Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[fuzzybutt love]

Not much excitement over here. Yesterday i got excited and thought since the sun was out i'd shovel out the run... i quickly learned it was futile lol. I have a foot off the ground ice trail through to their door! . So i settled for a trail to under the camper so they could maybe get a dirt bath. Yesterday it was beak and nail trims for the indoor birds, today is nail trims for camper birds.

 

[blacke]

Here is what my ducks left me this morning. I have quite a rainbow.

 

[blacke]

This was a few days ago

 

[mattsinger]

Just curious ...as I collect eggs this morning, people have asked me how dark my marans eggs are. Where can you get this chart that people talk about?

 

[mattsinger]

Here is what my ducks left me this morning. I have quite a rainbow.

Great colors!

 

[ChicwannaB]

Howdy Michigan Peeps, does anyone here have some fertile OLIVE Egger eggs they'd sell me?? 7 is all my incubator will hold. I want to do some of them along with Lavender Ameraucanas I'm getting at the end of the month. I'm in the Bay City/Saginaw area, will gladly pay for GOOD packing and shipping. Thanks

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Does anyone know when TSC will start chick days in New Hudson?

 

[Peep-Chicken]

How is the hen doing that you have inside?

 

[annagarret]

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

....My hens are outside today having fun!!! They have even roosted on top of their coop

I have never seen them do that before!!

 

[uchytil]

Even tho it's still pretty cold...and snowing here (2-5 by tomorrow night)...the forecast next week for a few days above freezing is very much welcome! We're over the hump!

Have always wanted to tap trees for syrup,
but the thought of the cost and amount of the fuel burned to boil it down,
not to mention the equipment needed, always put me off....
...no wonder real maple syrup is so expensive!!

All you need is some hardwood, a fire pit, and a big pot. Really no cost (if you have trees to cut) other than sweat equity. I do use a chainsaw on the wood but split by hand! Using propane (especially this year) is cost prohibitive. The Amish sell it cheaper than you can make it that way. Some of the tree services give away hardwood. You really don't need much if you do small batches. A small batch is 50 gallons of sap to make a gallon, or so. Nothing like sitting by the fire all day and smelling like woodsmoke come dinner time, lol!