Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[troyer]

So. I've decided to buy an incubator and hatch my own eggs. Gamora's eggs. They are a beautiful deep green color and she is my Olive Egger, but no issues with laying (like a couple of my EEs do with their softshell nonsense and calcium deposits). And I don't like the personalities of my Wyandottes or my Ayam Cemani mixes.

Guess it's time to buy an incubator

Might as well hatch from the best layer, you’ll have better possibilities in getting great results.
What breed variety of rooster are you using?

 

[Chickin Fairy]

Might as well hatch from the best layer, you’ll have better possibilities in getting great results.
What breed variety of rooster are you using?

First, just a disclaimer, I am interested in getting dark green/unique eggs and don't plan on breeding chicks for sale, unless someone is specifically looking for barnyard mix flocks. My hens aren't show quality or purebred. They are all barnyard flock, which I believe have higher disease resistance.

My rooster is an Ayam Cemani x Australorp mix. He has a ton of leakage, but I really think it's so pretty. Editing to add temperament: he is human-nice and a well-behaved roo. He is shy, but not skittish. Calm and curious.

 

[Sally PB]

And very handsome. You forgot to add that part.

 

[Chickin Fairy]

And very handsome. You forgot to add that part.

I figured that was a given he is my favorite rooster. He's the one who had the gnarly eye a couple of months ago. He has healed up nicely.

 

[1muttsfan]

So I woke up suddenly last night at 11:30 pm, and heard a little howl. I hopped up and went to look out the windows and didn't see anything at first. I went down to the living room and looked out, and all of a sudden a head popped up from behind the snow bank around my bird feeder, had a coyote out there cleaning up dropped suet flakes. The cats and I watched him for a few minutes then I rapped on the window, he about jumped out of his skin and ran off into the woods.

No more outdoor cats here!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

So I woke up suddenly last night at 11:30 pm, and heard a little howl. I hopped up and went to look out the windows and didn't see anything at first. I went down to the living room and looked out, and all of a sudden a head popped up from behind the snow bank around my bird feeder, had a coyote out there cleaning up dropped suet flakes. The cats and I watched him for a few minutes then I rapped on the window, he about jumped out of his skin and ran off into the woods.

No more outdoor cats here!

We keep hearing them around here too. And then my in laws, next door, saw a boxer and a husky in their yard coming towards our property this morning.

 

[1muttsfan]

March starts the breeding season for coyotes so they start getting a lot more vocal, which makes it easier to know when they are around.
The full moon has been quite beautiful on the endless snow, it glows under the silvery light, with deep dark shadows of the trees.

 

[Sally PB]

Were you able to see the lunar eclipse?? It was too cloudy here.

 

[Folly's place]

Didn't see it here. I've been 'enjoying' an upper resp. infection, so sleeping a lot. I'm getting over it, not bad, just inconvenient.
And the new 'hunt them anytime' for coyotes, a very bad idea! We have them here, and without, we'd be hip deep in bunnies, at least. And I do enjy hearing them sing...
Mary

 

[1muttsfan]

The only thing I see that time of night is insides of my eyelids