Michigan

[fuzzybutt love]

I have been trying to i.d. my mystery banty chick that didn't make it. He was the palest grey and yellow, with no striping or solid marks, with yellow skin, yellow legs and feet, and hairy legs. I went back today, and there were no more like him, nor have i seen any before.... If i didn't know better, i'd have thought i'd found a beautiful little lavendar, but hatcheries don't have lavendar, do they? must've been a blue. I am stumped because all the hairy legs that i know of have extra toes, and this one did not. Someday i would like another like him. It is the banties that i am worried about, i didn't see any more on their hocks, but they were really lethargic and laying down and being run over. I don't know yet if there is really a problem or if i'm just overstressed.

 

[RaZ]

MSU Extension PRESENTS:Backyard Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop

When:
Where:
Saturday morning Master Gardener
Volunteer’s orchard
March 10, 2012 9418 Worth Road
9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon Davison, MI 48423

Who: Bob Tritten, MSUE District Fruit Educator

This is an outdoor demonstration workshop at an orchard and small fruit planting in Davison. Participants will learn the basic methods of pruning young and bearing fruit trees as well as pruning small fruits, mainly raspberries and blackberries. We will also cover the pruning of older neglected fruit trees.
Pre-registration required by 3/7/12.

Workshop to be held rain or shine.

Questions? Call 810-244-8500 for details.

Cost per person: $25.00 Make check payable to MSU Extension.

Mail to: MSU Extension – Genesee County, 605 N. Saginaw Street, Suite
1A, Flint, MI 48502



MSUE-OAKLAND COUNTY PRESENTS: APPLE TREE CARE Saturday, March 24, 2012 9:00a.m. to 12:00 noon MSU Tollgate Conference Center located at 28115 Meadowbrook Road, Novi.
Bob Tritton, MSU District Extension Horticulture/Marketing Agent will be instructing this course designed for the homeowner.

This class will cover all aspects of caring for your young apple tree:
from selecting the right tree for your yard, establishing the tree on your site, to caring for and pruning your tree for the first few years after establishment. This is a course for the homeowner serious about growing quality apples.

Dress appropriately for the weather, rain or shine. If you have loppers or hand pruners, bring them.

Questions? Contact Linda Smith at 248-858-0887 or email [email protected]

Cost per person is $25.00. Make check payable to MSU Extension.
Mail to MSU Extension Oakland County. NOB 26E, 1200 N. Telegraph Road, Pontiac, MI 48341.

 

[NovaAman]

I have a correspondence school named after me? Oh how awesome!

About the t shirts, we could design an iron on also and print and buy our own shirts if its easier. I wish I had an embroidery machine... My than taught me how to do it the old fashioned way. With a hoop and needle... I would make a terrible embroiderist... I don't think that's a word. But it is now.

I just git to meet babygirl. She's cool. She wouldn't take any of my roosters though.

RaZ, there is a thermometer on the glass. It it only a 75 watt bulb also. She can go under the bulb, or to the other side where the light is not. She is sleeping it off right now. I forced her to drink some water... She is very bruised... Poor baby. Now I am going to have to get her named...

Well it is reading month, so, going to read some Uncle Wiggily Longears. Or Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg from Howard Garris... They are really good children's stories written inthe early 1900s. And my boys LOVE them.

 

[chickflick]

Hmmm, I live in Davison. But don't know where Worth Rd is. Will have to look it up.

 

[snowflake]

Fuzzy the first class is free unless you want certification. the second class includes lunch and is $30.


welcome

don't let thees guys fool you, 10 pages in 1 day is normal. takes me all night to catch up then, no time to respond

MSU Vet told me tums with calcium.

that is good to know, I have had that problem too, you think 1 tablet crushed, per day?

Here are the Survivors.




So these little ones are doing well now. I dipped their bills in the water so they could get a drink. It took a couple of tries before they got the idea and then they all drank like thirsty camels. They didn't eat anything until I spread some feed on the bedding around them.
They are eating and drinking fine now and bunching up for a group nap. The nap lasts about 10 - 15 minutes and then they start the eating/drinking cycle all over again.

I think I'll name them Rocky I, II, III, IV and V. They are fighters.

so very very cute. sorry you lost so many,

Chick Grandma, somewhere they said that pine shavings is bad? I am confused.


Kimmie

pine shavings are fine. most feed stores sell the kiln dried. I have heard of people using wood pellets for the coop and seem to like them a lot. I use a mix of hay and pine shavings in the coop . just shavings for chicks



Nova I had a chick grabbed by my husky thought she was a goner but she survived fine. took about a week before she could walk well again. seemed like the leg had a bit of a strain. give it time

I would like to carpool with someone who is going to both workshops. It will be great to meet some of ya there.

I am going to both classes and would be glad to car pool if you want. I live in Belding , East of Sparta. just off 44. I hope to leave early cause I am not sure were the bldg. is and were to park. I will try to google it sun.

I went to CN Sawdust today in Rockford and picked up 100lb of feed. $12.18 for 50lb. I figure the price will go up with the gas going up so fast. Oldest daughter is having $$ problems like every one else. so I figure it will help to have a little extra on hand in case she needs it.

Got some freedom rangers coming the end of March. Our PO has been very good with calling for pick up in the past. Hope there are no problems

some say it is good to paint the inside of the coop a light color to brighten the coop ... Glad you mentioned the paint chipping Raz. gives me an other excuse not to paint. seems like a lot of work to me.

 

[teeville5]

I have been trying to i.d. my mystery banty chick that didn't make it. He was the palest grey and yellow, with no striping or solid marks, with yellow skin, yellow legs and feet, and hairy legs.

It sounds a bit like how my porcelain d'uccles looked like as chicks. Here's a pic with the best shot I had of them as babies. If you look at the stick going up the middle of the box, one is at the very top of the stick and the other is farthest left halfway down the stick next to 2 bigger chicks. The lighting doesn't show it real well, but they were very lightish grey. Did yours look like either of them?

 

[chicken grandma]

We could all arrive at Chickenstock wearing shirts with our names on them and we could be creative and each make our own shirt.
I am not crafty so I will be wearing a tee shirt with my name written on it in marker. 'CHICKEN GRANDMA - Nancy'


Fuzzy - warning; I hug. I even hug nerds. This alone may scare you off from meeting me.

 

[teeville5]

Wow. Just looking at all my old chick pics is something else now that they are almost a year old. How they change! I just have to show you this one, though. My oldest daughter is going to shoot me if she finds out I shared this (she threw a fit when I posted it on FB last year), but it is too cute. She's holding a chick that became one of our silver sebright bantams.

 

[teeville5]

Oops! Duplicate post.

 

[NovaAman]

I am giving her a big chance. I figure if she makes it thru the nite, she's good to go. She is still sleeping it off. I just can't believe they didn't kill her! 3 weeks old...

skeeter got her other two babies in the coop tonight. Will she take this one back in a day or two?