Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[NovaAman]

Good Morning, Opa. You are just starting your day, I am just finishing Saturday. Hope y'all have fun. Maybe you can sucker a ride or Granny. That'll give her friends something to chat over.

 

[Herducks]

Well today is the day...I have been moving boxes for several days, but today is the day I move all my furniture! UGH!! I have a friend coming to help, but I don't think we will be able to move some of my furniture. Why did I buy such heavy furniture? But I will be in my new home!! Yay!! The only thing I will have left to move over will be the ducklings. I need a house built for them before I can move them. But they are fine for now in a stall in the barn. 4 1/2 weeks old and they are growing like weeds! I just stripped their stall yesterday. it is amazing how big of a mess they make!! My first thought was to move them into my garage until something was built, but I don't think so!!! I can't wait to have a place set up for them. Hope my neighbor's don't kill me!!

 

[Scifisarah]

Anyone know where to find cracked corn cheap within 30ish minutes from Rockford? We use it in the winter for chicken treats and also for the deer and wild birds but they are blowing through the $10 50-lb bags a little too quickly for my liking! The deer are eating the majority of the corn so I suppose I could go to whole corn/deer feed for them, and keep buying the cracked for chicken treats and paying a little more as they are slower to go through it so basically looking for better options for deer feed.

 

[SillyChicken]

Anyone know where to find cracked corn cheap within 30ish minutes from Rockford? We use it in the winter for chicken treats and also for the deer and wild birds but they are blowing through the $10 50-lb bags a little too quickly for my liking! The deer are eating the majority of the corn so I suppose I could go to whole corn/deer feed for them, and keep buying the cracked for chicken treats and paying a little more as they are slower to go through it so basically looking for better options for deer feed.

you could try a hunter supply place, and get regular whole corn for the deer and save the $ stuff for your birds.

 

[chicken grandma]

Good luck on your move Herducks!

 

[gladahmae]

any chance anyone has some EE or ameraucana chicks that are under 4wks old they are looking to get rid of? I really wanted to get some blue/green egg layers for a project next year and NONE of mine hatched. They would need to be north of Grand Rapids and west of Clare, and no further north than Kalkaska. Soooo.....Benzie/Manistee/Grand Traverse/Leelanau/Wexford/Antrim area. I know that Randy in Muskegon has some but I can't justify 6-7 hours in the car.

 

[greenmimama]

Forgot who asked, but I might know the organic egg sellers in the Ada Quiggle area.

If it's where I am thinking, they are friends of ours, they have about 300ish chickens and are pasture raising them.

 

[Brethren49619]

22 weeks today for my first group of chicks. Last week at 21 weeks I had my first layer. Today would appear to have 3 additional layers. I can't believe the size of the green one from my EE. The white egg is a store bought large size egg for comparison. Two light colored ones are from last weeks layer, so the other two darker ones I'm guessing are from a BA and a new BO? I really don't care who, just glad I will be able to fix myself breakfast each day now from my girls!

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[tdhenson86]

Well today is the day...I have been moving boxes for several days, but today is the day I move all my furniture! UGH!! I have a friend coming to help, but I don't think we will be able to move some of my furniture. Why did I buy such heavy furniture? But I will be in my new home!! Yay!! The only thing I will have left to move over will be the ducklings. I need a house built for them before I can move them. But they are fine for now in a stall in the barn. 4 1/2 weeks old and they are growing like weeds! I just stripped their stall yesterday. it is amazing how big of a mess they make!! My first thought was to move them into my garage until something was built, but I don't think so!!! I can't wait to have a place set up for them. Hope my neighbor's don't kill me!!

Good luck with the move!

 

[ladyrsanti]

Forgot who asked, but I might know the organic egg sellers in the Ada Quiggle area.

If it's where I am thinking, they are friends of ours, they have about 300ish chickens and are pasture raising them.

That was me! I was interested. I pass by that way sometimes and their sign catches my eye, with the different colored eggs and of course "organic". They look like serious chicken people and I figured someone on here must know them or even BE them