NY chicken lover!!!!

[Tough Old Bird]

Got room for one more New Yorker? I'm in Albany, the grandest city of the all (NOT). It is against the law to keep hens and roosters in the city, but I have decided that I want to hatch some chick purely for the fun of it. I just picked up a loaner incubator (a Little Giant Still-Air) from the Cornell Co-Op Ext. of Albany County (they loan them for free ) and I got 16 eggs from various breeds from a fellow BYC poster . I believe I have 8 black austalorp, 5 d'Uccle, 1 blue ameraucana, 1 leghorn, and 1 penedesenca. I will be doing a dry hatch, and I will add very little water if needed, I will check the air cell to determine that. If this hatch is successful I may have to do this again and again!

Welcome to the "New York Chapter" of BYC! That's quite the nice assortment you've got going into the incubator. Good luck.

TOB

 

[Kit-Kat]

Got room for one more New Yorker? I'm in Albany, the grandest city of the all (NOT). It is against the law to keep hens and roosters in the city, but I have decided that I want to hatch some chick purely for the fun of it. I just picked up a loaner incubator (a Little Giant Still-Air) from the Cornell Co-Op Ext. of Albany County (they loan them for free ) and I got 16 eggs from various breeds from a fellow BYC poster . I believe I have 8 black austalorp, 5 d'Uccle, 1 blue ameraucana, 1 leghorn, and 1 penedesenca. I will be doing a dry hatch, and I will add very little water if needed, I will check the air cell to determine that. If this hatch is successful I may have to do this again and again!

Welcome to BYC! I didn't realize the extension loaned out incubators! That's interesting- I've been itching to hatch out some more Welsummers but haven't had any broody hens in a while.

 

[brahmapapa]

Morning all! My you all were chatty yesterday. I had a lot of reading to do. The mud firmed up overnight so I could walk out to let everyone out this morning without sinking up to my knees. Spring fever has hit and they all piled out the door as soon as it was open. Dh was kind enough to release the beasts yesterday afternoon and they were thrilled to be on all the bare patches of lawn. I could see them out there when I got home from work last night. My two broody girls are still sitting tight on one egg each. I figure I will put a couple more chicks under them when the ones in the incubator hatch if they will take them. All are due within days of each other.

Sending off hatching eggs today to someone in tennesee. I am hoping the post office is careful with them. This is my first time mailing eggs. I packed them well so I am hoping for the best.

Rancher--nice chicken water park. Was that a selling point of the property when you bought it? I am assuming that you charge group rates and have height requirements for it.

Gramma--I have read up a lot on the subject of gall bladder removal and it does change peoples systems, sometimes in a very negative way. I am just learning to live with it. Its like anything else, what doesnt kill you makes you stronger.

Heres hoping the wind and warm temps melt more of this snow in my yard. My snowbanks are still high and the ice behind the divas coop is killer!

there is a great thread on byc if you ship eggs ( HOW BEST TO PACKAGE EGGS FOR SHIPPING DO'S AND DON'TS ) It is a real help in improving packaging tecniques and is deff helping to improve hatching rates amoung all who buy eggs.....check it out, it has a video on it from skyline poultry as to thier tecnique and they do an impressive drop kick test with the box. We all know that recieving eggs with shells intact is far from a guarantee that the egg interior quality is suitable for good hatch....check it out everyone.

 

[brahmapapa]

Got room for one more New Yorker? I'm in Albany, the grandest city of the all (NOT). It is against the law to keep hens and roosters in the city, but I have decided that I want to hatch some chick purely for the fun of it. I just picked up a loaner incubator (a Little Giant Still-Air) from the Cornell Co-Op Ext. of Albany County (they loan them for free ) and I got 16 eggs from various breeds from a fellow BYC poster . I believe I have 8 black austalorp, 5 d'Uccle, 1 blue ameraucana, 1 leghorn, and 1 penedesenca. I will be doing a dry hatch, and I will add very little water if needed, I will check the air cell to determine that. If this hatch is successful I may have to do this again and again!

welcome to BYC i am in clifton park and have my henhouse in poestenkill where i will be building a home, you WILL get Chicken lovers fever hanging out here. AGAIN WELCOME

 

[ag29ande]

Got room for one more New Yorker? I'm in Albany, the grandest city of the all (NOT). It is against the law to keep hens and roosters in the city, but I have decided that I want to hatch some chick purely for the fun of it. I just picked up a loaner incubator (a Little Giant Still-Air) from the Cornell Co-Op Ext. of Albany County (they loan them for free ) and I got 16 eggs from various breeds from a fellow BYC poster . I believe I have 8 black austalorp, 5 d'Uccle, 1 blue ameraucana, 1 leghorn, and 1 penedesenca. I will be doing a dry hatch, and I will add very little water if needed, I will check the air cell to determine that. If this hatch is successful I may have to do this again and again!

Welcome Fellow New Yorker!!

 

[marquisella]

Quote: You need to check the air cells. Incubating in a styro is more difficult anyhow. Candle the eggs every week to make sure the air cells are the correct size. Then once you know, just keep doing the same thing.

I would start out, maybe using half the normal amount of water you normall use, & see if that makes a difference.

The afternoon that I put my eggs in the hatcher, I noticed the lid wasn't on right & the temp was 58. I just about had a heart attach. I couldn't figure how I didn't notice it. Then yesterday, my 4 year old granddaughter said to me:" Nana, yesterday, I peeked in to see the chickies that were hatching" mystery solved...she opened the lid & didn't put it back down correctly....after all that, the thatch was still ok, slow, but ok. Its always somethin.....

 

[stonykill]

for anyone in my area a fellow BYC'er works in the Chatham Blue Seal. For the life of me I can't remember her screen name. Anyway I introduced myself. By country standards we are neighbors. Only 5 miles separates our farms

 

[rancher hicks]

You need to check the air cells. Incubating in a styro is more difficult anyhow. Candle the eggs every week to make sure the air cells are the correct size. Then once you know, just keep doing the same thing.

I would start out, maybe using half the normal amount of water you normall use, & see if that makes a difference.

The afternoon that I put my eggs in the hatcher, I noticed the lid wasn't on right & the temp was 58. I just about had a heart attach. I couldn't figure how I didn't notice it. Then yesterday, my 4 year old granddaughter said to me:" Nana, yesterday, I peeked in to see the chickies that were hatching" mystery solved...she opened the lid & didn't put it back down correctly....after all that, the thatch was still ok, slow, but ok. Its always somethin.....

Well do keep us posted on how things go. If not well I have an offer.

I will be setting egg again soon. DW is leaving for the week so I'm waiting til she goes, so I don't have to listen to her ask me why I'm hatching more eggs.

 

[blzzrdqueen]

Of course you're welcome here. And if you work at it like others have you can get the powers that be to change the ordinances so you can have chickens.

Good luck with your hatch. I'll be it will inspire you to get those laws changed.

Rancher

Unfortunately, no one is fighting it anymore. I followed the whole thing pretty close and it seems a lot of people have stopped trying to get it changed because the Mayor refuses to budge

 

[rancher hicks]

Unfortunately, no one is fighting it anymore. I followed the whole thing pretty close and it seems a lot of people have stopped trying to get it changed because the Mayor refuses to budge

Have you applied for a variance? There are some web sites that can help in getting thing changed. It just takes some research.