Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Huston's Happy Hens]

Hey fellow gardeners....My squash are FINALLY going crazy - I'm thinking that I should cut off new growth so that the developing squash will get the majority of the energy....think I'm thinking right?

 

[Opa]

Hey fellow gardeners....My squash are FINALLY going crazy - I'm thinking that I should cut off new growth so that the developing squash will get the majority of the energy....think I'm thinking right?

yes

 

[Lisa and girls]

Wow, sorry to hear about the issues. Some kind of luck, eh? Hopefully just dehydration. Mine drink out of their nipple waterers just fine but they make it clear that they only do it to stay alive because when they get out of the coop they descend on the sheep's water like they just found an oasis in the desert. Clearly prefer basins of water to the nipples. I really miss my camera, the one that stopped working at Niagara Falls (a piece of me died that day). Anyway, I'm still using the video camera to take pictures and it SUCKS! But here are a couple pictures of my two coronation sussex chicks that Custard hatched several weeks ago. I'm thinking they are two roos, my luck. But they are both lavender which is nice, regardless. The larger one (top photo) seems to have the faintest traces of feathers on its legs - maybe tapping some brahma deep in the gene pool? The younger of the two is behind on feathering and looks pretty scruffy. Mom's still taking care of them but not for much longer. She's just finished her molt and is increasingly more interested in going back into the coop with the rest. Who would want to miss out on the communal barn siesta after all? Usually there's a hen sleeping or scratching on the sheep's back but not today unfortunately.

That is a great pic! But please please please get a picture of the hen on a sheep back!

 

[mg15]

I made zucchinni bread. The receipe calls for two teaspoons of baking soda for two loaves of bread. icky.
Does anyone have a receipe for zucchinni bread w/o so much baking soda. ?
Thanks.

 

[Lisa and girls]

I made zucchinni bread. The receipe calls for two teaspoons of baking soda for two loaves of bread. icky.
Does anyone have a receipe for zucchinni bread w/o so much baking soda. ?
Thanks.

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/6698/moms-zucchini-bread
This is my go to recipe. I love it.

 

[mg15]

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/6698/moms-zucchini-bread
This is my go to recipe. I love it.

Thank you thank you thank you.
Just what I was looking for.

 

[Stacykins]

Awesome. I'm probably going to get my first negative feedback from selling Araucana eggs on eBay. I only offered them for sale when I was certain my eggs had excellent fertility. In fact, today I just hatched a batch of my Araucana's eggs. I had a 90% hatch, with zero that didn't develop. The 10% that didn't hatch were dead in shell, tufted chicks that I assume suffered from the lethal gene.

The person has four eggs developing. I'm not going to lie, when I first started with Araucanas and shipped eggs, I thought it was GREAT to have four developing! I am guessing they don't feel the same way, or know how delicate/difficult it is to hatch shipped Araucana eggs. The breed truly is harder to hatch than others, they just don't seem to take shipping as well as say, black copper marans eggs.

 

[taprock]

Tap, Silly, how are those phoenix? I am very worried, and paranoid that they may have been effected by the mareks that is taking out some of my chicks now. Obviously if it is taking out some of my chicks, there is always the very strong possibility that it's been in contact with the birds your got from me, and I am very sorry if it has.

Jack and Jill are doing fine. You don't really know when yours were exposed and unless you vaccinate them you are supposed to consider them exposed after two days so.....

Awesome. I'm probably going to get my first negative feedback from selling Araucana eggs on eBay. I only offered them for sale when I was certain my eggs had excellent fertility. In fact, today I just hatched a batch of my Araucana's eggs. I had a 90% hatch, with zero that didn't develop. The 10% that didn't hatch were dead in shell, tufted chicks that I assume suffered from the lethal gene.

That's too bad, shipped eggs are never an exact science. And you are right about breeds, I had three breeds shipped in the same box. Only one had a 90% hatch rate, the others only half as good.

There are rumors of warm weather. I so hope it is true! I have next week off for the fair and we could spend afternoons at the beach!

 

[snowflake]

That is a great pic! But please please please get a picture of the hen on a sheep back!

x2 love the pics

I made zucchinni bread. The receipe calls for two teaspoons of baking soda for two loaves of bread. icky.
Does anyone have a receipe for zucchinni bread w/o so much baking soda. ?
Thanks.

I have an awsome pumpkin and zucc bread and a choclet zucchinni cake recipe if you want,?

Well I decided that I should check on the littlest chicks too when I went out to get eggs. And a couple of them see "off" to me as well (this is in a completely different coop). The ONLY thing they have in common is that I switched out their bell waterers for nipple waterers and maybe they're having trouble getting ENOUGH water out of the new style bucket. I banded the chick that seemed the most lethargic and gave them a dish of water. Hopefully all it ends up being is dehydration.

you might try putting garlic and honey in their water, really good for their immune system

 

[Farmerboy16]

Today is day 6 past the due date.....no baby yet. My best friend told me that if calves are born before the due date, its a heifer, but born after the due date its a bull. Well, it went over the due date..... But at this point, I will be happy with a live and healthy bull calf. I am sure that she will deliver before or on Wednesday next week for that is full moon. More babies are born during full moons than at any other times.

What I don't get is that everyone here have been saying that they had a wet summer, but it has been dry with sparse rain here. We had no rain for 3 weeks in July, and no good and soaking rain for 2 weeks now.