NY chicken lover!!!!

[marquisella]

Quote: Don't you have to prove you tax free like other places
They should have asked you for a tax number. It may come back to bite you.

 

[rancher hicks]

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heard about them for
Over 20 years and no one has anything Good to say about them. They are difficult to erect directions are bad and they are blown down easily without a lot of changes. Just google them to see all the bad comments. I think there is a yahoo group dedicated to them.

That's why I say the suck. I tried weighting it down with heavy pots and it's just blew right over. Had it up against the back of the house and it still fell over. The wind catches under it at the bottom and blows the cover off like a kite.

I got mine at TSC for $20. Thought it was a good deal. Not for the hassle it's been. Only one year did I get a decent use of it.

I'm considering attaching it to my chainlink fence. I really need to research green house gardening. This thing gets to hot and needs monitoring EVERYDAY. It's hard to regulate the temp.

Harbor Freight does have heavy duty tarps though.

 

[why do birds]

Don't you have to prove you tax free like other places

If you're a farm, you only have to tell harbor freight and TSC and they'll do the tax free. We always use our business credit cards, and our accountant maintains our tax free ID numbers. DH has a paper to hand them if necessary.

We spoke with the farmers market representative and are permitted to make bread and pies and cookies. So it' looks like those eggs will be going into polish Babka's, polish cookies, and I need to figure out how to make pies. We are allowed to sell eggs from our chickens, and I suppose if there's leftover eggs we can do this but Polish baking takes a lot of eggs and I think it may be a bit more financially viable than sales by the dozen, uncooked.

We can get clothes, boots, shovels, etc. for the farm. We got tax free mulch from Lowes to plant 15 apple trees in our orchard. Our farm is incorporated. I also have another corporation from out of state. You have to file a K-1 form for each business profit/loss for the taxes at the end of the year. We maintain running records. We are also supposed to receive a barn restoration tax credit from both the Federal Tax and NY State Tax returns. I went through NYS Dept. of Parks and Recreation for that one. Poor guy, I sent him a pile of photos of our barn. He was nice to sign the paperwork for us in a timely manner as repairs needed to be made immediately.

 

[why do birds]

Fresh Eggs!
It's watermelon season! They love it!

Lynzii, these are our indoor chickens! We use the back hall and a TSC coop for these 3 little bantams. They are happy birds. I change the coop droppings about once a week. The door opens to the outside and they have fresh air all day. I close the door at night. Some in the city have birds in their basement, or a different area of the house because technically it isn't permitted. Maybe you can keep a few of yours when you move? I did tell our neighbors that we have a rooster and if he disturbs them, too loud, to please let us know and we'll relocate him to a more interior location. So far another neighbor has a roo, and we've had no complaints. Our neighbors are good here though. They like animals, and are good to tell you directly if there is a problem.

 

[rancher hicks]

If you're a farm, you only have to tell harbor freight and TSC and they'll do the tax free. We always use our business credit cards, and our accountant maintains our tax free ID numbers. DH has a paper to hand them if necessary.

We spoke with the farmers market representative and are permitted to make bread and pies and cookies. So it' looks like those eggs will be going into polish Babka's, polish cookies, and I need to figure out how to make pies. We are allowed to sell eggs from our chickens, and I suppose if there's leftover eggs we can do this but Polish baking takes a lot of eggs and I think it may be a bit more financially viable than sales by the dozen, uncooked.

We can get clothes, boots, shovels, etc. for the farm. We got tax free mulch from Lowes to plant 15 apple trees in our orchard. Our farm is incorporated. I also have another corporation from out of state. You have to file a K-1 form for each business profit/loss for the taxes at the end of the year. We maintain running records. We are also supposed to receive a barn restoration tax credit from both the Federal Tax and NY State Tax returns. I went through NYS Dept. of Parks and Recreation for that one. Poor guy, I sent him a pile of photos of our barn. He was nice to sign the paperwork for us in a timely manner as repairs needed to be made immediately.

I'm not registered as a farm, though the paperwork I filed says I don't have to be.

I don't sell a lot of eggs, but I am trying to build a Hobby Farm to some degree. Which market do you go too? I hit the Regional Farmers Market here often.

When I was younger the slaughter house was right next door. It was not unusual to see live animals at the market.

I wish more folks would restore their barns instead of tearing them down.

DW is Polish and we buy Babka. She doesn't like the raisins. I do and eat the whole loaf myself. She also makes Kapusta, which I loathe. Our Christmas even dinner is the tradition of her family. I do like Perogis the potato not the Saurkruat.

 

[Lynzi777]

Sorry Why Do, but there will be no chickens living inside my home! Lol I can't even stand raising chicks inside once they're more than a week or 2 old, never mind a bird over 6wks old!

 

[dragonlord483]

At tsc they always ask for the tax I'd number but we don't qualify not enough land at least that what I heard need like 5.5 acres only got 2

 

[armorfirelady]

http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/st/st125.pdf

Here is a link that a friend gave me about buying stuff tax free. I haven't used it but I am going to check it out with tax preparer to see if I can use it without causing problems

 

[Kinmera]

So I have had 4 die total: ( I'm going to hold off on reordering because I don't know if it was any males that died. My kids are taking it well. I told them even before they arrived that some may die. I will post pictures later

Which breeds died, do you know?
Remember you have local options too. By spring, I'll not only have the white and partridge rocks, l'll have BBWS orpingtons, and if I'm lucky some marans I got as part of an egg swap. I plan on putting the maran Roos in with my layers to darken up the eggs over time. Eventually my laying flock will be a barnyard mix of my breeding culls

 

[Tough Old Bird]

Helloooo everyone! A long overdue summer greeting from Tough Old Bird. It's been a VERY busy summer, lots of traveling about and one boy still in summer league baseball.

Chickies are all doing fine, but I do still have to keep Gertie confined to her large dog kennel cage within the coop when I am not able to supervise "together" time. She has not regrown her neck feathers, sadly. Finally broke my two broodies by keeping them in the sacrifice pen the entire day and putting them (by hand) up on the roost after dark. They have just started laying again as of the past few days. It was a huge battle of wills.

Today, I freshened the coop, mucked out the two pens and freshened them as well. Sweat-city, I'll tell you!

Hope everybody is doing OK and enjoying a good, safe and happy summer. I am so sorry if I've missed anyone's significant news of any kind; have just been so incredibly busy and the days are flying.

Rancher, I hope your wife is feeling stronger these past few weeks.

Lynzi, are you actually moving?

Best to everyone!


TOB