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[Gramma Chick]

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Barski Brothers Farm Supply
3354 Depot Road
Auburn, NY 13021 - View Map
Phone: (315) 252-0761



Barski Brothers Farm Supply
A privately held company in Auburn, NY.

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[LuvMyChicks1491]

Speaking as someone in school right now, and the school sucks (they never applied the scholarship I won and forced me to pay thousands I didn't owe, they tricked my brother into signing a dorm contract for a year and not a semester and refuse to let him break contract even though someone else is taking and paying for his bed - he is literally not allowed to go to school this semester if he breaks contract, which he has to) I know how tough it can be. I'm now only going part time so that I can pay for school as I go and avoid loans after that first scholarship fiasco. It's going to take me longer, but I'm going to get there. I make sure to put aside a chunk of each paycheck every payday so I can slowly save up enough. This semester I will be a little short, so I'll take a payment plan, where they allow you to pay it in installments over the semester - by the end of the semester I'll have enough, I'm only a few hundred short. Is there any way she can do something like this? I know it takes longer this way but at least she'd still be going. Even if it's just one class a semester.

That is how I did it. We did the monthly installments. I hand a small scholarship when I first started and then lost it...then got it back after my grades got back up. We, as my parents and I ..mostly I.. paid it all that way I was lucky that if I didn't have all the money for a payment they would help me out. I managed to get almost all the way through 3 years without a loan till my last semester. I loved it when I sent in that last check and payed it off. I wish that I had finished my bachelors, (just 3 semesters short) but I got an offer that I couldn't refuse to work on a breeding farm in MD breeding black and white tobiano paints. Loved those horses...but then I moved back and now wish that I could go back to school to finish...Maybe when my son starts school. Only problem is there isn't that may jobs around here for it and at this point in my life I really don't want to relocate out of state. If I could find a local breeding farm then that might be different. But then again I could always go back to the track.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I go back to work. I've been able to stay home and raise our kids, but when our son starts school this fall I would like to go back to work at least part time but I don't know what I want to do. I know that I don't want to get back into marketing or the coffee business..I've been thinking about getting back on a farm...but I don't know yet

 

[Desiree Brown]

Anyone have any advice on where I can order spacific breed hatching eggs?? My son got an incubator for Christmas but then we lost our only roo :/

 

[rancher hicks]

That is how I did it. We did the monthly installments. I hand a small scholarship when I first started and then lost it...then got it back after my grades got back up. We, as my parents and I ..mostly I.. paid it all that way I was lucky that if I didn't have all the money for a payment they would help me out. I managed to get almost all the way through 3 years without a loan till my last semester. I loved it when I sent in that last check and payed it off. I wish that I had finished my bachelors, (just 3 semesters short) but I got an offer that I couldn't refuse to work on a breeding farm in MD breeding black and white tobiano paints. Loved those horses...but then I moved back and now wish that I could go back to school to finish...Maybe when my son starts school. Only problem is there isn't that may jobs around here for it and at this point in my life I really don't want to relocate out of state. If I could find a local breeding farm then that might be different. But then again I could always go back to the track.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I go back to work. I've been able to stay home and raise our kids, but when our son starts school this fall I would like to go back to work at least part time but I don't know what I want to do. I know that I don't want to get back into marketing or the coffee business..I've been thinking about getting back on a farm...but I don't know yet

What point is that? Do it while you are young. It gets harder when you're my age. Kids are flexible and will adjust.

If wishes were horse then beggars would ride. Make your bucket list and go from there.

My DD got her teaching degree and couldn't find a job here so she went online got a job in TX, Went on line found a place to live, when that place didn't work for her she went on line and found a better place.

She and her husband packed up their two cars with the cats and as much as they could carry put the rest in storage and hit the road. They had no furniture when they got there but made friends and bought used or got donated stuff. Now they have their son, bought a house and my son in law is in nursing school.

Where there's a will there's a way. Stop putting it off and do it. Good garden o' peas, there are people who have had to overcome higher hurdles.

I know you can do it.

 

[rancher hicks]

Anyone have any advice on where I can order spacific breed hatching eggs?? My son got an incubator for Christmas but then we lost our only roo

I wouldn't be to concerned about the breed starting off. Practice so when you find the breed that's right for you, you can do a good job hatching those.

You might check the local CL. You're too far from me or I'd give you some to play with. Do not pay for eggs starting out. Ask for a donation.

