NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

I said 9 ducks, but it's actually 10 - the other one froze her feet last week, but must have heard me talking about culling her. So, she's been making great attempts to recover, eating just fine, her feet haven't turned black, etc. Tuesday night she went under the coop, even though I'd blocked it off with hay, she pushed it down & it was impossible for me to get her out. So, I left her there, expecting that she'd not make it the night,
Yes, last year I put fake eggs in the nest, which was either a igloo, kitty litter box, etc -

I would check under the coop I suspect there may be eggs there

Ducks are funny... mine would sleep under the roosts if I let them ..
They know the drill...I say to them time to go to bed boys...they march into their cage ...

 

[Gramma Chick]

What a beautiful roo!! @pyxis

We are going to be hatching eggs for our 4H. anyone have fertile eggs they want to donate for cheap? Somewhat local? Near Syracuse or North?

When ? and what are you going to do with the ones that hatch ?

 

[Sristi]

Hi, I'm a new member but I feel shy about posting in the big welcome board. I've stalked BYC for years and decided it was finally time to join. I live in WNY, Cattaraugus county. I've had chickens for several years now. Last year we moved here from across the state and I sold my flock and started from scratch again. I think my husband kept hoping I would just live without chickens, but I can't help it!! Even with lots of Amish neighbors selling eggs for 1.50 a dozen, I still want chickens in my backyard too.
Right now I have a trio of barnyard mix ducks. They laid eggs like champions all through this winter. An egg a day without fail. I just loaded the 'bator with a bunch of their eggs; in a few days I'll candle them to see if they're fertile. I also have a little flock of chickens, seven black cochin bantams and four production layers from a neighbor who was downsizing. I'm trying to get the cochins into condition for breeding; hoping to get an incubator load or even better, three broody nests of cochin eggs.
My husband keeps insisting that warm weather is right around the corner and we'll be sugaring in a week. I hope he's right! All through January and February I daily encouraged my chickens that the cold would only last for another few weeks; they're tired of hearing it by now.

 

[Beer can]

@Sristi I skipped the welcoming board as well after being a BYC 'lurker' for a while. Welcome to BYC and the NY thread!
Everyone is great here and on the other threads. I've learned more about chickens lately than I ever cared to know, some threads are pretty serious. Gotta be careful on here though, something they call 'chicken math' I think it is a transferable disease. We have had chickens in the past, decided last spring to get them again, figured six would be enough, ordered 21 whitled it down to eight, good number, have another thirty plus coming this spring! And I'm planning on hatching out Welsummers as soon as the eggs stop freezing. I don't know what happened to our max of six number?

 

[Sristi]

I know what you mean! I asked my hubby to build a little tractor and it could hold four hens. Then I decided to get bantams so I could have more chickens in the same space. Three months later come the layers from the neighbor and my husband is getting more and more freaked out. Now it's spring and I foolishly requested hatchery catalogs. I have my sights on a rotten old rv sitting in our back woods as a better, bigger, away-from-the-house-and-my-husbands-sight chicken lodging.
*sigh* If I didn't have my level-headed husband to make me think through decisions, I would be awash in poultry and impoverished to boot.

 

[Beer can]

Lol. Yeah I have a large coop for the ones I have, but I like them having space. I'm planning on tripleing the size so I can keep a couple breeds separate. It's going to cost me more than the chickens! I have cemani crosses coming from pyxis so I can start a flock of fibro black meat chickens, going to build a large tractor for them for now. All the sudden the wife has been looking at svart hona and cemani hatching eggs! I thought she hated my new chicken obsession? I had mentioned to her I'd like to have some pure breed one's to try a cross with langshans but I should be good with the fibro ones I'm getting, I don't know if we need another breed, but I think she caught the bug, maybe your husband will. Lol!

