NY chicken lover!!!!

[Metella]

HA ! internet gave me a TRIPLE post !

 

[Lynzi777]

You could even go every other day ..... after all, you have a barn there already ? right ? So put the coop in that and they are safe from weather ... then give plenty of food and water in different pans and such - and you should be able to hold them over to allow you to go out just every other day .... you know they get along - so there is no monitoring needed to make sure they don't pick on each other.

Keep us posted - we are all animal lovers and I know most of us have had to make a decision like this in our lives - and it is always sad.

Good Luck.

That's what I was wondering...I thought the place you (Why Do) had planned on having this farm was already partially paid for? Like the land or some part of it. If you own the land bring your birds there if you have a barn there.

 

[demp4]

Been trying to catch up and prepare for my little ones first birthday (day after Turkey day) and Thanksgiving this week. I let the chickens out after locking them up for a week in the new coop. Last night we go to lock them up and only 2 are in there the rest are down huddling by the old run. How many days of this will I endure? Should I keep them locked up longer than a week?

Sorry for your loss Pyxis. May you find peace.

I hope we can go to Chickenstock this year too.

It was a beautifully warm day yesterday now we are back on the road to winter I think.

Anyone else here feed their birds organically?

 

[Beer can]

i no the towns laws here are pretty tough..my wife was almost arrested for not getting the dog lic..the cop came to the door and everything ..

Here I go with 'politics' again. Look up the history of dog liscensing. It was started a hundred years ago for livestock indemification, when there was dogs running loose everywhere. If a farmer had a sheep or cow, etc, killed or damaged, it was a fund to pay for the damages. Recently, a few yrs ago dog liscences were state, the state govt passed it down to local, its now a unfunded mandate on our towns, the cost of paper work, storage of paperwork, enforcement, etc, pawned off on our towns as a unfunded mandate. So beings the towns have to pay for it, and cant raise taxes above 2%, they are cracking down. We have two dogs and five kids, $25 per dog, I'd rather see money going for raising my kids than going for a law that the $ just covers the paperwork, no money for farmers its original intention.
Luckly when the dog warden stopped at our house he did say we needed to liscence, just make sure you do it or there is a fine on top of it, he never has been back. He said his only concern was that residents had their dogs rabis vaccinations, and we did.
Just another govt. mandated law, paid for by us 'peasents' for ???

 

[JLaw]

Here I go with 'politics' again. Look up the history of dog liscensing. It was started a hundred years ago for livestock indemification, when there was dogs running loose everywhere. If a farmer had a sheep or cow, etc, killed or damaged, it was a fund to pay for the damages. Recently, a few yrs ago dog liscences were state, the state govt passed it down to local, its now a unfunded mandate on our towns, the cost of paper work, storage of paperwork, enforcement, etc, pawned off on our towns as a unfunded mandate. So beings the towns have to pay for it, and cant raise taxes above 2%, they are cracking down. We have two dogs and five kids, $25 per dog, I'd rather see money going for raising my kids than going for a law that the $ just covers the paperwork, no money for farmers its original intention.
Luckly when the dog warden stopped at our house he did say we needed to liscence, just make sure you do it or there is a fine on top of it, he never has been back. He said his only concern was that residents had their dogs rabis vaccinations, and we did.
Just another govt. mandated law, paid for by us 'peasents' for ???

The dog gets loose and attacks a kid if it has its tag they now know who's dog it is. Or if they find a dog with tag and rabies they know where about it came from and can try to see if there is an out break there. Now my wife handles our dogs with the town hall so I don't know what all is on the paper work but I would think it would have breed, age, color. Now even if they find a dog without tags that would give them a list to look through to narrow down the owner of affected dog for what ever it did or happened to it.

