NY chicken lover!!!!

[Tough Old Bird]

sounds like you need a cat out there

Gramma,

My husband is not a "cat person." He says that because we had cats our first 17 years of marriage (the last one passed away a few years back), the NEXT 17 are cat-free.

I've flirted with the idea of adding a Buckhorn hen or two, but I'm always leery of adding birds for fear of bringing in illness to my little flock.

TOB

 

[sarahandbray]

All of my chickens are almost 9-weeks-old at this point. Most I got from McMurray hatchery but I did order 15 chicks from Chicken Scratch Poultry--5 of which were Lavender Orpingtons. I kept one Roo and the three hens, which are supposedly the HinkJC line, so I'll probably just keep them all in a pen when they mature and collect the eggs, hoping for a broody hen. I wonder how young hens go broody? We have 11 different breeds, so hoping one of the ladies would like to be an adoptive mom!

The breeds I would like to work on would be Silver Laced Wyandottes and various Orpingtons--having an easier time locating nice, fluffy Orps and a tougher time getting local SLWs. Oh well...
Sarah

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

We are going through a lot right now. Just found a leak in the roof.

Not sure how we'll get the money to fix that.

Depending on how big the leak is you could try a can of that Flex Seal spray. A can of it is under $15 and it might be able to patch it for now till you can afford a better fix. Just a thought?

My husband is not a "cat person." He says that because we had cats our first 17 years of marriage (the last one passed away a few years back), the NEXT 17 are cat-free.

TOB

Love it!

 

[rancher hicks]

Depending on how big the leak is you could try a can of that Flex Seal spray. A can of it is under $15 and it might be able to patch it for now till you can afford a better fix. Just a thought?

Love it!

Funny you should mention that because I have a can and thought perhaps the same thing. Just to get us through the winter. We had a tree fall this past spring but it didn't seem to land on the roof. I put a bucket under it for now and will have my son in law get up there to have a look.

In a perfect world we'd have the money to put a dormer up there so a second bath could be put in. We'll just keep trusting the Lord as usual. It's easy to trust God when all is well, but you never really know how much you trust him until you're in the fire.

 

[rancher hicks]

thats to bad. I'm all the way in oswego, north of syracuse. To long a drive for me.

I'm just down the pike from you off 481. If you need a roo I've got an EE youngster you can have.

I had him in a box when a couple came to take a bunch but I forgot to give him to them. We came back from picking apples and there was the box. Sat there all day poor thing. He's fine of course and I put him in the coop with Big Delores and her gang.

Well the short version is I picked him up and held him for a bit and he's taken to me and now follows me around. I picked him up and carried him with me as I did the evening chores too. I call him Robbie. I've no doubt a few more times holding him and he'll be a nice guy. I was feeding him by hand last night. He's still got some growing up to do though and will need to be on grower for a bit longer.

He's yours for the picking up if you want him. We sometimes go to B&N on 31 but lately have no car.

That too needs repair. $1,000 we don't have. If my son in law gets paid from his jobs we may have it back for the week end.

 

[marquisella]

Quote: I sold my lav orps. Needed room for the geese & ducks. The lav orp market is pretty well saturated now, and I expect by spring, everybody & their brother will be selling them cheap.

 

[rancher hicks]

I sold my lav orps. Needed room for the geese & ducks. The lav orp market is pretty well saturated now, and I expect by spring, everybody & their brother will be selling them cheap.

Shouldn't that be, cheap, cheap, cheap?

Mine weren't the best layers but I think it may be the part of the coop they were in, cuz the C. Rocks aren't either. I think I need to put a window or two in.

Fact is some breeds are pretty but the utility is not there.

 

[sarahandbray]

How does the Wyandotte market look? Because that's the other type of bird I was hoping to buy 20ish of and keep maybe 1/2.
Silver Laced Wyandotte or Red Laced Blue Wyandotte.
I'm not at the point where I would be a breeder--but I wouldn't mind raising a bunch to 8 weeks or so and then selling them. I like that baby-brooder part!
--Sarah

 

[Lapeerian]

Quote:
Tab and Trav have some Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, and maybe Sonew sold her flock off this spring? Other than that, decent local Wyandottes seem to be few. I got 3 GLW from a girl in Morrisville 2 years ago, end up 2 roos and a hen with straight comb. I still have the 1 roo as my main man, not perfect body type but a good boy. Hen was an excellent layer, so more utility type than show birds. Same girl had SLW this spring but never got back to me if I could buy any. WNY Egger just got a bunch of Wyandotte chicks, think that was hatchery ordered.

 

[Glasshen]

In the mouse stories, this morning one panicked and fled the straw in a dog crate near the basement door and went to hide under the mower deck. That one is way too stupid to survive.