NY chicken lover!!!!

[Lynzi777]

Those chicks that are perfect sized now will grow in the next 3 weeks and will be towering over the newly hatched chick. The new chick will be trampled and pecked by the older chicks that are much more advanced. And feathering out at different times.

3wks!?! This chick is due to hatch this coming week! Lol Of the 7 chicks I have now 3 are much smaller than the other 4 so those are the three that I plan to put this new chick with. At least one of them anyway.

 

[farmgirl02]

Great to have you as a member!!!

 

[huntin fool]

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welcome farm girl!

 

[JLaw]

So my yard has like all water and grass except a 20x10 patch of snow/slush about 2-4 inches deep. The chickens fly over it they don't want to touch the snow they are such babies. My rooster mans up and just walks over it. It was just so funny cause I was tossing scratch down on ground and had back to coop next think I know I'm being bombed by chickens flying around. So then I walk to other side of it and put 10 feet of snow between us and start calling them and tossing more scratch and they fly again. One didn't make it all the way across but she only landed for .5 seconds and was gone again in the air.

Welcome farm girl.

 

[Lynzi777]

ALL of our snow is gone from all the rain last night and warm weather. Can't believe how warm it is out there. Of course I never got around to covering that window last night so the coop is soaked. Going to shovel out most of that today and replace with dry. AGAIN! Bad chicken mama! If it wasn't so muddy out there I'd try to turn the coop completely around so that window is up against the house. I need DH to help me with that chore though. Maybe tomorrow on his day off.

 

[Tough Old Bird]

I made Chicken Pie for supper ! Yummie ! I am so stuffed !

Oh my.........

Betcha that was GOOOOOD.


TOB

 

[cracrzy4chicks]

Thanks everyone. Tomorrow DH will dig a hole with the tractor, I don't know how to dig yet, but until then Phoebe's remains are in a bucket under my porch. I didn't want them to draw predators to the coop/pen area. I was somewhat pleased that I was able to put her in the bucket, maybe I'm toughening up.

Guess that I need to have more safe places for them. The rose bushes, lilac and pussywillow are not much cover in the winter. Perhaps netting next year...

I wonder how it would have gone if I had kept the other rooster? He was a silver americauna, and in the fight for dominance he was winning. But he used to give me looks that made me think we would have problems with each other eventually. DH says maybe we need a great Pyrenese...to live outside. Dollar signs in fencing. I guess it will all settle down in time.

All my roos have been great watch dogs of their girls. Although I've never had one step up to fight a predator. All my losses have been to hawks. The best roos I had were little spitzhauben/bantam cochin mutts. I had a pair in my flock of about 30 birds. One would watch for danger while the other ate with the girls, then they would switch. While they were free ranging, both boys would always be on watch to give the "DANGER" call, so girls could hide

Same here. It is a tough choice but I think the Orps will have to go once I get more CR eggs and hatch those out. The orps look very nice but I have to choose.

Too, I think I'd rather have Blue Wyandottes.

I hear ya rancher i was just sitting here thinking i need to get rid of all the random breeds i have and pick 1-3 breeds. I think barred rocks black ameraucana and golden cukoo marans is what i want. I need more marans from tab though.

Seems like a lot of us are trying to decide on specific breeds to keep. I have my mixed flock for my egg customers. My 2nd little flock are my Australorps, I just love them ! They are calm BIG, black beautiful birds. I've been trying for 2 years now to start a flock of Speckled Sussex, they are eye candy. The first year I had about 2 dozen growing out ( beautiful friendly little buggers ) and I lost them in my barn fire

. This past summer I had great luck hatching shipped SS eggs but, ..................................................out of 12 eggs only got 1 pullet and the rest were roos

SO, I'm going to try again this spring with the SS. I also have a little flock of BLRW's which is a mix of birds from Tab & Marquesella. IF I ever get the Speckled Sussex started, I'm thinking the BLRW will go.

 

[Tough Old Bird]

When I was little and was walking around the poultry building at the fair, The Phyllis Diller chickens were always my grandma and my favorites!...I may have to get a few some day.

Yum!

How perfect!!!!!!!!!!

TOB

 

[Tough Old Bird]

I've already cleaned out the chicken coop twice this winter. So much for the deep litter method!

I'd rather take out the dampness then to add more shavings to it. And if we're getting rain I better find a way to cover up that window that is open on one side. Last time it rained the wind must have blown a good amount of the rain into the coop because it was soaked the next day! I had to remove everything out of there and replace it with dry shavings.

LYNZI -

Me, too! I am in the same exact boat. If I want to leave the big door (or window) open on the south side of the coop for light, then when we have a warm up like this, the rain and damp penetrate too much and the litter just loses all its fluff factor. I had one or two tiny spots of frostbite on a few of the birds' combs last week.

Anyway, I'm going thru shavings at a faster clip than I had anticipated with my "deep litter method" also!

TOB

 

[cracrzy4chicks]

HEY NY'ers would anyone one be interested in listing what breeds you have available for hatching eggs/chicks ??

I'll start : craczy4chicks - Australorps & Blue Laced Red Wyandottes & EE's