Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Folly's place]

Totally unrelated to chickens: today I saw a piliated woodpecker! In some trees on our property! May there be a nesting pair...
Mary

 

[Sally PB]

I saw robins yesterday. When I was a kid, we NEVER saw them this time of year.

Dreamz, what gives, lady! You're not supposed to be a poster child for side effects!

 

[TheDandyLion]

There are some Robins that overwinter. https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/02/its-still-winter-in-michigan-so-why-are-we-seeing-robins.html

I look for the vultures, sandhill cranes and red-wings.

 

[chickflick]

Me too! Vultures and red wing black birds are my sign of spring.

 

[RaZ]

Well, well, well. I have received an egg for each of the past 3 days. About darn time.

Close to 40 degrees and sunny out. Yard is full of squirrels and the feeders are full of birds. Goldfinches are turning bright yellow and I think a pair of pileated woodpeckers are looking to nest again. There is a nice cavity in that tree about 25' up.

 

[Sally PB]

3 eggs today! That hasn't happened since October 4th. And it's only 2:10, so there could be more... !!

 

[1muttsfan]

I've been getting one or two eggs a day now for over a week, unfortunately most of them are frozen by the time I get to them. And this has been an unusually warm winter. That's why I don't bother with lights, why tried to increase laying when most of the eggs end up unusable.

 

[Sally PB]

Can't you thaw them, then crack and cook them? Maybe not over easy, but I'd think scrambled would be ok. ??

 

[chickflick]

I was a getting 1-4 eggs a day for about 3 weeks, and now the production has stopped again. Doesn't help that I've lost 3 hens. They were all from the rescues. So don't know their age, but all were still laying. Yesterday hubby let them out and I went out about 45 min later and found my favorite sweet hen dead. Still warm. Have no idea why. Perfectly fine yesterday. I need some more hens. Checked into the Farm and home point of lay hens you can order. Only a few stores offer. Only Isa Browns. $16.99 Don't care for Isa Browns.
Have 8 turkeys around my bird feeders. Big ones. Rain all day today. Hope you all have a good day.

 

[Sally PB]

I went out about 45 min later and found my favorite sweet hen dead.

So sorry to read that.