Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[SillyChicken]

Watch out for Trolls.  Adding new blood to your herd.  I'll bet this new guy has a great lineage!  I'm a wreck, been up every few hours checking the twins and Momma.  Two days old and I think I added 2 years to myself...

How are they doing?

 

[snowflake]

My 4 and 9 year old labs love it. Drives me nuts but they're not barfing it up on the rugs and the vet didn't seem to bothered by it so.....

my dog eats it all the time. I yell at him to leave it and he does, but I know he is back at it when I'm not looking, I worry about parasites but he is treated regularly. So

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Yesterday I freshened the cotton scent balls on the traps I keep set around the chicken coop with some pork grease. I always check the traps at sunrise so no animal is in them any longer than necessary, and this morning's check was nil as the last few mornings have been. However, keeping vigilance is still the best method to lessen predator risk. The next few weeks it probably the time of greatest threat. It's breeding season so the four footed creatures are roaming more than usual. Also the airborne risk is higher as migratory raptors are once again heading north.

thank you for the reminder, I free range but try to keep an eye on the sky and in the tree tops, dog in the yard helps too

 

[snowflake]

I'm good td, how bout yourself??

Built a quail pen last year then had a bad hatch, looking for some babies to put in it this spring.

Got some new birds ordered: getting Col Wyandott, Speckled Sussex and more Dominiques in early April. Got a potbelly pig and he's tearing up the yard.

HI, chic,

been awhile, pigs are cute but destructive I've been told, some use them to dig up an area they want tilled, that has been over grown

 

[Whatshisface]

Does anyone else have dogs or puppies that LOVE to eat the chicken poop? I have 2 puppies 8 months and 4 months that will graze the yard all day and eat the chicken poop. I definitely don't want to stop letting my chickens out. So I was wondering if anyone else had this problem and if anyone had any suggestions. Thanks

Yeah my chihuahua does that. I almost gag when I see her doing that.

 

[tntchix]

I haven't even tracked any into the house with Kiwi on watch for poo "treats"

 

[birdman55]

morning everyone...starting to hatch...and also got some new birds

 

[snowflake]

morning everyone...starting to hatch...and also got some new birds

beautiful birds and chicks
Love the colorful pheasants

 

[Rocky64]

morning everyone...starting to hatch...and also got some new birds

Very nice birds! I wanna get back into raising golden pheasants, but I don't have time to.

 

[Opa]

As always the traps were checked shortly after sunrise and again mid morning when I went out to feed and water. I then when to TSC to pick up some feed. When I returned I noticed that one of the pail traps had gotten a daylight prowling coon. While raccoons are primarily nocturnal, day time strolls are quite normal during the mating season.

 

[1muttsfan]

While raccoons are primarily nocturnal, day time strolls are quite normal during the mating season.

What a way to go