NY chicken lover!!!!

[Beer can]

Brown leghorn chicks look a lot like a welsummer.

 

[rancher hicks]

Rained pretty good here last night but it was so dry I watered plants I mulched yesterday. Hope we don't get to much more though.

May fire up the incu but DD called to invite us to come to TX for four weeks in Jan.

Wish my new girls would start to lay. I do need more Delawares and Marans. Marans mostly.

Buckwheat sitting on one lone egg, poor thing.

TTFN,

Rancher

 

[7littlegirls]

I am on Long Island and sell my eggs for $3.00 a half dozen. I have one person that gives me $5.00 for a half dozen.

 

[DeansMill]

Ugh, better not be leghorn, don't want them. Plus they weren't listed as a possibility. I'm really thinking dark Cornish tho.

 

[Purpletie3]

To those of you selling eggs. Do you know if you qualify as sales tax exempt when you buy stuff for your flock? Do any of you have a DBA/Assumed Name for your farm? How did you get it?

I got my DBA at the County Clerk's Office.I also have insurance that costs more than what I make in a year. I have my NPIP also from the State. Maybe check with the local Cornell Cooperative Extension in your area. Eggs sell for $3.50 dozen. I am priced on the lower side of the gammut....with $5.50 being asked around the corner for a RIR laying flock...My eggs are that of an Easter Basket...blue, green, green speckles, olive,tan, brown, pink, creme and I may even have a close to white layer.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Don't know if anyone remembers me, but I finally got my chicks. I ordered 15.

I remember you ...congrats on your new flock /family

 

[PhoredaBurds]

http://www.nebeginningfarmers.org/farmers/taxes-regulations/ A lot of good info there. I want to get insured and tax exempt as well so maybe we can assist each other.

This is a great link! Thanks for posting! I had no idea what a DBA was. Now I'm thinking maybe I need one, lol

 

[Lapeerian]

Do you have a date? This is an online thing? I once did a seminar thing for bees on line.

Wednesday, October 14, 6-8pm @ the Broome CCE office located in Chenango Bridge (near Binghamton). $5

Here is the Facebook link to the event: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/...gular&feed_story_type=117&action_history=null

The Broome CCE event registration page: https://pub.cce.cornell.edu/event_registration/main/events_landing.cfm?event=avianflu101_203

Southern Tier Beekeepers association did mention that SUNY Broome has an upcoming Intro to Beekeeping course.

 

[boskelli1571]

If anyone is interested in doing an online learning course (free): www.campus.extension.org. You need to register. Type in avian influenza and it should pop up. It a good review course - especially since the season will be upon us soon......

 

[marquisella]

Don't know if anyone remembers me, but I finally got my chicks. I ordered 15. I have four Delaware girls, a Delaware rooster, and a mixed bag of ten more brown layer girls. Of course, they are only a week old, so that could change as they fledge out. I already have two Delaware that could pass for roo based on some sexing suggestions I saw here. My guesses for the rest are black Australorps, a partridge rocks, maybe a barred rocks (or another australorp), unless they are Jersey giants... possibly 3 sex links, possibly two buff orps... and then there is mystery chick. My tiny runt that I can NOT figure out. She seems to have the markings of a welsummer but that wasn't listed in the mixed bag of possibilities. Dark Cornish was listed, but her little one week old wings are light in color and nearly a cross between barred and partridge. Her head doesn't have the widows peak either, she had a dotted line. Can't wait to find out what she is.

If the chick was an "extra" its probably a boy.