Michigan

[wyliefarms]

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vicki, I think it's a nice idea but I will only have enough money to buy the chickens I want to get [and maybe a couple extra] Thanks anyway.

I am going to pass on the t-shirts too. Great idea though

 

[wyliefarms]

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So sorry!

 

[wyliefarms]

We have had an exciting 15 hours...and not happy about it!


Last night noticed one of Rachel's show bantams was acting weird. Unsteady in her walk. Called TSC to get some anitboditics and they closed at 8 (I called at 7:45pm) not enough time to get there. So this morning I get up early and get there. Look for 20 minutes and cannot find it. Find a sales lady and she said oh we put it over here since we had chicks for sale. I am thinking, why give new chicks antiboditics but ok.

Get home and the wind is blowing worse than when I left. I go in a check on the kids as hubby had gone to work. I was heading out to move out truck and trailer in front of our outdoor chicken tractor, as it has already blown away once, in a previous wind storm this spring. My daughter yells mom the coop in on the other side of the garden!!!! I look out and can see white flapping under one of the boards that was proped up against the saw horse, which isn't there anymore, but in the garden!

The meat chicken is still alive, and I hope he makes it. So we made a make shift coop in the feed trailer for the 25 meat chickens and give them some electrolytes, do to the stress of losing their house!

I go and check on the show bantam and she is DEAD! She went to a show exactly 2 weeks ago. So I put antiboditics in everyone's water, minus the chicks and ducks. So hopefully no one else gets sick and dies.

I put the dead bantam in a bag and put her in the freezer. I am calling MSU on Monday to have an autopsy. I want to know what she died from, as she was at a show in Ohio 2 weeks ago. My friend who took my daughter started her show birds on antiboditics as a precautsion too.

So now I have to go back to the store and buy another heat bulb as the one the meat chickens has is shattered in the garden. I have to test the housing and make sure it still works too.

I am off as Emily has to be at the theatre by noon too.

Sarah

 

[FlyingFChick]

Wow! Sorry for your bad day, Sarah!!! This wind has been just awful!!! Sorry about your loss as well!!

Zephyrcreek, I am sorry for your loss also! Hopefully your roo is hiding out somewhere safe and sound!!!

 

[shelleyb1969]

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Evidently you haven't looked at the weather they've had in Tennessee and Kentucky. Lots nastier than here. Ask the folks in Nashville.

Oh yeah...I'm keeping up on the events going on down there.

It's so sad.

But I'll still go home. It seems that here in Michigan, there's getting to be more bad weather days/weeks/months than good. I think I'm just tired of being cooped up in the house so much. If it's not snowing here, it's raining...if not raining, then the darn wind makes it impossible to do anything outdoors.

 

[shelleyb1969]

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I'm so sorry, Ellen. Things got pretty bad at my house too. I didn't get much sleep...ended up going out at 5am to bring a lot of my birds into my garage. The wind is just too horrendous...my youngsters can't handle it.

As for your roo, I hope you find him.

But if you need another sweet boy, I've got a couple of Foley roos that need a home. I've got an auction going for them.

 

[Opa]

Quite a day. I built to more PVC pipe feeders and just as I was installing them the sky opened up and poured. Heavy rain and sleet. So now I'm sitting here with wet hair and a set shirt looking out at the sun. Go figure.

 

[michickenwrangler]

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WE had snow up here in the West Branch area. It didn't stick, but it was snow while in the air

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Opa thanks for the pics of you roost set up that helped a lot. I have not been on too much life has just about got away from me for a while. Sick kid and having to take the grandbabies so she can rest as well as working on getting my new knee to work has been keeping me busy with PT but done with that as of last Friday. Boy it doesn't take much for life to just get away from you when you are laid up. Now I hope to get back on track and start doing some things I want to do but will probally not happen LOL


Filled the bator had someone send me buff and ameriacana eggs from West Virgina, Thanks Mary. So I filled the rest with some eggs of mine. I am testing my dorking eggs to see if they are fertial and then will be sending some to sevenchickens if they vein. Speaking of which I best pm her for her address so I can get the box all ready to go, sure hope they will work for her.


Sorry for your loses and sure hope anyone who has been under the weather is doing better, keeping you all in my prayers. Thanks again Opa, hope to make Chicken stock but not sure yet, it would be a last minute know if I can.

 

[vicki2x2]

Hey everyone, well, I will scrap the t shirt idea, at least for now. Next time, I will think of it earlier and that way we can all plan ahead. I had a couple of really cute designs made up too! I guess we all are addicted to our chickens, would rather spend our last dime on them then a shirt for ourselves!

I just spent the last two days at an auction, it was lots of fun, but would have been more fun if the weather wouldn't have been so nasty. Despite bundling up, we had to come home friday by noon and change clothes as we were soaked through. Then we stopped and bought full rain suits and headed back out again. Today wasn't as wet, but was colder and the mud both days, oh my! So many vehicles were stuck, the place became a giant mud bog. I got lots of great bargains though, missed a few, wished I had lots more money, can't wait for the fall auction!

They have tons of stuff, from household, farm equipment, tools, guns, animals, and everything in between. It is run by a local Amish family twice a year about 20 minutes from here, nice people, good food, fun times!

Babette and I were there, anyone else from this area go? It is called Yutzy's Auction in Charlotte.