Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[BackyardFarmMom]

Glambka

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[BackyardFarmMom]

Does anyone know if I should worry about these spiders hanging out with the chickens?
The chickens don't eat them...
I found 2 on the coop tonight.
I rather like spiders (yes I catch them in cups and put them outside)
This is a picture of one that I found in the garage last year. I was fine with her staying outside... she was almost 3in long!

 

[normanack]

Thank you, Opa, for your wisdom and compassion. I'd like to sit down with you some rainy morning with a cup of hot coffee.

Blessings on you and yours, Glambka.

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How are everyone's chickens dealing with the rain? Mine seem not to notice it. The Silkies are sodden and muddy and oblivious.

 

[Momma K]

Good morning all, my family and friends will be part of that human shield. If anyone wants information on taking part, please PM me. There is no reason for a group to put forth such hatred in the name of God. Especially toward someone who died protecting the very rights they have to do so.

 

[Opa]

Last night I sat reading a book and the next thing I knew it was 2am this morning. Reading certainly is a wonderful thing. It allows you to increase your knowledge on any subject of your chosing. It allows you to visit locales you'd never have the opportunity to visit. It allows you to escape from the pressure and turmoil of daily life and come back feeling relaxed and ready to face life.

With the rain falling steadily today I doubt if I will venture much further than the coffee pot. In fact with several unread novels at hand I think that I will probably sit right here for most of the day.

If you need something that could bring a smile to your face go to Opa's Place https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...rooster-visits-with-friends/5110#post_9468625 and read post #5113

 

[taprock]

Morning all. I have not been enjoying the cooler weather - I know don't throw things at me, I'm just always cold. Yesterday I stayed in and did painting, baking and sewing. The plus side to the cooler weather is the deer have taken up residence in the back field. There are 3 young bucks still in velvet that have been hanging out. They are very fun to watch with all their chasing and running around. There were back several times during the day yesterday. Then there is a doe with this years fawn who have been around and about 5 doe. It has become a habit to scan the back field and see what critters are visiting.
About a week ago I heard crowing and tried to determine which rooster it was. It turns out some neighbors have gotten chickens. I'm not sure who because they are back in the woods but I can hear the rooster. The poor neighbors in the middle now get it from both directions. Now that my two large roos are gone my little Dorking has decided to toughen up. He had been hanging in the coop and yard with the bantams but yesterday was out free ranging with the older ones most of the day. My son's bantam cochin has the best crow right now. I have never heard one like it. Instead of a cock-a-doodle doo it's just doodle doo, short and sweet. My Orloffs are still the most friendly birds, run right up to me. I know I'm going to HAVE to have more next year.

 

[RIRJen]

Morning all!
Well we've been bustin' with litters right now so we have some junior age rabbits for our ARBA convention in Witchita,KS in October. I have been battling to keep my favorite Belgian Hare alive. Her name is "Naughty" and she's the one who won Best opposite sex at the ARBA convention last year and is one of my best rabbits. She was pregnant with her first litter and had a heck of a time delivering them. She managed to pass 2 live and 1 dead...probably not in that order. I don't believe she has any more in there but with the long labor and rough delivery she had endured she got a nasty uterine infection and I almost lost her. She is doing much better but is still not out of the woods. Her babies are being fostered to one of our other litters (and doing really well) and I keep telling Naughty that if she makes it through this I'll never breed her again and she can just relax and live out the good life in the barn as a pet. She's being treated with antibiotics, parsley, fresh water, and yogurt.
On a good note, the pullets from my earliest hatches are laying....chicken fart eggs LOL

 

[Farmerboy16]

Hi Guys! I am glad to find this thread!

It raining, its pouring, and the old man is snoring....

Life has been very busy! More on it at the bottom of this post.

just hafta share a pic of Chopper and some of the young Dominiques who like to steal his food.  I thought I posted this up the other day but I don't see it anywhere, unless it got me in trouble and was deleted, I don't know where it went.  Then again, I may have been on some other site where I posted it, my mind just don't remeber all that I do anymore.  HAHAHAHAHA
CHOPPER:   
 

He is nice looking guy! He is missing something.... Mmm. Oh I know! He need a pretty gal to woo over!

How are you doing there Farmerboy?

I am fine, thanks for asking.

glambka- I am very sorry about your nephew. I am very thankful for his service. I believe in God, and it makes me mad that people would twist things around for their own beliefs like that picture you posted. And there is an difference between killing and murdering, it says so in the bible.... Ok, nuff said... I will pray for you and your family.

I got my first egg a few days ago! WOOT!
It came from one of these 9 Isa Browns. Got 3 eggs last night! WOOT!

Someone was asking about my Emus.....
As day-olds-

Now at 11 weeks...

Here are my chicks that I had hatched from my infected flock. 80 plus healthy chicks.

Turken

I am so excited about this fella! Why? CUZ, it has TUFTS! WOOT! Its dad was a blue tuft-less and rump-less Araucana, and the mom was the Golden lace sebright bantie hen, and I hatched about 12 chicks from the pair. All the chicks are rump-less and two of them are tufted! Most of them are blue, but some are brownish.

My only Muscovy duckling that I was able to hatch from my pair-

My Embden goslings, they are almost 2 months old! I can't believe how big that they have gotten!

Last week during feeding time for the hogs, I saw one of the April-born piglet was under a tree away from the herd, and the herd was chowing down their meal, so I thought that was strange. I went in the pen to check that piglet out, and I saw something red hanging from her belly. At close inspection, it was her liver sticking out of her belly and she was dripping blood. I made a grab for her legs, so I can help her, but she ran around squealing. It took me awhile, but got her, and ran to the house yelling for my dad, while carrying a 40 lb piglet. It was not easy, for she was kicking and squealing her silly head off. I put her on the picnic table holding all four of her legs, while my dad and my oldest sister sew her up at first with cotton thread, but it kept breaking, so we used fishing line to sew her up. My dad pushed her liver back in, it took him about 5 to 10 minutes to get it in, and we were pouring iodine on the wound. We also gave her a shot of penicillin. She was awake the whole time. It took us about half hour to do the job. We think that here is how it happened- when I was feeding the hogs, Jasper the boar push his way to the food, and his sharp tusks jabbed the piglet's side and pulled out the liver. My dad wants the tusks removed, so I will have to get something to sedate him and break of the tusks to prevent any further injuring to anybody else.

The hogs at feeding time-

You can see the bulge where the liver is- I do not think that it will ever go back to the normal place. But its healing.

I am hungry!

Update on Micah, my nephew-

The doctors can't believe that he is still alive and kicking and moving well. Less then 3 months to go before his due date. My brother and his wife have got the burial plot picked out for him. Its hard for them.

 

[1muttsfan]

Quite cool and windy here today, rain missed us completely so looks like another long dry bout up here.

Jen, sorry to hear about your hare - hope she improves.

Maybe a boat duck would be better than a boat chicken.

Glambka - hugs and thoughts are with you and your family

Opa, I have never met anyone that would make me jump from a 40 foot platform

 

[ChicwannaB]

Thank you, Opa, for your wisdom and compassion. I'd like to sit down with you some rainy morning with a cup of hot coffee.

Blessings on you and yours, Glambka.

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How are everyone's chickens dealing with the rain? Mine seem not to notice it. The Silkies are sodden and muddy and oblivious.

DOminiques don't mind it at all, they were all lined up at the fence wanting for breakfast, b ut I had to dump their wet bowl first. All the other hens were huddled under something