Michigan

[bethanyrae]

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If they're not being used to resell, we just get them at the recycling center. A sackful is free. A huge(!) bag is a couple dollars. We do the recycling center in Charlotte, Eaton Co.

It's open Tuesdays and Saturday.

http://www.charlottemi.org/recycling.htm (for hours, etc.)

 

[bethanyrae]

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Celia, how did you find a home? I'm trying to find a good home for the 22-week-old EE roo we bought from TSC as a Ameraucana pullet. I'm even offering hatching eggs or chicks/ ducklings in the spring and no one is interested. Anyone have any advice finding a place besides in the stew pot? This roo isn't aggressive to people or hens, just to the little Silkie Roo I have which was probably mutual.

I have too much chicken drama going on! A broody hen, a slightly injured Silkie roo and three 3-week-old chicks in a watermelon box are in the back room of my house. Th other roo is in a rabbit hutch because the bantam cochin and polish hen were upset their Silkie guy wasn't around and because the younger hens decided they moved up in pecking order with the ducks and uppity roo No freeranging because of a hawk... the hawk also is the reason for the chicks and hen in the house. I don't even have that many birds.

I don't have any problem re-homing chickens, as I just take them to one of the local Amish farms. They're always set up for anything you need to get rid of. Someone had dropped off six barred Rock laying hens once (...yes...like kittens) and I just didn't have the room, so I got acquainted that way. Since then, I've given them a couple of roosters, too.
bethanyrae

 

[Mom 2em All]

SAM!!!!!!!!

I was worried about you. Glad that you are okay!

Keyt!
I have tried multiple times to add you on facebook but you have your settings so that I cannot. There is NO "add as friend" button- and you are not findable when I search. lol. I click on your "website" here to get there, but there is NO "add" button.

I raked the pond the other day- soooooooooooooooo many leaves were in there. Yuck. I drained, raked, refilled and forgot about it.

OVERfilled it, ducks love when that happens. Tons of water in my backyard now for them- and floating leaves. haha.

Hope you all have a good weekend. Happy Halloween.

 

[A2SciTeach]

Cold, blustery and now I can see some neighbors since the leaves blew off the trees.

We had an old elm down by the creek that blew down yesterday, leaving a 6 foot stump and knocking down some of the perimeter fencing we have up to keep deer out of the garden. Looks like my husband will be out there with the ax instead of going to the gym to work out!

We got four eggs yesterday, 12 hens and four eggs, but that doubles the production we've had since late August. It was a loooooong molt for sure. May mean the winter is going to be severe, I don't know if there is a correlation. Has anyone been keeping track of molt v.s. winter severity?

I know for wooly bear caterpillars, the Old Farmer's Almanac says that the longer the middle brown band, the milder and shorter the coming winter; the shorter the brown band, the longer and more severe winter will be. Check out your wooly bears, have your kids check them out and report in. Get their classmates to do the same, if your child is going to do a science project this could be a neat one for them. Just measure the overall length of the caterpillar and measure the center brown band in centimeters. If you don't have a centimeter ruler, you can use inches, and I'll convert to cms. We'll do a ratio of brown band to overall length. I'm going to have my students collecting data also.

. Tell me the county you live in as we have varying degrees of winter severity across the state.

You can email your data or post it here. My email is [email protected]

 

[keyt1969]

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Ahh no wonder I haven't gotten any requests in a while. It's fixed...anyone can add me on facebook now!!

 

[wyliefarms]

Hi Everyone!

Prayer request: One of the orphans in Annie's house exploded last night, during Annie practice, with her father in it, and he didn't survive. There is nothing left of the house, totally leveled.

Please pray for this family, they were at practice today, in shock. The son is getting married on Friday. So sad.

 

[michickenwrangler]

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PM me for a breeder near Jackson. Vickie2x2 has gotten some birds from her. I bought some nice quality cochins from her last spring.

 

[bethanyrae]

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I will pray for them. I read the story on this, and it sounds really awful.

 

[wyliefarms]

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I will pray for them. I read the story on this, and it sounds really awful.

Yes it is. It has been on the news too. Looks like a tornado went through and leveled the house.

 

[Olive Hill]

Happy Halloween, Michiganders!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend. I had the pleasure of meeting KrisRose, chickflick and justcelia yesterday -- all at once! And if you'd ever for a second doubted how wonderful BYCers are, the road-tripping duo, KrisRose and chickflick, brought me a set of Halloween cookie cutters after my post about them the other day. And to think, all I had for them was a mischievous gander who would promptly take it upon himself to poop all over their nice clean truck.