NY chicken lover!!!!

[Metella]

I enjoyed last year - and so I don't want to go just to a poultry swap - what you guys and Tab put together was so much more !!!!

Also - I am pretty well where I want to be with my flock .... so I am more interested in fellowship and other sharing and raffles and the fun stuff and good food ....

 

[Beer can]

I'm going to be breeding and hatching welsummers if the one hen I have left after a predator ate a couple ever starts laying. The plan was to only hatch the darkest eggs but now my options are limited. They are hatchery birds from meyers but my roo looks pretty much SOP in my opinion (two of them didn't and are in the freezer). The one pullet I have left looks SOP also. I'll see how they hatch out. Wish everybody lived closer. It was kinda funny my first posts on this thread I had I was from WAY Upstate NY. Someone posted if I was then they are way way upstate Lol! So I changed it to just upstate. I just didn't want people to confuse where I live with NYC when I was posting on other threads. I'm from a little town in very rural Delaware County, Masonville. Mostly State forest and farmland.

 

[rancher hicks]

I like my welsummers. Even the roo is calm. I also have EEgrs and brown leghorns. Wanted a colorful egg basket. The brown leghorns are very hard to herd back to the coop. They are like road runners.

I'm currently reading a book someone gave me on chickens and they have a chapter on Roosters. Not a Rooster Breeds are the same. Something I've found out personally. Though not all Roosters are the same either.

Some are more protective of their girls than others. Some make better husbands and dads too. Others make good soup.

Who said "A chicken in every pot"? and when did they say it? They surely meant mean roosters.

 

[sarahandbray]

I wish we had a master list of who has what in terms of breeds of day-olds or hatching eggs, etc. with location in New York State.
Here in the Albany area, I have four friends that have chickens...and that's about it! Doesn't seem to be a big thing around here??
Our Tractor Supply does carry chicks in the Spring and I love having it 5 minutes away for supplies, etc. but I think all of the livestock owning people must live further "out." Not too many in the 'Burbs of Albany!

 

[Metella]

I have millie flur D'uccles (sweetest temperament ever)
BC Marans
EE
and super hardy back yard mixes

I can get hatching eggs in a month (flock is all mixed up now)

 

[marquisella]

I wish we had a master list of who has what in terms of breeds of day-olds or hatching eggs, etc. with location in New York State.
Here in the Albany area, I have four friends that have chickens...and that's about it! Doesn't seem to be a big thing around here??
Our Tractor Supply does carry chicks in the Spring and I love having it 5 minutes away for supplies, etc. but I think all of the livestock owning people must live further "out." Not too many in the 'Burbs of Albany!

I live about 1.5 hours away and my daughter goes to RPI about every other week.
I have Black Copper Marans, Brabanters, Blue cream and Gray Silkies, Light and Coronation Sussex. I'm getting some cream legbars but wont have any available until next fall or late summer.

I sell both day olds and eggs.

 

[boskelli1571]

A few breeds I have an eye out for are Salmon Favs, Welsummer, Buckeye, Australorp, and blue/green egg layers. I have a Barred Rock, Cochin, EE, Buckeye, Australorp, and 4 red stars right now and like all of them and they all are doing great.

I think (as far as I have read/learned) that I have a laid back crew so I don't want to add any typically higher strung birds to the mix. I do have a second coop and run started that I will keep the newbs in until they are old enough to mix into the current flock. The new and old run are side by side so they can familiarize themselves safely but I think it best to keep the general profile of my flock to the submissive breeds.

Welsummer eggs are very pretty, dark brown with speckles. My girls can be a bit pushy with the others, so if you have some smaller, docile birds, I would be a bit wary of adding Welsummers. Of all the chickens I have, the Welsummers are the stand-offish ones. Different sources for all of them so I think it's their nature - wouldn't trade 'em tho'

 

[boskelli1571]

I have millie flur D'uccles (sweetest temperament ever)
BC Marans
EE
and super hardy back yard mixes

I can get hatching eggs in a month (flock is all mixed up now)

With your millies - do you keep them in a special area? The booted feet look like they would attract all sorts of mud & such. I love the look of them, but have pretty much ruled them out because of the feathered feet and the mud we live in. Go on - make me get some millies!!

 

[Beer can]

Welsummer eggs are very pretty, dark brown with speckles. My girls can be a bit pushy with the others, so if you have some smaller, docile birds, I would be a bit wary of adding  Welsummers. Of all the chickens I have, the Welsummers are the stand-offish ones. Different sources for all of them so I think it's their nature - wouldn't trade 'em tho' 

My wellie is standoffish also, but not the least bit flighty like my brown leghorns.

 

[Metella]

Boskelli ... I see your challenge and raise you a cute picture ....

My set up is mostly free range ... so there is not really mud except a few days a year .... I do deep litter on the floor of the coop - so no mud inside coop for inside days. Outside days I have so much land that I have grass and leaves except right in front of the coop - so that is only a step or two for Miss and Mr. Millie and they are inside (note the roo below is not my breeder male - his waddles are not SOP).

I also have my millies with the big flock unless I separate to get hatching eggs ...my breeder pair gave me 2 hens and a roo last spring. Peep pictures below. Baby Roo went to a new home 3 weeks ago ... and he is king of the land - they love him and bring him in to play !!!