NY chicken lover!!!!

[Cydney83]

Hello all. Western NY here. West of Rochester half an hour. I am doing chickens(meat) for the first time this year, can't wait. I also want to do turkeys but they are so expensive. Does anyone have any extras to sell? Also thinking about ducks. Thanks!
Pm me and i can give you my sisters infor. She has Pekin and Cayuga. Maybe call ducks. she is located south of buffalo about an hour. have a wonderful day.
Welcome to all the new folks!

 

[featherz]

Someone remind me NOT to hatch chicks in the winter next year. Just did the terminal clean on my 'chicken room with my N95 on and YUCK. No more brooding inside. I do say that every year, and every year I do it again. Temp hit 40, so chicks are outside in the growout coop. Woot!

 

[miquwid]

Someone remind me NOT to hatch chicks in the winter next year. Just did the terminal clean on my 'chicken room with my N95 on and YUCK. No more brooding inside. I do say that every year, and every year I do it again. Temp hit 40, so chicks are outside in the growout coop. Woot!

I will remind you! Yeah it's hard I don't want them inside anymore. I'm hoping one of my silkie girls will go broody next year so they can stay out of the house and I will solar heaters by then.

 

[rancher hicks]

Tab - glad you are feeling better.

featherz - smart move. No more brooding in my office. I had to take everything down and clean the books and the whole nine yards.

miquwid - sand sounds good. I'm considering dumping some in with the shavings to try to keep things from getting matted down. Especially in the runs.

Chicks - two more BM's hatched yesterday under a BM hen. I took them as she has more eggs to hatch, but one passed over night. It was a little small and looked off to me so I'm not surprised.

Gave away some chickens and got some nice Raspberry and chives plants in a unexpected trade. I can always use more plants and hopefully will get some berries for this freezer we bought. Someone on another thread sent me some Jostaberry cuttings too. Now if this weather would cooperate.

Have a nice day folks, places to go and people to annoy,

Rancher

 

[miquwid]

Thanks, you have a great day!

 

[County Boy]

amen to that. Extra roosters are delicious. My wife and I ate a mutt Sumatra/something LF earlier in the week. Not a large bird by any means. Cooked in a crock with vegies over potatoes it fed the 2 of us for 2 nights. And as Mr. Food used to say .....

Now I'm drooling. We used all are extra boys from last year up already.

 

[ChickPrincess]

I have a group of 15 chickens (14 pullets and 1 roo) to add to my flock of 27 (26 hens and 1 full grown roo). The littles are 7 weeks old and have been on their own side of the coop, fenced away from the others for a week.
When can I combine the two flocks? The littles have been visible to the older flock for the week without problems.
I also got rid of my top roo tonight... the naughty one who kept attacking me, so things should be a bit calmer (including me!).
When is a good age? Are they ready now?

Anyone?
I was hoping on letting them out this morning, but not sure if I should. The original flock is already out today. Are the 7 week olds too young yet?

 

[Lynzi777]

ChickPrincess - sorry I'm not really sure. If it were me I'd say go ahead and give it a try. I've already had my 5 wk old chicks out everyday in the yard with the others but I'm out there with them to make sure no one is pecking at my babies. ;-) they stay in the run other than that. They're still little tho. I guess it would all depend on the size of the 7wk olds compared to your original flock. I don't plan on moving the chicks permanently until they are bigger and can fend for themselves better. Sorry that wasn't much help

 

[Lapeerian]

No I never really figured it out. After taking sdudafed for 2 days I quit taking it. and at the end of tuesday my sinuses were clearing out. I think it was just a doozy of a cold. So how is that chick?

Hopefully the warmer weather is here to stay and we can say goodbye to colds and all the other ills. A stomach bug was going through daycare the week before, thankfully it wasn't widely shared although the teachers both end up with it.
The chick is surviving. Looks like death warmed over. Not dying and not thriving or improving. It is still eating and drinking a little, pooping. All skin and bones, only partially feathered in. Not sure what else to do for it. Sleeps a lot close to the heat lamp with its wings spread open. We have it in the house by itself in a guinea pig cage with a towel wrapped partially around to keep the heat in. All the other chicks are getting huge in the tank in the garage. New-to-me Eglu is all clean, so will put them out for some play time tomorrow while we are home. Time to harden off chicks and seedlings!

 

[Lynzi777]

Ugh! All this talk about broody hens/ducks I think Stella my lavender Orp is broody! Yesterday no one layed until late afternoon. I kept the chicks in the Silkie coop last night instead of the shed, and made everyone else go to the Orp coop. Well I never checked for eggs last night and this morning I let everyone out, checked the nestbox there was egg in one box and Stella in the other. I was petting her thinking maybe she's just getting ready to lay an egg, but when I reached under her to check for an egg she was sitting on two, one of Pearls Silkie eggs and an Orp egg from her or my sons hen. I'm waiting to see if she comes out after laying another but if she doesn't I might just let her go ahead and sit on them. I'm looking for more hens their size anyway. I'll just remove the Silkie egg.