NY chicken lover!!!!

[Tough Old Bird]

hello I'm an hour south of Buffalo NY in Forestville. I love that video of the two chicks dust bathing right above me. I'm gonna have to get give mine some dirt when I get some. Atm trying to find supplys to build a coop.

Welcome to the NY "Coop" !!

TOB

 

[Tough Old Bird]

yes I do. Keeping chickens as naturally as possible sure beats loading them with chemicals to "treat" them

RE: Cider - needs to have "mothers", correct? Do you put a bit in their daily water source, or is this a periodical thing?

Thanks, Stony.


TOB

 

[mderby48]

I didn't even know chickens could get worms until recently. I've been putting ACV in their water once a week for a few weeks now just to try to prevent them. My hens even starting laying more after, coincidence? Maybe, it is that time of year but I will keep using it anyway. I didn't use the kind with mother in it. I read that it works better but without works too.

 

[rancher hicks]

hello I'm an hour south of Buffalo NY in Forestville. I love that video of the two chicks dust bathing right above me. I'm gonna have to get give mine some dirt when I get some. Atm trying to find supplys to build a coop.

There are all kinds of designs. Some very nice and imaginative. Lots of recycled things turned into coops. Read one article years ago where a guy in NYC turned a dresser that he got of the street into a coop for three hens.

I do like to hit up HD for culled lumber. Found a nice crate on CL once too. As long as you can secure it from predators there are lots of things.

I wish you well,

Rancher

 

[rancher hicks]

Mderby--my concolences.

Rancher--that was just your way of weaseling out of cooking. Always a man with a plan!

Stony---cant say as I have ever had those.

My conscience bothered me so I deleted it. The getting drunk part. It was a joke. I am Irish but I don't drink. Alcoholism is so prevalent in our family it's written on our birth certificates. I can't walk into a bar, that it isn't like walking into a family reunion.

 

[stonykill]

yes TOB. Mothers is needed. Although I know people who use the stuff without mothers and seem to do ok. Buried somewhere in this thread is a "recipe" for making your own AVC with mothers.

Rancher, I don't drink either. Not in a long time. Drinking killed most, heck all of the men on my bio fathers side of the family. But funny is funny

 

[sparrker]

Anyone know where I can find Midget white turkey chicks or fertile eggs locally?

 

[Aria]

We do what Stony does. We have had chickens for a
few years but we had Call Ducks for 15 years.

They need food water and all that Stony says
and they are fine with us. I will say Chickens are much
easier for us. DUCKS are too MESSY.

 

[Henicillin]

The duckehs are laying again. Their egg fans will be thrilled!

 

[happyhensny]

hello I'm an hour south of Buffalo NY in Forestville. I love that video of the two chicks dust bathing right above me. I'm gonna have to get give mine some dirt when I get some. Atm trying to find supplys to build a coop.

Welcome to the forum I am in Hamburg just north of you. I have had good luck finding wood to use on big trash days to help build my coops.

We do what Stony does. We have had chickens for a few years but we had Call Ducks for 15 years. They need food water and all that Stony says and they are fine with us. I will say Chickens are much easier for us. DUCKS are too MESSY.

Yes, duckehs love the water. it really isn't their fault. Just quite messy, like a two-year-old and a toilet.

The duckehs are laying again. Their egg fans will be thrilled!

Yeah! Hoping I will have eggs by the end of summer from our Khakis.