NY chicken lover!!!!

[myfivegirls]

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Don't have to worry about given them too many treats here, since there are "so many mouths to feed!" Although I'm sure there's some "hog up" the treats, especially the whole grain mix I soak & add to their fermented feed/supplement mix. Part of the mix includes alfalfa meal or pellets, whatever is available, but I give it year-round. I usually fill their dishes before I let them out, or else I'd get "run over" by them trying to all eat from the bucket at the same time! I have done that a few times, and it's so hard to dish out the FF when they're all trying to eat it as it's coming out of the bucket!

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Chickens roosting in the trees - have had that happen several times before! Recently, it's just been them escaping and getting on top of the aviary netting.
Roosters seem very motivated to do whatever it takes when separate from their "ladies" get back over to them!

Processed 7 cockerels Tuesday, and have 8 more due Thursday. Numbers-wise, I still have too many, but can't seem to pick who to go.

 

[shodack]

We go through Tully a lot. My husbands parents live in Cortland. Welcome to New York! Where did you move from?

Not new to New York, just to this area. I grew up in Auburn and lived in Marcellus for a few years. My husband grew up in Mexico (Oswego County). We moved back last year from New Jersey where I worked at a nursery for several years. I had a kid and suddenly needed to move closer to family!

 

[tao chick]

Not new to New York, just to this area. I grew up in Auburn and lived in Marcellus for a few years. My husband grew up in Mexico (Oswego County). We moved back last year from New Jersey where I worked at a nursery for several years. I had a kid and suddenly needed to move closer to family!

Sounds familiar again. DH and I lived in New Jersey until we wanted kids. Then we wanted to be closer to family. New Jersey did not suit us well either, so we are very happy to be "home."

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Probably the box thing would be a heating/cooling press, I run a few huge different ones where I work for milk, and cream, skim, whey. HTST, high temperature short time, could be seconds at temps at around 200 and then seconds later cooled back cold. Pretty high tech, but probably required of all cider mills now.
Should have pressed my own, hate paying that much.
Fly Creek is a water powered mill, has been pressing cider for 159 yrs. Haven't taken the tour or been there yet, drove by it before. Hopefully they charge less for carboys.

There is a HTST where I work also, but I work in the lab and don't run it. You're a processor?

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Haha!! I won the battle .. the silly girls will not go in the barn the same way they go out. They are so odd. Tonight they all waited at the front door to go in. Why can't they just go in the DANG CHICKEN DOOR??? Are they trying to make me crazy?.
On a slightly different note. Our insurance company told us today we have to change our policy. As we have 20 birds we are 16 over our "homeowners allowance ". Now we must either "give away " the flock , since we can't sell or get farm insurance instead of homeowners. What the heck. We only feed us , we aren't selling eggs or meat.

 

[shodack]

Sounds familiar again. DH and I lived in New Jersey until we wanted kids. Then we wanted to be closer to family. New Jersey did not suit us well either, so we are very happy to be "home."

I mostly miss the sun shining almost every day. I was in southern NJ, so lots of farms and open space.

 

[tao chick]

I mostly miss the sun shining almost every day. I was in southern NJ, so lots of farms and open space.

Ah, we were in Union, so northeastern NJ near Newark. I won't say it was an awful place to live, but it sounds like southern NJ would have been more our speed. I'm about an hour and half northeast of where you are now. Lots of farms and open space here, and the sun has graced us with its presence for two days in a row! It's also promised us an encore tomorrow. Haha. I'm glad you found a great spot to raise your family and your chickens.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Haha!! I won the battle .. the silly girls will not go in the barn the same way they go out. They are so odd. Tonight they all waited at the front door to go in. Why can't they just go in the DANG CHICKEN DOOR??? Are they trying to make me crazy?.
On a slightly different note. Our insurance company told us today we have to change our policy. As we have 20 birds we are 16 over our "homeowners allowance ". Now we must either "give away " the flock , since we can't sell or get farm insurance instead of homeowners. What the heck. We only feed us , we aren't selling eggs or meat.

Ugh. Sorry about ur crazy chickens. Hope they get it right soon. And insurance?! How did ur insurance co find out u have chickens & why is there a homeowners allowance? Are chickens a liability? I wonder if u could talk with them about what a great long term customer you have been and that maybe there's a different insurance company that you might go to if they can't work w you it's not like you have 20 Rottweilers on ur property. No offense to rottie owners, I know they can be sweet dogs, but u know what I'm saying. Best of luck working thru that one.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Ugh. Sorry about ur crazy chickens. Hope they get it right soon. And insurance?! How did ur insurance co find out u have chickens & why is there a homeowners allowance? Are chickens a liability? I wonder if u could talk with them about what a great long term customer you have been and that maybe there's a different insurance company that you might go to if they can't work w you it's not like you have 20 Rottweilers on ur property. No offense to rottie owners, I know they can be sweet dogs, but u know what I'm saying. Best of luck working thru that one.

Oh how funny you compare chickens to Rottweilers. I did that same to the insurance company. I have a rottweiler and a Sheppard mix as well as the flock. They came out 2 weeks ago to do an assessment of the property since we had some safety issues when we purchased. They saw a huge fenced off area with a building that was not there when we started the policy. The fence was garden and the building is the coop. So now we have to go into town and sign paperwork that states we won't sell chickens or eggs or we have to get a farm policy. Broome Co only allows so much livestock per family before it's considered a farm. I understand, they need to be covered incase the eggs or meat cause illness , just irritated me when they told me. Oh and to top the no chickens rule, my dang barn needs fixed in 30 days or its dropped from insurance. Stupid policy covers this but not that, the snow but not the wind, the moon but not the sun.. ARG Owning a home is stressful. Oh well at least I'm not paying someone else's mortgage, and my kids will always have a home to come back too.

 

[rancher hicks]

Rancher -Not Yours ..Right ?

No note mine.

I'm considering a Cochin hen or Silky to use for hatching. Poor buckwheats eggs were duds except for the EE. I don' tknow what i will do if I can't get more Birchens to hatch.