Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[aart]

Missing a turkey hen today and hit a skunk on the way home from work. Some days...

Bummer, hope she shows back up.
Skunk hit... YuckGagGross!!! To have bring that home with you, will you have to park far from house until it wears off?

 

[RaZ]

Hi all,
Back to GC for an all day follow up to last year's heart surgery. Then back up with another load of stuff. This moving is getting old.

Went to the Planning Commission meeting last night and finally got to read the new chicken ordinance. Looks like all poultry are permitted and even goats. Provided one has the square footage to contain them. (5000 feet per chicken)

Anyhow, the new ordinance won't be adopted until springtime when they rewrite all of the ordinances. I need to move chickens and turkeys now!

Also trying to get the permit approved for the garage. Materials will arrive on Tuesday. Still need the cement poured and cured. It should be done by the end of October.

More later.

 

[snowflake]

Hi all,
Back to GC for an all day follow up to last year's heart surgery. Then back up with another load of stuff. This moving is getting old.

Went to the Planning Commission meeting last night and finally got to read the new chicken ordinance. Looks like all poultry are permitted and even goats. Provided one has the square footage to contain them. (5000 feet per chicken)

Anyhow, the new ordinance won't be adopted until springtime when they rewrite all of the ordinances. I need to move chickens and turkeys now!

Also trying to get the permit approved for the garage. Materials will arrive on Tuesday. Still need the cement poured and cured. It should be done by the end of October.

More later.

Hi snowflake

Missing a turkey hen today and hit a skunk on the way home from work. Some days...

HI, been a busy summer? Had a wonderful time at pictured rock with family, very nice lodge, close to most everything.
Tap, sorry about the skunk, darn smell stays forever,,,,hope the hen shows up,

thank you Aart, will have time to read later,.....sounds like every one here has been busy this summer,.....RAIN is much needed, we havent had any for over 29 days. everything is dry as a bone, grass looks like a dirt field.

permits usually don't take to long, tha should be done soon/ I never will understand why people are so afraid of chickens. not any smellier then dogs, yet you need 5000 square ft. per bird, does that count footage above ground> after all, they can fly so air space should count

 

[1muttsfan]

Coop space, or coop and run, or your total acreage? Let's see, an acre is 43,560 feet, so that is just under 9 birds.

 

[bigmrg74]

Harvested the sunflower heads today. Got them drying out in the barn. They're going to be excellent treats for the girls on some cold snowy blustery winter day.

Took the wired up table I have and married it up to the old coop to give the little ones kind of a front porch for a bit today. Thinking next week I'm going to start letting the little ones mingle with the big girls some.

 

[aart]

Harvested the sunflower heads today. Got them drying out in the barn. They're going to be excellent treats for the girls on some cold snowy blustery winter day.

Nice!!
Have the birds seen at those heads already?
Better protect them from mice in the barn...I learned that one the hard way one year.

Am agonizing(not really...but still) over the cull list and timing.
Need to choose a few older layers to go,
and decide when to take out the old cockbird,
so the new cockerel can take over.

Been interesting watching the dynamics of old and new males,
it's going rather well actually no blood baths or real beatings,
and the pullets coming into lay and getting feisty.

 

[RaZ]

Coop space, or coop and run, or your total acreage? Let's see, an acre is 43,560 feet, so that is just under 9 birds.

It doesn't really say. There is no science behind any of their proposed ordinances. For example they want a noise ordinance of 40 dB for any windmill. But no one knew what a decibel really meant. The lake front HWM (high water mark) also caused much confusion.
The best was the no roosters rule but 5 lines down, roosters were permitted between the hours of 11:00 am and 4:00 pm.
It's like a whole other world up there, then again maybe not.

 

[aart]

It doesn't really say. There is no science behind any of their proposed ordinances. For example they want a noise ordinance of 40 dB for any windmill. But no one knew what a decibel really meant. The lake front HWM (high water mark) also caused much confusion.
The best was the no roosters rule but 5 lines down, roosters were permitted between the hours of 11:00 am and 4:00 pm.
It's like a whole other world up there, then again maybe not.

Are the current 'rules' no chickens at all?

 

[snowflake]

It doesn't really say. There is no science behind any of their proposed ordinances. For example they want a noise ordinance of 40 dB for any windmill. But no one knew what a decibel really meant. The lake front HWM (high water mark) also caused much confusion.
The best was the no roosters rule but 5 lines down, roosters were permitted between the hours of 11:00 am and 4:00 pm.
It's like a whole other world up there, then again maybe not.

sounds like you could be getting into the same thing you left in GC??

It doesn't really say. There is no science behind any of their proposed ordinances. For example they want a noise ordinance of 40 dB for any windmill. But no one knew what a decibel really meant. The lake front HWM (high water mark) also caused much confusion.
The best was the no roosters rule but 5 lines down, roosters were permitted between the hours of 11:00 am and 4:00 pm.
It's like a whole other world up there, then again maybe not.

 

[snowflake]

nice place RaZ, found the pics, very nice. ......hope all goes well, sounds like you have been super busy with 2 houses to sell and clean out. that looks like a rather small place so not to much room for a lot of stuff......less is best