Michigan

[uchytil]

And/or grow your own food.
But wait, so many ordinances are preventing even that. I'm not allowed to have chickens, bees or even a vegetable garden. I can have a horse though. Go figure.

That's wrong on many levels. My daughter lives in a suburb of Boston, Ma. and they can have veg. gardens in their front yard but you can't in rural Michigan? Too bad too, I was out pulling Rhutabagas yesterday for a boiled dinner. I cover them with leaves in the fall and dig them till next planting season - point is I would have a hard time with those types of zoning laws.

 

[Bianca67]

What on earth is their logic for not allowing a vegetable garden?

 

[NovaAman]

I guess I would have to get grow lights and an incognito greenhouse...

 

[NovaAman]

[COLOR=008000]somehow I must have got unsubscribed to the Michigan thread, theres 1046 unread posts.  Oh well, not going to try to catch up but here's a pic of my crack, it's not quite a pip yet, it happened at 2:06 pm today...very first egg.  It's one of Doris's my favorite Barred Rock.  [/COLOR]

Hey! Glad you found your way back! Yay on the pip!

 

[Olive Hill]

I could be wrong, but I don't think Raz is rural. If I'm not mistake he's in a suburb of The D.

Most people don't have a clue what it takes to grow food and certainly not food for a family. Bees, Chickens, Gardens. Those things are just the tip of the iceberg. Grow what you can, but voting with your dollars will go a lot further. It's unreasonable to expect the great majority of families to grow any more than just a little supplement.

 

[NovaAman]

That's what I have been doing... Just supplementing. Its my goal to do more than that. So a bit more every year...

 

[RaZ]

They rewrote the weed ordinance last summer and the wording says that you can't have any plants taller than 5 inches.
So all of the trees in the city are illegal now.?!

This ordinance brought to you courtesy of the same morons that outlawed owning a "viscous" dog. (adjective 1. of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive.) Maybe city "counsel" meant a mean dog?

Or am I just being vicious?

 

[NovaAman]

I built a ramp for the chuckles... They figured it out! Yes! I just went out to put any away that have not figured it out, and they were all in! Little smarties!

 

[chicken grandma]

Nova - you should get your carpenters license. You have a talent!
Handsome son and nice looking chickens/chicks also.

Chicwanna B - welcome back! I hope youll post a photo of that chick when it makes it's escape.

 

[dascountry]

I recieved a text message yesterday morning that my chicks had been shipped. Recieved a phone call at 6pm from the USPS distribution center in Gaylord. "Your chicks are here would you like to come and pick them up, or I could ask the driver to keep them in his cab but he does have several stops before your post office tomorrow?" We took the 1 and 1/2 hr drive and got 28 very alive and chattery chicks. I am so impressed right now with the USPS. After hearing horror stories on people recieving dead chicks I was so worried. Only thing is now I have 27. I dropped a naked neck turken and my jack russell was to fast for me