Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[JackieandChicks]

okay so I always see you talking about your Morans, you do know they are MArans right? okay i mean you can call em whatever you want or maybe your refering to the Morans who spend crazy money of those chicks.

Ha! You mean Morons like me

 

[eatwhatyougrow]

Ha! You mean Morons like me

yeah, i wont tell you how much i have spent on getting some good quality Marans, i am hoping next year i will be able to sell chicks and hatching eggs, they are finally getting tot he quality that i would call them marans. i have some amber links that lay darker eggs than some of the "morans" i have bought.

 

[glambka]

@glambka

I've got one duck that *sometimes* will lay the blueish egg (Runner). Mostly the blue value is only obvious when the egg is next to the other white eggs. But I'd be more than happy to help, but honestly, I'd much rather trade in -kind for another one of your beautiful pysanky for my ornament exchange next year. I also have Rouen, KC, and a few mixes of those.

I will be happy to do an exchange. Right now I have to crank out 30 eggs for my sons wedding in May. Then I move in June....after that I should be free to work on more pysanky. So, if you want to save me some duck, just refrigerate them and turn every couple weeks so the yolk doesn't stick;

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

Awesome.

 

[Amy PT]

I don't see duccles - they have just bantams listed.

On their website, they list "assorted bantams." In the past, that assortment has included silkies, du'ccles (porcelain and mille de fleur) and a few breeds that I wasn't interested in.

Amy pt
Oh i wish i didn't have mg here

I have porcelain.

I know. I was 1/2 way through a request PM, when I remembered the mg.

5 feet of packed down ice snow is more like it, lol! I've got to ramp up for syrup and dig out my fire area and move some wood. Maples will be flowing soon snow or no!

@RaZ and @uchytil I went to a sap workshop today. It turns out that the huge maples in our backyard are Norway Maples, and not usable for sap. I had no idea. We have backup trees away from the house. Uchytil, how long might it take (on average, I know there's a huge spread) to fill a 3 gallon bucket?

 

[gladahmae]

Uchytil, how long might it take (on average, I know there's a huge spread) to fill a 3 gallon bucket?

When my BIL was doing smaller batches of syrup (first few years) we helped with a lot of it and it depends on the weather and how much sun the tree would get. Some trees would overflow a few 5gal buckets before lunch and then again at dinner and others would barely fill the 3 or so buckets on it in a whole day.

 

[Our Roost]

eatwhatyougrow, morans. marans. What a Moron! And to think I almost won the 4th grade spelling bee. At 66 years of age the brain can send any kind of message to the typing fingers it thinks you might want. Moo Maa Moe! Sorry!! Thanks for the spelling correction and hand spanking.

 

[preciouskitty]

Has anyone else noticed that the closer our "warm spell" gets, the shorter and colder the forecasts for it are?

Yeppers....was once again just noting that again this morn....I'm not even considering it a "warm spell" anymore. Simply gonna be a major ice mess....

 

[Our Roost]

1 full week of warmer weather isnt shorter and "colder", its pure bliss!

 

[ladyrsanti]

i would trade you some white eggs, they are white leghorns lay well and lay long. anyway would trade you some of those white eggs for some of your blue ones strait up. anyway let me know

Where are you? Generally speaking. PM if you want.

I stole this idea from someone that used it on a crank grain grinder, but I think it would work on the drum carder. You could use an electric drill to run it if you removed the crank and found a nut setter the size of the attachment (if its square) where you would screw in the crank.

Now that's thinking positive Raz. The class sounds like it was great, are they having another?

I've heard of people rigging their carders this way or with other motors. They even sell conversion kits I think.