Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[jimmywalt]

Anyone here from the Grand Haven area?

 

[TTracy]

Anyone here from the Grand Haven area?

I'm up in Twin Lake, not too far!!

 

[Folly's place]

Sorry for your loss; irresponsible dog owners are the pits! My two rescue dogs love to kill chickens, but we built a VERY secure yard for them; fencing plus electric fencing plus Invisible Fence. Any critter might get out sometime, but nearly never is how it should be. Maybe he'll learn if it hurts his pocketbook? Maybe SSS? So sorry. Mary

 

[Folly's place]

Sorry for your loss; irresponsible dog owners are the pits! My two rescue dogs love to kill chickens, but we built a VERY secure yard for them; fencing plus electric fencing plus Invisible Fence. Any critter might get out sometime, but nearly never is how it should be. Maybe he'll learn if it hurts his pocketbook? Maybe SSS? So sorry. Mary

 

[NovaAman]

I am from Holland, Jimmy

 

[gaitngirl]

Sorry about your loss there Five.

I think it hits us "harder" when it's a neighbors pet than when it's wild life, because we expect the neighbors to keep their dogs in their yards. The only dogs that have killed chickens here are my own. It's the boston that is the ring leader there. The puggle... she could care less, unless the boston starts it. Anyway, it's still just as frustrating when it's to wild life, but we deal with that on a different level. They need to eat too, and we have for the most part, moved into their turf. It just sucks the most when they take out so many, and only one is actually missing. Here where I am at , it's coons that are my problem. I have now gone to the extent of fencing the roofs under the tarps, as well as the floors of the runs I have been putting together. If the coop and run are going to be not moved, I will dump crushed concrete, or paving base over the fencing a few inches, rakes up real nice, washes out real nice too. At least now after the last coon attack, I am sleeping more peacefully at night, not worrying as much about losing birds to the demon coons. I can't do anything about the hawks, and hawk season is coming up...

So true!

 

[Farmerboy16]

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?

She is 50% Lowline Angus, which is beef breed, 25% Standard Angus, which is bigger version of the lowline, beef breed too, 25% Guernsey, which is a dairy breed. It will be interesting to see how much milk she gives when she calves next year. Maybe a gallon a day or so from her.

Thanks for the pics Daron, where's the new heifer pic? A mid August pic of my latest project. It's actually further on with the doors just about done. Hopefully in the next few weeks I can put a 99% done photo. Won't really be done until I get the ground reworked around it and some "animals" in there.

I love your barn!!! Can you come over and build me one??? Here is my latest pic of the new heifer.

I just can't believe that Belinda is bigger than the jersey boys! The jersey boys were born on May 19, and Belinda was born on August 17! Must be the milk from her mother!

Sold my Emus yesterday.

 

[RTFchickens]

Anyone here from the Grand Haven area?

I'm in Allendale. Not far from Grand Haven ;-)

 

[gaitngirl]

Belinda is just beautiful Daron! And I'm sorrY you had to sell your emus .

 

[Farmerboy16]

Anyone here from the Grand Haven area?

I am from Sparta, not that too far.

Belinda is just beautiful Daron! And I'm sorrY you had to sell your emus .

Thanks.