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Lol. Yeah I have a large coop for the ones I have, but I like them having space. I'm planning on tripleing the size so I can keep a couple breeds separate. It's going to cost me more than the chickens! I have cemani crosses coming from pyxis so I can start a flock of fibro black meat chickens, going to build a large tractor for them for now. All the sudden the wife has been looking at svart hona and cemani hatching eggs! I thought she hated my new chicken obsession? I had mentioned to her I'd like to have some pure breed one's to try a cross with langshans but I should be good with the fibro ones I'm getting, I don't know if we need another breed, but I think she caught the bug, maybe your husband will. Lol!

My husband is how I caught the chicken bug. After our first 6 from TSC for our girls he researched breeds and it took off from there.

 

[rancher hicks]

Hi, I'm a new member but I feel shy about posting in the big welcome board. I've stalked BYC for years and decided it was finally time to join. I live in WNY, Cattaraugus county. I've had chickens for several years now. Last year we moved here from across the state and I sold my flock and started from scratch again. I think my husband kept hoping I would just live without chickens, but I can't help it!! Even with lots of Amish neighbors selling eggs for 1.50 a dozen, I still want chickens in my backyard too.
Right now I have a trio of barnyard mix ducks. They laid eggs like champions all through this winter. An egg a day without fail. I just loaded the 'bator with a bunch of their eggs; in a few days I'll candle them to see if they're fertile. I also have a little flock of chickens, seven black cochin bantams and four production layers from a neighbor who was downsizing. I'm trying to get the cochins into condition for breeding; hoping to get an incubator load or even better, three broody nests of cochin eggs.
My husband keeps insisting that warm weather is right around the corner and we'll be sugaring in a week. I hope he's right! All through January and February I daily encouraged my chickens that the cold would only last for another few weeks; they're tired of hearing it by now.

Welcome to the coop. I hope your husband is right.

I went to buy syrup at the farmers market and the one stand only had a few quarts left. There was an old guy who used to be there but I think he's not coming anymore. It's a sad story with him. His son got killed, his other son died I don't recall why and his wife passed too. I used to see him and her there every saturday.

Well I hope you make lots of syrup.

Don't know how the Amish can sell egg for $1.50. That's store price. Though they may be losing money. Cartons to order are .40 cents each or so.

Well stick around and enjoy the fun.

Rancher

 

[rancher hicks]

I know what you mean! I asked my hubby to build a little tractor and it could hold four hens. Then I decided to get bantams so I could have more chickens in the same space. Three months later come the layers from the neighbor and my husband is getting more and more freaked out. Now it's spring and I foolishly requested hatchery catalogs. I have my sights on a rotten old rv sitting in our back woods as a better, bigger, away-from-the-house-and-my-husbands-sight chicken lodging.
*sigh* If I didn't have my level-headed husband to make me think through decisions, I would be awash in poultry and impoverished to boot.

Just google RV chicken coops and you'll get lots of ideas. Ha, ha,

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Hi, I'm a new member but I feel shy about posting in the big welcome board. I've stalked BYC for years and decided it was finally time to join. I live in WNY, Cattaraugus county. I've had chickens for several years now. Last year we moved here from across the state and I sold my flock and started from scratch again. I think my husband kept hoping I would just live without chickens, but I can't help it!! Even with lots of Amish neighbors selling eggs for 1.50 a dozen, I still want chickens in my backyard too.
Right now I have a trio of barnyard mix ducks. They laid eggs like champions all through this winter. An egg a day without fail. I just loaded the 'bator with a bunch of their eggs; in a few days I'll candle them to see if they're fertile. I also have a little flock of chickens, seven black cochin bantams and four production layers from a neighbor who was downsizing. I'm trying to get the cochins into condition for breeding; hoping to get an incubator load or even better, three broody nests of cochin eggs.
My husband keeps insisting that warm weather is right around the corner and we'll be sugaring in a week. I hope he's right! All through January and February I daily encouraged my chickens that the cold would only last for another few weeks; they're tired of hearing it by now.

( I think that I skipped the welcome board too when I joined) Welcome to the group... But be aware that we are a bunch of enablers...Example below:

Just google RV chicken coops and you'll get lots of ideas. Ha, ha,