Michigan

[chicken grandma]

Regarding Michigan State University Small Flock Poultry Workshop, Tuesday March 6th.


Here's the link to the schedule:

http://www.canr.msu.edu/anrweek/daily_schedule

Welcome Juise! Here is the link to the M.S.U. event and there are folks from G.R. going down early in the a.m for the whole day and I am going about 10am for the afternoon only. Please send me a message if you would like a ride. Nancy p.s. I am near Robinette's Apple Orchard.

 

[Olive Hill]

Well the rain has started here again. We've got lightening and thunder, but the wind hasn't showed up yet. I'm sure it'll be here sooner or later.

 

[NovaAman]

the wind has stopped here... But from what the warning on weather bug says, its to start back up near midnight... I can kiss the plastic good bye on the littler coops...

 

[Olive Hill]

On WoodTV.com they're saying the highest winds will be between 2-4 am. It's always when the way, isn't it? These things tend to roll in at night. Not sure how much they're actually expecting for our area though. They say the wind is in conjunction with the winter storm warning which is mostly north of us, so...

 

[chicken grandma]

Secure your chicken coops everyone!

 

[NovaAman]

Alright my friends... I have a new problem... Skeeter and her other 2 babies are roosting! How am I supposed to put this little lady under her if she is roosting?

 

[swampducks]

Mine's got 3 foot posts buried in the ground. Though I don't think the winds are supposed to be that high up here.

Secure your chicken coops everyone!

 

[Olive Hill]

Alright my friends... I have a new problem... Skeeter and her other 2 babies are roosting! How am I supposed to put this little lady under her if she is roosting?

Stick it next to her on the roost. Check back frequently to make sure it stays there.

 

[chicken grandma]

Alright my friends... I have a new problem... Skeeter and her other 2 babies are roosting! How am I supposed to put this little lady under her if she is roosting?

Or keep her inside one more night and put her back with Skeeter and the two other chicks tomorrow. We'rent you going to give them a private condo for a day also - just til you are sure Sugar - pie is completely recovered?

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Quote:Originally Posted by teeville5 looked out into the mudroom where the outdoor cats sleep at night and found a surprise visitor. There was a big possum in there just making himself at home.
Ha Ha this reminds me of a cat that i had; a mittened feral white kitten that i had adopted when he was only a week old...(Looked like a semi bald weird rat) When he was older i was staying with my sister he kept escaping under her trailer, and wouldn't come out for hours at a time, and he was not a wanderer, as he couldn't see well. Finally, while calling him one day, what wanders out but a really huge possom! Seems he had made a friend, since they were both huge and white, and neither could see well. lol.

Quote:Originally Posted by chickflick get mites and can't seem to get rid of them.
Mites, or lice? I have been trying to decide whether to share my new treatment, as apparently i'm the only idiot to try it.... It's what comes of acting first and asking ques. later....Anyway, when i got the pyrmethrin from the store, a lady working there said it was the main ingredient in the dog flea treatments that you stripe between their sholders, you just dilute it. So i got the bright idea to dilute it and stripe my chickens, instead of doing the dilution and spraying them per directions. Within 3 days, there was not a louse to be seen, and the one chicken had them so bad that there were hundreds on her bottom (adoptee from down the road, she didn't know chickens got bugs) I have been doing some thinking, and seems like they may get actually less of the chemicals this way, rather than spraying it all over? anyway, what i did was 2 parts pyrmethrin, to 1 part water. I shook it up and put 1 drop on the banty, and 2 drops on the big girls, between their sholders where they couldn't reach it good. I did it once a month for a couple months, to insure that even any possible mites would be dead if they were in the area. basically, if anything bit them, it died. I waited a couple weeks after treating to eat the eggs. Lost a lot of eggs, but soooo worth it. Nothing since, knock on wood.....

Quote:Originally Posted by Juise

You'll fit in! we have quite a few of us with pet chickens here, including myself.