Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[RaZ]

Good luck RAZ! Move west! Webberville/ Perry area, for example. Chickenstock is coming very soon! Mary

The first one was in Williamston. Wheatfield Township actually. Candy and Brett are helping me out.
I'll be at CS17. We can gab then.

 

[wcbpolish]

I officially hate chickens. Four hens are broody.

I have a broody on eggs right now (buff orp) and am wishing for more to go broody. What breed are yours? I have a pair of silkies... with the intention of using the hen as a broody... but all she does is lay eggs. Thinks she is a leghorn or something...

I think I need to stop putting eggs in the incubator July 1... that will be 6 mo of incubating... too long by my wife's standards. I'm not telling her that, or she'll hold me to the date! My January pullets are laying already, and since they are a "project" of sorts, I'm hoping to get 2 generations of them this calendar year... that project had the first eggs in the incubator, and now it just might have the last ones in the 'bator for the season.

 

[1muttsfan]

Fertile eggs are not a problem, my ab's lay like crazy. If I can just get a little bit of time I can get my setup switched around and get some eggs hatched around here.

 

[Folly's place]

I bought an incubator at TSC this spring, set it up with eggs, and didn't have a good experience. Seventeen nice chicks and wild temperature fluctuations, and ten dead/ dying eggs with chicks. I returned the incubator, and lost enthusiasm for the whole thing. My broodies are being difficult this year, so no chicks with them. See you all at Chickenstock! Mary

 

[RaZ]

My buff orp was sitting on 15 eggs this afternoon. That is after taking every egg from the coop yesterday. The cuckoo marans and a black australorp were sitting on empty nests. I guess BO stole their eggs. Then I stole hers.

 

[uchytil]

 

[uchytil]

Chickenstock is fun for all ages. Come out and have fun!

 

[robyn8]

Integrated my 5 week old chicks with the rest of the flock today! Went so well! Only one OG hen pecked at them and she left alone as soon as they learned to run away. So happy!

 

[bigmrg74]

Yeah, one of my buffs from last year has been broody. keep pulling her off the nest and she just gives me the stink eye. The other night I was around right after sundown and I put her up on the roost. Probably should do that some more.

 

[ladyrsanti]

I lost a bird yesterday to a fox (not the first but the first in a few years). My muscovy hens like to hang out in the sheep pasture at dusk, well after all the chickens go to bed, and the fox got in and nabbed one. It couldn't get her out though, so the fox ate it right there at the fence I remember someone recommending an electric line outside the fence but not sure the height or distance that works best. This is what I put up yesterday but it can easily be moved. Too close? Too far? Too high or low? It's roughly 6-10" off the ground and a foot to two feet away depending on the terrain.