NY chicken lover!!!!

[marquisella]

Reminder about the Finger Lakes Feather Club show June 5th. The entries should have been in by the 23rd, but they allow late entries....

Hope a lot of bycers come at least to watch. They will have sales cages there, and I will be bringing some Partridge Bantam Wyandotte started chicks, some Marans chicks, Wheaten Ameraucana chicks.

Even if you don't show, you can buy sale cages. They are $4 per cage, with a limit of 4 birds per cage. Just show up early. The show starts at 9am. at the Poultry Building atthe State Fair Grounds.

You cannot sell out of your car.

They have a 50/50 reaffle, chinese auction of bird, an another auction of a multitude of things.

Eggscartons.com is supposed to be there with things to sell, and they usually donate a lot to the chinese auctions. Last year I won an incubator, nesting box and a color copy of the APA Standard of Perfection, so its really worth it to come!

If you want to say hello, I will be at the Marans ChickenClub, usa Egg show table most of the day.

Stop by & say hello. If you have Marans eggs you would like to enter in the show, bring groups of 3 eggs and $5 per entry fee to the show before 10am.

We have a lot of fun!

 

[vmdanielsen]

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I have buckeyes!!!!! Got them from a breeder last fall. I was hoping to sell some of the offspring this year. BUT as we all know,what a snowy winter we had and that delayed my putting them in the breeding pen. So we got a late start. Then when I did move them to the pen, they all stopped laying! I am new at this and didn't count on this. One has started to lay again, hopefully the rest will follow. I may be able to sell some later in the year.....If anybody wants some. I can give you the name of the breeder,though I don't think that he is breeding them this year. He is outside Oneonta. Note my avitar...My 2 buckeye roosters. Handsome fellows and good guys to boot! I was hoping to replace the pictures with some fluffy butt babies but it will have to wait......

I did see someone in Garretsville..I think that was the name...I thought those were Buckeyes..but I am not a pro!...I am working on a trade right now...but will remember that you have them! Thanks so much! I so wish I had a huge coop!!!!

yes! yes! more specifically, it was garrettsville that I got mine from. I didn't think he was breeding them this year. they are great birds! Friendly without being needy. They are very talkative however.If you have close neighbors the neighbors will hear them.

 

[Cydney83]

Yup that was it...bad speller...I emailed them but never heard back...I hope to get some from a BYCer this week or next...just hope they hatch...I had 6 out of 13 go to lockdown but some just quit...and a few pipped and then died..so sad..I have two...yellowish one and a buff one...does that mean anything?...the color?

 

[vmdanielsen]

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buckeye chick pic! https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=271644&p=290

 

[vmdanielsen]

Cyd your box if full!
I live 20 miles east of Albany.
ginny

 

[Cydney83]

I saw that last night and then forgot! Thanks...still no word....

 

[Cass]

One of the Lavender Amerucana chicks died while I was at work today. I am sooooo sad.

I can't just throw it in the garbage, but it is too wet to bury it. I want to bury it by the duckling I lost last year.

I should have been more attentive....but lack of experience caused me to overlook the very first signs....I probably could have saved her if I had started treatment as soon as I got her home.

I am soooo sad. She was my favorite. I hope it gets easier to lose one once in a while, cuz if it doesn't I don't want to have chickens.

 

[featherz]

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What do you think it was?

 

[Cydney83]

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So sorry!

 

[Cass]

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What do you think it was?

Transportation from original breeder to person I bought it from and from her house, 3 hours in car, to my house all in less than 2 weeks. Stress. Possibly being crushed in one of the trips. In hindsight she never was right from the moment I put her in the brooder. She kept laying on her side and had a hard time staying awake. I had 2 that looked alike, so I can't say for sure that I ever saw her eat. It could have been the other one. Could be she is the one I put up to my face and I have cooties. I thought better of that and didn't do it with the other ones. I'm not ill, at the moment, but she was less than 2 weeks old, so even normal germs might have done it. My inexperience. I just don't know. The other three are healthy and running around in a space that is waaaaaaaaaay larger than 3 two week olds need.