Michigan

[Chickmate]

Hey...how do you scrape your poop boards when the poop is frozen solid??? I can only scrape mine when temps get over 32! I dropped my RV coop and flock off at my friends on Friday and hated to give her a coop with poop frozen onto boards. I have a hoe to scrape them off when not frozen but impossible when frozen!

This is ridiculous! By the time I start reading, click on multi posts for the ones I want to respond to and get to the end it's almost 2 hours later! Anyway, I have only had two days that I could not remove the poop because it was frozen solid. Tonight it is 40 degrees in the coop. I clean the boards every day and when it is frozen I just scrape at it with my short handled hoe and it comes off. Probably because the poop boards are covered in linoleum and also because I sprinkle a thin layer of Sweet PDZ on them once a week or so. Keeps the poop from sticking.

SAM!

Hope did a fabulous job on the quilt. It is beautiful. I think she should hold on to it- gift it to your son.
My Gram used to make quilts. All the time. She wouldnt give you one if you asked for one..nope, you had to be "mature and settled" before she would give you one. Family each got a quilt as she saw fit to do so.
I finally earned enough respect from her to give me my gift. I was married and had my son. I cherished that quilt. Kept it folded and stored in the closet so my son wouldnt get baby yuck on it.

I came home one day, and my ex-husband was changing the oil under the car, and didnt want to get dirty..or get the driveway dirty or something insane like that so he had laid down "a blanket we never used"...

yep. My grandmother's quilt.

I don't see a little smiley with a gun or I would have used it too. Opa - Hope's quilt is absolutely gorgeous. I don't think I could bear to part with it after all that work.

Mama and babies are doing great. I can't post pictures anymore but have some really cute ones on my memory card. One I took of the yellow baby sitting right on top of Mama's back. Question for the tech savy, or just those who are cell phone smart. This may sound really stupid, but does my phone have to be supported by a mobile provider for the camera to work? I cancelled my AT&T service but the camera still worked until yesterday. Now it's just dead and black. I took pictures and came in the house to post them but before I could transfer them to my memory card the phone went dead. When I plug it in it lights up and says 'charging' but then it says 'done charging' and goes black again. I'm thinking they just caught up with my cancellation and now no more camera for me. So, until I can afford a camera I'll just have to explain in graphic detail.

 

[RaZ]

Raz, I have only a trio of the bantam ams left, I would consider letting all 3 go together but I know you can't have roosters and he is very attached to his 2 girls.

Well, if he was a quiet roo.

The leghorn roo I had was the trouble maker with my neighbor. He was loud as all get out and had no sense of time. 2 o'clock in the morning? Good grief!

 

[Trefoil]

I use Kent multi flock, I'm feeding ducks, geese, peafowl,guineas, and chickens, & quail. I give them free choice scratch, wheat, and multi flock, the quail, I have been giving kent's gamebird 27%, the hens I give layer. Everybody is doing well. I think Kent is a better food than purina, I hope so, its more expensive.

 

[teeville5]

Well, if he was a quiet roo.

The leghorn roo I had was the trouble maker with my neighbor. He was loud as all get out and had no sense of time. 2 o'clock in the morning? Good grief!

Is there such a thing??? I have 6 of the buggers and they will crow at whatever time they please. Thankfully, they're across the yard from the house so it doesn't bother us much, but I've heard them in the middle of the night myself.

Of course, I think they are excellent guard chickens. Nothing happens on this property without their notice and they crow to let you know, too.

 

[Opa]

Hope was quite appreciative of everyone's comments. Last year she gave both of her sons quilts at xmas. I hope they treasure them.

 

[Olive Hill]

Is there such a thing??? I have 6 of the buggers and they will crow at whatever time they please. Thankfully, they're across the yard from the house so it doesn't bother us much, but I've heard them in the middle of the night myself.

Of course, I think they are excellent guard chickens. Nothing happens on this property without their notice and they crow to let you know, too.

Believe it or not I have two.

One never crowed at all when he was lone roo. Now he does crow once in a while, but even the other one only crows maybe once or twice a day most days. And they both take good care of their ladies. It's amazing. I don't think I'd have believed it either until I got these two boys.

 

[teeville5]

3 of my roos were crow happy from the get-go. The other 3 took their time getting there, but all do it now although to a lesser extent. My loner roo, Frenchie, was the last and he started about a month ago. He was under our side deck crowing and DH said 'that's Frenchie doing that' so I looked under and sure enough our little guy was crowing away.

Opa- that is a really nice quilt. So colorful!

 

[chicken grandma]

You are very fortunate Olive to have quiet roosters! In my neighborhood even one crow a year would be too much!

RaZ - you might want to see if anyone on here has taken a hen and put them with chicks. I did it and the hen wanted nothing to do with them.
I did not slip new chicks under a broody hen. I just brought home chicks and my hen was not interested at all until they were more her size.

Coccidia is in about one out of nine Michigan flocks. Not sure how many flocks carry respiratory disease. So the odds are in your favor but the risk is still there.

Sorry to be so negative, that happens when illness comes to your flock after introducing new birds. It is a powerful lesson.

 

[RaZ]

Believe it or not I have two.

One never crowed at all when he was lone roo. Now he does crow once in a while, but even the other one only crows maybe once or twice a day most days. And they both take good care of their ladies. It's amazing. I don't think I'd have believed it either until I got these two boys.

I love hearing the sound of a rooster crowing. I must be odd.

My buddy has peafowl on his farm and I love to hear the males screaming in the spring.

None of that will fly here in the burbs. I think it's because it drowns out the boom-boxes, car alarms and lawn mowers.

 

[Opa]

I must be a glutton for punishment. I have 6 roosters and 5 of them are in the same building. Sometimes they have quite a symphony going or maybe it's just a duel.