Michigan

[Olive Hill]

One year I did have one that had 4 lambs. I was shocked

Just think, two bottle babies per lambing all spring long...

 

[RaZ]

So good to finally have the answer...

...and that, my friends,
is why the chicken crossed the road.​

 

[Chicken Rustler]

So good to finally have the answer...

...and that, my friends,
is why the chicken crossed the road.​

O O O I SOO need to borrow that ! ! ! Please with some FRESH homegrown WASHINGTON honey on top!

BTW we are in the snow here today.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

ChickenRustler, snow here too. I was not happy to wake up and see even more fell during the night.

Hot toddy is nearly ready...lemon juice, lots of honey, lots of Jack, a little water and a cinnamon stick.

 

[Farmerboy16]

b737drvr- Welcome to the Michigan thread! If you have been lurking here for a few months, then we do not need to tell you how much you will have to keep up with us. My dad's family came from Milan area, and my great, great grandparents used to own a Jersey dairy farm there. The farm is still there, but not the livestock, and its still owned by my distance relatives.


RaZ- That is very funny!

Its still snowing here with some sunshine.

 

[b737drvr]

Quote: Yeah, tell me about it. I took about a two week for vacation, and came back and my first unread thread was like 1000 pages back. Needless to say, I just browsed what I missed!

 

[Farmerboy16]

I found this link in the Orpington thread- http://ratfanclub.org/litters.html

I have always raised my chicks on pine shavings, maybe that is why my birds that I raised are getting MG easily. :/ I will switch to sand for baby chicks.

 

[RaZ]

I found this link in the Orpington thread- http://ratfanclub.org/litters.html
I have always raised my chicks on pine shavings, maybe that is why my birds that I raised are getting MG easily.

I will switch to sand for baby chicks.

I just read that article and now I have something else to research (instead of working on my mid-term).

There were some good points made but colour me skeptical on a few of the finer points.
1) How similar or different are respiratory tracts of rats vs. chickens.
2) Same as to liver enzymes.
3) Most of the works cited were very old. Not one of my biology professors would allow a study that was published over 10 years ago; they wanted 5 years or less but would allow for 1 or 2 citations up to 10 years. Science has changed rapidly in the past few years and quite a few reports have been shown to be erroneous. Better research methods, tools and experimental designs are now available that have discredited some of the older studies.

I'm not saying that "Rat Report" is wrong; I'm just a little leery about basing my flock health on old data for a different species.

I really hope your flock test negative for MG and good luck with your chicks.

 

[SillyChicken]

Still no word on the test results Farmer? I really hope its just a fluke and it comes back negative. Hopefully the sand would be better for your chicks.

Welcome B737 - I'm not too far from you. I'm just west of Manchester. I have a hard time keeping up with these guys on this thread too.

Thanks for the kind words on my wall. I used a computer and projector to draw it on the wall (for reference) and then hand painted it. It's not all free hand, but I didn't follow the lines that well either. So it kinda was, and kinda wasn't freehand. I added a few more leaves etc. It would be easy for anyone to do if you can rent or get your hands on a projector. The wall color is kind of a dark milk chocolate color called Caramelized Onion, and the design is the next shade lighter called Faint Maple. The blue in the leaves is Blue Metropolis. I'm thinking of using the blue on one wall in the master bath as the bathroom is painted the faint maple color. I'm going to do another in the living room too! I want to do one in the kitchen but the projector needs a long distance to get the size I want, I may have to do it free hand in there. When I picked up a quart of the blue.. had I'd known it was almost 20$ I would have just gotten a gallon of it. WOW! (valspar)

Opa, when you're trimming your apple trees, which branches do you choose to cut off? I need to do a major trim job on my old apple trees, I'd like to resurrect them! They still puts out lots of good Jonamac apples, but they're small and buggy.


RIR- will you be coming to chicken stock?

 

[RBahmer]

Just think, two bottle babies per lambing all spring long...