Michigan

[hillbillycitygirl]

Hi! I am new to backyard chickens and we just started our first coop this year. The last three years we enjoyed learning from our neighbor and his coop. We have about 50 chickens but I am thinking some of the pullets we got are not actually pullets (as I read on a previous thread, is a common thing from TSC) we have about 25 pullets (?) 10 broilers, 4 bantam seabright hens, 1 bantam seabright roo, a red/blue wyandott pair (that I may be looking to rehome because they keep eating our eggs) 5 barred rock hens and 5 isa brown hens. and 1 "father of the flock" Pheonix rooster who may be the sweetest rooster I have ever met. not to mention beautiful. Im still not sure what all of our pullets are, my husband came home with them and couldnt remember (lol) I think we have a few americaunas, a few isa browns, maybe a new hampshire red, a leghorn and a few others that I wont know until they get a few more feathers.
We moved back to Michigan about 7 months ago and are just now getting our farm-ette put into place, putting up fencing, setting up shelter etc for cows and goats. Talking about getting a few meat rabbits too (would love to know where to find a good breeding pair up here in Michigan, my hubby wants californians or new zealands I think)
Cant wait to start getting to know some fellow crazy chicken lovers via the world wide web

 

[chickflick]

 

[fifelakelooper]

Welcome back to Michigan Hillbillygirl! (and BYC)

 

[Opa]

Hillbillycitygirl, welcome to BYC and the Michigan thread. Lots of nice folks post so you should enjoy being here. Be sure to click on the links in my signature line to get the information on our upcoming Chickenstock. This is our third one and they just keep getting better.

 

[hillbillycitygirl]

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Thank you Opa, I actually clicked on all your links before even signing up for byc and I love the idea of chickenstock it sounds wonderful. We are a few hours from lansing and super busy that time of year but I already wrote it on our calendar!!!

 

[fifelakelooper]

This is how I spent my Mothers Day...after church and lunch we headed to the woods! Dry up here so these are small but we found 40!

 

[Chickmate]

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Welcome to BYC and the Michigan thread, hillbillycitygirl! So glad to have you with us! Sounds like your farm is going to be wonderful. I'll bet pretty much everything you're looking for can be found with someone at BYC. Great people here, always willing to help if they can. RIRJen has rabbits, not sure if it's the kind you're looking for, but that's a good place to start!

fifelake - I am so envious of your morels! I'm sure my woods are probably full of them, but it's so darn wet back there I just haven't even tried looking. Congratulations on a great shroom hunt! By the way, what the heck is a looper?

Keyt - I'm so sorry about your little one. I wish I had a chick to give you to keep your banty company. I know what you mean about getting really down at certain times. For me it's Christmas.

But it's not Christmas now, so I'm good!

 

[Mom 2em All]

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My brother brought me some morels today!!! They were growing in his girlfriends backyard!

Yum!

Happy Mothers day, everyone!
I had a wonderful day- now I have my goose asleep in my lap, and my Frizzle has gone broody again ...Mama Muscovy is snuggled in on her babies for the night- and I am just about ready to call it a night.

I hope everyone had a great day.

 

[CricketYang]

I hope everyone had a wonderful mother's day! I know I sure did! we had a big party with my entire family over, had a nice cookout - steaks, chops, brats and all. I finally got my goat!! DH made him my mother's day present

I named him Randy lol and he's only a week old

We also graduated some of the BCMs and other random chicks out to the brooder pen outside! I'm thinking about doing ONE more hatch this year, maybe go get some more BCM eggs and do some silkies, just because my hatch rate was so amazing last time! I love hatching!

 

[Mom 2em All]

Cricket! I love your goat....awwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Im so envious.

Hatch out silkies. Hatch out blue splash bearded silkie pullets and bring them to Chickenstock for MEEEEEEEE.

I will be bringing muscovies. I will be sneaking muscovies into everyones grab bags... ...... ....