Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[wannahomestead]

If your county sprays you can ask them to come out & spray your place. I'm lucky, Tuscola County sprays and between that, my ducks & guineas, even living by woods I don't have much of a mosquito problem.

My ducklings aren't pulling their weight on the mosquito issue! lol. I'm hesitant to spray because of chickens and ducks. I need to do something though, I was just outside doing a little work for about a half hour. I averaged a bite per minute

 

[Trefoil]

I used to use the electronic repellers, they worked for me but you need to stay well away from ground nesting bees while using them.

 

[Stacykins]

My ducklings aren't pulling their weight on the mosquito issue! lol. I'm hesitant to spray because of chickens and ducks. I need to do something though, I was just outside doing a little work for about a half hour. I averaged a bite per minute

Ducklings aren't going to do anything for mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are tiny, so a duck isn't going to waste the energy eating them when there are other, better things to eat such as slugs, snails, worms, grasshoppers, etc. bigger bugs. I saw my ducks playing keep away with each other yesterday, one had a big, fat tomato hornworm.

In fact, even the Purple Martin, a bird everyone claims to eat many mosquitoes, don't eat as many as the claims say Though they eat some, which is better than none. There is certainly nothing wrong with putting up a Purple Martin house in an attempt to woo them eat some mosquitoes. Plus, their numbers seriously declined after European Starlings were released in North America

 

[tmkuroda]

I bought 10 little chicks at TSC Black Australorps and 6 of them are FOR sure Roosters 3 are FOR SURE hens... But I have this one that I am not sure of...
and this is a hen for sure.

So is it a rooster or a hen?

 

[wannahomestead]

Is it odd to see 1 wattle developing faster than the other? One of my australorp hens has wattles coming in, but one is very obvious and pronounced, while the other doesn't look to have really grown at all. The rest all seem to have them coming in at normal rates.

I'm sure everything is fine, I just wanted to ask since it's interesting.

 

[iamfivewire]

keep an eye on that one @wannnahomestead - you might have a rare gynandromorph (one side female & other side male) - is the more developed wattle side also have a thicker leg ?
we have a roo that is similar to a gynandromorph, but he is male on both sides, but has 2 distinctly different looks/patterns on either side.

 

[wannahomestead]

keep an eye on that one @wannnahomestead - you might have a rare gynandromorph (one side female & other side male) - is the more developed wattle side also have a thicker leg ?
we have a roo that is similar to a gynandromorph, but he is male on both sides, but has 2 distinctly different looks/patterns on either side.

Does that mean she would have super powers?

I'll give her a closer look next chance I get.

 

[BigHope888]

I got my first eggs yesterday! Two in the same nesting box! One is almost jumbo sized, the other one is smaller. Hazel had to be one of the first layers, I don't know who gave us the other one. Woo hoo! So today i'll go to TSC for some layer crumbles.

 

[bigmrg74]

I got my first eggs yesterday! Two in the same nesting box! One is almost jumbo sized, the other one is smaller. Hazel had to be one of the first layers, I don't know who gave us the other one. Woo hoo! So today i'll go to TSC for some layer crumbles.

woot!!!!

 

[aart]

I got my first eggs yesterday! Two in the same nesting box! One is almost jumbo sized, the other one is smaller. Hazel had to be one of the first layers, I don't know who gave us the other one. Woo hoo! So today i'll go to TSC for some layer crumbles.

WooHoo!!!

My 3 older pullets all laid last week for the first time.....couple more months for 5 the younger ones.
Feeding 'flock raiser' to everyone with oyster shell on the side is so much easier....think about it.