Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[1muttsfan]

Hi TD, nice to see you back

Happy thanksgiving everone

 

[pfewless]

I hope you all have a happy safe holiday. This website in itself is one of the many things I am thankful for. I have found a wealth of information here as well as many who share their experience and experiences freely.

 

[birdman55]

thermal bowl from amazon that works off 25 watts and never freezes outside temp right now is 20 degrees still not frozen and for 20 bucks
cant beat it...thats for sure i use them on the outside of the coops and they work great...happy turkey day...picked up five white peas and one
pied from northern michigan yesterday thanks breck






wonder how that turkey is gunna turn out...I raised it lovely female...bout 30 pounds

 

[JackieandChicks]

Happy Thanksgiving with a Classic!

Alice's Resaurant!

 

[suwahsen]

I am currently making my chicken wish list for next year, does anyone know if Penedesencas are able to tolerate our Michigan winters? I will be ordering from Meyer Hatchery, if anyone in my general area wants to share an order with me to save on shipping PM me.

 

[snowflake]

have been pretty busy with Thanksgiving. 28 guests, every on brings food and we could easily feed 10 more, but I like to get the house clean and goodies made. Grand daughter stayed for a couple days and will be moving in part time in Dec. so we need to get a room ready for her. Life sure gets busy!

Any how I use a 40 watt bulb in my cookie tin but I keep all water and food out in the run. with poop boards under the roost's, pine shavings and hey on the floor, stays quite clean and dry

as for eggs we have not gotten 1 for a month, put some young roos in the freezer, culled some old hens, need to put 4 more young roo's in the freezer this weekend, had some hard molting going on, most are done but still no eggs. told them if they didn't shape up the freezer was going to get much fuller!

Hope every one had a good Thanksgiving, now we get to do Christmas.

I like Christmas decorations

Looking forward to chickenstock in June

 

[chickwhispers]

@snowflake Do your waterers stay unfrozen even in the 00 temps with the 40 watt. Mine were starting to freeze last year and my water was inside.

This year I put a 3 gal outside in the run and wrapped the top part of it in the reflective bubble wrap insulation. I'm hoping that helps because I am trying to keep the humidity down since I have a 4x's the number of birds than I had last winter. Inside I have an bucket waterer with Horizontal nipples. I wrapped in foil put a heat tape on it then wrapped the reflective bubble wrap insulation around it and on the bottom. And its on a cookie tin heater also. I hope I don't have frozen waterers in January. Both waterers are secured by a hanging chain as well. I've seen the hens knock over the waterers when the get close to empty and I don't want a fire.

 

[RaZ]

have been pretty busy with Thanksgiving. 28 guests,

I guess that is why the thread has been so slow for the last few days.
I have been so bored. Even the animals seem to be bored.

 

[RaZ]

Are you looking for local, Michigan made products? Here is a list of home-grown businesses.
http://micraftbeerculture.com/2014/...of-michigan-the-great-lakes-state-shop-local/

 

[Trefoil]

I've been getting 2 eggs a day from my silkie trio since they started laying in mid summer. They are my most reliable layers, besides being the most friendly. I would have them even if they didn't lay, they are nice to be around and I've still got hope that when they are older they'll be broody. Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving.