Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[aart]

How do I start a thread?

At the top and bottom of every page there is a button that says 'Start a New Thread'....you want to be in the sub-forum where you want your thread to go before starting the new thread.

 

[JackieandChicks]

Five this morning! Don't know if one of the last three will hatch as I do believe it was snuck in late.

 

[ericaruth19]

The chosen bird for my daughters 4-H. Please tell me there are no signs of cockerel here. 4 1/2 weeks old barred plymouth

rock.

 

[ericaruth19]

Cute!

 

[aart]

The chosen bird for my daughters 4-H. Please tell me there are no signs of cockerel here. 4 1/2 weeks old barred plymouth
rock.

Comb look kinds big, but no color there so that's encouraging....you should know with a couple weeks that it's a pullet if comb stays yellow and no reddish wattles emerge.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

The chosen bird for my daughters 4-H. Please tell me there are no signs of cockerel here. 4 1/2 weeks old barred plymouth

rock.

I would say pullet

 

[snowflake]

Opa....or any one familiar with watesor hydrants
ours is leaking and we had well work done the guy said we need to replace the hydrant. so we want to put in a no freeze one,
QUESTION....I went to TSC and theirs are priced from 45to 70 and all say frost free, well guy said it would be around $150 so I am thinking frost free is not what we are looking for, I know Opa put one in last yr? and said something about a blue handle thees were all black

 

[mindylee]

Even frost free can still freeze. But good news is if ya get one from Tsc... And it dose break in a yr. It is free replacement as they get full credit for them

 

[1muttsfan]

Frost free is what you want. You need to get one that is long enough to go below the frostline. I would also recommend putting in a drainage sink with some pea gravel at the base, then filling with sand at the bottom of the hole before backfilling. This would decrease the chances of freezing, they are a pain to dig back up.

Vaccines must be kept cold right up to the time they are used, including before they are reconstituted, to prevent deactivation.

 

[bigmrg74]

Frost free is what you want. You need to get one that is long enough to go below the frostline. I would also recommend putting in a drainage sink with some pea gravel at the base, then filling with sand at the bottom of the hole before backfilling. This would decrease the chances of freezing, they are a pain to dig back up.

Vaccines must be kept cold right up to the time they are used, including before they are reconstituted, to prevent deactivation.

Yep, Below the frost line is key. You might want to check in with your local authorities about how deep your local frost line is. I believe the general rule of thumb frost line for most of southern Lower Michigan is 42 inches, but it may not hurt to go to 48, just in case we ever have another winter like what we had her last winter where the freeze went deeper in some spots than what the frost line is. Do it right and you won't regret it.

Collected 3 eggs yesterday, of course after I had given them their morning treat of mealworms and had humped a bunch of gate panels around so that we could trim out the weeds in those roundpens, and to toss the junker ones out and turn the 3 roundpens we had into 2 bigger roundpens for the horses.