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Originally Posted by Pyxis 


Awesome Where are you located? I did find someone in Salem who is hatching easter eggers this weekend and is selling them for $2 each - they're listed on craigslist as ameracaunas but...I'm pretty sure they're easter eggers from hatchery stock parents. They're also selling older mixed breed chicks. But I'd love to get chicks from a fellow BYC'er instead.

Well, if I don't get any chicks I may have to look up those salem peeps also- maybe you can pick up a few extra lol.

 I am located in gansevoort exit16/17, so pretty close to glens falls. :) I have some of Javagirls EE and Java eggs under my two broodies plus I have seven mutt 'backup' eggs in the bator if the broody ones don't hatch. These ladies are taking up prime real estate in my coop so I want them unbroodied asap! :) (one has been sitting around 5 weeks poor thing). 

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Originally Posted by Pyxis 


Poor girl! My silkie just finished week three, and she keeps stealing all of my other hen's eggs. Javas are gorgeous, good luck with those! I'd be more than willing to pick you up a couple chicks if I end up buying some. Lol, what kind of hens do you have that they've all gone broody?

I actually have three broodies, I think. I have a speckled sussex that disappeared about 2 weeks ago and I've seen her twice since then doing the 'broody cluck' and running around. I think she's broody in the woods, but we can't find her (we have a lot of woods!). Tried to find her again yesterday before the rain, but no luck. So if she's still OK, I may have a TON of chicks come this weekend. As for the other two, one is a NN and the other is an orangey chicken of unknown origin. 

I had planned to put the easter hatch chicks under one of my broodies, but then I realized I had two more, all starting at the same time - figured it would be safer to have them all busy with chicks at once (plus I can finish up the layer feed in that coop). 

The broodies have broken a few eggs and they were not developing, so I think I may have a lot of duds. We'll know sat/sun. 

Morning all.  Loving all this rain.  It was a nice steady rain and not the deluge that was predicted so no need to pump the backyard (thank goodness).  My lawn has gone from frenchfries to hayfield and the trees are really letting loose opening up their leaves.  I am sure my well is breathing a sigh of relief also.  Wouldnt mind a few more days of this and i am sure I will pay with a bumper crop of mosquitoes.  Oh well, thats what off is for. 

Stony--thanks for the info.  We ordered our chicks from Hoffman hatcheries in PA.  5 barred rock pullets, 5 red sexlink pullets and 15 straightrun rhode island reds.  I have to say that they were the healthiest, best looking chicks I have ever seen coming from a hatchery.  I have found the friendliest ones so far are the sexlinks.  There is one who flys to the top of the brooder box and waits for you to pick her up and hold her and pet her.  She likes to hang out with us.  Now the rir boys tried to strip the flesh off my finger along with the yogurt I was giving  everyone!  I am hoping that after we finish their coop and I can sit in there with them, they will learn to like my presence and come to me (with bribes in my hand, I figure it might work).  Amazing how each flock is so different in dynamics huh? 

I think I have a silkie hen that is trying to be broody but isnt quite yet.  She does the whole puff up thing and the buck buck broody call but doesnt sit.  When she does settle, its always in the run instead of the coop.   I have tried everything to get her to lay in there but she refuses.  Guess she wont be getting any eggs when she does go fully broody!  I think my glw betty has given up the notion of being broody.  At least she isnt on the nest box and being witchy to everyone anymore. 

I have 14 silkie eggs in the incubator for the mothers day hatchalong.  Heres hoping that my silkies have better fertility this time around. 

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Originally Posted by Lapeerian 

I was at the Broome County 4-H tack sale.  I was a horse member for many years (till I aged out) and still attend the tack sale every year.  Seen a few grazing muzzles and actually looked at them, hoping new boy isn't a huge pig and requires one.  Scored a used Weatherbetta turnout sheet and Weatherbeeta mid-weight winter blanket, both light purple, for him (I only blanket when it gets way below freezing or extremely windy). Tried them on quick tonight to make sure they fit before wrecking my washing machine with horse hair, both fit perfectly and he stood quietly.  At least one thing went right today! 

 

 

I wish there was a tack sale?Auction near me!  I my stuff is looking rather ratty!  I like the funky colored blankets!  I have a halflinger that practically lives in a grazing muzzle.  She doesn't stop eating.  I do not know when she sleeps. She just sleeps.....

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Originally Posted by pharmchickrnmom 

Morning all.  Loving all this rain.  It was a nice steady rain and not the deluge that was predicted so no need to pump the backyard (thank goodness).  My lawn has gone from frenchfries to hayfield and the trees are really letting loose opening up their leaves.  I am sure my well is breathing a sigh of relief also.  Wouldnt mind a few more days of this and i am sure I will pay with a bumper crop of mosquitoes.  Oh well, thats what off is for. 

 

Stony--thanks for the info.  We ordered our chicks from Hoffman hatcheries in PA.  5 barred rock pullets, 5 red sexlink pullets and 15 straightrun rhode island reds.  I have to say that they were the healthiest, best looking chicks I have ever seen coming from a hatchery.  I have found the friendliest ones so far are the sexlinks.  There is one who flys to the top of the brooder box and waits for you to pick her up and hold her and pet her.  She likes to hang out with us.  Now the rir boys tried to strip the flesh off my finger along with the yogurt I was giving  everyone!  I am hoping that after we finish their coop and I can sit in there with them, they will learn to like my presence and come to me (with bribes in my hand, I figure it might work).  Amazing how each flock is so different in dynamics huh? 

 

 

  I was quite please with the rain so far. A lot of it, but like you said, so far anyway, not as heavy as they predicted.

    i forget the name of the hatchery Blue Seal uses, but I know it wasn't that one. 

   I find RIR's quite friendly. The only boys I have of RIR's are mixes with Sumatra, and they are still only a few weeks old. I've never had a pure RIR roo, so not sure of the personality. You will enjoy the girls. I've only had 1 barred rock and unfortunately she passed. She was the friendliest bird I ever owned. And the only girl I ever had that would squat for me to pet her. If mine was any indication you will love yours!

 I am Also From Ny a tiny Town called Deposit about 35 miles from Binghamton. I have really been enjoying this Site .

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Originally Posted by CorinneP 

 I am Also From Ny a tiny Town called Deposit about 35 miles from Binghamton. I have really been enjoying this Site .

Welcome Corinne!

I thought we all agreed to rain. This was not in the deal. The girls are subdued, and will be spending some time in their coops until things improve.

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Originally Posted by Glasshen 

 

I thought we all agreed to rain. This was not in the deal. The girls are subdued, and will be spending some time in their coops until things improve.

sheesh!! we are having suck a weird year.  That snow is coming our way.......