Michigan

[RIRJen]

Morning everyone!

Thought I would share a funny morning moment!
I'm sitting here typing on the computer and hear my cat playing with something in the hallway...turn around to see what the little stinker is doing and realized she's chasing an ant. (this cat loves to eat bugs) So I decided to watch and she got into it so much that next thing she knew she's stuck to a bathtowel that was laying on the floor and looking at me like "OK, now what?!?! Don't just sit there, un-stuck me!!!!"

I'm not much of a cat person (she's my daughter's cat....thanks to Vicki and her ability to find animals in a ditch LOL) but she can be one of the greatest sources of entertainment sometimes!

Hope you all have a great day! Hopefully greeting my new Speckled Sussex chicks today seeing as I spent yesterday cleaning the coop out in the rain to prepare for thier arrival!

I'll pick up some batteries for my camera so I can get some pictures!

 

[YakLady]

Good Morning! My dryer crapped out on me last week and the new one won't arrive until Monday. Haven't done laundry in a week because we haven't had enough warmth to be able to dry our clothes out on a line. I may arrive at our get-together in my jammies.

 

[Cruizer1]

Hi all, I posted this on the regular forum without any replies and since Michiganders seem to always help out I am going to repost my concern here...

I have 6 Isa's Hens (9 months old) and am introducing 3 Isa Hens and 1 Bantam Hen (2 months old) I have done the step by step introduction ..there is some hen pecking but nothing major. My problem is the old ladies won't let the young ladies eat. I have 2 food and 2 water containters and every time one of the youngsters tries to get either, one of the old ladies chases them away.

I have made a small cage area that the babes can go in and out of and has food but this has been going on for a few weeks now. They'd be fine if it wasn't for the food/water dominance...

Any suggestions???

Thanks

 

[SweeChee]

Crazy thing happened yesterday. I was in looking at the garden checking to see how everything was doing. See a couple of spots where I thought my husband piled some dirt at the bottom of the fence to keep rabbits from getting in the garden. Husband gets home, checks on garden.... I'm in house and hear him yelling for me. Go out on porch and he is holding a snapping turtle by the tail!! It was in the garden under the dirt I saw....

This is the funny part, our golden retreiver/german shepherd mix has been sitting down by the garden staring at it for long periods for the past couple of days!!! We thought she was doing it because a rabbit had gotten in the garden and couldn't get out the week before and could still smell it, but low and behold she knew that turtle was in there.

It must have gotten in under the fence and couldn't get back out!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Hi Cruizer, I think you are doing the right thing by having a small cage with food and water for the younger ones. Probably as they get older and as big as the other birds it will work itself out. Do they get to free range any?

 

[Cruizer1]

Hi HH,

Not much free range, they have a large run area, we are on a busy street and have hawks so unless we are out there to watch them they are in the run. Is it best to have them out to free range together???

Thanks much, I was afraid this would never resolve itself....

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

SweeChee, wow that is awesome.

RIRJen, cats are very amusing at times. I have one that suffers from separation anxiety. When I go out to take care of the chickens in the morning my DH says this cat will sit at the door and meow for me till I get back.

Opa, good luck with the hatch!

Silly Chicken, what a great thing you did. Sounds like the little bird will be fine.

The rain is supposed to clear up by mid day so maybe we can get more work done on the "new" coop. I am hoping to get the vinyl flooring down and the divider walls up today.

 

[Hillbilly Rooster]

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Finding a nice place to lay eggs I have a place fenced off hoping that the eggs hatch.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Well I am no expert, just saying what I have observed with my own birds. Mine do get to free range and when I finally let my younger flock out with the older ones it seemed to go well. At night they would go into their own side of the coop which was divided with screening so they could see each other. After a week or so I took the divider down and while they do seem to squabble a bit at night for the prime roosting spot they do seem to be getting along pretty well.

 

[SillyChicken]

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LOL, just don't stop at wallmart! you may show up on the website!