Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[snowflake]

@taprock
@snowflake
You DO know that dark chocolate is good for us, right? I mean all those antioxidants & so forth.
I eat at least an ounce per day.
I keep the 72oz Nestle morsels bags as my emergency stash for when the "good" chocolate runs out.

On my plane in Atlanta that'll get me to DC. It is one FULL

I know it is good for us, that has been my excuse, I love to suck on drk chocolate chips,how ever my dental tech has been complaining on the stains, since I don't drink coffee or tea or coke It has to be the chocolate so I have cut back, and all the Christmas and New Years goodies have added to the middle, can't afford new cloths so I guess it is time to cut back,
Welcome to Mi. BYC ,Love your coop I know you will love chickens, they are very entertaining. make good breakfast's too
Don't forget to check out Chicken Stock, in Lansing June 21st (I think) It is lots of fun and the best place to meet a bunch of chicken crazy's,
people with out chickens usually don't get it.

Lots of sun here today, run is such a muddy mess, don't think it will get better till spring. when all the snow melts,then we get more and that melts, really getting tired of this frozen world

 

[SillyChicken]

We seem to be the only small area in the state together ice, so I got the day off! So I finished my coyote quilt.

It may take a while for my fingertips to be back to normal but it's done.

Now to go look at the coop, and it's snowing again, so I guess it was a quick 12 hour warm up.

wow that is absolutely beautiful Tap! May I ask, how you sewed the hides together and what kind of backing, and how did you attach it? When I get enough rabbit pelts together, I plan to do something similar.

 

[gladahmae]

Well, I'm pretty sure I have *5* pullets laying in the grow-out coop now! The problem is, they are BURYING the eggs in the one box! I have to dig around in the box the marans like to lay in if I want to find their eggs, which is how I came across the newest egg shape/color from that coop. Silly birds! Egg numbers are continuing to climb, so I think it's time to start making weekly announcements on my facebook page for egg availability.

Mid-winter cabin fever is making me want to turn on the incubator, but none of the hens/pullets I want eggs from are laying right now. I'm going to have a blue/black sex-link pen (blue wyandotte over barred rocks and my cuckoo marans hen), and an olive-egger/blue egger pen (araucana over marans and wheaton ameraucanas). It's not the wyandotte pen I wanted, but at least it's something to *hopefully* keep me from spending a bunch of money on shipped eggs.

 

[SillyChicken]

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Looks like you're off to a great start!
I picked up Penny today! She chatted with me all the way home. Was totally freaked out when she first met the goats... they were all looking at each other like.. what the heck are you? Penny would have been happier if I had stayed out there with her. She is super friendly and not much bigger than the Nigerians. I can't wait to get her shorn in Feb.

I am working on a drawing for the International Yak Association's annual banquet. And speaking of which.. I need to get working on it.

 

[Trefoil]

I had to rubberband/ponytail three Polish yesterday as they were soaking their crest feathers again and I knew they would ice up as temps fell.

We gotta see pictures of this.

I write about our journey in a blog: Chicken Scratch Fever.

Nice to meet you all! It's great to see such a strong chicken community in Michigan!

Beautiful coop, you do good work. Brave too, to start a coop build in winter. Welcome to BYC .

Fuzzy- If you get it at the pharmacy it will be called boil salve or drawing salve and will be ~ $9. for a 4 oz or so tube. If you get it from Jeffers or maybe Amazon its ichthammol 20% ( the active ingredient in drawing salve and a much higher % of it) for about $5. for 14 oz. It seems to keep forever. I'm cheap.

@preciouskitty seems funny to fly all the way to Atlanta to get to DC...have a good trip!

Its the hubs. The last time I flew to Portland,ore, it was via Dallas ( I kid you not) and that was out of detroit. Enjoy your trip and have some lobster for the rest of us stuck here.

