Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Hillbilly Hen]

Rose, sorry to hear about the sick chicks and turkey. I hope things will improve.

 

[chickflick]

Laura, I can always count on you to say a kind word. Thank you so much for your concern.

 

[ladyrsanti]

Ladyr- yours is waaaay ahead of mine from the same hatch. My marans look like it'll be at least another month - not even pink combs. A couple of my backyard crosses that hatched with them are giving me an egg every day - but I'm so anxious to see those dark brown ones! One of my crosses is a RIR/BO that looks like a big fluffy orpington but is a beautiful shade of red - she hasn't missed giving me a little round egg each day since she started a couple weeks ago.

That's strange because I gave one of mine to my sister at about 6-8 weeks and hers is ahead of mine by a week or two, already laying. I've been wondering if it isn't the setup. It can't be the food because we feed our chickens the same kind. But her coop is HUGE compared to mine and most. Probably three times the size with the same amount of birds, even though mine is technically more than adequate for the number I have. I noticed when I started letting them free range all day that they seemed less stressed and started laying more. Not sure if that's what's behind it but it's all I've got to go on.

What are we? chopped chicken liver?

I guess so.

Oh, you guys know what I mean!!!! Friends friends. No disrespect intended but I've been on various forums for nearly 20 years now and never left one that gave a rat's behind or even noticed for that matter. That's just my personality and nothing to do with any of them or you guys. I do have to give it to this thread in this forum though ->I've never seen as many users who actually know each other personally. But still... maybe two of you here actually know my name - quick and no peeking!

Y'all are friendly enough. It's not that. I just seriously DO NOT have any friends. People always think I'm exaggerating when I say that or looking for attention. Nope. I really don't. Never really have. In grade school I used to have a friend, a boy, until the other kids made fun of us for being boyfriend and girlfriend. That kind of killed it. After that I was on the fringes of the loser geeks in high school, you know, the unpopular smart kids. Didn't make the top ten with them but almost. I was the loser of the losers, the outcast of the outcasts. Fun. It's just that they had all gone to the same elementary and I went to another and them having to explain all their obscure in-jokes to me just didn't work - they tried, I'll give them that. But moving towns about every five years since high school hasn't helped matters any either, on top of being a introverted stay-at-home mom.

Ah well... As Bilbo Baggins said: "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Lady, you have friends here

 

[RaZ]

Since everyone is being so friendly, how about some friends come over and help me finish the wood stacking and garage siding?

 

[Jake Levi]

yup yup.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Lady, you have friends here

X2.

 

[Amy PT]

Bess, if you want an in person friend, I totally volunteer.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Thank you all who posted vets, i put them in my notes!

Roo roo (maurice) is doing much better today. DH had a life saving revelation yesterday, we were having issues getting fluids in him and it was grim. I actually told him to get the gun; but he wanted to give it one more night. I smuggled him to his place and the roo saw the cat, boy did he come back to life! I guess he decided eating was better than becoming cat food (he wasn't in actual danger ever) Anywho, DH suggested sopping bits of bread in the manna pro chick vitamin water i was trying to dip him in. He started sucking those down and can walk today!!!! Woot!!!! Old pic, but here's my boy


Quote:Originally Posted by tsetse9 Your situation may pan out different than mine, but i haven't found reds to get along with the milder mannered breeds. Great egg layers, but kinda mean with the food. I haven't "met" australorps yet, but i think they are mild mannered as well as silkies. ? My ee's vary. Some of the strains are very shy and buck wild and some will trip you looking for treats. It's better to look around and ask questions. I wish i could help you because i've got the friendliest bunch of ee's one could ever want, but i have resperitory disease in my flock. ( carriers of it, they are fine but would infect your new birds) I don't kill them because it's so common in my area, but would hate to pass it along if it's not in yours. Look for the chunky round kinda ditzy ones, they are the goody lovers and in the people that i've seen post pics of that sort had treat mongers, LOL. A lot of the skinny tiny ones seem flighty to me. (these girls are fat little chicks, so it's not just the overeating. ) Note the plump bottomed chickmunk and the brown on the left, those 2 were my good ones. The white stripe ended up being a beautiful boy that died recently. He is missed, and was a total sweetie who loved to be held. Brown girl ended up being the orange and black girl below. Her momma is the one below that.







Quote:Originally Posted by chickflick
What are the symptoms? Did you already peek at my "notes" in my siggy link? I really need to get the "chicken health handbook" by gail damerow. I have a ton of it memorised from borrowing it from the library, but it has charts in there that i need to look at again. The one in particular traces age of death/ sickness and the most possible causes, since some sicknesses are very age specific.
Quote:Originally Posted by ladyrsanti Well, if i knew where in kent co you were perhaps we could have coffee? Me and nova met already, i'm trying to work on my people skills. I'm not a people person either . But a chicken person is a good person in my book!

 

[1muttsfan]

Raz, I will be right down. Don't wait for me to start, though.