Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Sammster]

Hello, friends! Yesterday I ran out to my unheated greenhouse to get a tool. It was a yummy 72° out there! Very few days do we get sunshine in the winter. I think next time, I'll plan to take a chair out to the greenhouse an enjoy it

 

[Sammster]

I got my first egg!! Didn’t realize it soon enough so it’s already frozen, but this is my most expensive egg ever!

Woot!!

 

[Sammster]

A backyard flock in Oakland county has AI, and I saw that some people there are sick. UGH!!!
Mary

Do you have a link to this? I'm in Oakland County

 

[aart]

Actually today's snowglobe is coming up from the south.

Overnight it's going to switch to lake effect coming from the west.

 

[Sammster]

Do you have a link to this? I'm in Oakland County.

Fortunately, my girls are contained. I haven't let them out in a long time because we had an eagle roost in our tree. Now, with AI nearby, all the more reason to keep them contained. It's hard when they give you their puppy-dog eyes.

 

[Sally PB]

Yesterday, when we had some sunshine, I went up to the green house and it was in the mid-fifties in there! It warms up quickly, but it cools down quickly too.

I have my chicken run chair up there during the winter, and yes, I sat there for about 20 minutes, enjoying the sunshine. I put the chair up there because I think the plastic would get very brittle in the cold air in the run. I sure do miss the chair to sit on while I visit the chickens.

 

[Folly's place]

The news doesn't include which flock, or exactly where, in any of these reports. Maybe local news, or the grapevine? When the humans involved have their testing finished, there will probably be more information, as do they have H5N1, or something else?
Bad news anyway, we are next door in Shiawassee county.
Mary

 

[1muttsfan]

It's not just that egg flocks have been put down due to AI. Some of the flocks are breeder flocks that produce the chicks that become egg layers. So they have lost not just egg laying hens, but the breeder flocks that provide replacements. That's causing a delay in egg producers being able to replace their flocks.

Those flocks are highly specialized, and often they have different flocks to produce breeder males and breeder females and cross the lines together. So they may be losing many years of genetics.