NY chicken lover!!!!

[Cydney83]

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x2! Can you video that!?

 

[Cydney83]

Let us know what he says. Interested in what they are.

Chicken math is driving DH crazy. Now we are have a goat math problem...

oh,,,,what kind of goats!? We have Nigeria Dwarfs that we hope are expecting the end of June!!!! Cute little things...have to build them a barn this year and a huge pasture!

 

[Lapeerian]

I've been thinking about that. Not sure if I could make it or not because I have a Baby Shower the same day at 11am, about an hour southwest of home. Auburn is about an hour northwest of home. What time is the swap meet? Nothing like spending the day driving to and fro! If anything, maybe I can try to meet up with you along the route, at least grab a couple of the school hatch returns and whatever else you may have hatched out recently. Can't go too crazy with buying chicks, have to save some money for the 4-H tack sale on Sunday and there is always something I need there!

The Fingerlakes Feather Club is having swap meet on Sat at the Aurburn TSC. Just saying might be a good place for Chicken math.

Now I know your DH is going to kill me, oh well he will get over it.

There should be plenty of people with birds available and all kinds of other things too. Hopefully the weather will be ok.

 

[Cydney83]

The mama is named "mama" . She is a blue Sumatra. I just saw her and her 4 little fuzzy butts. She is being very protective so no pictures. mama is named mama because that is what she does. Be a mama. She was broody 3 times last year, and the year before when I got her, she went broody in october, 3 weeks after I got her.
My wife loves the runners. She named them Patrick and Penelope. I have 6 or 7 or Penelope's eggs in the bator . All are growing so far.
Yes $4 a dozen for duck eggs.

I think in western NY she prob not get that! It would be sweet for her at 78 and still working hard at a nursing home..lol she loves it..
I saw the one pic was it Mamma...non the less too cute!

 

[Lynzi777]

Random Question - What do you all use as a feed dish for your chicks? I bought the round steel one at TS but I was tired of cleaning it out every day and trying to get all the wood chips out of it without wasting a whole bunch of food. So I switched from using that to a regular size Folgers coffee cap. Which actually works out a little better with them, however I'm beginning to think they enjoy kicking the food out of it and having to search around for it in their bedding! LOL I fill the dish 2-3 times a day once I see it's buried in the bedding of the cage. But at the same time there's a whole bunch of feed all over floor of the cage. Just curious as to what you guys use.

 

[marquisella]

This is a pic of a way I feed my chickens. Cut 3 or 4 holes in a 5 or 3 gallon bucket, high enough so it holds enough feed, & low enough so the chickens can reach the bottom. The bird inthe pic is a Marans hen. I hang the buckets so they can't tip them over. They don't waste feed & the top helps keep out junk. If you have roosters with tall combs the holes have to be big enough so they can get their whole heads in.
For chicks, which I just noticed you said..I just use a shorter pail or I like those multi holed red long plastic feeders at the stores.

 

[greymane]

Planning to head to Auburn on Saturday, but I hope the rain holds off.

 

[Lynzi777]

That is awfully clever Marquisella! I like it! I'll keep that one in mind when my chicks are bigger and living outside.

 

[Framac]

I just stopped at the TSC in Oneida. They are also having a Swap on Saturday. 10-2 for anyone interested.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Planning to head to Auburn on Saturday, but I hope the rain holds off.

We'll be there with 2 overactive little blond girls.