NY chicken lover!!!!

[horsekeeper]

No matter where you buy your birds you will have to work with them. Just go to the best breeder you can afford. You can't really go by the pictures shown.

Agree 100%. There is a really good posting on the Jersey Giant board about when chickens go from being from a breeder and become your own. It is suggested that you give credit to the original breeder for giving you a start with stock, but after a few generations you have put your own interpretation on the breed. People inquire about certain breeding lines know for certain characteristics within the breed, but once it is yours and you start keeping and culling, it can no longer be considered the same as the original breeder's birds.

As Rancher said, even chicks or eggs from a good breeder are likely to have some culls. That's my problem

I can pick out good healthy robust looking individuals, but they might not meet the SOP because I am not familiar with tail angle, eye color, disqualifications, etc. Just know I have a well put together bird that lays well enough to make me happy and produces a tasty dinner when I have to thin out the flock.

From what I read online it seems that many find a mentor to help them make good choices to improve their flock. Tough to do when there is no one close who raises your breed and wants to take the time to help.

 

[Beer can]

Get the full list and pore over it a bit before you decide.
Don't worry too much about darker feathers for processing.

It will be spring before I order so that gives me some time to research further.
Ive never been bothered by dark breeds for processing, just heard white ones dress out nicer. The main reason for going with whites is I think they are less common, not very many big hatcheries even offer the whites. I did planed on blacks, but read a old thread of a guy who was looking for heritage bred whites, and wanted to preserve them to their original standards, and that leaned me toward the whites.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

One of my eggs hatched today!!! My first successful Magpie egg hatch! I had a few eggs under the last broody, but they didn't make it. This one is doing good. Looks like it is going to be a black with a large crest. So excited. Can't wait for the rest to hatch!!

 

[Gramma Chick]

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Yes Tomorrow 9 am - 3pm

 

[Gramma Chick]

One of my eggs hatched today!!! My first successful Magpie egg hatch! I had a few eggs under the last broody, but they didn't make it. This one is doing good. Looks like it is going to be a black with a large crest. So excited. Can't wait for the rest to hatch!!



Cute ! I thought it was a chicken at first ...

My New Chickens


Sugar & Creamer set ...

 

[Gramma Chick]

Its Food Time ...this is the view up ...when Im down cellar getting food



A Waiting ...Welcoming Committee

 

[ke5hde]

Wanted to remind all of the show this Sunday. Should be a nice show. Will be my first one excited to go.


OCTOBER 19TH- SUNDAY. 




COME ONE!  COME ALL!

YANKEE FALL CLASSIC

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Show Hours: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Free Admission

Poultry Building

New York State Fair Grounds,  Syracuse, New York

Sales Coops: $4.00 per sale cage - 4 birds total per cage 

No outside sales - NYS regulation 

Questions?  

contact John Pierce 315-492-1974

They do take late entry!

Danielle and I will be there. Look for us in the Cochin isle. We're only bringing 3 since everyone else decided to molt.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Danielle and I will be there. Look for us in the Cochin isle. We're only bringing 3 since everyone else decided to molt.

Nice to see you & Danielle again ..And Tab & Travis & the Girls ...the baby is getting so bigg....cute as a button .
Met Some New to me people today also ...
Had a good time ...but it was freezing cold ...So gratful for the food stand next door that had HOT Coffee .
all the Doors were open in the poultry building like it was 90 degrees outside ..BBRRRrrr

 

[featherz]

Sorry I haven't been on much - went and got my cat irradiated for his thyroid, had to replace a bunch of high $$ crap at the house (septic, well, furnace - ouch!)..

The hawks have been brutal here this year - they got my tiny little hen from CB the other day and within 10 minutes of my deciding to give them a little 'out' time they almost got my little araucana BB. She ran for the electric fence and and got stuck. I was able to free her and lock everyone else up under netting, and that's where they stay except for maybe an hour before roosting when I'm out there. /sigh. The hawks were just perched all around our yard, as bold as can be. Seems like they are worse on cloudy days, oddly enough.

 

[Lynzi777]

Morning All!
Thanks for sending the cold weather to CT! ;-) Brisk 27 degrees here this morning. Yesterday it was beautiful out, 50's? Talked to my friend yesterday who lives up in the mountains in Tully and she told me it was snowing up there yesterday morning! Crazy