NY chicken lover!!!!

[Cass]

Yah my work peeps are keeping me with all my chickens - I have one doctor who wants two dozen a week and now I have others also requesting multiple dozens. I do charge for them, but it's funny that I am keeping so many chickens just to sell eggs to work people - and I am quite sure they cost me more than I bring in. =)

Oh yeah. I spend $50 a month in feed and other TSC stuff for these birds. In TWO months I have made $40 in egg money. So it is definately a hobby, not a profit making business.

What will happen when you change jobs? And how is that going, btw?

Did you know that if you coat fresh eggs with mineral oil and keep them in a cool dry place they will last 6 - 9 months conservatively? Won't work for "sale" eggs, but will keep you in personal eggs in the winter so you can sell all the fresh ones they lay. (Cuz you just know they are going to cut down production in the winter)

 

[Cass]

Sooo some of the Sumantras learned from having their fellow feathered friends eatten right in front of their eyes and have taken to going in the coop at night. Late, like 8:30, but hey, I'm still awake at that hour so I can close the door after they go in.

BUT the funny part? They cannot figure out how to get OUT of the coop in the morning. So here I am opening the run door and stepping inside the run to scare them out to freerange. Weren't these supposed to be "feral chickens"? LOL

 

[stonykill]

Sooo some of the Sumantras learned from having their fellow feathered friends eatten right in front of their eyes and have taken to going in the coop at night. Late, like 8:30, but hey, I'm still awake at that hour so I can close the door after they go in.

BUT the funny part? They cannot figure out how to get OUT of the coop in the morning. So here I am opening the run door and stepping inside the run to scare them out to freerange. Weren't these supposed to be "feral chickens"? LOL

one step at a time Cass. Yours weren't born from broody's but born by me and an incubator

. My guess is they like it in there with the others, but once they figure out free range during the day is better, they will leave on their own.

If it makes you feel any better when my penned Sumatra's escape, they stay real close to their pen, and try to escape back into their pen as I approach them.

 

[Lapeerian]

I am sure there are.   I am equally sure that they are not close to you, at least on this thread.   There is a thread for "lower NY State" ....I think it says something about Orange County and south.  You might want to post your request there also, cuz they will be closer to you geographically....and unless you are independantly wealthy, that will be a factor when it comes to obtaining just 2 chickens.   (Also, it's the 4th of July, so it may take a while to get a response from anyone cuz they are partying like it's 1999.)

I see you are new.   Go to the forum area, "where am I, where are you?" and scroll through the listing there until you find the "lower NY/Orange Co." one.

"Southern NY, Dutchess County and below"
I stalk that thread for entertainment, they are a fun, crazy chicken loving bunch. Think most of them are on the Long Island side, but a couple reside this side of The City.

 

[In His Service]

Yah my work peeps are keeping me with all my chickens - I have one doctor who wants two dozen a week and now I have others also requesting multiple dozens. I do charge for them, but it's funny that I am keeping so many chickens just to sell eggs to work people - and I am quite sure they cost me more than I bring in. =)

That's me, too, except as DH would say I don't work, my "customers" are mostly at church, deliver eggs on Sunday, and at Tuesday night Bible study. Convenient, except when they fail to let me know they don't want eggs, or won't be there.

Only now, I have added 2 Nig Dwarf does, buckling to follow next month, and 2 mini pig sows who are both supposedly in the family way. Since the sows are unrelated, we plan to keep a boar from each for breeding with the other, then sell or eat the others. Oh, and a pekin duck thrown in for free. She wouldn't leave the younger pig's side, lol..

Now I want to reduce the chicken flock, but can't decide who to let go. The roosters of course, but the rest....tough decision.

Happy 4th, everybody!

 

[kamir]

OMG...you only want the number of chickens you already have? You're sick. Take an asprin or something.

SNIP...

Very funny, Cass!

I have had 1 chick die, so I'm down to 10. If 5 are roos, then there's dinner for a while. Eggs...I eat fewer than what 1 chicken can lay every week. Being basically a hermit

means very few people to whom I can give (or sell) eggs. Believe me, I have far more chickens than I "need" and expect the flock to be reduced (by predation) since I want to free range them.

I know Morehen and Morefowl disease is a possibility, so I'll never say never.

Everyone have a safe and Happy 4th!

kamir

 

[vmdanielsen]

Hi! I'm in westchester . I was looking for some juvenile hens to buy. Actually just 2. I was hoping for 1 black copper maron and maybe a blue Easter egger. Is there any breeders in ny?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/534036/southern-ny-dutchess-county-and-below/5900#post_9254911 Hey it let me copy and paste!!! try this thread. Good luck!!!! And welcome, stop by and chat anytime!!!

 

[featherz]

Oh yeah. I spend $50 a month in feed and other TSC stuff for these birds. In TWO months I have made $40 in egg money. So it is definately a hobby, not a profit making business.

What will happen when you change jobs? And how is that going, btw?

Did you know that if you coat fresh eggs with mineral oil and keep them in a cool dry place they will last 6 - 9 months conservatively? Won't work for "sale" eggs, but will keep you in personal eggs in the winter so you can sell all the fresh ones they lay. (Cuz you just know they are going to cut down production in the winter)

Job change still in progress- it will take a month or two as it requires government clearance. So I can't get an offer till I go through all the hoops. Still keeping my fingers crossed!!

As for my eggs, I use a LOT of egg whites so I just separate all the month+ old eggs - keep the whites in ball jars and freeze those. I feed the yolks back to the chickens. I could freeze those too, but I rarely use yolks by themselves. I guess I could try the mineral oil but I have so many eggs in the fridge it's more space efficient to freeze. I even made powdered eggs with a dehydrator as an experiment last year. Those are still in the freezer .

 

[vmdanielsen]

Can I feed a banana to the chickens, my freezer is full of over ripe bananas and I am full of banana bread.

I have a bird in the basement with a prolapsed vent. Got home late yesterday, put away $200 worth of groceries(Oh wait! That was only a bag and a half...) and went out and found Miss Messy Butt. So.... she got a bath and a preparation H treatment, then into the semi dark basement. Went down this morning and it had prolapsed again, out comes the prep H. Could feel an egg coming so I didn't push the issue. I am sure I will be lubing up again shortly. She did this last year and after four days it stayed put till now. Poor bird.

Any thoughts on that banana?

 

[vmdanielsen]

Job change still in progress- it will take a month or two as it requires government clearance. So I can't get an offer till I go through all the hoops. Still keeping my fingers crossed!!

As for my eggs, I use a LOT of egg whites so I just separate all the month+ old eggs - keep the whites in ball jars and freeze those. I feed the yolks back to the chickens. I could freeze those too, but I rarely use yolks by themselves. I guess I could try the mineral oil but I have so many eggs in the fridge it's more space efficient to freeze. I even made powdered eggs with a dehydrator as an experiment last year. Those are still in the freezer .

I use yolks only in butter cookies......My favorite! Only at Christmas though.....my behind is big enough already!