Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[uchytil]

Even though I know free isn't always free I did just get a free bator (my first). And as a bonus some nice waterers. I don't know the model or make but it's has a automatic turner and looks to hold a mess of eggs. No manual so I need to google some stuff, give it a spin, and see what happens.

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi there! Newbie in the house.

Julie

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The whole process is to wear you down until you'll do whatever they want just to get them off your back.

They don't just do it for fun - they get paid to do it. By us, the taxpayers.

 

[Spitzboyz]

Shared by a friend of mine:

This farmer has about 200 hens, but no rooster, and he wants chicks. So he goes down the road to the next farmer and asks if he has a rooster.
The other farmer says, "Yeah, I've got this great rooster, named Clint (short for Clinton). He'll service every chicken you got, no problem." Well, Clint the rooster is expensive, but the farmer decides he's worth it. So he buys Clint.
The farmer takes Clint home and sets him down in the barnyard. Giving the rooster a pep talk, "Clint, I want you to pace yourself now. You've got a lot of chickens to service here, and you cost me a lot of money. I'll need you to do a good job. So, take your time and have some fun," the farmer says with a chuckle.
Clint seems to understand, so the farmer points toward the henhouse and Clint takes off like a shot. WHAM! He nails every hen in there THREE or FOUR times, and the farmer is just shocked. Clint runs out of the hen house and sees a flock of geese down by the lake, and WHAM! He gets all the geese. Clint's up in the pigpen, he's in with the cows. Clint is jumping on every animal the farmer owns.
The farmer is distraught, worried that his expensive rooster won't even last the day. Sure enough, the farmer goes to bed and wakes up the next day to find Clint stiff as a doornail, stone cold, in the middle of the yard.
Buzzards are circling overhead. The farmer, saddened by the loss of such a colorful animal, shakes his head and says, "Oh, Clint, I told you to pace yourself. I tried to get you to slow down, now look what you've done to yourself."
Clint opens one eye, nods toward the sky and says, "Shhh, they're getting closer...."

 

[SillyChicken]

 

[Opa]

I spent 3 hours in the garden this morning trying to get as much done as possible before the heat became too intense. I called it quits at noon, hurriedly picked the wild blackberries then hibernated the rest of the day in the air conditioned house. Thought I'd finish pruning and tying up the tomatoes this evening but I just came in from gathering the eggs and I think the garden can wait another day.

I collected the fewest number of eggs I had in a long long time and I'm sure the heat influenced the drop in production. Hen have been doing quite well. Yesterday take was 20 out of 24 hens and the production for the year now stands at 2575.

 

[getreal]

I spent 3 hours in the garden this morning trying to get as much done as possible before the heat became too intense. I called it quits at noon, hurriedly picked the wild blackberries then hibernated the rest of the day in the air conditioned house. Thought I'd finish pruning and tying up the tomatoes this evening but I just came in from gathering the eggs and I think the garden can wait another day.

I collected the fewest number of eggs I had in a long long time and I'm sure the heat influenced the drop in production. Hen have been doing quite well. Yesterday take was 20 out of 24 hens and the production for the year now stands at 2575.

wow!

 

[RaZ]

I too, quit working around noon-30. That was the last of 5 days of breaking concrete, loading the trailer then unloading it at the recycling centre. Back-breaking work to be sure.

Egg production here stands at 603. Not bad since it only started at the end of February. A black Australorp just started on Friday.

 

[aart]

Mine have slowed down a bit the last few weeks...but I have 1032 out of 8 hens so far in 2014.

 

[bigmrg74]

Does anybody here know of a good place around the Ann Arbor area to get red wiggler worms at? I've been thinking about setting up a worm farm so that I can have plenty of yummy treats for my girls.

 

[Opa]

Does anybody here know of a good place around the Ann Arbor area to get red wiggler worms at? I've been thinking about setting up a worm farm so that I can have plenty of yummy treats for my girls.

Several companies on the internet offer worms for about $30 per pound