Recent content by JackieinYorktown

  1. JackieinYorktown

    Do you know what crested breed this one month old is?

    Great, Thanks! What kind of Polish is this?
  2. JackieinYorktown

    Do you know what crested breed this one month old is?

  3. JackieinYorktown

    So many Roosters...

    One order from MurrayMcMurray yielded 5 roosters out of 25. Another smaller order of 8 from MPC (which arrived late with three dead) has yielded 2 roosters- my speckled sussex. Interestingly one matured a month before the other! They are huge. I have already gotten rid of the Andalusian and...
  4. JackieinYorktown

    Why do chicks need to be in a brooder so long?

    It depends on what you mean as a brooder and what your outside temps are. My chicks have always been raised in a shed I have a heat lamp suspended from the ceiling and a cardboard ring to keep them from wondering off. As they get bigger the lamp goes higher. I am in NY and if I were raising...
  5. JackieinYorktown

    Andalusian Rooster- Looks too skinny to eat? Too mean for flock

    Thank you. I will let him go for a few more weeks,
  6. JackieinYorktown

    Andalusian Rooster- Looks too skinny to eat? Too mean for flock

    He is a terror and I have him separate from the girls. Also crows non stop. So his new name is "dinner". Except he seems awfully scrawny. I have never eaten one of my chickens before soI may not be the best judge. The boy is now about 11 weeks old.
  7. JackieinYorktown

    Out of 25 hens, 4 are roosters... MPC variety pack

    These birds were delivered the week of June 1st... Now I will have to cull, one if not more... The EE is quiet, the andalusian is erlentlessly going after my year old hen, the speckled sussex is HUGE and the jury is out on the austrolop, The analusian does not look very meaty, but is the worst...
  8. JackieinYorktown

    dispatching last years hens...

    I have only 5 hens left from last springs order and have 25 new chicks soon to leave teh brooder house. Rather than merging the flocks, I am thinking that I would like to dispatch my older ones... Are they only good for stock at this point? THoughts?
  9. JackieinYorktown

    PLs help. 10 week old white birds..

    No chance that they are white rocks? They are free ranging starting this week and are ok tempermentally, no problems. The most curious of my 30 plus, the first ones to do everything. . I had a feeling that they could be leghorns, but given their rep I was sort of hoping not. I do wonder how...
  10. JackieinYorktown

    PLs help. 10 week old white birds..

    I got five of these as part of a variety pack from MPC. I would appreciate any help.
  11. JackieinYorktown

    Grey Mystery Chicks now 2 months old

    Yikes.... Will they freeze to death up here in NY in the winter?
  12. JackieinYorktown

    Grey Mystery Chicks now 2 months old

  13. JackieinYorktown

    Heat wave !

    We are into our third day of record heat. So far, I have added frozen water bottles to their waterers (idea from this site which works great). They do seem to pant less after drinking the cold water. THe hen house is in the shade and I am letting them free range in the shade under trees...
  14. JackieinYorktown

    More chicks from my variety pack....some red, some brown patterns

    let's try this picture?
  15. JackieinYorktown

    Speckled sussex? Any thoughts?

    I got a SS from MPC also in my variety pack. I just posted a few other pictures. See if any of them look familiar to you. Also I did get 5 yellow/white/cream birds.
See more
Back
Top Bottom