-ACV and let it sit. The mother, left behind in the Bragg's bottle, will inoculate the cheap stuff and you've made your own.

Happy Wishes RaZ!

I have a duck that has decided that she is going broody. Found another hidden clutch, the 3rd this year. The eggs were warm this am, someone is sitting. One potentially positive thing is that I have only one mature KC drake to contribute to the gene pool-- So, please PM me regarding how many ducklings you'd like in about 28 days!!

 

[preciouskitty]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAZ
Dogs don't have crops.
Could you post the recipe?  Please

Will post recipe in a few hours when I get to work

ACV: Yep, after I had researched knew the key was "the Mother" vs. brand. So, yesterday, feed dog & think, "gee, this'll be good for puppy", so I fill his large METAL water bowl with water spiked with ACV. Duh. Caught myself about an hour later & realized I best empty it & get him a big plastic bowl if I want to share the ACV with him.

I don't believe it. My roosters are already having a crowing contest. Was just talking to my neighbor last night & I think they are waking them up on nights when we can have windows open. They don't get up early like me. We are the only 2 houses on dozens of acres, but.....
Since I have no desire to breed the birds I don't need the roosters for anything but predator warning, etc., and lately they really aren't even doing that. So, not sure what I am going to do. Told her to keep me informed of the "irritation" factor & we'll go from there. BTW, I have GREAT neighbors.

 

[preciouskitty]

Oven Dried Grape Tomatoes

Per 2 pints washed & halved grape tomatoes

2 T Olive Oil
1 T Dried Oregano
1 ½ T Dried Basil
2 Cloves Garlic, minced (or more, if you really like garlic!)
Salt
Pepper

Preheat oven to 225̊. Mix everything.
Spread, skin side down, on parchment paper on cookie sheet.
Bake for 3 hours & turn oven off. Let tomatoes set overnight.

Store in zip-loc in fridge, or vacuum seal & freeze.

Sometimes I also add VERY thin sliced/diced jalapenos & onion…sometimes a little cayenne…
Can really add any spices that you want!

NOTE: CHERRY tomatoes contain more moisture, so need to bake longer than grape; the one time I used those, I believe I baked for ~5hrs.

 

[ladyrsanti]

I don't believe it. My roosters are already having a crowing contest. Was just talking to my neighbor last night & I think they are waking them up on nights when we can have windows open. They don't get up early like me. We are the only 2 houses on dozens of acres, but.....
Since I have no desire to breed the birds I don't need the roosters for anything but predator warning, etc., and lately they really aren't even doing that. So, not sure what I am going to do. Told her to keep me informed of the "irritation" factor & we'll go from there. BTW, I have GREAT neighbors.

I'm processing my roosters within the next few days. They're the same way, crowing contests at the crack of dawn. That's how I know it's time for the freezer. I don't know if it bothers the neighbors or not but it drives ME up a wall! We sleep with the windows open from April to November, so I can't stand for it. One rooster, fine. Two competing... no. It's time they go and I might have to do the midget turkey too, even though I'm pretty sure she's not at weight yet. Don't think she'll get on well while I'm on vacation (she can't get in and out of the coop on her own and can't be penned on her own or she is lonely and cries). Speaking of which:

I WILL BE AT THE ALTO FARMER'S MARKET TOMORROW SAT., JULY 13 from 9am to 2pm

And I will have my yarns, my spinning wheel for demonstration, hopefully some eggs if I can squeeze a couple more out the girls and those two roosters for a final try at re-homing them before they go into the freezer. I was gonna do in the roos last weekend but the person who runs the market got wind of the possibility of roosters and got excited about having a market just like the ones in India!

Cracked me up. So I'm taking them more as a side show. I know no one will buy them. They are actually quite nice-looking roos though so who knows. The BO/SLW is quiet (until he crows). Doesn't say word otherwise. And the BO/BR is just a looker. He dances for me too, which I would say is sweet but I know what he's thinking. Anyway, it's NOT a big farmer's market, little rinky-dink town I live near that allows vendors a table for free. Just a handful of vendors and sometimes some local bluegrass band I guess, though I haven't heard them so I can't speak for their skill.

 

[gladahmae]

One rooster, fine. Two competing... no.

I was just going to say the same thing. This spring when I had the 2 wyandottes, the orpington, and the EE my yard ALWAYS had someone crowing on it. Got down to just the one roo.....ahhhh. Not silence, but he doesn't start until about 5:30am, and the coop is insulated, so it's muted.



Picking up some new birds today. Going to use the meat tractors as quarantine pens. The conditions for the older ones look good in pictures......I've had terrible luck *almost* every time I get chickens/chicks off of CL from their living conditions aren't so great....muddy gross pens/runs full of un-eaten table scraps and building that look like they might collapse if there's a stiff breeze.



Tap: sorry about your silkie. She was absolutely lovely.

 

[Scifisarah]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAZ

Dogs don't have crops.
Could you post the recipe? Please

Well geez, I know dogs don't have crops. I was just making a reference that animals will eat strange things sometimes, and get themselves in trouble.

 

[Scifisarah]

Phooey, the market here in Grand Rapids doesn't allow live animals. I was thinking how nice that would be, if I could sell my woolies and get rid of a few extra roosters.

I decided not to do any more markets this year. For the small amount I sell, it just makes more sense to keep everything on Etsy and spend the time I'd be at the market sewing. It is fun to do once in a while though and free table is the right price! I laugh when people try to get me to come to their sales/markets and want $75 or more to book a table space.

I'm processing my roosters within the next few days. They're the same way, crowing contests at the crack of dawn. That's how I know it's time for the freezer. I don't know if it bothers the neighbors or not but it drives ME up a wall! We sleep with the windows open from April to November, so I can't stand for it. One rooster, fine. Two competing... no. It's time they go and I might have to do the midget turkey too, even though I'm pretty sure she's not at weight yet. Don't think she'll get on well while I'm on vacation (she can't get in and out of the coop on her own and can't be penned on her own or she is lonely and cries). Speaking of which:

I WILL BE AT THE ALTO FARMER'S MARKET TOMORROW SAT., JULY 13 from 9am to 2pm

And I will have my yarns, my spinning wheel for demonstration, hopefully some eggs if I can squeeze a couple more out the girls and those two roosters for a final try at re-homing them before they go into the freezer. I was gonna do in the roos last weekend but the person who runs the market got wind of the possibility of roosters and got excited about having a market just like the ones in India!

Cracked me up. So I'm taking them more as a side show. I know no one will buy them. They are actually quite nice-looking roos though so who knows. The BO/SLW is quiet (until he crows). Doesn't say word otherwise. And the BO/BR is just a looker. He dances for me too, which I would say is sweet but I know what he's thinking. Anyway, it's NOT a big farmer's market, little rinky-dink town I live near that allows vendors a table for free. Just a handful of vendors and sometimes some local bluegrass band I guess, though I haven't heard them so I can't speak for their skill.