NY chicken lover!!!!

[vmdanielsen]

Haven't changed a thing that I can think of. Still the same feed, still the same amount of free ranging, I can't figure it out. Anything I've done with them, I've don't with the silkies and the silkies are still laying. No signs of broken eggs either. I got one egg Monday from my lavender hen, but that was the first in over a week. Haven't seen another since. Just so weird. They were on such a regular schedule of having eggs in their nest boxes every afternoon for us and now nothing.

Do you light? Most birds will slow down or then quit as the light in the day grows shorter.

 

[vmdanielsen]

J and J sells their own brand, called J and J, but the mill itself is in some other place, I don't know where. I wanted a pelletized higher protein feed that they could all eat, so I went. With the flock raiser, or have bought game bird feed.
Have to apologize for the strange sentence structure and capitalization, the iPad made me do it. Repeatedly.

I wish I could get an organic flock raiser.

 

[Lynzi777]

Do you light? Most birds will slow down or then quit as the light in the day grows shorter.

No, I don't....And I really have no way to get any electricity up at the top of the hill where they are, unless I move their coop and bring it closer to the house, which I may do come winter time if I don't move it to the shed. Maybe I will look into that if I do move it closer to the house as the colder weather gets here.

 

[Sallysec]

J and J sells their own brand, called J and J, but the mill itself is in some other place, I don't know where. I wanted a pelletized higher protein feed that they could all eat, so I went. With the flock raiser, or have bought game bird feed.
Have to apologize for the strange sentence structure and capitalization, the iPad made me do it. Repeatedly.

Isn't it annoying? I feel like it makes me look bad lol...it constantly changes your words! Convenient to type and checkout things everywhere in the house though . Nowifonlyicould figure outhow to post pictures into the discussions...

 

[rancher hicks]

WHAT is with this hen. I went out to do another egg collection and come back to find the BM hen sitting on the mat in front of the door. She moved and when DW and DD came home there she was. I just checked and there just like yesterday was an egg. at. 5:30 or so.

What is going on? I've only picked her up a few times and while the door is near the door to where she spent the last 30 or so days hatching and rearing chicks, why there? What can I do to get her to lay in the coop? She lays the egg and then goes back to the coop. She stays with the flock all day as far as I know. Just comes in drops the egg and leaves.

She must know I hate the cold. I wish I could get them all to do it, then I'd never have to go out to collect eggs at all.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Nice Rancher! Nothing like having your eggs delivered to your door! How did you teach her that? I have to get mine to start delivering!

Had to do some surgery on my grand dame Elanor. Her bumblefoot is back. I gave her a really good soak and cut all the yucky stuff off and soaked it again and filled it up with neosporin and wrapped them good. She is enjoying the warmth and comfort of the dog kennel downstairs in the basement while her sisters huddle together in their coop. I will keep her there a few days and keep soaking and treating her feet. Hopefully she will heal up well and be back with her sisters in no time. I am not breeding her but I do want to use her to brood chicks in the spring as she is a wonderful broody and has the most wonderful personality. Being in a dry, warm, comfortable place with very little movement should help. She is my favorite and I would like to keep her around for a long time.

My silkies all but tore the fencing off their run in their desperate, needy, demanding attempt to get me to let them out. I relented and was almost run over when they piled out of their run! You would think I never let them out ever! Needy little creatures they are but I love them so I have created monsters in spoiling them. Wait till I give them a bath and a pedicure!!!

 

[ChickPrincess]

mail carriers do know way too much sometimes... i overheard someone on line at the market say his name, and I rattled off his address... I freaked him out... then I told him I deliver his mail... honestly, I don't know that many people, but if someone tells me their name, I can tell them where they live.

I'll remember that if I'm ever lost! lol

arent they amazing? I love them! It reminds me of chocolate easter eggs ....cadbury...

I wish I weighed 125 when I married my husband lol...he would have too

...I wish I weighed that when I went to college even lol

I've got you beat. I was 116 and a size 2 when I got married. Don't ask what I am now. Oh, what 22 years does to a body...


I had some other posts quoted, but somehow it lost them. Good info on lease forms, etc! Thanks everyone! We have found a new renter, (our employee) AND get this... we have come up with an agreement. THEY clean the house and do the legwork to rebuild what needs to be... we foot the bill. In exchange, they will pay exactly what our mortgage is in rent. They have already started work. They can't move in until the dining room is stripped down to 2x4's and floor joists and refinished, and the ceiling and roof replaced. It seems that this will work out for both them and us. They have a young son and it's a good school district. Plus they are moving from a crummy apartment.
During all this, I discovered yesterday that one of my chickens has large ROUNDWORMS! I just about fainted. I picked up Wazine at TSC. I hate to give them medication, but def don't want roundworms. I was so worried about it, but talked to a teacher where I work who has been a chicken farmer since she was a little girl (she has been my chicken guru). She worms them with the same stuff three times a year. There is a 14 day egg withdrawal and it will royally STINK to have to throw over a dozen eggs a day away. None of my peeps seem sick. They are all eating, drinking, laying and acting normal. I'm thankful I won't have to put down any sick chickens.

 

[cheeka]

(I wonder my mail carrier would have thought of me now had he seen me chasing chickens around my yard!

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if it was me... 1 of 2 things could happen, probably both...

1. I'd see if you needed a hand, cuz I love silkies... and have helped get cows and sheep and alpacas and goats and pigs and chickens... back in while on my route...
2. I would take your picture.

to be honest... I would take the picture first... before you even notice i'm there... then I would offer help... I've started my holiday project, bc it takes months to get it done... but I make mini tear-off calendars with a photo for my customers... Your calendar would have the picture of you chasing your chickens...

 

[featherz]

Ugh! The couple of chicks I gave away the other day are giving the new owner problems - they were under a broody before they left here and look like they now have cocci! Yuk! None of the other birds here have any signs of illness and the chicks that are left under the broody are fine. They were only rehomed because princess can't cover that many..

I can only guess that with all the wet weather and not having the broody immunity going for them it hits the little ones hard in a new environment. What's weird is I checked the two remaining chicks over and there's no problems - eating, drinking, no bloody poo, etc.

I feel horrible!!! I got Peter Brown's chicken emergency kit so everyone's getting amprol tomorrow. bleck. Watch out for the cocci with all this wet weather!

 

[littlecritters]

I wish I could get an organic flock raiser.

I was able to purchase organic flocklayer from my local Agway. I can't recall if it was $28 or $35 per 40 lb bag. It was just too expensive for me to continue buying.