I am sorry for your loss. How badly do you need that dog?
I like dogs but am to afraid of getting one.
NY chicken lover!!!!
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I like dogs but am to afraid of getting one.
Five out of six marans are broody but the hoop coop gets too hot to hatch I think. I've been candling and tossing eggs. Big Delores has one egg that I'm still not sure will hatch.
I've considered setting some Del eggs, because I just lost another hen. I think they're pecking the caulking and getting poisoned. Or could it be the wild morning glory vine climbing the run?
Combs were all pale. This last one seem to be eating. I quarantine of course but it doesn't help.
They're not out of the run so it's got to be something in that flock.
In happier news, I got a pic of the Princess
Could you connect me with the Welsummer and PPR breeder? My SIL is loaning me an incubator, so my new plan is to get hatching eggs.
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Chicken fever has struck yet again and no one has even laid a single egg. I would like to get more chickens...but I am not particularly fond of the ones I have. The ones I like best so far and probably because of the individual personalities rather than the breed. Margaret my Austalorpe, Midget my Pyxis cull, Omelet my Marans x, and one particularly sweet unnamed Red Star. The rest not so much. I guess that's a good point in that eventually the others will need to be culled and eaten.
However, I would like to add 5 or 6 more. what breeds do you have and like for your coops. I really want a heritage breed I think. Egg and meat breed with some nice feathering, pretty , friendly Roos... that kind thing. I spend hours watching the little ***** and enjoy taking care of them. Even my anti-chicken husband has had a change of heart with our birds...his past experiences were on the farms he worked with poorly managed hens full of lice and in filthy coups. Our girls on the other hand smell like pine and they have their coup cleaned daily. Oh additionally, the hens free range in our small yard with activities I have added... but they would need to tolerate confinement also. Because eventually they will only be allowed in their coup a nd run for the majority of the day.
Chicken fever has struck yet again and no one has even laid a single egg. I would like to get more chickens...but I am not particularly fond of the ones I have. The ones I like best so far and probably because of the individual personalities rather than the breed. Margaret my Austalorpe, Midget my Pyxis cull, Omelet my Marans x, and one particularly sweet unnamed Red Star. The rest not so much. I guess that's a good point in that eventually the others will need to be culled and eaten.
However, I would like to add 5 or 6 more. what breeds do you have and like for your coops. I really want a heritage breed I think. Egg and meat breed with some nice feathering, pretty , friendly Roos... that kind thing. I spend hours watching the little ***** and enjoy taking care of them. Even my anti-chicken husband has had a change of heart with our birds...his past experiences were on the farms he worked with poorly managed hens full of lice and in filthy coups. Our girls on the other hand smell like pine and they have their coup cleaned daily. Oh additionally, the hens free range in our small yard with activities I have added... but they would need to tolerate confinement also. Because eventually they will only be allowed in their coup a nd run for the majority of the day.
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The monsters have destroyed my one set of blackcap vines. They completely rooted them up and ate EVERY SINGLE BERRY!!!! Talk about mad. Well at least they had a good lunch , brats. They spent 8 hours running around my yard eating everything they could find and playing in the creek that runs down the one side. Oh how dirty my little white leghorn girls got. My black astrolorp girls chased off every wild bird that even thought about coming on the property, those girls can be vicious! ! .
Does anyone know a NY breeder of buff or partridge brahmas?
I'm hoping to incubate eggs. I think it will be a fun learning experience for me and my kids. Eeep. It makes me nervous because I've never done this before. I can get fertile hatching eggs locally for 2 of my wish list breeds. I found an Ohio source for brahmas, but was hoping for someone closer. If I could get my dream lot of hatching eggs I would be happy.
I'm hoping to incubate eggs. I think it will be a fun learning experience for me and my kids. Eeep. It makes me nervous because I've never done this before. I can get fertile hatching eggs locally for 2 of my wish list breeds. I found an Ohio source for brahmas, but was hoping for someone closer. If I could get my dream lot of hatching eggs I would be happy.
Hi fellow NY State residents! I just found this group, so I may as well start by including the intro I put up on 'New Members' board a few weeks ago, with a current update at the bottom - apologies for anyone who likes to 'keep it brief' - I'm longwinded!
