NY chicken lover!!!!

[LuvMyChicks1491]

I have a similar situation here. Everything is flooded. I've plans to do things but no money. I will dig and clear a path to direct the flow to a better location.

Any ideas would be helpful.

I just see where the water is flowing and dig a trench pulling the dirt/mud.whatever to the sides so that it flows good. Then in the summer I just push the sides back in the trench and stomp it down. Good as new..till next spring. Living on the side of a mountain, I have water flow issues every year. What I'd like to do is dig a hole that it can flow into and use a pump and a hose to pump it into the ditch/creek and away from our yard, but I don't think that I can do that.

 

[Aria]

This looks just like the incubator we have. April 2014 my husband set 7 eggs and
6 hatched. May 2014 he set 7 eggs and 6 hatched.

Remember: we are NEW to chickens and could not identify roosters from hens until
the middle of Winter. NOW we went to the Barn today and we discovered we have
8 Pure Silkie Roosters. /we knew we had Roosters....but decided to raise and keep them
until Spring.

Dad was a Splash Linzi delivered from CT and the Mom was a dark blue pure Silkie.
We have the Roosters separated. We now have 8 hens and Carlos, the Splash CT
Rooster.in the Coop. They other Roosters are in our Maple Surgar House (now used for a Coop.

The 8 Roosters are beautiful but they need a new home: We have Splash, Dark Blue
and one is white and buff. Before I list them on Craig's List does anyone on BYC
have any interest. We live in Sauquoit 9 miles south of Utica and we can deliver to
Chickenstock. Aria

 

[rancher hicks]

I just see where the water is flowing and dig a trench pulling the dirt/mud.whatever to the sides so that it flows good. Then in the summer I just push the sides back in the trench and stomp it down. Good as new..till next spring. Living on the side of a mountain, I have water flow issues every year. What I'd like to do is dig a hole that it can flow into and use a pump and a hose to pump it into the ditch/creek and away from our yard, but I don't think that I can do that.

I expect I'll just leave the gully/trench because next year it will just flow again. I might line it with stones as I can afford.

You could very well dig a hole and set a sump in it when things thaw or just dig and area to form a rain swale. Which is basically what I plan to do. Anything to draw the water out of where I walk.

 

[rancher hicks]

Candled the 14 Del eggs shipped from VA. Looks like 12 are good, though you can never tell til D day. 2 fo the 14 look like they started but quit.

I expect worse results from the C. Rocks. I'll candle them in a couple of days.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

I expect I'll just leave the gully/trench because next year it will just flow again. I might line it with stones as I can afford.

You could very well dig a hole and set a sump in it when things thaw or just dig and area to form a rain swale. Which is basically what I plan to do. Anything to draw the water out of where I walk.

My problem is that the water runs right though our yard. I love the rocks, but I don't think that I would like in in the yard especially because that is the yard were we play during the summer, but I may do something like that up by were I dug the little duck pond last year

 

[PhoredaBurds]

5 chicks out this morning apparently they all heard about the worm, 2 eggs still in the incu, no sign but not due till tomorrow so I am going to give them some time pretty sure 4 are girls, not sure about the 4th, little yellow cutie with a black dot on its head the rest are varying blacks definitely can tell who their daddy is lol

Congrats on ur hatch! Great that u have a chicken whisperer to help. I'm sure those birds will be very sweet & socialized because of her.

 

[bakingintherain]

Thank you everyone, we are loving up on these cuties, the kids love them

We have the brinsea mini advance and love it!

 

[CatMom]

I was just going to ask what kind of incubator you all were using! Thanks, Bakin!

 

[Glasshen]

On drainage stuff, there is something called a French drain. It can be dug uphill from the area you want to keep dry, and about 3 feet deep. I think it would need to be quite long, and the ends would lead the water away to an area you want it to go, kind of like Luv said. The trench gets filled with gravel, the a water permeable fabric, then soil on top. The idea is that the water will go through the gravel and away because that is easier, and your area will stay dry. I have seen a few of these, and the more recent one works well, don't know exactly how the older one was done, but my sons basement still gets some water every so often. My neighbor used a backhoe, and tractor, so it wasn't too hard for him. It worked, and saved the trees he had planted that we're drowning, and you wouldn't even know it was there.

I like the swale idea, but use big rocks. I surrounded my coop with an apron of gravel, which the chickens have relocated to the far corners, so rather than neat and tidy it is more poor and rocky looking.

 

[Pharkas]

Hi,
We are on day 21 of our 1st ever incubation. I have been using a Brinsea Oct 20. I set 24 eggs from my own flock (EE roo over EE, Brahma, Australorp, and Red star hens). Day seven had one yoker. Day 14 had 1 early death. Locked down 22 on Day 18 PM. Day 19 got a call at work from home saying there was a australorp chick running around the bator! By last night (Day 20) all but 4 had hatched. We are still waiting on 3 blue EE eggs and 1 white Brahma? egg that has an external pip outside of the aircell.