Mutt eggs or something else may work. Also I've hear tell of folks who've hatched eggs bought at Trader Joes, so fertilized eggs from the store may work.

The key is to have fun.

I wish you well,

Rancher

 

[Desiree Brown]

My game plan was to hatch our hens eggs in our incubator. My son has been trying for 3 years to get the two breeds he wants to breed but something always happens to our roo. Maybe I should have a back up roo. ( he has nn hens and he wants to breed them with a Silkie or a polish). Right now my obsession with chickens is being filled by helping him with his obsession lol. My younger son has been inspired to try to raise his favorit breeds. So maybe ill buy him his day old chicks and find a roo for my older son.
Anyone have a white Silkie roo or a polish roo in the duanesburg/schoharie area?

 

[Lynzi777]

My game plan was to hatch our hens eggs in our incubator. My son has been trying for 3 years to get the two breeds he wants to breed but something always happens to our roo. Maybe I should have a back up roo. ( he has nn hens and he wants to breed them with a Silkie or a polish). Right now my obsession with chickens is being filled by helping him with his obsession lol. My younger son has been inspired to try to raise his favorit breeds. So maybe ill buy him his day old chicks and find a roo for my older son.
Anyone have a white Silkie roo or a polish roo in the duanesburg/schoharie area?

Not a white one, but ke5hde just mentioned last night that he has 2 blue silkie roos he's looking to rehome I believe. However we are about 2 hours from you. Unless you knew of anyone in this area coming your way for anything...

 

[rancher hicks]

My game plan was to hatch our hens eggs in our incubator. My son has been trying for 3 years to get the two breeds he wants to breed but something always happens to our roo. Maybe I should have a back up roo. ( he has nn hens and he wants to breed them with a Silkie or a polish). Right now my obsession with chickens is being filled by helping him with his obsession lol. My younger son has been inspired to try to raise his favorit breeds. So maybe ill buy him his day old chicks and find a roo for my older son.
Anyone have a white Silkie roo or a polish roo in the duanesburg/schoharie area?

You should try to keep at least two roos' if you can.

 

[Lynzi777]

I really wish it would hurry up and get warmer out so I can start working on the placement of these coops.

I've also decided to take two of my TS rabbit hutches and transform them into a large chicken coop for my trio of Orps. Not so large, but larger than what I was originally planning on keeping them in. I can't wait to start working on it now that I've drawn out all the plans and such. Shouldn't need too many extras from Lowes, just some lumber for the flooring and to help keep it together securely. Oh and I a roof too.

 

[why do birds]

That is how I did it. We did the monthly installments. I hand a small scholarship when I first started and then lost it...then got it back after my grades got back up. We, as my parents and I ..mostly I.. paid it all that way I was lucky that if I didn't have all the money for a payment they would help me out. I managed to get almost all the way through 3 years without a loan till my last semester. I loved it when I sent in that last check and payed it off. I wish that I had finished my bachelors, (just 3 semesters short) but I got an offer that I couldn't refuse to work on a breeding farm in MD breeding black and white tobiano paints. Loved those horses...but then I moved back and now wish that I could go back to school to finish...Maybe when my son starts school. Only problem is there isn't that may jobs around here for it and at this point in my life I really don't want to relocate out of state. If I could find a local breeding farm then that might be different. But then again I could always go back to the track.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I go back to work. I've been able to stay home and raise our kids, but when our son starts school this fall I would like to go back to work at least part time but I don't know what I want to do. I know that I don't want to get back into marketing or the coffee business..I've been thinking about getting back on a farm...but I don't know yet

Have you tried the online path? Especially if it's only for 3 more classes? The other thing to consider are the private colleges. Have you contacted any of the IVY league schools? They offer free/no tuition for those making less than about $80,000/year, or if you are able to still go under your parents it's higher, $120,000.00 combined or something like that. We all go to private colleges, generally their scholarship funds are much more generous than state colleges and they often have excellent connections for job opportunities. Once one family member gets into a private college, they are an alumni and they have a little more pull in helping other family members get in to that private college "system". Funding can be a challenge but the higher ticket schools often have more arenas to draw from than state schools. The IVY's have some pretty successful alumni, so these alumni give back to their school, to make more successful alumni. My oldest asked me what I would want if he became successful. I told him to always remember who allowed him to develop that success and give back to the school, so that another student has the same chance that he did. Best of luck!