HI Everyone, I'm originally from Worcestershire in the UK, where I grew up with a mixed flock of chickens, I have been living in upstate NY, about 40 mins from Buffalo for 9 years now. In July 2014, we got our first 2 chickens from a neighbors farm, when they were about 10 weeks old. The brown one turned out to be a Brown Leghorn we named Sylvia, and the white one a Plymouth Rock we named Miss Pearl. Here they are working on leftovers from a baby shower - they love watermelon!
As new chicken owners, we were so glad they made it, in the coop we built ourselves, through the worst winter we have had for a while, anyone remember seeing stories about 'Snowvember' in the Buffalo area in 11/14? Sylvia did get a little frostbite on her comb, good old Pearl just kept on laying - whatever the weather!
Our newest additions are some pullet chicks we picked up from Nature Berry Farm nr Rochester just last week (got these chicks on 6/17). According to their chick page hatching list, our Silver Grey Dorking on the right, was hatched on May 15th, and our Silver Laced Wyandotte on the left hatched on May 22nd.
Can anyone out there give me an idea if these ages are correct? Our Dorking still has fluff on her chest and shoulders, 1 cute adult feather coming in on top of her shoulder blades, if she really is 5 weeks old wouldn't she have more adult feathers, and be larger? She weighs 116g. The Wyandotte, supposedly 1 week younger, dwarfs her, has more adult feathers and weighs in at 205g. They are both active, eating, drinking, and pooping well. I have a hard time tearing myself away, I love watching them.
Very glad to be part of the BYC group, I have been finding this site very helpful since we got our first chickens, so after almost a year of 'lurking' now I'm officially part of it!
7/7/15 So, here we are 3 weeks later, and sadly our little Dorking chick Pixie was our first experience of 'failure to thrive' - seems my instinct that she seemed small and underweight was right. She did great for the first 5 days, then really declined rapidly, despite still eating enthusiastically and passing normal stool, she just kept losing weight, and getting weaker. I got lots of help via the folks at Nature Berry Farm, the 'emergency' thread here, and the Dorking breeders group, but despite following all their advice for feeding scrambled eggs, giving nutridrench, and using a heating pad, I found her dead on her 8th day here. When I had initially circulated her pics everyone guessed her age at 2-3 weeks, when in fact she was almost 6 weeks! General consensus being that she had some sort of problem with absorbing the nutrients in her food, because she just didn't grow.
So we were left with the bigger Wyandotte chick, who was all alone for the first time in her life, and very agitated about it. That evening I did another 4 hour round trip to Rochester, for a replacement chick. Initially I was going to get another Dorking, but seeing the rest of the group who hatched the same date as Pixie, and seeing how much bigger they were, with so many more feathers, I just couldn't do it, too sad. So I looked at the batch that hatched on May 29th, and there was another breed from my shortlist, Partridge Rock - this little lady was feisty from the start, we walked in to find she had flown up, away from the rest of the gang in the chick pen, squeezed through a tiny gap in the trellis covering the pen, and was surveying the world around her from the wall of the pen. I named her Honey, as that's what came into my head when I saw the different shades of brown on her head.
She was not at all intimidated by the bigger Wyandotte chick Fern, and they were soon drinking side by side
Now she's been here for about 10 days, and so happy to report both chicks thriving, gaining weight, getting new feathers etc. We are preparing to move them outside - we have a small wooden ark we will set up in one of the 2 runs off the main coop, the chicks will be secure inside there, and our 2 adult chickens can get used to seeing them, before we try mixing them all in future (when they are around 3 months is what we have been advised).
In preparation I took them outside for their first time on the lawn last weekend, while the adult chickens were free ranging on pest patrol in the veg garden. At first they were so alarmed about everything, vehicles going by, airplane overhead, but they soon settled down and were fighting over their first slug, eating grass, and when the excitement all proved a bit much, flying up to the perch for a rest.
Look forward to sharing our chicken journey with some 'locals' - thanks for reading.
