NY chicken lover!!!!

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

I'm not able to get on here in a few days and boom over 200 posts.
This week has been a crazy one for me. Tuesday had my sonogram (having another girl), Wednesday had an OB appointment, Thursday NPIP testing and a trip to pediatrician, Friday brahmapapa eggs from post office and prep stuff for chickenstock, and yesterday go to chickenstock in Onchiota. Today we're off to the chicken show at the state fair grounds. I'm ready for a lounge chair and fruity ice drink. Oh and a flaky pastry sounds good too!

Just wanted to say:

Welcome Vodkalady

Goodluck Nutty

And sorry or best wishes to those who need it since I'm not going to read all 200 posts I missed.

Tab congrats on another little girl wish I would have known about the chicken show might have dragged hubby out there for it, and thank you definitely need all the luck I can get

Pyxis- sorry to hear about more troubles with dogs. That stinks. But like you said hopefully that will be last time you see that pup after your convo with its owner.

Nutty - I've heard lots of good things about the Brinsea. Haven't done much research on the Hovabator to know anything about it.

I have a Brinsea but it is first time using it so can't relate it to anything have heard lots of good things about both of them but who knows am trying to con the hubby into letting me get both told him if he wants ducks they have to go in incubator all by themselves I have almost got him won over LOL!

I can't catch up again. 304 posts. I just don't have the time.
Knock on wood, we haven't seen the fox here again, but we had dinner guests last weekend and they said they saw the fox running toward our house about 1/4 mile away. I took the advice of a chicken farmer (the teacher next door to my classroom) and I am keeping a radio on a talk show all day. It's on some sports news station, so it has been mostly male voices.

The fingerlakes auction is next weekend and I will most likely bring our last australorp roo. He has been better with me, but has gone after my 12 year old daughter twice now. He also has some of the hens looking so raggedy, it's not funny. One hen who's barebacked now has some kind of cyst growing on her skin. He's got to go. I have a little tetra tint roo that has just begun to crow. For now, he'll be taking over even though he's only 10 weeks old.

I have another broody! Blondie never became broody again. This one is a black australorp that I originally got from Nature Berry Farms (I got her and Blondie together). She has been on the nest like glue for 3 days now, so I gave her 4 australorp eggs yesterday.

Stupid question, but since other hens will surely lay eggs in her nest, does it disturb her too much to remove those other eggs every night? I have her 4 eggs marked with sharpie so I can quickly spot them. My mother-in-law insists I can't do that because I will accidentally turn her good eggs and could kill them. Thoughts?

I have a radio in my coops as my next door neighbor who has had chickens for years says it keep the racoons and foxes away.

I'm sitting in front of the A/C so I'll take a sec to type my thoughts on listening to your MIL regarding ANYTHING. LOL

If you do not take the eggs the other chickens lay in the nest your hen is broody in she will not be able to turn them and they will not all hatch. (Mark the ones you want to hatch however, so you don't remove one of them by mistake. Ewww, when you crack that one open some morning)

Case in point---friend of a friend had hen sitting on 27 eggs. Yeah, she really did. Only 9 of them hatched. I can only speculate as to why that happened, but I don't think a TURKEY could cover 27 eggs and keep them all warm, turned and spread out so they can actually crack the shell and get out of it without having another egg roll on top of them. So there you have it. Too many eggs under a broody does not make for higher hatch numbers.

Now the act of actually removing those extra eggs daily? Wear gloves. Or armor. LOL I have one wonderful broody that trusts me to watch her eggs when she goes out to stretch and poop. That's when I grab the extra eggs. The other broodies I have had I either wear gloves or use something (like a towel) to keep their head from getting around and taking out pieces of flesh.

Gee almost make me not want a chicken to go broody oh well will got me some good thick gloves so will just wear them if any of them go broody.

 

[Lynzi777]

Tab, congrats on Girl #3!

