Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[mindylee]

Wanted to share with all of you my 2 newest additions to the farm. These shipped in from Pennsylvania last week and cant wait to see what hatching season has in store for me.
Currently up to 99 cochin bantams here between chocolates, calicos, and millies ♡♡♡

 

[WalnutHill]

Hello MI thread. Perhaps more properly hello again. Though I haven't been active for close to 2 years I come now seeking advice. A few days ago my free ranging flock was attacked by a runaway dog without a tag, but having a collar and seeming to be well trained. He killed both of my male ducks that attempted to defend their girls as well as ripping the shoulder off of another duck. Since the attack I have not had a single egg laid. I am still in possession of the Dog in questioned and she is being cared for away from the flock at my neighbors home. My question is what is my next step, tomorrow I intend to travel the local area (Iosco twp near Marion, for those in the area think Bull Run x Coon Lake) to find the owner of the dog. I intend to seek reparations for the damage done, physically and financially (No egg production, no birds willing to even leave the coop. Considering that I have a flock of 32 Hens and now 4 Duck a cease in laying is going to severely impact my ability to pay for their feed in the coming months).

So, what's next.

Thanks!



BTW Here is the dog if anyone recognizes her.

Sorry for your losses. We had a neighborhood malamute come in and slaughter 2 of our turkeys and 24 hens a few years ago. Carnage everywhere, none of the hens laid for six months after we retrieved them from under hot tubs, shrubs, patio furniture, log piles, brush piles within 1/8 mile.

Owner was located when a police officer followed the dog home when we found it just off our property the next day. Compensation was limited to replacement cost (not the cost of raising my specific genetic lines for several years), nothing for egg loss, nothing for damage to the chain link fence he ripped through.

Good thing was that the township prosecuted the case so it was not too burdensome on our part. And the dog was put down and the owner fined.

 

[SunshineMary]

So much carnage lately.

We just had our first hawk attack too. I think it is because the leaves are off the trees now and the hens are easy to see as they forage about in the brush. I was walking down to the coop and the ladies didn't come running out of the brush to greet me as they normally do. Then I saw the Cooper's hawk on the ground next to the coop. I was so shocked I just started running and yelling.

It turns out it had gotten a hold of one of the hens but dropped her. She is missing some feathers but is OK. It took me all day to get the rest of the girls to come out from hiding but everyone is accounted for.

There won't be any more free ranging for a while. Thankfully, our run has a hardware cloth roof.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

ISO: fertile hatching eggs. Preferably quail. If not chicken will do, mixed breed is okay. I just want something to hatch and my hens aren't laying.
Have an Ayam Cemai rooster I can trade if anyone is interested.

 

[WalnutHill]

ISO: fertile hatching eggs. Preferably quail. If not chicken will do, mixed breed is okay. I just want something to hatch and my hens aren't laying.
Have an Ayam Cemai rooster I can trade if anyone is interested.

I have plenty of mixed breed eggs suitable for hatching. I have a flock of brown and green layers covered by Appenzeller Spitzhauben, Ayam Cemani, and Sulmtaler roosters. What's your rooster look like, whose lines, pics?

 

[JackieandChicks]

Only here can I say and be understood that the hawk gods got their sacrifice this year - lucky it was an extra young rooster that I didn't need. I noticed the flock running like crazy back to the barn and later on found the sacrifice.

Lucky they don't want to go out in the snow now and they are in their pen for the duration as I saw two young red tails after I was coming back from trail riding yesterday.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

I have plenty of mixed breed eggs suitable for hatching.  I have a flock of brown and green layers covered by Appenzeller Spitzhauben, Ayam Cemani, and Sulmtaler roosters.  What's your rooster look like, whose lines, pics?

He's about four months old.
I'm not sure on line. I will have to try and contact the guy I got him from to check.

 

[RaZ]

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[Folly's place]

Cute, Raz! Mary

 

[yochickiemomma]

Wanted to share with all of you my 2 newest additions to the farm. These shipped in from Pennsylvania last week and cant wait to see what hatching season has in store for me.
Currently up to 99 cochin bantams here between chocolates, calicos, and millies ♡♡♡

Love your new additions! Soooooo jealous! I have 3 cochin mix and really want some milli but can't find any near me.