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Jackson, NJ - is it close to Six Flags ? I will be driving to NYC this weekend, and I would like more info about the female goat. I was planning to get 2 Nigerian dwarfs for milking purposes this spring and if she has any potential I'll get her along with the wether Thanks !

We have chickens housed with guinea hens so it gets quite loud in their barn; however, through all that screeching I noticed that one of my hens making very strange noise. I would describe it as wheezing. I also noticed that she is opening her beak when breathing, I did not check her nostrils...

Quote: Yeah, right, I take them out, they go back in. I take one or two for a walk to catch a worm, next think she is back in, trying to hatch some imaginary eggs. They don't even have any eggs under them, at least I don't see any, they perhaps think that they have them anyway.:jumpy

We are tired looking at these poor broodies - we have about 5 now. We let one to hatch eggs, now we have 5 more waiting for their turn. We need them to lay eggs ! Is there an easy way to stop broodiness, without using extra equipment, wire floors, etc ?

Quote: Max13077 Thanks a lot for that update, it was a great idea to e-mail them directly, rather than being passive like me.

We have Buff Orpingtons and Silver Laced Wyandottes. Our Buffs are laying at least for 2 months now, they are turning 7 months in couple days, lay through pretty cold winter, mostly large brown eggs, and the barn is not even insulated. We have a few broody hens(all Orps), given a chance I am...

Hi neighbor, so far I am under impression that everything must be properly graded, boxed, blah-blah-blah. As far as boxes - last year, before the chickens, I'd bought eggs at 'Honest Weight' coop in Albany and they were packaged in recycled cartons, it had seller's stickers over original box...

Where in NY are you ? We are in a Schenectady county, we have fertile eggs, although cannot really tell if they are truly Buffs or our SLW roo got lucky too

Thanks gmc, they (cornell) did not mention the type of sellers/minimum quantities, where those regs would be applicable to. I was hoping to have a shortcut since we are not selling large volumes. The earlier mentioned circular is not easy to read, well, I understand that there is no shortcut...

I can see now how serious it can get. Seems that SW are not as friendly as I thought, so far BO are being much more relaxed.

We lost a hen again today ! Last time it was in December and we guessed the hen could be eggbound (?), since no injuries..., and no sick chickens. We did not think to 'autopsy' her....This time we saw 2 SW hens fighting couple times, maybe this one got into a fight and was knocked down, so the...

I just saw you are from Schenectady. I grew up in Glenville. Are you from that area? Hi Stephanie, we are not local to Capital Region, we moved in last year, so I am not yet familiar with Glenville and very little familiar with Schenectady, we are in a country part of Schenectady county. But...

Silkiechicken you are lucky, because I have to answer questions such as 'how do you know if they are fresh?' , not to sound arrogant, but duh! 'chicken lays fresh eggs,you know' or as my husband suggested - 'say you have a computer program that checks egg freshness'. However, I was unable to...

o.k., invented my own candling device, can candle few eggs at a time and it shows nicely - need clear plastic container, laundry drying rack with a net and a flash light. Very proud of myself !

Wow ! I am new to a candling process - will it show any meat spots ?

Now, will candling even show those meat spots ? Do you need some super-duper equipment to candle them so you can see anything there ? I tried with a flash light in a dark room and some of my eggs have a very thick shell that you cannot even see an air bubble in them. BTW, some people think...

At the moment we have 37 pullets, so my guess the best case scenario is 3 dz a day, our latest record was about almost 2 dz, so I need to get rid of those eggs and I take them to work, but I want to be sure that I am not doing anything illegal. And we want to expand with another set of 25 of...

Dear NY folks - does anyone sell eggs ? I tried to check Cornell coop.ext. site, which referred me to the following Ag. & Markets site http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/fs/general/04circs/Circular854_eggs.html I am lost - can I sell without grading ? Is there some kind of maximum limit, as some...

Thanks to all for your feedbacks Finding more of those small beginner's eggs now, I guess new ones are trying to lay. Another challenge is not to let them eat those eggs, my husband has a home improvement job to do - improve nests to hide the eggs from those hungry mammas

I've eaten raw eggs from my chickens , gave it to my dog too. BTW, I was the 1st one to try . The only difference between my and my dog's consumption habit is that she wants to eat the shell and I don't. There is one delicious recipe I remember my grandma used to make with raw eggs , I will...