Michigan

[NovaAman]

so, them silly ducks changed where they are burying their eggs. I badly crawl into the back corner of the coop to get the eggs today. Omg... Rotten birds.

 

[Bianca67]

KIMMIE - the coupon came in the mail last week on the back of a sale flyer. Sometimes you can find them online and print them out.

FUZZYBUTTLOVE - they had 4 of the description you gave me and they said they will be getting one more big shipment in but didn't not know exact date.

Got in and out with only supplies, but boy was I tempted!

 

[chicken grandma]

I loved my leghorn named Lossie.

We found her on the side of the road in Hawaii. She had been in an egg farm just outside our town. Clipped beak and feet damaged from the cage and her feathers were so matted we GASPED out loud. The egg farm used to sell the older chickens to local people for eggs or meat and chances are she got loose somewhere in the transaction.

My daughter picked her up and held her in her lap on the way home. We took her to the vet, treated her for assorted problems and then bathed her which sent her into shock. I put her under a heat lamp and sat next to the cage in my house for a day talking to her. My kids brought lots of bugs in from outside which she loved.

She then became our pet chicken, sitting on the chair next to my kids on the computer. Walking around the yard with the kids. Took years for the feathers to fall out and come back in right. She loved to dust bathe. She loved to sit on the lawn chair with me. I thought of her as 'my' chicken. She was a really good layer of pretty white eggs. She wasn't fussy at all.

We shipped her to Michigan and after 3 days of travel, she hopped out of the box, ate, drank and laid an egg! Once we took her to Chowhound pet store because she was so muddy and gave her a bath. As I carried her out of the store in a towel, we showed her to all the kids who gathered around. Lossie just loved kids. She was just fearless.

One day two years later my daughter shouted to me from the coop. Lossie had dropped off the perch. I picked her up and held her and she looked right in my eyes. I said, 'it'll be o.k. Lossie-girl; we love you.' She quietly passed away and I was so grateful to have had her in our lives and so grateful that I could take care of her until her last day.

As you can see, we treasured each and every chicken that we owned!

 

[RBahmer]

Since taprock live about 10 miles south of me, I am happier than ever to be in South Florida.
Rbahmer, lavender chicks are a pretty shiny pale silver color right from the beginning.

Thanks Mutt. Probably going to be a buff or white. That's ok though.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Quote:Originally Posted by NovaAman I smell cherry pie in my future...
Now who's being an enabler, hmmm? pie is my cryptonite. Eat a whole one in an afternoon if there's no intervention....

Quote:Originally Posted by chicken grandma I loved my leghorn named Lossie.
That is a touching story. How nice that she got to be loved after all she'd been through. Sometimes i wish that we lived in an era where homesteading was the norm instead of factory farming our food. Shameful, really.

Quote:Originally Posted by Bianca67 FUZZYBUTTLOVE - they had 4 of the description you gave me
Thanks!

 

[Opa]

I had every intention of going to TSC right after lunch. I needed to pick up feed and probably a half dozen ISA browns. However, I though that I'd finish watching a news feature before I went. Made the mistake of activating the lever on the side of the recliner and the next thing I knew it was 4:15

 

[RaZ]

Is that a playpen disguised as brooder? If it is that a great idea!

Kimmie

It's a 100 gallon Rubbermaid water trough. I put a wire mesh over top to keep the cats and dogs out.

 

[NovaAman]

Does that trough cut down on the dust issues then RaZ?

I just talked to my TSC, and asked if they'd call me when they got in leghorns, silkies, and wyandottes. They told me that they do get those breeds, just don't know when. I get my bonus in 2 weeks. New coop project. Need another 8 footer. Think I will do it 6 foot deep instead of 4 though. Those almost 2 month olds need bigger soon.

checked on Skeeter, and she still has all three littles with her. So happy. I honestly thought she was going to kick it...

 

[swampducks]

The &^*$%#@)!! guineas and ducks managed to waste yet another red heat lamp today. The glass bulb part was hanging by a wire from the base that screws into the socket. Probably the idiot guineas flying down from their roost wacked it a few times and it swung about and panicked the ducks, and wham. I've never had one of those die from old age. I think this one lasted 3 months. I have got to come up with a better way of having a heat lamp in there for young birds!

Finally caught up to the several pages you guys made since last night. Surprisingly you didn't go to town after my last post.
As for the snow storm, 35 miles s/w of Alpena, there was about 3.5-4 inches of incredibly soggy snow on the deck and maybe 6-7 in the driveway. The storm warning got cancelled early last night, the storm just evaporated around us for a while then came back and blew out all the power in the area for 15.3 hours.

Sure glad it's back since it's supposed to drop into the single digits tonight. Taprock, you can have all that snow we didn't get. But I agree, better snow and power outages than tornadoes. Isn't it rather early for those things?

 

[Opa]

Swampducks, you might want to take a look at this lamp. http://www.premier1supplies.com/detail.php?prod_id=18266&cat_id=132