Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[aart]

I think this is a slow time of year for chickeneering.....and I think there's a facebook page that the chatters here may have migrated to.

 

[JackieandChicks]

I am personally enjoying the outdoors, harvesting, playing with my horses, and just getting ready for (gasp) winter...

 

[OldMissionChick]

I know fall is a busy time for us. Adjusting to back to school schedules, prepping for winter, waiting for deer season to start and harvest grapes on the farm.
Sorry @Peep-Chicken I dont have turkeys. I wanted to get a couple for the table but ran out of room.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

I know fall is a busy time for us. Adjusting to back to school schedules, prepping for winter, waiting for deer season to start and harvest grapes on the farm.
Sorry @Peep-Chicken I dont have turkeys. I wanted to get a couple for the table but ran out of room.

Oaky, thanks though!

I think this is a slow time of year for chickeneering.....and I think there's a facebook page that the chatters here may have migrated to.

I don't go on Facebook much, so I will just stick to here.

 

[snowflake]

thank you for all the suggestions about the UP, don't think we can go after labor day cause of school age grandkids.

someone on here had the white midgets but only a few They do appeal to me because of their size.

don't know why roosters are so handsome, they are very hard to get rid of, because there are so many of them.

1muttsfan, I have to 4month old chantecelrs....hatched from whit hen and partridge roo, they are showing brown feathers in the wings but have not started crowing, nor turning red in the comb. chanties have such small combs & wattles it is hard to tell if roo or hen. the breeders whites that got brown in the wing were roos, but I am wondering if that is always the outcome, with the father being brown could they be hens?

 

[SillyChicken]

Turkeys tend to be seasonal layers... you will be hard pressed to get any fertilized eggs or chicks this late in the game. Have you tried craigslist?

 

[snowflake]

also Aart you are right about the fruit flies that aren't really FF but they are similar....not gnats cause they don't bite, will go into your house plants, so I spray them with sevens, about once a yr. any food stuff, left out will attract them. grand daughter likes to peal cucumbers in the middle of the night and leaves the peals in the chicken scrap container and it will be full of the buggers in the AM.....,

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Thanks @snowflake

Turkeys tend to be seasonal layers... you will be hard pressed to get any fertilized eggs or chicks this late in the game.    Have you tried craigslist?

Not yet, thought I'd try here first. Though i'll go look, thanks.

 

[ToniTalley]

I think this is a slow time of year for chickeneering.....and I think there's a facebook page that the chatters here may have migrated to.

Do you know the name of the facebook page, or have the link?

 

[aart]

also Aart you are right about the fruit flies that aren't really FF but they are similar....not gnats cause they don't bite, will go into your house plants, so I spray them with sevens, about once a yr. any food stuff, left out will attract them. grand daughter likes to peal cucumbers in the middle of the night and leaves the peals in the chicken scrap container and it will be full of the buggers in the AM.....,

I've actually heard them called 'drain flies'.

I keep my chicken scraps in the freezer in summer, to deter the fruit flies.