. It can have all the grass I had hogged down today.
Hi folks! My name is Cara and I'm in the SE Michigan area. New to chicken keeping and new member of BYC, loooooong time stalker though. I've been planning my chicken adventure for over 3 years.
I have my first 6 eggs in the bator. Day 6 and 4 out of 6 look good. 1 blood ring and 1 clear. These were shipped and are BR. I'm hoping for a 25% hatch for my first time with shipped eggs.
I have 2 production RIR, a gold laced seabright, and 4 brand new Barnevelders in a brooder. Let the adventure begin! We've been chicken owners for 2 months. Going good so far. We bought a little TSC coop 2 months ago, but quickly realized its deficiency. We are making plans now for a larger coop and run within 7 weeks.
Glad to join you! Will be reading all these posts and catching up while caring for 3 toddlers, 2 dogs, 1 cat and 7 chickies.
That is great news! Take it slow for awhile, enjoy being out of the hospital. That is always the best feeling
so sorry to hear. We have a weasel. So far the darn thing has been getting the rodents. We are home to monitor the runs during the day. I think the darn thing got so scared trying to get to eggs in the Chantecler coop it may not try to even go after the chickens at this point. I am still seeing chipmunks around though, so either they are too hard to catch or we have a nice population of those in our yard. What is missing now is the rabbits and squirrels. Heard a lot of gunfire the last couple of weeks and not as much baying by the coyotes as usual.Glad to hear you're doing well Raz.
Yesterday about 2pm the Guineas started screaming. I went out to find a chupacabra running in my chicken yard. Ok it was really an animal with such bad mange I wasn't sure what it was. He was shot at but it was as he was running off so I'm sure he'll be back. He killed 4 birds including my sons rooster he was going to use for showmanship and my favorite hen.
It never fails that they take the nicest ones. After talking to the neighbor we believe it's a fox. It took two of his birds as well. So my free range birds are going to be locked up today. I don't think they are going to like it and the flyers will be on their own.
So we will be looking for bantam calico Cochin eggs to hatch late August into September.
It can make great green manure/mulch, yank it and lay it down to suppress other unwanted plants in garden or where ever.Can anyone tell me what this plant is? I'm trying to determine if it's of value, or if it's just some kind of big giant thing taking over my tree
How about a very nice silkie roo? He is a beautiful bird (black and silver). Very nice manners and treats the hens extremely well. I'd like to keep him but guess who has been summoned back to court to several more charges?Sorry to hear about your troubles, Tap. I know Mindylee has lots of Cochins, and nice ones I think. I am going back and forth downstate quite a bit this summer, so if you need transport for eggs let me know.
Doesn't Garden City have better things to do??
Must be a low crime area... I guess there's no real criminal activity in Garden City, Michigan.
I don't think they consider it crime when the officials are doing it.
