Michigan

[Opa]

I just realized that I've hit 7500 posts.
Don't any one tell Nova. She's liable to strain something trying to catch up.

 

[chicken grandma]

Glad to hear they postponed, Grandma, they are still having some bad weather in that area. Are they going to Kentucky for something special?

The college kids are headed to Florida for Spring Break which started today. Today was the day they were heading to the half way point in Kentucky. Glad we delayed them a day.
Don't know how the mom near the college was successful in delaying a car load of college girls headed for Florida but she did it! I know the mom took them to a Basketball game tonight and bought them pizza also.
I owe that mom a favor! A big one!

Opa! Congrats on the posting achievement! And every post is funny or informative! Thank you for all you do!

 

[teeville5]

Grandma- I was just on the weather site and saw what that particular area was getting. I bet you are sighing a huge sigh of relief. I would have been super nervous in your shoes.

Opa-

 

[RaZ]

RaZ - I had to look at that picture for a long time before I figured out that was a glove stuck behind the wire and not a baby turkey!

The chicks are adorable!

I didn't have a second brooder ready when I brought the chicks home so I cut a piece of wire mesh but a couple of bold chickies ventured in with the duckies and were being picked on. I just grabbed what was handy to separate them.
What is funny now is that the chicken chicks are huddled up next to the fence and the duck chicks are huddled up right next to them.

I'm thinking that I might try a socializing experiment with these chicks. Both duck and chicken. If these mallards stay year round, it wouldn't hurt my feelings.

 

[yorkchick]

Hi guys, I feel like I am party crashing here...

I live in West Michigan and soon will be picking up 5 new 8 - 10 week chicks from Destiny Farm over in Brighton area.

I was hoping I could hear from one or more people who have had experience with them, particularly in reference to how insanely carefully I should quarantine the new chicks.

I have heard that you don't need to quarantine chicks from a hatchery, but as this is a farm hatchery and also because the chicks are not day olds, I am assuming I should.

We have 5 hens that we have had for a year now, so adding to the flock is a new enterprise for us. I would appreciate any info anyone has for me, thanks!

Hi, Juise! No way to crash such a big and open party! The more the merrier! I did not get my chicks from Destiny Farms, but Mike there made my coop, and I visited the farm several times. This is not specific to Destiny Farms, I think your thought that eight to ten week old chicks from anywhere should be quarantined is a good one. But if Joni and Matt are as welcoming to visitors as they were three years ago, they have people in and out all the time looking at their birds, so that is an extra level of risk you might not have at a commercial hatchery, where they're usually pretty strict about biosecurity. Also, at Destiny Farms, I know in the past they have taken back chicks that turned out to be cockerels, and just put them back in with the other chickens. Again, this was three years ago, not sure if this is still their policy. I have never heard of any health problems with chickens from there ( a friend got several of her chickens there, and also brought them back a couple roosters), but the risk is there. I am not trying to knock their business, this are just my observations. (My friend, for the record, did not quarantine the birds she got and never had a problem...) Knowing the risks, I would think that "better safe than sorry" would be a good policy.

 

[RaZ]

I just realized that I've hit 7500 posts.
Don't any one tell Nova. She's liable to strain something trying to catch up.

On the MI thread, you are number 1, Opa. I see that I have moved up to #5 in posts.
All I can say is that I'll take quality over quantity any day, so my tally should be further down on the scale.

 

[chicken grandma]

They ought to be there any time. They've been coming through here in droves for the past couple weeks.

Here's the link to the schedule:

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

 

[NovaAman]

Well, I would think at the rate I am going and at the rate you've been going, Opa, it will probably take me a lot less time to reach 7500 posts. LOL. HOWEVER, that is not 7500 posts on this thread. SO, I could feasibly be top chick this year yet. LOL. BUT, as I said, as soon as planting season starts, I am going to be one busy girl. I have plans, and I hope they are not going to be more than I can handle.

I am now seriously considering Sebastapols, and it really is Olives fault for telling me that they'd be happy in kiddie pools. LOL. Maybe I will just buy a stuffed toy that looks like a sabastapol. Hehehee. It will never get sick, dirty, poop everywhere making duck and chicken poo look like nothing in comparrison.

I kept Sugar-pie in for the night yet. I took her out of the fish tank and let her poop wander all over the counter. She is still moving slow. I am not sure she'd be up for jumping up on the roosts yet, or maybe I am just paranoid that she'll not be kept warm enough if she's left by herself on the floor. She is a lot better...
after attack and rescue


Tonight...


I gave her towels over the wood chips because her tummy was quite tender and bruised from the rotten dogs using her as a chewy.

I am trying not to strain myself here.

 

[NovaAman]

There is a website, Zazzle.com that we could get shirts made from... Some one artistic could design it, turn in the design, so we could individually go on the site and order our shirt in the size we'd need. They start at $15 bucks. Can order them in girl cut also for those who like a girl cut t-shirt versus the general plain shirt. just a thought.

 

[teeville5]

Aw, the poor baby. Glad she's doing better.

DH just asked me how much it's supposed to rain since it's been doing it for awhile here and I said until it starts to snow.

His reply: Man, we're going to have to put life preservers on the pigs if this keeps up. If we put two together, Rosie (600 lbs) should be able to float!

He was kidding, but he really cracks me up sometimes.