Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[swampducks]

Raz is right, the Northern Chicken Stock is still on for Sept 22nd! So if anyone else is coming please let me know on the attendee thread, see my sig below, and if anyone who is coming knows what they're bringing for sure and hasn't yet let me know, please do.

I believe that he meant for him, personally. Not everyone else.

 

[swampducks]

I hope you can make it, I think I'm going to bring a few hens because I've got 19 assuming the coons don't take out any more and as they're just coming into laying I hate the idea of just whacking them for the freezer. I can't possibly keep 19 hens over the winter. There would be 1 or 2 of Domnique, Golden Buff (Isa Brown), and maybe a Buckeye and a Blue Andalusian. Perhaps a BA roo as well. They're kinda small for the freezer.

I am not sure I can make it to Chickenstock, bummer it looks like that would be a great place to start.

So does anyone have any chicks, or young hens they would like to sell to me??

 

[snowflake]

Really?? thank you for that, I will check them out.

I forgot were you live, but if you are close to someone who is going to CS maybe they can bring them back for you?....also I haven't seen Theron on for a while and he hatches a lot of chicks...he may have some available.... we are all over Mi. and transport can some times be arranged

I really hate 'coons.

At 9pm I went down to the hutch

I am soooo sorry you are still having trouble with coons....we haven't seen one since the corn in the fields around us started to ripen.Thank you farmers

....maybe you should consider electric fence??

I hope you can make it, I think I'm going to bring a few hens because I've got 19 assuming the coons don't take out any more and as they're just coming into laying I hate the idea of just whacking them for the freezer. I can't possibly keep 19 hens over the winter. There would be 1 or 2 of Domnique, Golden Buff (Isa Brown), and maybe a Buckeye and a Blue Andalusian. Perhaps a BA roo as well. They're kinda small for the freezer.

is your Blue Andalusian a hen sounds very tempsting

 

[RaZ]

I found a new (old) source of chicken feed.
It is Chap's in Livonia at 5 Mile Rd and Middlebelt. They have been there for years even though I forget they are there.
I was going to go to TSC but thought I'd check to see if they have stuff for chickens

They have crumble, pellet, scratch, corn and other stuff like oats and what not. Right here in the city! There must be a market for it, right? Plus it saved me a 60 mile round-trip drive.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Ok, I went to there website and there is nothing, I can't get it to let me look at the ad, was it advertising it for this week? I could probably stop ther on my way home tonight.

Yes, it was for this week. If you are anywhere near Newaygo, they also have a small animal swap the second Saturday of the month thru October at the Family Farm & Home store parking lot.

My guess - this might not apply to all stores. You probably have to go in to your local store and check it out.

That's possible too as I remember they advertised the same last year but I don't remember seeing them in the Newaygo store.

Sorry swampducks

Ditto!

 

[RaZ]

Look at that monster egg in the middle. It weighed in at 101 grams (3.55 ounces).

What a gift from Broast, the BSL.

And for comparison...

 

[Scifisarah]

I've got four 3-month old probably-roosters that are looking for new homes from the Rockford area if anyone is in the market for more roosters.

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/grd/3225075082.html

 

[gladahmae]

my poor little cuckoo marans cockeral jumped over the fence and into the pen with the big girls today. Poor guy was hiding in the corner with his head and neck stickout out through the chainlink. I shooed the pullets away and put him back into his part of the run. He didn't appear to have any injuries, no blood anywhere, and was walking fine.


What do you all think of this egg? I can't decide if it's a quitter, or just in a very strange position (11 days into incubation)

 

[1muttsfan]

Glad, the only candling advice I can give you is candle only as much as nescessary (days 10 and 18) and only discard eggs that you KNOW for SURE are not progressing, or those that are weeping. Otherwise you run the risk of 1. Discarding developing eggs and 2. Breaking eggs during handling - both of which happen with amazing frequency.

 

[gladahmae]

yep. I'm not planning on looking at them again until day 18, but this one *appears* to be developed, but oddly positioned. Last night after work was my "day 10" candling even though it was day 11.5 (or 12, depending on how you want to look at it).

RaZ, that's a HUGE egg!!! Wow!