Michigan

[RaZ]

I have 2 peahens sitting on eggs but not due to hatch until early July. They are India Blues

I'll let Melissa know. A buddy of mine has a 5YO male but he wants $200 for it. But it is a black-shouldered blue. Whatever that is...

He just doesn't want to sell him.

you could try the fly wipes (or flyspray on a rag) to avoid getting it on her udder, too - that might cut down on potential milk contamination.

My uncle always had a strong fan blowing across the milking stall.

eeeeee!!! That's a lot of coons!! While I haven't seen any at our place yet, I'm sure it's just a matter of time with tasty chicks near the edge of the woods. I'm crossing appendeges that having the dogs' yard between the woods and the chicken pen will be a decent deterrent. Either way it's probably be in out best interest to keep an eye out for a .22 since our other rifles have somewhat spendy ammuntion, and would probably make a mess of a varmit that size.

My shade/mesh tarps came today!!

I managed to get the one bungeed to the run all on my own, with a sleeping 6mo old strapped to my back. I'm REALLY hoping the chicks will actually come OUT from under the coop now. They spend 90% of their time under there, which is understandable because the coop and run get sun all.day.long. (And it's only 74 here right now, so I'm wondering about this heat you all speak of?) The other tarp is for over the sandbox. Ya know, if I ever get around to ordering some sand.

I might beg DH to teach me how to run the circular saw this weekend so I'm not dependant on him for future chicken structures. I can see that this chicken business will be easily obsessed over. I'm already eyeing up a small incubator on ebay.......


Found out yesterday that a friend of DH's keeps bees and would like to but a hive (or whatever you call them?) or 2 on out property in exchange for honey. YAAAAAAY! Free honey!

1) Have you considered a .17 rim fire?
2) I do like the shade tarps for my backyard run. They were useful in keeping the ducks from flying into other yards, but now they are learning to "shoot the gap".

3) Talk DH into getting a good chop saw, it could be his present as long as he shows you how to use it.

4) I'll have honey at CS in case you can't wait.

Knowledge is a wonderful thing and sharing it is even more special. I've occupied this world for almost 70 years and have tried to live life to the fullest. I grew up on a farm, raised every type of animal and bird imaginable. I raised, slaughtered, processed, and ate the majority of them. I've been a life long hunter and the animals I've taken number in the hundreds and almost all I've processed myself.

I consider myself a keen observer of life and as such I've amassed a considerable amount of experience. When some one asks a question I try to answer to the best of my ability and with the caveat that it is from experience or it's my opinion. Passing on knowledge should help the person receiving it, It should make them feel good to have learned something new and you should feel good to have been able to help.

Knowledge that is offered from an assumed attitude of superiority is both pompous and hurtful and I pray that no would ever think that my advise is that. If anyone ever has a question that they think others might think less of them for asking, please feel free to pm me and I will try to help.

Some good friends from Texas shared this philosophy with me, "Each one, teach one". I like that knowledge is fluid and ever-changing. It can be found and it can be lost. I've found that when I share mine, I gain as much back from those I've shared it with. Often, I get more in return.
That is sobering to me because the more I learn, the more I realize that I haven't learned enough.

 

[RBahmer]

Good lord you make a lot of assumptions.

I don't believe Olive is making assumptions. I believe she is stating her opinion. I relocate all the coons I catch and I am a member of HSUS and I take no offense in what she says. Every person is different and every person believes in things differently. One must do what they believe is right. I personally don't believe in poison and I don't believe in shooting them but I never hold it against another person for what they choose to do. I only have to live with what I do.

 

[Olive Hill]

I have five bucks for whomever sneaks a turkey into M2's car.

 

[Mom 2em All]

OLIVE-
I realize that you cannot tell how big it is because there is nothing to compare it to other than my daughters fingers..however, trust me, its big.

Your naked neck frizzle easter egger Uggo-to-be!

 

[Mom 2em All]

I have five bucks for whomever sneaks a turkey into M2's car.

Good lord, Im gonna go out there to a flock of turkeys packed into my truck, aren't I?

 

[RaZ]

I will be bottling honey tomorrow afternoon for CS. Mostly I will be doing one pound jars, but if anyone wants larger quantities (gallon or 5 gallon bucket), send me a PM tonight and I will accommodate. (the 55 gallon drum is around $1000)

Can we move CS to next week? I don't think I have enough time to get ready....

 

[RBahmer]

OLIVE-
I realize that you cannot tell how big it is because there is nothing to compare it to other than my daughters fingers..however, trust me, its big.

Your naked neck frizzle easter egger Uggo-to-be!

 

[Mom 2em All]

I have a question.
It is incubator-hot out there. SO, if my box of eggs came from South Carolina...oh, excuse me,...I meant Olive's, Robin's, and my eggs...

and when I opened the box, the eggs felt as warm as my house is (very very warm)....does today still count as Day 1? Because wouldnt they start their own incubating enroute?

If that is a totally ridiculous question, please don't laugh at me.

 

[Mom 2em All]

I will be bottling honey tomorrow afternoon for CS. Mostly I will be doing one pound jars, but if anyone wants larger quantities (gallon or 5 gallon bucket), send me a PM tonight and I will accommodate. (the 55 gallon drum is around $1000)

Can we move CS to next week? I don't think I have enough time to get ready....

No sense in you taking my honey all the way to Lansing so that I can bring it all the way here...it will make the turkey feathers stick to me.
Keep my gallon at home, and let me know what I owe you for that. But I dont want it in a bucket..will you put it in a jug?

 

[fuzzybutt love]

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My little coop was full of little flies tonight, not blackflys, much smaller but they were biting me. They were crawling all over the chickens. I don't know what to do for them now. They must just come out at night because I haven't noticed them any other time but tonight I was out there after dark.

We had them in the goat enclosure, turns out the straw DH put down in the spring to absorb moisture was also holding it...... They were laying eggs in the damp straw. Bleh. No wonder the chickens kept sneaking in. Anyway, he just rototilled the area and problem solved.

Coon issues:
How are the coons getting in you mom's coop, VJ? Good to keep updated on the coon's new tricks................. I live in fear of what the ones around here are plotting..