NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

Bleh, just tried grafting (well, last night) shipped chicks under two mamas, one of which has been a good mama in the past. Chicks appear to be too willful and won't accept a mama (keep jumping out and running around), which makes mama(s) not graft on to chicks. Had to remove them all (shipped chicks are expensive! =)) and put them up with the ecoglow. Never had a problem grafting just out of the egg chicks, but maybe the long shipping ordeal for these made them punchy.

Well good garden o' peas, why and what are you ordering? At the meet there were plenty of folks who might have supplied you with chicks. Even with chicks , buy local.

 

[featherz]

Well good garden o' peas, why and what are you ordering? At the meet there were plenty of folks who might have supplied you with chicks. Even with chicks , buy local.

Was helping Pyxis out in her chick order- and I wanted brown leghorns, which no one seemed to have local. =( Wish I could have made the meet, but t'was not to be.

Anyone going to Schuylerville week after next? Probably going to bring a couple of extra roos - still deciding who needs to go.

 

[County Boy]

Was helping Pyxis out in her chick order- and I wanted brown leghorns, which no one seemed to have local. =( Wish I could have made the meet, but t'was not to be.

Anyone going to Schuylerville week after next? Probably going to bring a couple of extra roos - still deciding who needs to go.

As in the 8 or 15? If there are any Am's let me know. Really hoping to find 1.

 

[Adoravachick]

Yeah! So glad your girls are finally laying! I hope Sam is behaving himself. Has your daughter taken to him yet? Still working on getting some girls for his brothers. I posted pics of them a few days ago on here for you. Geri might have some for me.

Off to a long day. The boys are crowing early today.

We love Sam! We are finishing the coops and the runs over this long weekend, so once all of our birds are in their new homes, Sam will go in with the blues. For the time being, he is in the barn with my partridge pair and some chicks. He is hysterical to watch, he really likes my partridge hen, he struts back and forth for her ALL DAY. She is currently separated from all of the boys so her crest will fill out again. She has tons of pin feathers right now so she will be a pretty girl again soon. YAY!!!! Geri Rocks! I will have to look back, I must have missed the pics.

 

[java girl 2]

Quote: the 8th, also my birthday. featherz, can't wait to see the roo chicks!! are you looking for brown egg laying or white egg laying leghorns?

 

[java girl 2]

well I got the barn cleaned out today!

now I just have to wash the rooms out so I can put the stuff on the floor to keep water out! Sidney and her babysLOVE the new BIG cage!!

soo funny to see them all jumping and running all over!

 

[featherz]

the 8th, also my birthday. featherz, can't wait to see the roo chicks!! are you looking for brown egg laying or white egg laying leghorns?

Heh, pretty sure if they are leghorns they better lay white eggs =) =). I did get three little brown leghorns and so far they are peeping away!!

Yah, I'll probably go on the eighth. Haven't decided on Q-tip (my americauna roo) - I'm waiting for one of the crowing crowd to do something annoying so I can pick who goes. Have a pretty chantecler roo that needs to go, but seems a waste to drag him to the auction all alone. Tempted to put him up on CL as a pair if no one will take him by himself.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Today I think I'm going to make some homemade sauce and can it. Maybe I'll get a chance to do something with my cucumbers too. I like leafing through my ball canning book to see what recipe catches my fancy. My chickies are lovin the zucchini I give them (the huge ones that I missed and don't want to grate).

 

[Lapeerian]

I know the 2 NH are laying, the GLW, the 2 EE girls and suspect the Australorp is laying because I get 1 nice light brown egg. For the past 4 mornings, I have also started getting a soft shell egg in addition to the usual. The first day it was a cracked thin shell egg in the box. The following mornings it has been this limp shell thing laying on the floor, like a deflated balloon. This morning there was 2 deflated balloon eggs. The only remaining brown egg layers are the 2 Orp girls. They all get the same layer pellets with handfuls of oyster shell mixed in. All the other eggs have really hard shells. I know sometimes they take a couple days to get the egg laying right, but really?

 

[Glasshen]

Tab, I don't think I mentioned how much I enjoyed your greens, they were delish, and I know we are all brimming with good health from eating them. Your garden looked awesome, the chickies are lucky to benefit. Greens are kind of a thing that people in the Utica Rome area make aren't they? Here we have salt potatoes for special picnics etc.

Lapeerian, I have gone through times when a hen will lay those leather eggs for a while. Then it kind of seems to clear up. Do you have a separate dish of oyster shell? Mine like to pick through and select the perfect piece.