Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[NovaAman]

My girls have nearly completely eaten the pumpkins I gave them all the way to the rind! There are even holes in the rind. They wouldn't touch the zuc plants themselves, but the veg they would.

 

[Amy PT]

My girls have nearly completely eaten the pumpkins I gave them all the way to the rind! There are even holes in the rind. They wouldn't touch the zuc plants themselves, but the veg they would.

I would love to give them pumpkins from the plant, but the only fruit the vine produced were 2 quarter sized pumpkins that were soon eaten by chimpmunks. We got 40 foot vines, and plenty of flowers, but that was it. Have you given your girls the leaves of a pumpkin plant?

 

[Juise]

Hmm. Sounds like that PUL would be a superior chicken saddle material too.

It breathes well, too. I reseal mine on high heat every once in a while.

Now that I think about it don't think I've ever killed a deer while wearing a dress either!

I'm turning over parts of the garden, and am curious. Can/will/should chickens eat pumpkin plant leaves? How about zucchini?

Mine have never been interested in the plant parts of either of those. You can eat the blossoms, though, if you have any now.

 

[chicken grandma]

I remember last year when we got big temperature drops (60 degrees in the day to 34 degrees overnight) that there were a few chickens on our thread that died of respiratory illness. If I had younger chickens I might try to take the edge off the low side of that temperature.

Keep us posted Fuzzy! I hope your chicken pulls through!

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

Oh shucks... I had quotes but they are gone now...

Juise... I volunteer at my MILs church for their rumage sale... So we get first picks of everything that comes in. (Someone else prices everything that you pick so there is no low balling) Someone saved the doll house from their neighbors garbage and donated it to the church... Someone priced it at $25 and my MIL snatched it up!!!
The friends that I babysit for want to get a kit too. There are lots of doll houses on ebay right now. I even saw a doll house bed (the headboard and foot of the bed had rooms in them... so cute)

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

MrsHaggie- I agree with Nova. I had ducks years ago and they never slept in anything we gave them... They slept right up agaist the house so we threw a bunch of hay down for them to cuddle in. We lost more ducks to the neighbors dog than anything else. (you should have seen their faces when I caught them walking the dog... and I threatened to shoot it the next time it was in my yard...I was 13 or so)
I don't think it was your fault at all that she passed.

 

[RaZ]

Well, it looks like the mallard hen has left. There was no sign of her in any of the adjacent yards. Good luck, little duck.

A couple of hens are in full moult, so only 6 eggs today and I broke one in my pocket. My BLA looks awful.

 

[tdhenson86]

Well, it looks like the mallard hen has left. There was no sign of her in any of the adjacent yards. Good luck, little duck.

A couple of hens are in full moult, so only 6 eggs today and I broke one in my pocket. My BLA looks awful.

YAY!!! She finally figured it out! Bye bye, little duck and good luck on your trip!

 

[Scifisarah]

It breathes well, too. I reseal mine on high heat every once in a while.

Mine have never been interested in the plant parts of either of those. You can eat the blossoms, though, if you have any now.

How does PUL breathe with a solid coating of plastic across the back of the fabric? When I still cloth diapered I didn't find that to be the case at all and switched to wool covers. I do have about three yards of PUL that I need to do something with though.

I guess instead of buying another waterproof mattress pad for the kids, I could rig something up with that...

 

[Stacykins]

Is everyone OK? It is SO quiet on this thread! I guess I am used to browsing dozens of posts in the evening, hah!

I just craigslisted two purebred Araucana hens for sale. If any BYCer is interested in them, they won't cost 20$ each. I cannot ship them, though.