Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Wrightsx4]

This little Iron Man is hoping you had a safe and Happy Halloween!!!

Awwww

 

[chicken grandma]

All of you can E-mail the sight Raz has put up with a short comment asking to pleas table the changes in the GAAMPS for this yr.

Does not need to be long, well informed ,full of facts E-mail, (that is what took me so long the first time to E........ didn't know what to say.....so just say what Raz said," please table GAAMPS for this yr. until a more comprehensive proposal can be drafted;; that protects small operations from local restrictions"
EASY,SHORT,YOU CAN DO IT!!

I just did this! Thank you for giving me the wording!

 

[chicken grandma]

No coffee for me... Tea for a while... So not the same...

Is your gall bladder acting up again? Hope you are well.

 

[SillyChicken]

Write MDARD:​

Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development
P.O. Box 30017
Lansing, Michigan
48909

Send Email to MDARD:​

[email protected]


Going to finally work on an email to send regarding GAAMPS
BIG thanks again to those who have been going and speaking out.

Hope everyone is doing well today... I think my head cold is on its way out, I finally slept all night!..... I sure hope it's gone by St. Antler's day opener as I have thur and fri off and looking forward to going out with my dad (it could be his last year, you never know)....... I hope our herd is ok, but I worry that the coming years will show a huge decrease in the population and hunting opportunities. If it does get worse, I think I'll raise a few beef cattle for the next couple years and leave the deer to recover.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Write MDARD:​

Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development P.O. Box 30017 Lansing, Michigan 48909

Send Email to MDARD:​

[email protected]

Going to finally work on an email to send regarding GAAMPS BIG thanks again to those who have been going and speaking out.

X2!! I wished I had gone, but had to work!

 

[Farmerboy16]

Great news!!!!

I finally caught Bella mounting one of the steers, and acting like she is in heat! I checked her over, and texted my friend (Bella's former owner) to confirm if Bella is in heat. He texted me back saying that she sounds like that she is in heat and I should call the AI guy to breed her. So... I did, and he came over and confirmed that she is in heat, and AI her! If she settles and really got bred, she will be due in July! Woot!

The AI guy gave me the bull's name and serial number and I looked it up.

This is the future calf's father- A pure Guernsey

Delta

 

[WashtenawFarmer]

Hi,
I'm new here--I was at the MDARD meeting yesterday and spoke. I'm actually a commercial farmer with 80 acres in Washtenaw County (small-scale--currently we have 40 acres of grain acreage, 1 acre of orchard, a large garden for selling at the local farmers' market, and are working on native wildflower and grass seed production). But the new site selection GAAMPS will affect even my 80-acre farm, banning any livestock raising on just over half of it and requiring an odor management plan on most of the rest of it, even if I only want to raise 15-20 chickens for selling eggs at a farmers' market, which is plainly ridiculous. My farm isn't in the middle of a city either--we're bordered by farms, hunting properties, and large rural residential lots. But those 1/4 mile and 1/2 mile radius circles in the site selection GAAMPS are huge areas of land when you're talking about even a hundred chickens (an entire Township is only 6 miles square).

Another thing about the Site Selection GAAMPS is that in the definitions section, "non-farm residences" means any residence not associated with that particular livestock/farm operation. So even though many of the neighbors to my farm actually are farmers themselves, some of them even having livestock, they count as "non-farm residences" for the purposes of those Site Selection GAAMPS tables.

Glad to be here and to have met some of you yesterday.

 

[tdhenson86]

A quick look at th extended forecast didn't look to bad. That is if you find cold temperatures and snow acceptable. Oh well the warm weather is only about 170 days away. That's not even 6 months away. We can do that easy.

Just looked outside at the chicken coop and the lights are on. Setting the digital timer is much more difficult than one would think. You have to set the year, month, day, time zone, daylight savings time, then the number of events, time of the events, frequency of event, and function. Make one error and you must unplug it and start all over. It surely does test ones ability to not get frustrated.

Where did you get the digital timer? I've been looking for one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. They can be pretty expensive. Also, I can't believe you said the dreaded sn@* word... lol

 

[tdhenson86]

Hi,
I'm new here--I was at the MDARD meeting yesterday and spoke. I'm actually a commercial farmer with 80 acres in Washtenaw County (small-scale--currently we have 40 acres of grain acreage, 1 acre of orchard, a large garden for selling at the local farmers' market, and are working on native wildflower and grass seed production). But the new site selection GAAMPS will affect even my 80-acre farm, banning any livestock raising on just over half of it and requiring an odor management plan on most of the rest of it, even if I only want to raise 15-20 chickens for selling eggs at a farmers' market, which is plainly ridiculous. My farm isn't in the middle of a city either--we're bordered by farms, hunting properties, and large rural residential lots. But those 1/4 mile and 1/2 mile radius circles in the site selection GAAMPS are huge areas of land when you're talking about even a hundred chickens (an entire Township is only 6 miles square).

Another thing about the Site Selection GAAMPS is that in the definitions section, "non-farm residences" means any residence not associated with that particular livestock/farm operation. So even though many of the neighbors to my farm actually are farmers themselves, some of them even having livestock, they count as "non-farm residences" for the purposes of those Site Selection GAAMPS tables.

Glad to be here and to have met some of you yesterday.

Agreed that this is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS! I'm glad that many of you were there. Sorry that I couldn't make it. I had staff meeting and my internship yesterday.

 

[tdhenson86]

I also sent MDARD. I let them know that their proposal would affect even me and I live on an 80-acre plot of land on a road that only has 7 houses on a 5-mile stretch. Even living in such a rural area, my nearest neighbors are 1/10 of a mile away. So, even small, rural farms like mine are greatly impacted. I sure hope they get the message with all of us writing them!