Michigan

[sarah92480]

RIRJen great pics!! That one chicken with your daughter standing next to it, that is the biggest chicken I ever saw.

 

[RBahmer]

Oh ya! lol what kind are we talking about here?...did I miss that in the bazillion posts I had to read to catch up with you guys?!
I have Cuckoo Marans, Lakenvelders, Icelandic, few blue anf blue splash marans, few golden Campines, couple of speckled sussex, and a few mutts.


Hatch a bunch and cull hard! Produces good results as long as you follow that second step!
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[RBahmer]

Jen, you are just too funny sometimes

Robin, good luck with your hatch. What incubator are you using?

I am using my GQF cabinet incubator.

 

[RBahmer]

RIRJen great pics!! That one chicken with your daughter standing next to it, that is the biggest chicken I ever saw.

Ya well, you need to see her pony, I mean dog. LOL

 

[Farmerboy16]

Hi All...I'm a newbie to Backyard Chickens....
Since you're talking about possible excess of eggs, I'd like to introduce myself!

I am a local Michigan artist who does pysanky eggs (Ukrainian Easter Eggs).
I am in the market for eggs....anything other than regular chicken eggs which I can get very easily from a local poultry lover.

I am looking for turkey, goose, duck (Peking), bobwhite, banty, pee-wee, partridge, peahen, guinea hen, quail, or just about any kind of egg from anything with feathers and wings.

I love eggs.

Anyway....I would be happy to swap a custom made pysanky from one of your own birds...or...work out a reasonable deal on eggs that otherwise might be discarded.

Please check out my website at www.etsy.com/shop/goldeneggpysanky and see how beautiful pysanky can be!

Please PM me if you have extra eggs! Gail

If any of my Emu eggs failed to hatch, would you like to have the eggs?

Updates on the MI fruit crop: http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2012/04/west_michigans_killed-off_crop.html

My mom was telling me this today. My parents know lots of growers, and some of them are our neighbors. They all have said that we will have no cherries this year, and only about 1 percent of apples had survived the freeze. quote The Ridge, for example, grows 65 percent of Michigan’s annual apple yield, which means huge losses could take a sizable bite out of the $800 million economic impact generated annually by Michigan’s entire apple crop, according to the Michigan Apple Committee. quote That is where I live. On the Ridge wall, and Sparta village is on the bottom of it. We have the Harvest festival every year in September when Apple picking is in its peak. It may be a dismal festival this year with no fruit. Got an other escapee today! Got home from work, and was walking to the house when my dad called out and said that the calves had escaped again, but at the different neighbor's yard. Those neighbors had called and threaten to call the police if the calves escaped again! My dad and my sisters had put the calves in the cow shed, and locked them in! My dad had been busy trying to fix the fence, and had brought a new charger for it. He had me to replace all the garden stakes for the T-post type in the temporary pasture where the steers are, to make the fence stronger. Then when we got the fence all fixed up, plugged in the charger, tested it with the tester, and my dad heard one of the hogs squealing. Yay! It working! The hog must have touched the wire! I went to the hog pen to double check the fence with the tester. As I was testing the wire in the hog pen, Anabelle, the one with the piglets, when she touched the wire, she squealed and bolted the other way and most of the other hogs were spooked and ran with her. Then, turned off the charger, disconnected the temporary pasture from the main pasture and the electric fence, and opened the main pasture gate to the woods. But the tester said that the fence charger is no longer working right. It had gotten dark, so I had to get my spotlight, and go find where the issue is. After looking at every single post in the dark spooky woods and fields for over an hour, I had gone back to the gate to the woods, as I was testing the wires, I saw a spark on where the ground wire was touching the wire connecting the other 3 hot wires. Duh! That might been why the the fence had not been working right for the past 2 weeks! I had to call my dad to have one of my siblings to unplug the fence, so I can take off the offensive wire. Then I hollered to my sister at least 1000 feet away to plug it back on, tested it again. Yay! It working again!!

 

[Juise]

Quote:

See my edit...

Lol

He says, "Well I'm pretty sure I broke my thumb in gym today"

Not to alarm you, but... that joint of your thumb is the most mobile joint you have in your entire body. When I fractured it skiing, I had to go to physical therapy for a year, and it still does not work properly. Be careful with it, and best of luck to both of you.

LOL on both accounts.

Well, today could have been better. I hate grocery shopping, and today I hated it more. I had the privilege of puking in the Meijer bathroom. Vomiting in public places is not one of my favourite things. I drove past the smoke shop two times and did not stop to get smokes. I was feeling rather proud of my self, and then DH got home. He forgot we were quitting and picked up a pack. /sigh So I guess we will try again when these are gone.

 

[Opa]

Sittingg here trying to get enough coffee in me before David arrives and we head out. I'll drive southwest for as long as it takes for Joe to meet us coming from the other way. I think probably near St Louis. Then I'll turn around and come back. It's going to be a very long day.

 

[kimmie6067]

Yup. What Juise said about the windows... Thats what I was saying.

Yes that's what I figured but I am a newbie..............I hate being a newbie

I made me some no bakes. I do not know what I did wrong today, but the first batch didn't set all the way... Was like spooning fudge... The second batch came out to dry... It is just not my day. I never have problems with them. I guess there is a first time for everything.

Did you add to much butter/marg? I finally figured out what I was doing wrong was adding tiwce as much, instead of two sticks for two batches I was adding four!! For some reason.

Nothing is going to be dry enough for a fire tonight.

It had better be nicer tomorrow.

Its going to be really nice here today, 70's and sunny!!!! Yeah yard here I come so get ready. Maybe leaves will start coming on the oak trees.

 

[Stacykins]

Updates on the MI fruit crop: http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2012/04/west_michigans_killed-off_crop.html

Not only are the fruit growers affected, also many beekeepers will be too. The orchards often pay beeks to truck in large amounts of hives for pollination. With few trees going to blossom from the freeze damage, there won't be a need for the bees to be brought in. I don't think there is insurance for the beekeeps not getting the spring pollination jobs on account of frosted blooms.

 

[Opa]

My apples blossomed and fell without my have observed a single bee on them. When you consider that one of the larger beekeepers in the state lives just across the street from me it does not bode well. It was just much to cold.

I guess this below normal spell and the results are the cost of the 80 degree weather we had in March. More proof that nothing comes without a cost.