Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[snowflake]

Because the little single duckling is getting bigger, she needs to have more room than what I can offer her in the brooder. SO, there is a little alcove on the deck. The side is hardware cloth mesh so she can't go through the railing, and I'm using a baby/doggy gate to keep her there. It'll be spiffed up a little more, that is just the basic setup I threw together. She spends so much time with me, so she doesn't need a ton of enrichment out there.

Because nights are so darn cold, she'll go back to the brooder to sleep.

sweet!!

Michigan group, I'm planning on going to the agricultural meeting in Benton Harbor tomorrow. I'm a nurse and work 7am to 7pm today. Unfortunately I just found our I'm getting mandated until 11pm.
Anybody in the Grand Rapids area interested in riding with me? It would be nice to have someone to talk to on the way there! (And keep me awake) coffee is on me

wish I could have to take son to meeting

Good new my EE hen has been found in the corner nesting box that is hard to get to when I reached in there I got pecked! Yay there she is laying on eggs. Ok only one chicken gone my roo so, I will miss that roo. Now what to do with this dog.

Glad to hear,
sorry about the testing, My daughters Dr. stopped putting things on her chart said it just hinders ins. and doesn't change any thing

 

[Amastacia]

We are working on the robotics situation. We are at perfect liberty to run the team through any venue that will have us, be it the 'Y', Community Ed or our own living room. But we were really hoping that the school would be interested in... you know... aaaaaaand I can't even go there. I thank all who have messaged me with support though, that I can say.

Anyway, in vastly less important and pertinent but SAFE news, I somehow managed to go "viral" on FB - viral insofar as Michigan goes. This is a picture I made for a vacation photo book made with a photograph of my hands and a Michigan County map superimposed over top, all in front of a photo I took of Wamplers Lake. A local person who runs a MI FB group re-posted it from a comment I made a few days ago and it's gotten over 1000 'likes' and '300' shares. I wish people would be a little more understanding though. It was meant as a personal project only (the book is sitting on my shelf) and I wasn't prepared to see the harsh public criticism in the comments but pleased that it's making the rounds nonetheless.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...3835948839.471539.281565998838&type=1&theater

that picture is really neat. ignore the mean people, their just jealous

 

[1muttsfan]

that picture is really neat. ignore the mean people, their just jealous

X2, wow what a bunch of whiners. I think it is very cool.

 

[chickflick]

Lady, the pic is really cool!! I can't believe the things those people are saying! Don't think any one of them could come up with such a creative idea!!

 

[NovaAman]

Love the art work. I commented and shared. Ya know what they say... Can't please all of the people all of the time. I can't believe the petty whiners... But those are the ones who can't see the creativity for what it is.

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

I am hopeful that I will be starting this day off with a ban. Yesterday, just before I returned home from my day with friends, a coyote was was again in the yard wistfully looking for an obportunityh for a chicken dinner. So as soon as Hope is awaken, I will take a 22-250 from the gun safe and sit it near the door where it will be readily available if the coyote returns today. Since I am fairily certain that my flock is secure, I may elect to dispatch himI a few months from now when its fur is prime and I might be able to get a reasonable amount for the pelt. I can't help but admire the coyotes's ability to not just survive, but to thrive is our rapidly diminishing world.

Coyotes are cool, agreed. Have you considered trapping? The DNR sent me an email last week or so, you can take the Trapper Ed Course online, although I do not believe it is required in MI. Just thinking about preserving that pelt. There's a lot to know about trapping! Just FYI, here's info from the 2013 Michigan Hunting and Trapping Digest (Season Dates and Bag Limits). For clarity, Behind the glare, Note #1 reads: "Racoon and Coyote may be taken on private property...if they are doing or about to do damage..." There are 3 additional pages in the Digest regarding Non-Lethal Cable Restraints and Nighttime.

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

I have four other ducks, adults. The batch of hatching eggs I was sent was terrible. 75% were infertile clears (I ALWAYS open up eggs that are clear 7 days into incubation, these had no bullseye). Only two eggs made it to lockdown. One which struggled to hatch later died. I cannot integrate this duckling with the adults yet. Trust me, I tried, they beat the snot out of her.

So she is a human buddy at the moment. When she can hold her own against the adults, she can live with them. Until they, she is my constant companion except when I am at work and college classes.

Flock Dynamics, gotta love it. LOL ducks have very complicated social lives, don't they?! I agree, that baby is too little to hold her own with adults.

 

[jlynnet]

I dropped my extra boys off at Munsell's early this morning. Kinda sad watching my beautiful boys go bye bye. Happy to see 4 of them go thoug since they were a pain in the rear!

 

[mara1]

Quote: Try Craigslist and I just got some chicks from Maybee Mi. He should still have some. Real nice guy http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/grd/4007360583.html

Dose anybody live in the Livonia/Redford area?

 

[SillyChicken]

We are working on the robotics situation. We are at perfect liberty to run the team through any venue that will have us, be it the 'Y', Community Ed or our own living room. But we were really hoping that the school would be interested in... you know... aaaaaaand I can't even go there. I thank all who have messaged me with support though, that I can say.

Anyway, in vastly less important and pertinent but SAFE news, I somehow managed to go "viral" on FB - viral insofar as Michigan goes. This is a picture I made for a vacation photo book made with a photograph of my hands and a Michigan County map superimposed over top, all in front of a photo I took of Wamplers Lake. A local person who runs a MI FB group re-posted it from a comment I made a few days ago and it's gotten over 1000 'likes' and '300' shares. I wish people would be a little more understanding though. It was meant as a personal project only (the book is sitting on my shelf) and I wasn't prepared to see the harsh public criticism in the comments but pleased that it's making the rounds nonetheless.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...3835948839.471539.281565998838&type=1&theater

The worst critics.. are usually the ones with no talent at all. Just pretend your a duck, and let the drivel run off your back... LOL!