NY chicken lover!!!!

[stonykill]

I was advised to give powder milk sprinkled on feed for chicks with coccidia. Something about the milk does something to the cocc and kills iti.

Humans are the only animal species that drink milk & eats milk products after weaning...so based on that, milk for humans after weaning is also not natural...especially milk not from our mothers.

Chickens are omnivors, they can eat everything...years ago, farmers would fed excess milk from their cows to their chicks during the winter when they couldn't find bugs, etc. to eat. They survived.

what ever floats your boat

 

[jnmerwin]

Catskill Mountains - NY. I have 19 Cochins of all different colors

 

[Pyxis]

Featherz, so sorry about your NN girl

My chickens have cabin fever big time. They don't appreciate being locked up in the new coop and they're getting testy. I'll be letting them out about a half hour before dusk on Thursday to let them stretch their legs and see if they've learned to sleep in the new coop. The only upside is I'm finally getting eggs! My leghorn has laid for me both days she's been in there and today my red sex link or my light brahma left me a pretty brown egg.

I'm also battling a duckling with wry neck, and my older silkie chick seems to be developing it too So they both got Vitamin E drops today and tomorrow I'm going to TSC to get poultry nutri drench for their water.

 

[County Boy]

Catskill Mountains - NY. I have 19 Cochins of all different colors

If you have any, I would love to see pics!

 

[jnmerwin]

If you have any, I would love to see pics!

Here are a few:

 

[vmdanielsen]

I think that Wednesday IS Prince Spaghetti night (in Boston). So why not? I think it was an old marketing line from the Prince Spaghetti company. So Barilla would still work. Sounds like you have done tons.

I think it went like this .......AAAAANNNNTTTHHHHOOONNNYYYY!!!!! Then this boy went running AALLL the way home to eat spaghetti for supper! no?

 

[vmdanielsen]

Ugh.. One of my favorite NN pullets died. =( I can't be sure, but I think she found a mushroom that didn't agree with her. Only thing I can think of because otherwise she looked perfect.. No lice/mites, clear eyes and a red comb. No egg binding either that I could tell. Just wobbly and dizzy and dead within 24 hours. Wah! =(

oh featherz...sorry to hear of your loss....

 

[vmdanielsen]

Catskill Mountains - NY. I have 19 Cochins of all different colors

WElcome and nice pictures!!

 

[County Boy]

Here are a few:

AWESOME!! Maybe sometime we can meet up and sell or trade. Mine are only 8 months though.

 

[vmdanielsen]

Hi NY Chicken Lovers,

This will be my first winter with my 6 red sexlink hens who are 7 months old. I've decided not to supplement the light other than the natural light from a skylight and I'm wondering when I should plan on not getting eggs. This is the first week that I haven't gotten a daily egg from each of them and my extended family is getting very used to having fresh eggs delivered to them. I'm hoping I could save a stash of eggs for myself to last through the winter. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Jay

I have never lighted nor heated. To keep most birds in lay you need to light. My first year buckeyes will lay all winter but none of my other breeds will. I am thinking of lighting late winter so I can get an earlier hatch. If it is just for eggs to eat, then probably not. But who knows....Less eggs being laid every day......
Heni! Will you be selling eggs this winter?