Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[RaZ]

So far I've avoided the poults, and thankfully they were already gone at TSC today! Mary

You don't know what you are missing. These guys are a riot to have around. Zoomie is officially my favourite. What a character he is.

 

[RaZ]

A bullit dodged

 

[1muttsfan]

At least you are all set for Thanksgiving!

 

[RaZ]

At least you are all set for Thanksgiving!

I sure am. Got Banquet turkey pot pies in the freezer. Got the 10 for $10 deal.

 

[bigmrg74]

Think I finally figured out how to break my broodies. stuffed them into my old coop and blocked off their access to the nest boxes there. Even got the coop moved back within the pen now so that the rest of the flock can see them and talk through the wire. They just don't have anywhere to go sit and think about becoming mama chickens. Heck, if I had known that they had wanted to be momma's this badly, I might have tried to let them be momma's.

 

[RaZ]

Out of 28 hatching eggs from CS, only 2 fuzzy butts hatched.

 

[JackieandChicks]

Out of 28 hatching eggs from CS, only 2 fuzzy butts hatched.

Yes my hatching was not good the last two. Something with the weather, I'm sure.

 

[JackieandChicks]

Think I finally figured out how to break my broodies. stuffed them into my old coop and blocked off their access to the nest boxes there. Even got the coop moved back within the pen now so that the rest of the flock can see them and talk through the wire. They just don't have anywhere to go sit and think about becoming mama chickens. Heck, if I had known that they had wanted to be momma's this badly, I might have tried to let them be momma's.

I have a separate pen for them and it takes about a week. I have had so many broodies this year I have lost track...in the teens!

 

[aart]

I break em like this:
After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest, I put her in a wire dog crate with smaller wire on the bottom but no bedding, set up on a couple of 4x4's right in the coop and I would feed her some crumble a couple times a day.

I let her out a couple times a day(you don't have to) and she would go out into the run, drop a huge turd, race around running, take a vigorous dust bath then head back to the nest... at which point I put her back in the crate. Each time her outings would lengthen a bit, eating, drinking and scratching more and on the 3rd afternoon she stayed out of the nest and went to roost that evening...event over, back to normal tho she didn't lay for another week or two.

 

[chickflick]

Everyone survive the storms? We lost power for 16 hrs or so. Hard rain and wind. Quite the lightening show.