NY chicken lover!!!!

[happyhensny]

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!

We have 2 Pygmy/mix does and 1 Nigerian that we just "adopted" My niece and her husband bought her, pure bred with papers, and had to move to a place with NO animals so now we own her. Thinking about registering her in our name so the kids can show her at the fair. The Pygmys are way more troublemakers than the Nigi.

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.

We use the little ones with the screw on jar but I raise the feeder with a bowl, brick, etc to the height of their backs so it is a little harder for the shavings to get in. Same with the waterer too.

 

[marquisella]

At Auburn, is anyone brinnging birds to sell? Or just shopping. Maybe we should list what we are bringing so people know....and what we are looking for...

Adult Marans both black copper & blue copper.
Blue laced red Wyandotte Chicks
Coronation chicks
Lavendar Orington cockerels
A few mixed pullets about to lay.
A pair of white Orpingtons from Hinkjcs plus chicks, hatched last year.
A couple of light Sussex chicks.
I also will bring some eggs for hatching.

I want:
a trap nest cage
Show potential Silkies. Partridge, lavendar, Porcelain or grey

 

[highpointfarm]

LOL i am reading all of these posts about selling eggs and i have to laugh... I know its mean but i do... I get 5$ a dozen =] =] =]

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

We'll be bringing to the swap in Auburn:

~young stock of various ages
- 1 pair of delaware hatched new years day
- mix color maran roos hatched new years
- 2 pair of Delaware x Leghorn cross hatched new years
- assorted mix breed chicks ranging 6wks and under

~whatever fertile BLRW eggs I get from now til then

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

LOL i am reading all of these posts about selling eggs and i have to laugh... I know its mean but i do... I get 5$ a dozen =] =] =]

That's awesome! I don't think I could get people to pay that where I'm at.

 

[jrbspice]

Hello, would anyone in New York City be interested in showing us their BYC setup for a piece for Swedish tv? We would come to your apartment and interview you a little bit about how you got started with the chickens and what it's like taking care of them in the city, and then you can show us your coop on your roof or back yard.

Thanks,
Jonathan
TV4 Sweden

[email protected]

718.496.9085

 

[featherz]

That's awesome! I don't think I could get people to pay that where I'm at.

Me neither, I have people at work ask me what I want for mine and when I say $2.50, I never hear from them again. Oh well, too bad. I have lots of other customers.

 

[Lynzi777]

Now that you all are talking about this egg selling it's making me wonder...My husband used to get eggs from someone he worked with in Troy, she would bring them in to the restaurant and just give them to people. I'm not sure if it was her or her family's farm she brought them from, but I wonder where she lived and what her or her family has for chickens. I'll have to ask my husband. Hmm.....

 

[Cass]

LOL i am reading all of these posts about selling eggs and i have to laugh... I know its mean but i do... I get 5$ a dozen =] =] =]

I went "oh wow, I am really unpricing mine"....until I saw your location. And remembered that my neighbors have chickens, I pass at least 3 flocks on my way home each night and CL is FULL of ads for "farm fresh eggs"...so I may be underpriced, but I am not putting an ad on Craig's List, so no one knows my price unless they drive pass the house slow enough to read the sign.

 

[stonykill]

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!

Mama is the blue . I have a black and Mama with lil ones