Michigan

[fifelakelooper]

Same here Olive. I did buy some frost coverings last year to cover shrubs like my hydranges and flowering bushes...seems like they started budding and growing and then WHAM we get a hard freeze and then I get no flowering on them. Since I didn't cut back my Butterfly bush's and the rest of my perennials...if I do it NOW and we have freezes...will that hurt the planst?? I don't think so but am not sure.

 

[CricketYang]

Please don't mention cleaning up the landscaping

the dead stuff didn't want to go last year so I took pity on them and said that they could stay until the spring.

 

[Mom 2em All]

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me too....

 

[bridgetteanne]

Hi all, im from the grand rapids area, near Rockford. I'm new to having chickens. we took some from friends of ours 11 hens and 1 rooster. they are two years old and I have some questions.

I would like to get a couple baby's and a turkey. we have not done the baby thing. my question is will i have an issue with the adults chickens and or Rooster? thanks so much.

 

[dweej]

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I am getting the early hardy stuff into the garden THIS WEEKEND, by hook or by crook! You know, carrots and stuff. If it's really 80 down here on Sunday, my kids are planning on doing everything outside in their swim-suits. Exciting

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Hi bridgetteanne, & welcome. You are just south of me. You will have to keep the babies separate from the older chickens untill they are nearly the same size. It would help to have them where they can be seen by the other older chickens but not where the older ones can get to them. Unless you have a broody hen and you can sneak the babies under her. Then she will protect them. Maybe someone else can chime in and correct me if I am wrong or if they have better answers.

 

[lindah2226]

seems like you aren't suppose to put turkeys and chickens together because of black?foot? head? disease. Some kind of disease turkeys get from chickens. maybe it's just something DH told me so I wouldn't get turkeys.

 

[fifelakelooper]

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Welcome Bridgette!

 

[bridgetteanne]

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Hi bridgetteanne, & welcome. You are just south of me. You will have to keep the babies separate from the older chickens untill they are nearly the same size. It would help to have them where they can be seen by the other older chickens but not where the older ones can get to them. Unless you have a broody hen and you can sneak the babies under her. Then she will protect them. Maybe someone else can chime in and correct me if I am wrong or if they have better answers.

How do i know if one of the hens are Droody???? ( sorry if that is a stupid question but im just getting into this. I have read on coops are getting started. still in the process of learning.)

 

[fifelakelooper]

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Hi bridgetteanne, & welcome. You are just south of me. You will have to keep the babies separate from the older chickens untill they are nearly the same size. It would help to have them where they can be seen by the other older chickens but not where the older ones can get to them. Unless you have a broody hen and you can sneak the babies under her. Then she will protect them. Maybe someone else can chime in and correct me if I am wrong or if they have better answers.

How do i know if one of the hens are Droody???? ( sorry if that is a stupid question but im just getting into this. I have read on coops are getting started. still in the process of learning.)

Bridgette I think you mean "broody". The hen will not want to get off the nest when you go to collect her eggs. She may peck at you or do a sort of snarl sound. If you take her off...she will usually get right back on! When all the others go out into the run...she stays on the nest. That's when you know.....or at least for me it was.
Cricket and Mom --you made me feel better about not cleaning up my garden in the fall. Glad I wasn't the only slacker. I DID get out there today and clean up some of it..