Michigan

[chicken grandma]

Snowflake,
My late husband's mom is a blonde with blue eyes. There you go. My daughter just took the genes she liked best from both sides and my son got stuck with tall, dark and handsome!

Farmerboy - hope your one sister doesn't feel too left out as the only blonde in the family! Girls usually like being blonde.

Nova - according to RaZ, that chick with the deformed foot has a 70% chance of being a rooster? Hope it can get around and enjoy it's life anyway. Your new hen sounds wonderful...

Mom2- Little one is the sweetest chick I have ever seen. I just love the little under dogs, or under chicks!

 

[M.sue]

Brown is dominant, but if each parent has a blue recessive gene, then the blue recessive genes dominate over the brown. I have blue eyed & brown eyed parents. My DH has blue eyed parents. Mine are brown, my DH are green.......hence I have two blue eyed children since we both carry a blue recessive gene. I think that is how it goes from what I can remember.

 

[DaughterOfEve]

Nova, I have a Wyndotte pullet that has crooked toes on the right foot. She gets around just fine. I would not breed her of course, but her eggs are straight and that is all that matters to me. Oh her name is cookie (which is crookie minus the R, he he). There was also a hunch backed pullet in the batch. She is named Humpy.
Even though the roosters don't mate with her

What a day. Played video games with DD and baked a homemade bread, picked up and cleaned up, ran laundry, ran errands, Whew, no wonder I'm beat.

I opened the door to the run today but the chickens stood at the open door and just looked around, looked at me, and wander back to their business in the run . One girl just stared at me like You've got to be kidding lady!

 

[fifelakelooper]

Mornin!

DH woke up at 3 am...stomach hurting...flu going around. Not sure if he has the flu or if it was smoking a cigar at friends last night. He hasn't had a cigar in over a year and maybe that did it.
I went back a couple of pages to try to get an idea of what is happening in Mi. Cute baby chicks...forget who they belong to...maybe Nova?

During the snow storm here (7 inches) two days ago...I moved the flock to the RV. No heated water..no light...in preparation for the flock sittters care. Still got my usual two eggs. A lot of natural light comes in all the windows so hopefully that will help keep them laying. I was contacted by Brkuk (Mi. breeder of Marans, Ameracaunas and a couple of other breeds...he just put the eggs into the bator for me. I'm getting marans and lavender Ameracaunas (6 total). I thought when I ordered them I was selling my flock due to the Florida trip. I ended up keeping my flock so when I pick up the new girls in May I will keep them in the RV coop on the far side of the field away from my old flock until 30 days pass to ensure that there is no cross contamination of anything they could have.

I believe we will be moving back to Florida in the next year. I love this place and Michigan too but after 30 years of living in Florida...we just can't adjust to the harsh winter. 4 days ago DH took a sled down a seasonal road to pick up a deer carcass he saw to use for coyote bait. The road was so icy and slippery he had a hard time walking and not falling (he has already fell 5 times this winter!). A steep hill had the sled sliding into his ankles so he thought..."heck..I'll just climb in and slide down the base of the hill". Well...it went really fast on the ice...hit dirt on the side of the road...he went flying and came home with a gash going down the side of his face ..about 5 inches long. Blood everywhere. Yuck. He should have had stiches but he wouldn't go so he will have a "pirate -looking" scar I believe. Last year I fell on the running board of the truck due to ice and cracked my ribs. It is DANGEROUS in the winter with snow and ice. When we see people older than us driving and walking around in the winter...we wonder how they do it. Obviously we got "soft" living in Florida!

Well....good luck with all those incubating eggs now...wish I could join in. Have a nice day and be careful on the roads and walking around Danger lurks everywhere!

(shades in prep for Florida trip!)

 

[Mom 2em All]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I just typed out a pre-coffee LONG post and it is floating around in cyber space.

Trying again.

Chicken Grandma-
Im very attached to this Little One. She is a constant companion on the computer, and runs to the other end of her cage when I get up and walk away. I cant ALWAYS be on the computer. My husband expects me to clean and cook now and then...*sigh*

FIFE-
Im glad your husband wasnt more seriously hurt! You cant just sled down any hill. Gotta find the perfect hill to go sledding. I hate the cold winters. They last so long and my body cant handle it well at all. I wish we could move somewhere warmer- not Florida, too humid there for me.
The stomach flu has hit my house. My daughter in bed crying all day of a stomach ache, her and my son fighting for the bathroom- both of them vomiting and worse. My husband had it on Monday. I told him he had food poisoning, Guess I was wrong....

Hope everyone has a wonderful day today. I spent so much time on here yesterday, that I have twice the work to get done today. Wont be on as much, anyhow.

I let my daughter talk me in to buying her hair dye. That beautiful blonde now has Ronald McDonald red- wasnt that color on the box@###@@!!!!!! Im going to go buy some other color to tone down the "hurts my eyes- its so bright" red on her head. AND my house smells like sick people...haha..gonna have to disinfect and air out the sick peoples rooms.

 

[snowflake]

Good morning all! Sorry your clan is sick Mom2, that is no fun, first you get to clean up after every one then when you break down & get sick every one is gone,or don't understand why you can't help them do..." what ever"
38*out Monday, but rain. I got work to do out side on the run, don't want to do it in the RAIN.

I am falling in love with the Blue Orps, Marans, ect. gota have some blue in my flock. Any one in Mi. have blue? Shipping price of those in auction, is so high...

 

[fifelakelooper]

Hope you don't catch the bug Mom 2!! It is going around Fife lake area I know. Just checked in on hubby...says he feels somewhat better. Think the plan for church is still on.
Good luck with the hair coloring...I remember once coloring my hair ash brown and it came out GREEN! Teaching school back then...the students thought I was "rad". (cool)

 

[Mom 2em All]

I wasn't trying to make a poster, i can't figure out how to size pics......????

I still dont know where my pictures are..I will have to take new ones every time I want to show y'all something..

ETA- FuzzyButt LOVE-
I found them, but I dont know how to actually change them or edit them. For example, I would have cropped the picture of my Little One before making it my avatar..???

You need to get a picture of your chickens doing this:

 

[M.sue]

Mom....go to your profile tab, click on it, scroll down the page. Your pics should be there in an album under a Heading...Your Pictures or Albums. All of mine transferred but a couple did get dropped....who knows where they floating. Also you can not move, crop, post, edit unless you make the album public to BYC.

 

[RBahmer]

Good morning all! Sorry your clan is sick Mom2, that is no fun, first you get to clean up after every one then when you break down & get sick every one is gone,or don't understand why you can't help them do..." what ever"
38*out Monday, but rain. I got work to do out side on the run, don't want to do it in the RAIN.

I am falling in love with the Blue Orps, Marans, ect. gota have some blue in my flock. Any one in Mi. have blue? Shipping price of those in auction, is so high...

I have Blue Marans, Blue Splash Marans, and Blue Splash Andalusions. I plan on hatching babies out later this year with them. The one little one that hatched in Dec is a Blue Copper Marans rooster with feathered feet. He came from Texas. Had 15 eggs from Texas and he was the only one to hatch.