HI Everyone, I'm originally from Worcestershire in the UK, where I grew up with a mixed flock of chickens, I have been living in upstate NY, about 40 mins from Buffalo for 9 years now. In July 2014, we got our first 2 chickens from a neighbors farm, when they were about 10 weeks old. The brown one turned out to be a Brown Leghorn we named Sylvia, and the white one a Plymouth Rock we named Miss Pearl. Here they are working on leftovers from a baby shower - they love watermelon!
As new chicken owners, we were so glad they made it, in the coop we built ourselves, through the worst winter we have had for a while, anyone remember seeing stories about 'Snowvember' in the Buffalo area in 11/14? Sylvia did get a little frostbite on her comb, good old Pearl just kept on laying - whatever the weather!
Our newest additions are some pullet chicks we picked up from Nature Berry Farm nr Rochester just last week (got these chicks on 6/17). According to their chick page hatching list, our Silver Grey Dorking on the right, was hatched on May 15th, and our Silver Laced Wyandotte on the left hatched on May 22nd.
Can anyone out there give me an idea if these ages are correct? Our Dorking still has fluff on her chest and shoulders, 1 cute adult feather coming in on top of her shoulder blades, if she really is 5 weeks old wouldn't she have more adult feathers, and be larger? She weighs 116g. The Wyandotte, supposedly 1 week younger, dwarfs her, has more adult feathers and weighs in at 205g. They are both active, eating, drinking, and pooping well. I have a hard time tearing myself away, I love watching them.
Very glad to be part of the BYC group, I have been finding this site very helpful since we got our first chickens, so after almost a year of 'lurking' now I'm officially part of it!
7/7/15 So, here we are 3 weeks later, and sadly our little Dorking chick Pixie was our first experience of 'failure to thrive' - seems my instinct that she seemed small and underweight was right. She did great for the first 5 days, then really declined rapidly, despite still eating enthusiastically and passing normal stool, she just kept losing weight, and getting weaker. I got lots of help via the folks at Nature Berry Farm, the 'emergency' thread here, and the Dorking breeders group, but despite following all their advice for feeding scrambled eggs, giving nutridrench, and using a heating pad, I found her dead on her 8th day here. When I had initially circulated her pics everyone guessed her age at 2-3 weeks, when in fact she was almost 6 weeks! General consensus being that she had some sort of problem with absorbing the nutrients in her food, because she just didn't grow.
So we were left with the bigger Wyandotte chick, who was all alone for the first time in her life, and very agitated about it. That evening I did another 4 hour round trip to Rochester, for a replacement chick. Initially I was going to get another Dorking, but seeing the rest of the group who hatched the same date as Pixie, and seeing how much bigger they were, with so many more feathers, I just couldn't do it, too sad. So I looked at the batch that hatched on May 29th, and there was another breed from my shortlist, Partridge Rock - this little lady was feisty from the start, we walked in to find she had flown up, away from the rest of the gang in the chick pen, squeezed through a tiny gap in the trellis covering the pen, and was surveying the world around her from the wall of the pen. I named her Honey, as that's what came into my head when I saw the different shades of brown on her head.
She was not at all intimidated by the bigger Wyandotte chick Fern, and they were soon drinking side by side
Now she's been here for about 10 days, and so happy to report both chicks thriving, gaining weight, getting new feathers etc. We are preparing to move them outside - we have a small wooden ark we will set up in one of the 2 runs off the main coop, the chicks will be secure inside there, and our 2 adult chickens can get used to seeing them, before we try mixing them all in future (when they are around 3 months is what we have been advised).
In preparation I took them outside for their first time on the lawn last weekend, while the adult chickens were free ranging on pest patrol in the veg garden. At first they were so alarmed about everything, vehicles going by, airplane overhead, but they soon settled down and were fighting over their first slug, eating grass, and when the excitement all proved a bit much, flying up to the perch for a rest.
Look forward to sharing our chicken journey with some 'locals' - thanks for reading.
What are the others that you dont like ? I like my 1/2 aussies & plymouth white rocks
Last yr mine ate every single pepper on a ornamental medusa hot pepper plant on our back step, must have been a hundred of the pretty little things. I planed on eating some to see how hot they were and save the seeds for replanting cause the pot of them I bought was $$, I hope they pooped fire.....
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