Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[snowflake]

Raz, nice chicks, and kitty, she sees a meal coming for her, if only those peepers would hop out,

Daron like the size of that calf, My soninlaw keeps telling me we should get one that size, how much milk does one that size give per day?

looks like a nice day to clean,house and coop, maybe bake, gota go watch grandsons play football at 10

I think one of my lavender amaricaunas spent the night in the tree, he is out walking around ontop of the run and I haven't opened it yet. Lucky the owels didn't get him, but I have tomany of them any how,

 

[Opa]

Yesterday we peeled and sliced about a half bushel of Red Rome apples to put in our dehydrators. Just in case someone should ever ask you, that many apples results in a 3 gallon pail of peels and cores. This morning I took the dried apples out and will vacuum seal them for storage as soon as I can work up some ambition. For some reason that is something that always seems to be in short supply.

We will peel and dry another 1/2 bushel later this morning and when those are packaged I will send them to an aunt in Arkansas. When Granny was telling her that we were picking apple she commented that she sure could use a bushel. So I will send her the dried apples with a note that reads "one bushel Red Rome apples, just add water". This particular aunt would always bring lots of blackberries and pecans to my parents to give to me when I went south. This past winter she sent me 12 quart size bags filled with shelled pecans, so sending her a bushel of dried apples is small repayment.

 

[tdhenson86]

I will be butchering all of the roos and turkeys that I won't need in the next few weeks... Might be about 10 of them. I am downsizing my flock a lot.


Bella's first calf Maybelle went in heat on Tuesday, so my friends from where I work came over Wednesday morning and AI her. Hopefully it caught, and we will see a little bouncy calf in 9 months!!! If she went in heat again in a few weeks, then we will have to AI her again, but hopefully we don't have too. Maybelle is 50% Lowline Angus, so that is what we used to breed her, so her calf will be 75% Lowline Angus. Lowlines are like a mini version of a standard Angus, but far more practical to raise than the standard Angus. They eat less, and produce more beef per acre than the standard ones. The father of the calf lives in Australia, so half of the calf made quite a trip across the world!

Maybelle is almost 16 months old, so she will not be get much bigger than what she is now.

Good luck with the AI! I hope you have a gorgeous calf soon!

 

[tdhenson86]

Yesterday we peeled and sliced about a half bushel of Red Rome apples to put in our dehydrators. Just in case someone should ever ask you, that many apples results in a 3 gallon pail of peels and cores. This morning I took the dried apples out and will vacuum seal them for storage as soon as I can work up some ambition. For some reason that is something that always seems to be in short supply.

We will peel and dry another 1/2 bushel later this morning and when those are packaged I will send them to an aunt in Arkansas. When Granny was telling her that we were picking apple she commented that she sure could use a bushel. So I will send her the dried apples with a note that reads "one bushel Red Rome apples, just add water". This particular aunt would always bring lots of blackberries and pecans to my parents to give to me when I went south. This past winter she sent me 12 quart size bags filled with shelled pecans, so sending her a bushel of dried apples is small repayment.

When do you know to pick the apples? I've had two apples fall from the tree, but when I picked one on my own and tasted it, it wasn't quite ripe yet.

 

[Amy PT]

Opa, I read that sign too quickly, and read "creamed" as "cremated." I'm a hard core coffee drinker, but I thought cremation was a bit extreme.

 

[Opa]

Quote: Knowing when is the right time to pick will vary with individual varieties of apple. Macintosh were ready last week and the Red Rome are mostly ready now, however, I pick only the ones with red being the predominant color. My red and yellow Delicious are still at least a week or more from being ready. Probably the best gauge of ripeness is to eat one and if it tastes good, pick more.

 

[taprock]

Anyone....what does it mean when the yolks break when you crack the egg? I have some doing this and really want to know what the girls are lacking or what is going on.

 

[mara1]

Hi, Everyone

I'm new. I have a question about housing chickens in winter. Live in a township so limited space. I have a 2 car garage that had another 2 car addition on the back and it's separated into two rooms. I basically just framed a wall/door with wire across half of the smaller room which makes a 10x8 space.Debating if I shout put a vent/fan for more ventilation plan on using the rest of the space for growing some veggies this winter and holding my koi over so it will be heated. My guys are on between 2-10wks old?

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome Mara, hope you enjoy your new birds! Ventilation is the most important thing for keeping the birds healthy. Most breeds don't need winter heating, in fact it's counterproductive. Of course the babies need heat until they are feathered out, but after that most birds need shelter from rain, snow, and wind. Predator proof is vital; hardware cloth over openings, not chicken wire. What breeds of chickens do you have? Pictures! Mary

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

Anyone....what does it mean when the yolks break when you crack the egg? I have some doing this and really want to know what the girls are lacking or what is going on.

I always thought that meant the eggs were old? I've only had it happen with grocery store chicken eggs.