Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[electrycmonk]

I'm gonna do something here that I have done in at least a couple years. Cross post from across platforms...... The following is my "time stamp a couple minutes ago CDT":

Texas. Is like southern Michigan when it comes to weather. Wait 15 minutes -- it'll change.

0% forecast of precipitation for today and the last 2-5 days. So we got lulled into a distraction of 95-100° for high & ~70° for lows.

I watched this line develop to the NW of us from ~4-5PM and at 6-ish I saw (for me) the initial lightning. Went to the cool radar app and saw the curtain of cells blossoming up near Wichita Falls & start to head this way.

7-ish the frontal boundary rolled over head and the wind changed which dropped the temp about 10°F in about 3 minutes. What a refreshing feeling.

Our weather vane detected rain started at 7:28 (giggles) & by 7:45 we already had 0.67"
By 8:00 it created 1"
It's now 8:28 and it's still solidly coming down at 1.61" .... Radar looks like we'll see no letting up for at least another hour.

Glad dogs were fed and chickens fed & watered just before the storm wall hit.....

Y'all stay safe & as sane as possible. Please also keep your distances, wearing masks(or like me, bandanas) & them hands washed.

 

[aart]

Texas. Is like southern Michigan when it comes to weather. Wait 15 minutes -- it'll change.

LOLl! Most states can, and do, say that.

 

[Newby81]

I have not disturbed her to even try to candle. I have been nervous to scare her. She gets really worked up once I go into her cage.

 

[Newby81]

I tried two eggs. Since they are dark shelled, and I used my phone, I didn't see anything. Any suggestions?

 

[Folly's place]

Chocolate colored eggs are a challenge!
Any other colors, a bright small flashlight works. you want only the egg illuminated in a dark room, or coop at night.
Mary

 

[chickflick]

This would have been the day of our gathering. Stay safe. Stay well. Let's hope that we will meet again next year.

 

[aart]

Blessed Solstice to you all.

 

[Candy442]

Welcome new thread members!

RaZ, hope all goes well with your surgery.

Miss everyone for Chicken Stock this year. Next year

We have plenty of young adult birds to rehome we have BLRWs, Mottled Houdans, White Chanteclers available. One EE Rooster. PM if you are interested.

Hope everyone is healthy and having summer fun ⛱

 

[Folly's place]

We too have birds to go; April and early May chicks from Cackle, vaccinated against Marek's disease. Buckeyes, Speckled Sussex, French Marans, Chanteclers, BLR Wyandottes, and EE bantam cockerels.
Miss you all today to!
Mary

 

[getreal]

Hi everyone. Had a nice quiet rain here all day yesterday and last night. Everything looks so much greener today. I've been dealing with a sick silkie rooster. Sadly I'm beginning to think it's Mareks from all the research I've done the past week. A few years ago I made the mistake of ordering some silkies from a place in lower Mi, when I got them, 4 of them were dead. He assured me it was a mail problem and he would replace them as soon as the avian flu ban lifted. Well he went of business and I've had a bird die occasionally ever since of strange symptoms. The last one that died last year I didn't get a blood sample from so I sent in a stool sample and it came back negative for Mareks. But here's what I'm dealing with; he's unable to use his legs, wing droop on one side, won't or can't eat solid food, refuses water, moves his neck very little, green poop. He sits hunched to one side in a makeshift chair I made him. He's alert and feisty if I do something he doesn't like. He will eat yogurt and applesauce and crumble watery mash but it's more like eating the juice. I just need to vent, hope you don't mind. It's weighing on me heavily today. So I think I will take a blood sample from his little toenail and send in a sample yet again. I don't know what else it can be. I don't know about you all but these are my babies and being the crazy OCD chicken lady I am I have to find out the problem.
I hope you have a fantastic Sunday! and Happy Fathers Day!!!!!!!!!!