I had a dog come through past summer and wipe out a few hundred dollars worth of birds. Figuring the cost of bird and feed to raise it just before they should lay. Now this was on a sat while we was out. On sunday my roo was going off and I looked out a dog was slinking around my yard line. I loaded my gun but it ran off when I went out. Turned out it was my neighbors but I didn't know till it ran there. If I would have shot it, the license would have let me know who owned it when I went to the town hall. I had no proof that it was the one who killed my chickens day before because no one saw it so nothing came of it. But if I would have been home and killed the dog in the act I could have pressed to be repaid for my birds and a license would help me with that.

I hate paying for the license but I see some useful points on having it. People around here know my dogs and we don't have them wear tags except the license so it would help know the dog catcher know where to bring it home if he finds it somewhere.

 

[Sally8]

I noticed that our Tractor Supply has started selling some organic feeds for chickens. In smaller bags.

A little off topic but I have a weeping cherry tree(growing near the chicken coop) that has a huge split down the trunk. The "old method" was to fill the crack with pine tar and wrap (so my mother said) but I read yesterday that NOT to do that. The tree has special meaning to e as my mother bought it for us when we moved here and now Mom has passed away. Don't want to lose the tree too. The base looks ominous but not soft. I don't have a lot of hope. Any ideas?

 

[boskelli1571]

Been trying to catch up and prepare for my little ones first birthday (day after Turkey day) and Thanksgiving this week. I let the chickens out after locking them up for a week in the new coop. Last night we go to lock them up and only 2 are in there the rest are down huddling by the old run. How many days of this will I endure? Should I keep them locked up longer than a week?

Sorry for your loss Pyxis. May you find peace.

I hope we can go to Chickenstock this year too.

It was a beautifully warm day yesterday now we are back on the road to winter I think.

Anyone else here feed their birds organically?

I tried! I changed them over from regular feed to organic very slowly. They turned their beaks up at it! Wanted nothing to do with good (expensive!) organic feed - ungrateful little buggers!

 

[rancher hicks]

I noticed that our Tractor Supply has started selling some organic feeds for chickens. In smaller bags.

A little off topic but I have a weeping cherry tree(growing near the chicken coop) that has a huge split down the trunk. The "old method" was to fill the crack with pine tar and wrap (so my mother said) but I read yesterday that NOT to do that. The tree has special meaning to e as my mother bought it for us when we moved here and now Mom has passed away. Don't want to lose the tree too. The base looks ominous but not soft. I don't have a lot of hope. Any ideas?

Is the split just in the bark or the entire wood too? I would get some of that arbor paper tape and wrap the tree as tightly as you can. OR you could call an Arborist and ask them what to do.

I would think a good garden shop should have what you need to wrap it.

 

[why do birds]

We just got back in town from visiting DH's family. A few folks were in touch, PM, and offered to take in the birds. I do think that they will have a good home. You all have been amazing and I really appreciate the outpouring of support! What a great group of people you all are.

Here's the rule in the zoning code for New Hartford, "No person firm or corporation shall keep or maintain within the limits of the Village of New Hartford any chickens, ducks, geese or other fowl, pigs, cows, horses, foxes, or any other animals except dogs or cats."

WOW! So I suppose that a beta fish is out of the question too. This would mean that even a parakeet would be illegal. I would love to change the law but I know that's not likely to happen. Who makes up this stuff? How can people hate birds so much? Are there groups of bird haters out there?

I'm all cried out at this point and I'm resigning myself to what the possibilities are. There is enough room to plant a couple of raised beds for vegetables.
We met someone interested in renting the farm. It would help offset taxes so that we can keep the land until we are able to build there in the future. For now though, we have to do what is best for the birds. I'm sure that neighbors in New Hartford would not appreciate Fredo's cute little crows. Even though our current neighbors love him! Since we will be at the other house indefinitely, we think it's best to rehome. We considered leaving the birds in the barn but it wouldn't be fair, with predators around, and us not being there for them. We went through so many possibilities and concluded that no scenario would be better for them than rehoming. Getting caught in New Hartford could mean having to surrender them to a humane society and that would be bad.

Thanks everyone!

 

[Sally8]

I know here in Corning, no rabbits or pigeons. Funny, the city is so overrun of pigeons. They get into attics and poop everywhere.