 

[NookNook01]

Ugh.. Well, the one baby, two mamas thing did NOT work out. I am having the worst luck this year. I think I have a cannibal chicken and not sure who it is. Probably the white leghorn who squashed the babies. I never separate my moms and babies and they do fine every year but not this one!

Problem is, no room for separation. My one chick with two mamas was found pecked to death today and mamas are still wandering around clucking and finding food for it. Argh! I have chicks today, but I don't know if they will accept them. Going to have to ponder on this one a bit, I think, as there's no room to put broodies and chicks separate. Hmm.

ETA: Ok, I made room in the barn. Put two nestboxes I got from javagirl in there, food and water and a chicken wire separator. now time to play musical chickens.. broodies in the barn, teens move to the coops next week, etc. Only my good broodies get a barn spot . Let's see if that works.

Going to put two hens sitting on eggs (together) in the barn. Anyone think the two broodies who lost a days old chick would take a younger one? or will they not accept anything but 'that baby' since they had already started taking it around outside?

I'm a newbie to the whole broody/chick thing, when I took my borrowed chicks my broody hatched away and substituted a few of my 2 1/2 week old Chix she rejected them. Buuuuut when I put the 4 week olds out in the mini coop she wouldn't leave their side. So there is no rhyme or reason to a broody and her choices. I bet she'd do fine with the wee ones. Just keep an eye on em and Good Luck!!!

 

[Lynzi777]

Egg development is moving along nicely from eggs in the Little Giant!!! Looks like the temp mishaps didn't affect them too much.

 

[Breella]

I got most of my coop run assembled between rain showers today! No roof yet, but fencing up and door mostly assembled.

 

[Pyxis]

Aww I'm so sorry pyx. =( I have chicks hatching right now if you need any! Not sure what I will get, but three are out so far.

Thanks Let me know if you have any NN hatch that you want to sell - I'd take them in a heartbeat

 

[Lynzi777]

Does it mean anything if out of the three KC ducks I have one's beak is more greenish than the other two whose are more brown?

 

[featherz]

Thanks

Let me know if you have any NN hatch that you want to sell - I'd take them in a heartbeat

Not yet, so far all my NN were savaged or squashed. I think I may just raise the hatchings I am hatching today rather than risking any more deaths. All my chickens roam together and I don't know who the chick killer is. I'll just wait out the broodies - I feel bad for my dual mamas that lost their baby, but not willing to risk another chick.

On the good side, I have 18 chicks so far! 16 of those are from county boy eggs.. and there's at least one more pip with a possible more seven eggs. They are so cute!! My 10 older CB chicks from the last hatch are gorgeous - I've named the little rooster "nugget". I'll have to get a pic.

 

[rancher hicks]

Not yet, so far all my NN were savaged or squashed. I think I may just raise the hatchings I am hatching today rather than risking any more deaths. All my chickens roam together and I don't know who the chick killer is. I'll just wait out the broodies - I feel bad for my dual mamas that lost their baby, but not willing to risk another chick.

On the good side, I have 18 chicks so far! 16 of those are from county boy eggs.. and there's at least one more pip with a possible more seven eggs. They are so cute!! My 10 older CB chicks from the last hatch are gorgeous - I've named the little rooster "nugget". I'll have to get a pic.

Had an orp hatch one yesterday but took it because she left the nest with the one, abandoned four eggs and one of the CR's pecked at it. I was afraid it would get killed.

Not my Dels though. Two little ones running around with the rooster and all the other girls. I love my Dels. I have a hen in there sitting on lord knows how many eggs. I may take a few and move them to another box. I find Buckwheat in there each day. Not sure if she's laying an egg or taking over. She did hatch a few earlier this year.

 

[County Boy]

I got some new pics of the Cochins- Remington


Peppermint



Bruce


Abbie


Lynne


Georgia- my best LF hen as far as type goes


Ace- Featherz gave him back to me


Ace's little sister