New Hampshire!!

[GoodwinMaine]

oh my stars that is a cute little bird!

X 2!!

 

[Chicken Techie]

I guess on the white or light colored ones but only when it rains and gets muddy. I love my cochins for being so docile. They love to be picked up and they also like to talk when you talk to them. They are my favorite breed.

neato, we have NH reds (i think) and they are very nice and deal with my son well

 

[blackbirds13]

Resident hawk has set up house on my property. I can't tell but hubby says he's heard the young ones calling and they are so brazen they just sit in the trees just behind the coop and don't even budge when he comes out the back sliders - not until the dogs head back there...Can't let my Yorkie out by herself anymore and lost 5 of my 9 Legbar girls, at least 3 Legbar boys and a few Marans.

 

[crumberly]

Hi there! We are new to NH, we are in the process of moving and have already brought our ladies to their new coup in S.NH. We are getting out of the CT rat race thank god!!!
I just read an earlier post that said you needed to test your flock? We were selling eggs in CT which I have done since I was a kid and I never had any tested? Do I need to test the whole flock orva percentage and how costly is it? We have 26 adults and 15 chicks from 2 different broods 3 weeks apart. We also have 2 sweedish ducks and one male muscovy who thinks he is a person.
I am really worried that I have done something wrong.
Can anyone answer this please?
Thanks

 

[nhnanna]

and N.H.!!!
You don't have to have your chickens tested to sell eggs.
You do however have to have them tested if you plan on selling any of them at the Chickenswaps.
Most people want to have them tested to know that they have healthy chickens.
There is no cost for the testing right now. There is a grant available.
Call Cindy at the Dept. of Agriculture and she will glad set you up to be tested if you want to.

 

[crumberly]

Thanks so much for such a quik response now I feel much better!! Maybe I will have them tested
Just for peace of mind for anyone who might purchase eggs, We don't plan on buying more cause we have 3-4broody girls so we have a fresh chicks every year as long as that broodiness trait carries on. We are over run with chickens! But we love them and most of them have names!
The chicks are great in the garden cause they are too small to uproot the plants but go under the leaves to get the bugs!

 

[holyhart]

Resident hawk has set up house on my property. I can't tell but hubby says he's heard the young ones calling and they are so brazen they just sit in the trees just behind the coop and don't even budge when he comes out the back sliders - not until the dogs head back there...Can't let my Yorkie out by herself anymore and lost 5 of my 9 Legbar girls, at least 3 Legbar boys and a few Marans.

Oh NO! I don't remember for certain, but aren't your runs covered? How are they getting in? I've seen and heard hawks around here as well, but my property is much less open than yours. We have tons and tons of trees. I worry more about the fox and coons around here.

 

[blackbirds13]

Oh NO! I don't remember for certain, but aren't your runs covered? How are they getting in? I've seen and heard hawks around here as well, but my property is much less open than yours. We have tons and tons of trees. I worry more about the fox and coons around here.

Yes they are covered and we cleared up and flatten out as best as possible more of it all the way to where you can see the pond. So we have even more space now but it pales to what we have that is left wooded so why would they nest so close?...there's over 800+ acres out there!

but there's nothing like a quick and convenient take-out meal. My chicken wire around the bottom was not as secure as it should have been and the chickens had dug gaps under a couple parts of the panels so out they went while I was away and 1 by 1 or 2 got picked off... It's a bit of a downer but will have to hatch some more I guess...

 

[holyhart]

Oh Blackbirds, that's awful. I didn't realize you had so much land back there. Does it go mostly straight back? I didn't even realize you had a pond!

The girl I got from you is so sweet! My daughter was just telling me this morning how when she lets the chooks out in the morning, Shirley (the CL) generally flies up and roosts on her arm or shoulder. She is such a love.

Did you ever get the jubilee orps you were looking for? How are those choc. orps? They were beautiful. I did end up getting my LC orp and she is beautiful, even if she doesn't have the barring...lovely color.

 

[serenityNH]

Hi Neighbors.

I am so devastated, I think I am going to have to cull my whole flock. My girls all of a sudden started getting sick last weekend and we lost three so far. I sent one to UNH to be tested and heard from the pathologist yesterday, he said the chicken I had the necropsy done on had a tracheitis from an infectious disease. I am pretty sure it's ILT, but the final results should come back today. I can't believe this is happening.

I brought in new chicks a couple weeks ago but I know it's not from them, they were from a local person who's flock is NPIP tested. The only thing I can think of is either the wild ducks that come on our property passed it onto our flock, they will come right up with the chickens and even steal their feed. Or... I had someone visit our coop that had recently been given some older chickens and it sounded like they weren't the healthiest birds. That happened about a week before my chickens became ill.
I am kicking my self, I will never let anyone in my coop without better biosecurity now and I should have never let the chickens near the river- what was I thinking! I guess I figured since I had healthy birds, kept a clean coop and hadn't brought in any new birds since I started my flock (except hatching eggs and these new NPIP chicks), I never thought they could get an infectious disease.

Does anyone have any experience with ILT?

I have the chicks I brought home a couple of weeks ago who are in a outside brooder and I have a hen with her chicks, I'm wondering if they are safe? They are separated from the flock but still are in the same general area. I just don't know what to do

Angie