No, not a salmon species
Michigan Thread - all are welcome!
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yeah, I'm not great with fish. Looks tasty though!
It has whiskers!!Chick Pics! They are 2 weeks now.
herducks, I hope you find your dog.
caz, that looks like an EE I had. Some EE's will lay brown eggs.
gladahmae, it won't hurt to put fake eggs or golf balls in the nest boxes.
taprock, I wish you were closer, I have more quart size jars than I will ever use. A friend left over a hundred with me when she moved.
Thanks for the confirmations on the EE
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If you're on face book, post him on here... maybe it will help get the word out! https://www.facebook.com/pages/For-...higan-Lost-Pet-Lookers/264553563570926?ref=tsIf anyone lives in the Manistee or Ludington area, my dog has been missing since Monday. He is a six month old border collie. If you know anyone in the area please share his photo and my contact info; my # is 440-309-0046
I want to thank everyone for their prayers for my former DIL's unborn baby. Pauline went to a Perinatalogist and he said the baby will be fine!!! We are all so thrilled for her!! Keep praying that this baby will be born healthy. Thanks!
Pauline and her hubby are so relieved.
Great morning... hope you all get to enjoy.
Great morning... hope you all get to enjoy.
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Wingless, sorry I left you out! I knew there were 4 people, but only knew of the three. Thank you for standing up as well.
I don't think these guys understand the impact this will have on other business... there are quite a few restaurants and stores that sell grown in Michigan food... and the food don't all come from large farms. lets not forget stores like tsc that have increased business because of chickens! I would even support separate gaamps for small operations, (save for the not processing on one's own property idea, I prefer to process my own food).
Plus, with so many of the old, large family farms going by the wayside.. cause of no kids, or no interest in farming..... at some point, these guys are going to wonder where all the good food went! Cause if they have their way, we'll be left with tasteless, modified foods imported from another country because we just don't have the land to provide the food, and after a while, that land will get tired.....
Fuzzy, I think it's in part that people don't associate live chickens and the pretty chickens that come wrapped in plastic (eggs too) all prepared in the store........People are so afraid of, any form of smell, dirt or .. work.... that they've separated themselves from whats natural.
I don't think these guys understand the impact this will have on other business... there are quite a few restaurants and stores that sell grown in Michigan food... and the food don't all come from large farms. lets not forget stores like tsc that have increased business because of chickens! I would even support separate gaamps for small operations, (save for the not processing on one's own property idea, I prefer to process my own food).
Plus, with so many of the old, large family farms going by the wayside.. cause of no kids, or no interest in farming..... at some point, these guys are going to wonder where all the good food went! Cause if they have their way, we'll be left with tasteless, modified foods imported from another country because we just don't have the land to provide the food, and after a while, that land will get tired.....
Fuzzy, I think it's in part that people don't associate live chickens and the pretty chickens that come wrapped in plastic (eggs too) all prepared in the store........People are so afraid of, any form of smell, dirt or .. work.... that they've separated themselves from whats natural.
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I want to thank everyone for their prayers for my former DIL's unborn baby. Pauline went to a Perinatalogist and he said the baby will be fine!!! We are all so thrilled for her!! Keep praying that this baby will be born healthy. Thanks!Pauline and her hubby are so relieved.
Great morning... hope you all get to enjoy.
Awesome!!
During the break I spoke with Commissioner Don Coe (and the commissioner from the UP listened in), Mr. Coe offered some friendly advice that we backyard might want to consider not being so closely associated to the large commercial farming operations as we make our arguments. Some of the public comments touched on the animal unit method of measuring (i.e. 50 animal units = 5000 chickens) and that there is no way backyard keepers could ever get close to that number.
I think his advice was based in part to how I tried to relate lessons learned from large operations can be pared down to small flock owners; how set-backs can be proportioned to backyard dimensions. Same hold true with manure management, protective shelter, etc.
So I came from the meeting thinking that we should address two (2) aspects of the MRTFA as it relates to us backyard keepers.
1) Work to immediately halt the proposed 2013 changes that restore zoning and ordinance to local government.
2) Help define a set of GAAMPs that apply to backyards and hobby farms.
Since the committee vote is December 12th, there is not much time. I suggest that we mount a letter campaign to ask the commissioners to NOT ACCEPT the proposals at all and return to the language of the 2011 GAAMPs.
I'll have some more thoughts as I try to separate the hard science from the political science behind the proposed changes.
I think his advice was based in part to how I tried to relate lessons learned from large operations can be pared down to small flock owners; how set-backs can be proportioned to backyard dimensions. Same hold true with manure management, protective shelter, etc.
So I came from the meeting thinking that we should address two (2) aspects of the MRTFA as it relates to us backyard keepers.
1) Work to immediately halt the proposed 2013 changes that restore zoning and ordinance to local government.
2) Help define a set of GAAMPs that apply to backyards and hobby farms.
Since the committee vote is December 12th, there is not much time. I suggest that we mount a letter campaign to ask the commissioners to NOT ACCEPT the proposals at all and return to the language of the 2011 GAAMPs.
I'll have some more thoughts as I try to separate the hard science from the political science behind the proposed changes.
Chickflick, that is great news!
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