Well, I'm pretty sure I have *5* pullets laying in the grow-out coop now! The problem is, they are BURYING the eggs in the one box! I have to dig around in the box the marans like to lay in if I want to find their eggs, which is how I came across the newest egg shape/color from that coop. Silly birds! Egg numbers are continuing to climb, so I think it's time to start making weekly announcements on my facebook page for egg availability.

Mid-winter cabin fever is making me want to turn on the incubator, but none of the hens/pullets I want eggs from are laying right now. I'm going to have a blue/black sex-link pen (blue wyandotte over barred rocks and my cuckoo marans hen), and an olive-egger/blue egger pen (araucana over marans and wheaton ameraucanas). It's not the wyandotte pen I wanted, but at least it's something to *hopefully* keep me from spending a bunch of money on shipped eggs.

The surest cure for winter hatch fever is to have chicks in the house all winter, enjoy. I think it was chickflick that had a bantam partridge wyandotte that I thought was just lovely, so now I have 5 of them, I know they aren't the kind you wanted, but they are soooo cute.

 

[HenriettaPlume]

I know it is good for us, that has been my excuse, I love to suck on drk chocolate chips,how ever my dental tech has been complaining on the stains, since I don't drink coffee or tea or coke It has to be the chocolate so I have cut back, and all the Christmas and New Years goodies have added to the middle, can't afford new cloths so I guess it is time to cut back,
Welcome to Mi. BYC ,Love your coop I know you will love chickens, they are very entertaining. make good breakfast's too
Don't forget to check out Chicken Stock, in Lansing June 21st (I think) It is lots of fun and the best place to meet a bunch of chicken crazy's,
people with out chickens usually don't get it.

Lots of sun here today, run is such a muddy mess, don't think it will get better till spring. when all the snow melts,then we get more and that melts, really getting tired of this frozen world

Chicken Stock?!? I LOVE it!!! We will definitely be making that. Best of luck with the muddy run. Yesterday mine was flooded with three inches of water, but by this afternoon it had gone down to 1 inch. I'm hoping a load of sand will fix that! Cheers!

 

[HenriettaPlume]

We gotta see pictures of this.

Beautiful coop, you do good work. Brave too, to start a coop build in winter. Welcome to BYC .

Fuzzy- If you get it at the pharmacy it will be called boil salve or drawing salve and will be ~ $9. for a 4 oz or so tube. If you get it from Jeffers or maybe Amazon its ichthammol 20% ( the active ingredient in drawing salve and a much higher % of it) for about $5. for 14 oz. It seems to keep forever. I'm cheap.

Its the hubs. The last time I flew to Portland,ore, it was via Dallas ( I kid you not) and that was out of detroit. Enjoy your trip and have some lobster for the rest of us stuck here.

The surest cure for winter hatch fever is to have chicks in the house all winter, enjoy. I think it was chickflick that had a bantam partridge wyandotte that I thought was just lovely, so now I have 5 of them, I know they aren't the kind you wanted, but they are soooo cute.

Thanks so much, Trefoil! I appreciate the kind words. Nice to meet you!

 

[gladahmae]

The surest cure for winter hatch fever is to have chicks in the house all winter, enjoy.

Ummm, yeah. Chicks in the house for longer than absolutely necessary (5 weeks for me) is NOT happening. I'm determined to get an outdoor brooder up and running this year if I do any hatching.

 

[Chase Family]

Good evening everyone....... I'm new to this thread and wanted to say hi. And ask a question. Is there anyone between Lansing and Ann Arbor that would be will to teach me how to process meat birds. I don't have any yet but would like to get some. I have read and watched online a lot but am so afraid I will do it wrong or worse freak out the first time and kill the bird slowly or just injure it.
Thank you

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Good evening everyone....... I'm new to this thread and wanted to say hi. And ask a question. Is there anyone between Lansing and Ann Arbor that would be will to teach me how to process meat birds. I don't have any yet but would like to get some. I have read and watched online a lot but am so afraid I will do it wrong or worse freak out the first time and kill the bird slowly or just injure it.
Thank you

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