Michigan

[uchytil]

So how has everyone been? So darn busy here have not been online. My chickies are getting so big!! But sad to say I need to get rid of a couple of girls and two roo's any ideas how?

When I was leaving CS I bought to little 4 day old chicks from ? she was in the parking lot with a few cages of birds and I tossed a bunch of wooden signs that she picked up, if you read this can you remind me what the chicks are? They are doing great getting big but I wish I knw what they are.

Kimmie

Well hello there! I just put a sign on the street "young roos for sale". Crasigslist is free to post on. The auctions are ok, but, ceratin folks buy them up for food (good) but the people you'd least expect (my version of country good-ole-boys (rednecks) buy them up for bait and/or fighting. Hold a yard sale and put them out with the other stuff you don't need, lol! Take care. John

 

[uchytil]

Chicken Grandma - Rather than respond directly as to whether or not you should water your lawn I'd like to arm you with some information: The U.S. is buckling under the warmest 12 months it has experienced since we began recording temperatures, most of the nation is under a drought. Just to the south of us, in IL, farmers are able to stick their hands down into the cracks in their fields because it is so dry. The heat and drought have led the USDA to declare huge portions of the U.S. -- including much of the grain belt -- under a natural disaster. Farmers are losing their stock and their crops and many will come out the other side of this bankrupt. Food prices are rising rapidly already and will continue under the pressure of low yields, making it difficult for more families to afford their groceries as early as this fall. We are, essentially, as close to The Dust Bowl as we've gotten since it ended. Regardless of how it looks, do you think you should be watering your lawn?

Yes

 

[swampducks]

Yup, it's almost like living in a bubble and the rain just splits to either side! Good gosh, they're saying 97 up here tomorrow! Nuts! My pond is down 2 feet, it's fed by northern swamp run off and then drains into a small stream that feeds the southern swamp. The southern part of the swamp is dry. I may have to change my name to dryducks.

Usually Luna leaps in the pond and swims around and then climbs back out. Today she jumped it, swam about and then put her feet on the bottom. Climbing out is a lot harder too. I wonder if that's why Ziggy isn't going in as much because he's short and he's having a tough time getting out. We need a 3 day rain storm, at least.

And still no sign of the coon guinea killers. The blighters.

Rain missed us here too. In fact, it seems every single rainstorm recently has missed us. There can be a huge mass of rain on doppler radar making a beeline, certainly going to hit us, and almost magically, the rain goes around us. It just parts and skirts around us. There will be no second hay crop, we're lucky to have gotten one.

And it's was gooood, even if it's wasn't raw......

Yesss, Yesss, so does we precious, so does we! Mustn't waste it, no, noo. We eats well, we does!

SSS!

Um..... varmint poop?

Ask me how I can cut your lawn fertilizer bill by 75% to 100%.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I've avoided that place so far this year. It's sort of the shallow end of the gene pool there. I've seen some idiots stuff too many birds in too small a cage. Fight or bait animals probably. My buddy and his wife live there and get their birds there only because they don't raise chicks and like instant egg production. By meeting people on here I've avoided the auction and trade with our good folks.

I go once and a while because my first EE hen was from there, and it is minutes from me. I don't enjoy it at all, though. I am on the lookout for a new broody, my Orp. would be a better free range bird, she has THAT temperament. Hatched out some chicks, but i lost quite a bit of skin because i had to take her off the nest once a day to do her business, she wouldn't do it herself and i lost one bird before her to constipation this year, so............. I ended up with another little blue and red hen, so now i have a trio of those and a trio of the porcelains. I am thinking of trying Randy in muskegon for a cochin, i see that he has the blues but they are the big ones and i can't handle another boy.............lol.

ANY WAY! The neighbor went to Ravenna yesterday also. You may have seen him Fuzzy, average height blond white guy with a giant (TALL) half Mexican looking kid... that's his son, and he's half Hawaiian. They bought a bunch of PQ silkies, a black uggo, and a nice quality blue silkie. I am so tempted to put a fence up for a few weeks to keep my younguns from wandering over by their coop. They didn't even put them in a separate area of the yard from their other birds... Just crazy... Only a few of my littles go over that way, so the fence will be a quick deterrent. I warned them about this before... not to bring in birds that were already older, POL... Oh well. the kid knows more than I since he's been raising chickens 2 years longer...

