Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[tntchix]

100% hatch for the Winter Broody!!
One egg was 10-11 days old and had been in the fridge for 3-4 days.

Got em all set up for the cold snap, cross yer fingers they make it thru.

Mine had a 100% hatch, too!

You will see mama broody keeping her babies under her when it gets really cold...mine would migrate the whole flock to the feed dish and hover over the top of it so the babies could eat and not get out from under her wings. She hatched them during the single-digit negative-digit days

I am so happy for both of you guys.
Now I think I am almost ready to try to hatch some with a broody, if they can survive these temps with mom, they'll be fine.

 

[birdman55]

Victory is Mine!!!


Got the south arena door opened up today. It was frozen in solid. Hopefully, we can get a shipment of sawdust into our pit in the arena sometime this week. shoveled, mattocked, prided, tugged, salted, and hammered that sucker open today. And with all of the melt dripping off of the roof, my carhartt got its yearly washing.

I could only imagine what I would do with that huge shed.....prolly divide up into a lot of covered pens

 

[Folly's place]

I've got a question; Our old manure spreader is truly dead, and we're shopping for a smaller one this time. Anyone have experience with the TSC, JD, or other ones? Something to pull behind a small farm tractor or 17 horse lawn tractor. Thanks, Mary

 

[tntchix]

Victory is Mine!!!


Got the south arena door opened up today. It was frozen in solid. Hopefully, we can get a shipment of sawdust into our pit in the arena sometime this week. shoveled, mattocked, prided, tugged, salted, and hammered that sucker open today. And with all of the melt dripping off of the roof, my carhartt got its yearly washing.

stinks when it's frozen solid. I noticed yesterday my gutters were holding ice

I banged the heck out of the downspouts to break some loose in the warmer temps, hopefully it did the job. I left the downspout extensions on and they are sitting in a low spot, which is now an ice rink. OOPS. Come on spring!!!

 

[JackieandChicks]

I've got a question; Our old manure spreader is truly dead, and we're shopping for a smaller one this time. Anyone have experience with the TSC, JD, or other ones? Something to pull behind a small farm tractor or 17 horse lawn tractor. Thanks, Mary

My friend has one from Family Farm..the one under $500 - and she likes it. Does not do a lot though.

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi, do I understand then, that you can take from both bottles and mix in a 3rd bottle?

If you mix the whole batch all at once you remove some of the liquid from the large bottle and add it to the dried wafer in the small bottle, mix until dissolved, then draw the liquid back out of the small bottle and inject it into the larger.

To use multiple times, carefully remove the wafer from the small bottle and cut it into quarters. Take 1/4, place in a clean,dry container, and add 1/4 of the liquid. If you do this you must be VERY clean, wipe everything with alcohol before and after, tape the wafer vital closed, and work quickly to keep everything cold. Vaccine must be used immediately after reconstituting.

 

[1muttsfan]

Opa , I thought you would be interested in this about pro ball player Blake Griffin and his trouble with a staph infection in his elbow

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82759772/

 

[aart]

Quote: Oh Cool!! Congrats!!

Is that the first time you've had broody hatch in the frigid winter?
Do you provide any heat, what about water?

 

[LisaLouHoo]

My birthday was yesterday and my daughter made me this lovely chicken cake. She put little chicken figures pecking at sprinkles and used toothpicks to make the fence. Isn't she clever!

 

[snowflake]

If you mix the whole batch all at once you remove some of the liquid from the large bottle and add it to the dried wafer in the small bottle, mix until dissolved, then draw the liquid back out of the small bottle and inject it into the larger.

To use multiple times, carefully remove the wafer from the small bottle and cut it into quarters. Take 1/4, place in a clean,dry container, and add 1/4 of the liquid. If you do this you must be VERY clean, wipe everything with alcohol before and after, tape the wafer vital closed, and work quickly to keep everything cold. Vaccine must be used immediately after reconstituting.

Thank you so much for all the help, think I finally got it.didn't think the wafer was in the little bottle, I thought it would be bigger.
we are so close to Kalamazoo, I may see if I can go there and pick it up.worth giving them a call anyhow.

My birthday was yesterday and my daughter made me this lovely chicken cake. She put little chicken figures pecking at sprinkles and used toothpicks to make the fence. Isn't she clever!

Nice cake. she is very clever

100% hatch for the Winter Broody!!
One egg was 10-11 days old and had been in the fridge for 3-4 days.

Got em all set up for the cold snap, cross yer fingers they make it thru.

good job on the hatch. nice box to, are they in a barn?

Victory is Mine!!!


Got the south arena door opened up today. It was frozen in solid. Hopefully, we can get a shipment of sawdust into our pit in the arena sometime this week. shoveled, mattocked, prided, tugged, salted, and hammered that sucker open today. And with all of the melt dripping off of the roof, my carhartt got its yearly washing.

good job on the door, looks like a nice big barn. indoor arenas are cool