Michigan

[Juise]

Oh, yeah, and M.sue... awesome response!

Oh yes, and one more P.S. I got the whiskey and honey treatment, too, but for sore throats. I don't do it because I have heard that while it provides very temporary relief, it kills all the good as well as the bad and can set you back quite a bit on the road to recovery.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Next Saturday is good for me and no, thank you. My friends will thank you also. We like all colors , especially the blues LOL

fantastic! I will PM you mine and my husbands cellphone number. I will post again after work.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Good Morning everyone!

Well, the other house behind me- my backyard butts up to two backyards- is for sale now. Sign in their front yard.
I just told my husband that he has to get my fence up. HAS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
He has been waiting for "dirt"...I understand doing it right, but I need it done half-donkeyed until it can be done right.
This weekend is the plan.
I think I will go order dirt and have it delivered. Then we can spend forever moving it from the driveway to the back and he can put up the panels and keep my chickens under cover...
Or else my panels will sit in the garage for eternity waiting for him to put them up.

RaZ,. D and L has five yards (?) for two hundred. Know of a cheaper place? I need about ten yards, I am guessing. I am pretty excited about bringing our yard up to where all the neighbor yards are.

OHHHHHHHHHHH I think I should see if someone will babysit Bubba so we can get the dirt out without worrying about him, and so we can seed the area and actually have it grow.
ANyone want to babysit a sixty pound tortoise for a couple weeks?

 

[NovaAman]

60 POUND TORTOISE! You are joking right! That's bigger than my kid! Both my dogs put together with the neighbors dogs! Dang! Will he eat my ducks? Lol. If you weren't across the state, I'd do it just for funzies.

 

[Opa]

Much to my surprise it didn't take long to read the posts this morning. So now off to work the crossword.

 

[Mom 2em All]

nO, nOVA-

i am not joking, lol. I have had him for years and years. This is the first year we arent doing the 'career day' for the kids at the elementary school. Last year was just too hard for me to get him there. And move him around there. My shoulder is garbage.

He doesnt eat the chickens, or ducks when I had them...he is a veggie pig. Grasses. Dandelions. Strawberries, cactus, Flowers. Grass. They run like a dinosaur has invaded their space, but he doesnt care about them.

I wish you werent across the state. Would make things much easier to redo the backyard.

 

[Opa]

One of my little Vorwerk hens is doing a good job of sticking tight on her clutch. For anyone wanting very easy keepers they definitely are a breed to consider. Beautiful chicks with black bodies and yellow heads that mature to the opposite color pattern. Good layers, great mothers.

Kim, what would be the needs for caring for your tortoise?

 

[Brethren49619]

Morning all. Drinking my coffee and already done reading the posts. Hmmm.... what happened to all the chattiness on here?

Got a question, and I've done some research, but am looking for personal experiences please.

Has anyone here in Michigan had to deal with bear in or around their coops? We have a mama bear that has been seen with 3 cubs this spring. She hibernated in a hillside cave down by the river maybe 3 to 5 miles from us, if that.

Since I am still building my coop and can still make some changes / additions, now would be the time to do it.
Last year the mama bear broke into the cottage across the street to get the bird feed, so is the feed more what they are after than the chickens and eggs?

 

[EMAW]

One of my little Vorwerk hens is doing a good job of sticking tight on her clutch. For anyone wanting very easy keepers they definitely are a breed to consider. Beautiful chicks with black bodies and yellow heads that mature to the opposite color pattern. Good layers, great mothers.

Kim, what would be the needs for caring for your tortoise?

Opa,
What size of a white/cream egg do yours lay, and how frequently? This would be a next year thing for me. I am still researching which white egg layer I would like for my small (future) flock. These are on my short list with Favorelles and Anconas.

Thank You
Scott

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Well the Air Force personnel center has finally approved my separation from active duty, I should be in Michigan NLT 1 July. I am totally excited right now.

Now I did warn you that I was going to have lots of questions, so hear we go....Can anyone tell me what they know about the school districts around the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek areas? What I have been able to find so far online is that Marshall, Plainwell, Mattawan, Schoolcraft, and Gull Lake seem to be the districts I want to get into for the kids? Any and all help is appreciated.

THANK YOU!!!

ETA: still learning to spell my MI cities.

Too bad you won't be here in time for chickenstock.
I don't know much about those school districts but I have heard a lot about the "Kalamazoo promise" something about providing a college education for kids there. You might want to check that out. You would do better to google it than possibly have me give you the wrong info.

We started last year with the opening of our family business and along the way we wound up adopting 12 chickens that had been abandoned when their family moved away :'(. But we have come to love our little group <3

& welcome! Check out the info in my, Opa or RaZ's siggy lines for the upcoming Michigan chickenstock.

Stackykins - warm honey and cinnamon. I think She said a tsp of cinnamon to a tbsp of honey. Good luck, and hope you feel better soon!

I recommend adding some lemon juice and either rum or whiskey to that. Hope you feel better!

When I was a kid my mom and dad fry would an onion with some garlic slices and wrap them in a cloth diaper and slap it right on my chest. It did work but ya end up stinking like onions and garlic, I would also get honey and whiskey warmed up to. But I think the honey and whiskey was for a sore throat. On a completely different note..... Some jerk stole all of my diapers off my clothesline today

$400 down the drain and I'm left with 6 prefolds 1 diaper cover and 3 kids in diapers. I have never been this frustrated and mad in my life.

Oh, my mama did that to me too. Only she added vicks with it.

Why in the world would someone steal diapers! That is just sorry!!