Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[ladyrsanti]

Ugh... One of my ditzy Wyandottes got tangled in flypaper from the barn. The SLW's are nearly impossible to catch but once I caught up to her I laid her across my lap and carefully unstuck her from it. It was deep in her butt feathers, you know, the fluffiest ones.

Oy! What a mess! Let that be a lesson to me. Don't keep flypaper where the chickens can fly into it. This particular one was hanging from the top of a high window but still, she got up there somehow. It would have been really amusing to find her hanging in the window by the flypaper though.

 

[greenmimama]

what about doing metal? it's about the same price as shingles, and goes up a LOT faster.....DH and I roofed our new coop (10x16 with a 6/12 pitch) in a few hours.

Well I thought about that, it would actually look really cool with this particular building, do they sell a special piece for the ridge vent?

I've never put up metal, I know DH has done the expensive steel roofs, but don't know about the corugated metal, that is the kind you are talking about right?

 

[NovaAman]

Ugh... One of my ditzy Wyandottes got tangled in flypaper from the barn. The SLW's are nearly impossible to catch but once I caught up to her I laid her across my lap and carefully unstuck her from it. It was deep in her butt feathers, you know, the fluffiest ones.

Oy! What a mess! Let that be a lesson to me. Don't keep flypaper where the chickens can fly into it. This particular one was hanging from the top of a high window but still, she got up there somehow. It would have been really amusing to find her hanging in the window by the flypaper though.

LOL, when you said that it was the one hanging from the high window, that was the immediate image that popped into my twisted little brain... A chicken hanging, tangled in sticky paper! LOL.

 

[chicken grandma]

I only caught your error to pick on you. HEHEEHE

NO WAY! You caught my error because you are a softie at heart and you wanted to save all the mishaps I was going to cause! See, I told ya! I'm not intentionally making mistakes - just going senile!

 

[Scifisarah]

So if I set these mottled cochin eggs in my incubator on Oct 6 at 9 am, does my lockdown start Oct 24 at 9 am? That is how I usually count, but I am so nervous about wanting to do everything right with these eggs. I'm also going to take them out of the turner and put them into an egg carton then, which I haven't tried before. Last time to keep the hatching chicks from rolling the other eggs around I used plastic hardware cloth and made a tic-tac-toe grid and put each egg in its own little "cell". Boy were those chicks mad when they couldn't get at their buddies! Don't think I will try that one again...

 

[Mom 2em All]

I cant stick around or even catch up-
just wanted to say that today a wonderful couple came in to my work and while there had asked where they could buy chicken feed.

I LOVE meeting others that also have stealth birds like me....shhhhh.

I told them about BYC, and he says that he checks our site out all the time but hasnt registered yet.

Welcome if you see this- and register and join a wonderful community! Glad to have you here!

 

[Nigellas]

Hey Mom2! I was just thinking about you.

 

[gladahmae]

Well I thought about that, it would actually look really cool with this particular building, do they sell a special piece for the ridge vent?

I've never put up metal, I know DH has done the expensive steel roofs, but don't know about the corugated metal, that is the kind you are talking about right?

Menards and HD, Lowes, etc should sell ribbed metal roofing in nominal lengths (8, 10, 12ft, and so on) so unless you have the tools to trim pieces down, that size HAS to work for what you're doing. They DO make something to vent the ridge.....it's a roll of what looks kind of like black brillo pad, about a foot wide. You just put that under your ridge cap and TADA! It vents!


My poor little chickie still has liquid poop. I had to give her another bath tonight. Poor thing barely tries to run away when I open the brooder to take her out, even though the others are FREAKING OUT as soon as I touch the lid. I picked up some yogurt in hopes that it's just a gut flora thing, or she only gets a few more weeks before getting culled. That stinks especially since I'm pretty sure it IS a she and one of the others (out of the 3) is REALLY looking like it's going to be a boy.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Glad, is she eating good? Does her crop feel full of food, or only water? Some chicks don't catch on right away, or are too timid to battle their way to the food, or do but not enough for their growth.

If her crop is not full, you could take spoons and crush the feed, and take warm water and make a soft paste with it. (Drinkable, but not too runny) Put this in a clean milk cap, and dip her beak in. If it is the feed, not the flora, you could also add a pinch of sugar to this to give her energy and make the food more tempting.

Unleeees it is constipation, that gives runny poo too. Feel along the bottom of her "belly", at the bottom between that and the vent. Is there a bulge?

 

[Amy PT]

This is the butternut squash sausage soup recipe I use. I'm a vegetarian, and use soy sausage. My family - carnivore and herbivore alike - really likes this soup.