Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[SillyChicken]

Today was a good day for blowing a hole through my wall for the wood stove chimney. Just a few little things that I encountered...


Not uncommon, my old place had a "beautiful" brick pattern (NOT) covering the old wood clapboard...... that was the first thing to go!
Asphalt siding under the aluminum siding...


Framed in and some of that spray in foam insulation...


I should have worked a little bit neater...


I REALLY should have worked more neatly...

OMG!! LOL, good luck getting that off once it dries!!
A little clean up tomorrow is in order. Don't ya think?

Cutting into an old house is always interesting. Under the aluminum siding was 1/4 inch styro-foam, thick asphalt siding, 3/4 inch half lap hard pine, then 2 layers of cardboard, rock-wool insulation, studs and then 2 layers of drywall. Nearly 9 inches of wall thickness. Yowza! Well, it sure keeps the noise down!!

 

[Farmerboy16]

Super!  My feed mill is open to the idea of letting folks know, but a short concise version of events is what i've been needing.    Maybe they will let me put one on the bulletin board?    
I get so mad when the big gov tells me what i should eat!  If i want raw milk, it is my choice. If i want local beef instead of beef from china, it is my choice. If i want to eat my own eggs, that is my choice. At what point do i get my say? That's why i think it's important to speak up.

Agreed!!

X3!!

Thanks RaZ for the link, I will print it out tomorrow.

About the egg production- I have 9 Isa Browns, and I have been getting 9 eggs a day since the number 9 started laying last week without anybody skipping a day for over 7 days now. They are 6 months old, and they have been laying all their eggs in the morning. As a reward for such a good production, I let them out to free range for the first time since moving them in the hen house in early August. They were very hesitate to go out of the door, but when I got back home from work, they were all outside enjoying the freedom. I have other breeds with the Isas, but they are about a month younger, so I will be getting eggs from them in a few weeks.

They looked very happy to be outside. I loved watching them scurrying around finding tidbits to eat in the sunshine.

 

[chicken grandma]

Fuzzybuttlove and Farmerboy - Your chickens look very happy and healthy!!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Fuzzybuttlove and Farmerboy - Your chickens look very happy and healthy!!

I agree.

If anyone is interested, I have a bunch of chicken equipment that I need to sell. I have tons of stuff from leg bands and light bulbs to oxine and nest boxes and more. It has all been cleaned and disinfected [even though my birds were healthy].

 

[gladahmae]

Oh! I'd be interested in the leg bands if you could mail them to me! You can send me a pm if shipping would be an option.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Oh! I'd be interested in the leg bands if you could mail them to me! You can send me a pm if shipping would be an option.

It is and I did

 

[wingless]

Hey Michigan folks -

I don't usually post here because I can't keep up with the conversation, but I've been thinking about and working to protect the Michigan Right to Farm Act for awhile, and often post on the Michigan Right to Farm thread. Just want you to know that I recently wrote something up for another website on that that you might be interested in:

http://www.beginningfarmers.org/urban-agriculture-in-michigan-threatened-by-new-rules/

I think that Right to Farm protection for the 80% of the state that is not zoned "agricultural" is in very serious jeopardy, and will be lost by the end of the year if we don't speak up. I strongly encourage you to inform yourselves of what is going on, and to do what you can to maintain Right to Farm protection across the state. Please also feel free to contact me directly - because if you respond to me here, chances are I won't see it!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

This one caught his expression better He is always smiling with his eyes, so curious and happy!

 

[Opa]

Well another batch of tomatoes are in the oven cooking down and then it looks like I might get a break for canning for a few days. The plants are still loaded but it looks like it will be 3 or 4 days before anymore are ripe. Granny just showed me an ad in the local newspaper advertising tomatoes for $20 per bushel and $24 for romas. I guess I raised red gold.

 

[Wynette]

Sam, you cook them down a bit, and then can them directly, or puree first?