Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[chickflick]

One of my young pullets that I got on May 2nd has laid her first egg on Thursday! And another yesterday. She came up on the upper deck and was scootching around in a corner. Looking around. I went and got a nest box (crate) and put it in the corner. Eevee hopped right in and laid an egg. There was a lot of commotion going on in the coop where the hens were all wanting to go in the same nest box so guess she just wanted some privacy and quiet.

 

[Chickin Fairy]

Have you looked into Smart Canners? I bought mine at Rural King. It’s like an Instapot but it has a canning feature and it’s a little larger in size.
No worries about canning on the stove.
Edit to add: It’s made by Nesco.

This is fantastic news for me! Thank you! We don't have a Rural King near us, but we make a special trip (usually to satisfy my husband's gun collection obsession ). There's a high probability of I mention there is something I want to get at Rural King he will be all for it.

And I screwed up on my thawing of my tomatoes and discarded the water, which I now know has a lot of the needed acidy to be able to can it safely, so freezer tomato sauce it is!

@1muttsfan thanks for getting my brain gears working. I think pressure canning is the way to go for me, especially with all the fretting I do over my process.

 

[Chickin Fairy]

One of my young pullets that I got on May 2nd has laid her first egg on Thursday! And another yesterday. She came up on the upper deck and was scootching around in a corner. Looking around. I went and got a nest box (crate) and put it in the corner. Eevee hopped right in and laid an egg. There was a lot of commotion going on in the coop where the hens were all wanting to go in the same nest box so guess she just wanted some privacy and quiet.

That's so much earlier than any of my birds laid! Congrats and happy first egg day to her!

 

[uchytil]

Is it resurrectible?

Maybe, we'll see

 

[BoundlessLove]

Made it home safely!
Monday and Tuesday was a cool and overcast, but weather through Saturday was warm and breezy.
Mackinac Island is as beautiful as it was twenty five years ago.

 

[chickflick]

Glad you enjoyed your time on the island. Always good to be back home.

 

[BoundlessLove]

Glad you enjoyed your time on the island. Always good to be back home.

Thank you
We came back to what feels like early fall weather. I’m ready for it!

 

[1muttsfan]

47° this morning

 

[Sally PB]

Has anyone used this product to help with thin eggshells?
Liquid calcium supplement

Did it help? I'm tempted to get some. My hens love the crushed egg shells I give them, but they don't seem to eat the oyster shell (real shell pieces, not the beaded stuff from TSC). I've had some pretty thin shells recently.

 

[Sammster]

Some hometown pride here...

On the LP side of The Bridge, there is a visitor's center with history, gifts, etc. I don't know if it's still there. Anyway. As you walked in, there was a long desk with Knowledgeable People behind it. On the wall behind and above that, there was a mural that ran the width of the room. It was Native Americans in canoes, with clouds, and the bridge, I think too. It was painted by Betty Beeby, who lived in my home town of Eastport, MI.

The last time we went to the UP, we stopped there. The mural was gone. Covered up, not painted over. I asked someone about it and he said there was a smaller version in one of the offices, and let us in to look at it. I asked him, "Can you find all 14 of the Native Americans?" (I think that's the number.) He gave me a blank look. I pointed out the three or four most visible, and he said he'd never noticed that they were there.

I'd love to see that mural. I wonder if it might be on line.