I wonder if that's the silkie that sold for $30???? It was crazy, a few of the birds went for obsene prices, and others for 50 cents and $1

Fuzzy, don't know where your comment went, but no, I don't have a roo or hen that is aggressively dominant. Occasionally, I'll see a hen peck at another, but nothing like this.
Yes, they do. I let them free range, but I've never seen any of them closer than 5 feet from the roadside. It was something I thought possibly of or even the possibility of maybe a rock being kicked out from someone's tires as they sped by that might have hit her.

She is still the same as yesterday and we still have her crated. We just don't like how the swollen side looks. She only seems to drink or eat when being offered and not on her own so I wonder if she just can't see it well enough with the bad eye to do it herself. On a weird positive note (?), she laid an egg in there so maybe she just looks worse than she feels?
Good question. MY broodie is sitting on a few less lovely looking ones, too.

It was a big trauma, give her time. If she didn't get internal injuries, or brain swelling, you may have hope. She probably is trying to move as little as possible, being sore all over! It is a good sign she is still accepting food.

Chicken Grandma - Rather than respond directly as to whether or not you should water your lawn I'd like to arm you with some information: The U.S. is buckling under the warmest 12 months it has experienced since we began recording temperatures, most of the nation is under a drought. Just to the south of us, in IL, farmers are able to stick their hands down into the cracks in their fields because it is so dry. The heat and drought have led the USDA to declare huge portions of the U.S. -- including much of the grain belt -- under a natural disaster. Farmers are losing their stock and their crops and many will come out the other side of this bankrupt. Food prices are rising rapidly already and will continue under the pressure of low yields, making it difficult for more families to afford their groceries as early as this fall. We are, essentially, as close to The Dust Bowl as we've gotten since it ended. Regardless of how it looks, do you think you should be watering your lawn?

I have seen some of the reports too. It is distressing. It would be the year the rabbits ate my garden, i'm super worried about the food prices this year and the hay prices, DH has those da** goats, 3 hay burners.

 

[swampducks]

CRAP CRAP CRAP Our well quit working. We just replaced that pump maybe 3 years ago when it died from a lightning strike across town. There have been no storms. It cost over a grand the last time. loos like the hottest day of the year may be tomorrow. CRAP CRAP CRAP. DH is going to try to pull the pump himself, only has 98 feet to pull. CRAP CRAP CRAP. I haven't even taken my shower yet, the birds waters all need filling. I had just started watering the veggies today when I noticed 10 minutes later there was no pressure. CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP!!

It's not the pressure switch, the breaker, etc. CRAP CRAP CRAP. Now I have to find bottles to get water from the neighbors.

 

[NovaAman]

ouch! Sorry bout your well.

no fuzzy, he didnt buy a 30 dollar chicken..

 

[babigyrl22]

CRAP CRAP CRAP Our well quit working. We just replaced that pump maybe 3 years ago when it died from a lightning strike across town. There have been no storms. It cost over a grand the last time. loos like the hottest day of the year may be tomorrow. CRAP CRAP CRAP. DH is going to try to pull the pump himself, only has 98 feet to pull. CRAP CRAP CRAP. I haven't even taken my shower yet, the birds waters all need filling. I had just started watering the veggies today when I noticed 10 minutes later there was no pressure. CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP!!

It's not the pressure switch, the breaker, etc. CRAP CRAP CRAP. Now I have to find bottles to get water from the neighbors.

UGH! I see your day is going similar to mine. The hose from our washer popped out of the drain and spewed water all over my laundry room, soaking the carpets in the adjacent room. I pulled up a ton of water from the carpet (using my carpet cleaner) and it was still soaked through. Then drove out to HD to get a dehumidifyer ($200). I had to call the insurance company in case this causes further damage to the walls and moldings. :: grouchy ::

Hopefully you don't have to replace the pump again. sucky sucks....

 

[Totalcolour]

I am so sorry all you folks there are having a drought. We here are still trying to find summer. Today looks nice so far. We had a big storm on Friday night/Saturday morning, with all the lightning thunder and a ton of rain. I don't water our lawns or pasture, ever.

 

[chicken grandma]

Swampducks and Babigyrl -

Those days are tough! I am saying a prayer for you both that things work out fine!

Totalcolour - for once we envy your rain! We are dry as a bone.....

 

[GalloSiSupieras]

Hellos to the Michigan thread!

I'm brand-new to byc, wanted to pop in and see what Michiganders are up to.

Anyone else in Detroit?