NY chicken lover!!!!

[AQHAchick22]

It took four people and 45 minutes but all four SS hens have been caught! They are on their way to my friend's farm in Petersburgh (on the border of VT). I hope I get some free eggs out of this deal.

Great news! Glad you caught them!
Now if your neighbor comes back looking for them you can just tell him that they stopped coming over.

 

[wny egger]

It took four people and 45 minutes but all four SS hens have been caught! They are on their way to my friend's farm in Petersburgh (on the border of VT). I hope I get some free eggs out of this deal.

good for you ..hope you enjoyed your time here with us and maybe stick around or stop in to say hello..its been an adventure for you i bet ..and other then your yard getting some of the best ferts money can buy i think you may have exscaped harmed.lol..unless the chicken bug ,bites are deeper then you can handle and you end up with your own flock someday ..good luck either way ..

 

[Pyxis]

It took four people and 45 minutes but all four SS hens have been caught! They are on their way to my friend's farm in Petersburgh (on the border of VT). I hope I get some free eggs out of this deal.

Great! Sounds like they'll have a good home and you'll get some delicious eggs.

 

[boskelli1571]

It took four people and 45 minutes but all four SS hens have been caught! They are on their way to my friend's farm in Petersburgh (on the border of VT). I hope I get some free eggs out of this deal.

 

[marquisella]

I've been enjoying the pâtés as everyone works through their stuff. We have been besieged by ticks, or at least our dog has been. Have taken her in the woods a few times of late and yesterday I picked 8 ticks off her mostly the back of her neck/shoulders. Today 4 from around her right eye. Vet apt. Tomorrow, think we'll have a Lyme test, and maybe one in 6 weeks, these recent ticks won't register yet. Maybe I need fowl that will eat ticks and slugs. The chickens do well on earthworms, however. But I like earthworms.

Guineas. We had ticks move in, I got Guineas, by end of year no more ticks on horses or ground bees! After a couple of years I let them go, and it didn't take 2 years before they came back. So now I"m growing out Guineas for the spring....They are also good watchdogs...don't eat much cause they spend the day, when its warm, out foraging.

 

[marquisella]

This is about adding light in the winter. They need 15 hours of light. If you have a timer go on at 4am and it goes off when its light out , but do not have it come on again, they will only get 11 hours of light a day. Its been my experience, that even though I have lights on until 6pm, the chickens start to roost around 4-5pm, so when the light goes off at 6pm, they are already on the roost. They seem to have an inner clock that tells them to roost even if its light in the coop.

Yes, if the light is off, and then you turn it on, they will jump down thinking you are feeding them, so I try to not to go into the coop after the light goes off. This is my experience.

 

[sarahandbray]

I know this isn't the "for sale" page, but if anyone relatively local to Albany, NY is looking for any Roosters, we've got them! 11.5 weeks old:

2 White Rocks Roos
2 Barred Rocks Roos
2 Black Star Roos (black sex-link)
$5 each
Pasture-raised, vaccinated for Marek's & Cocci, spoiled, and handled daily! Very friendly!
Albany, Averill Park, Selkirk, or Malta (Saturday 1pm only) pickups.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Evening all. Been working mad, crazy hours all over to the place. My cheeps are not happy about that. I did finally get the big coop cleaned out, sprayed, dusted and ready for winter. Just have to pick up another bag of shavings to throw in there. Hoping to get to the run tomorrow to fix the dirt in front of the door and rake all the leaves from the backyard into it. Still need to cull the last 6 out of that coop and combine the two flocks. I look at The Duke and he just keeps getting better every day. He is looking like the breed standard in type and coloring. He is gonna be something when he finishes growing up!

Had to pluck Legolas butt again. He is the only one that has a consistant mite issue, even if it is small. I bath him and dust him and apply ivermectin but they never all go away. Everyone else in that coop is clean. I go through them weekly, checking butts and tops and everywhere else. I guess some cheeps are just mite magnets and poor legolas is one of them. Good thing I keep stuff on hand for this issue.

My egg counts are back up despite the fact that molting is going on. I have a couple of barred rocks who look pathetic. Eowyn has gone broody again and I told her no babies yet. I am not having silkie chicks going into winter. Silly birds.

Hitting the holloween markdown candy on sunday for dh. Hunting season is coming on and he likes to have some with him. Hope he gets a deer as I am looking forward to canning some venison. I did make and can some chicken soup (and ate some for dinner, yum!) so we have it for those cold winter days. Looking to get some markdown meat to make beef stew and can it and maybe some chilli too. Always nice to be able to open up and eat something you made.

Anybody ever store dry goods for long periods of time? How do you do it? I am thinking of buying flour and such and storing it either in jars or vacuum sealed bags for emergency purposes. I will have to search the internet to see how people do it.

I hope all of you are well and your cheeps healthy. I will be on and off depending on my schedule. Its the busy season for us retail workers. I may not be on much but I do think of all of you often.

Ta for now my friends!

 

[AQHAchick22]

So I'm 99% sure my leghorn has a broken leg...I've left her for now to eat/drink and I will re-evaluate later. She's not putting weight on it and when she does she stumbles or it doesn't sit where it should, it rests more on top of her other foot.
Has anyone had to deal with a chicken with a broken or dislocated leg?

 

[Pyxis]

So I'm 99% sure my leghorn has a broken leg...I've left her for now to eat/drink and I will re-evaluate later. She's not putting weight on it and when she does she stumbles or it doesn't sit where it should, it rests more on top of her other foot.
Has anyone had to deal with a chicken with a broken or dislocated leg?

The first post on this page of this thread shows what one person came up with to heal a broken leg and it worked really well, so you might try it. If it's actually dislocated, it will need to be popped back in or you can hope she forms a false joint over time, but this usually requires surgery to happen so really you're looking at needing to pop it back in. If it's out, you should be able to see it by comparing the position of her hip on her good leg to that on her bad leg and seeing if they look the same or if the bad hip has a bump where it shouldn't, which would be the head of the femur not where it belongs.