NY chicken lover!!!!

[Beer can]

@Devona sorry, but that made me laugh...One wing clip usually does the trick, maybe you didn't take enough off, don't go too far though, you will make them bleed, kinda like dog toenails. Some are just so determined to fly the coop nothing works. I've had one fly up a five foot fence with wings clipped and claw her way over Lol. Have enclosed runs now.

 

[Beer can]

@BakerzDozen You've had some awesome cars! Drag racer!! Ford man myself, but I've had and loved them all, none as awesome as those. First car I ever had I bought off a younger friend of my parents, remember him driving it when I was a kid. He bought it new, '80 T-top Camaro with 6 and stick. Yrs later I saw him driving it, had just put a 350 4 barrel and auto with shift kit in it to resurrect it in '95. I bought it for $500, loved that car, drove it for yrs. After that I had a '84 t-top 5.0 GT mustang bored .60 over, 750 holly double pumper 4 barrel, msd ignition, spark plug wires bigger than my fingers, big cams, 5 speed stick, posi, only paid $1,200 for it, car scared the bejuses out of me, if you stomped and dropped it was super squirlley even at 60. When I lost second, first to third I still had a hard time keeping it straight, liked looking back and forth at the guard rails...
I love the old cars, so much easier to work on. Favorite truck, '78 chevy 3/4 with one ton front and rears, full time 4x4, 350 4 barrel out of a '85 suburban. I would put a two ton pallet of bluestone on it and it cruised up Bearspring mountain in Downsville at 60, and could 4x4 anywhere. I didn't want to but I sold a '78 Catalina a couple yrs ago that I loved, one owner 50,000 miles garage kept hadn't been drove for eight yrs when I bought it for $1,200. It was cherry, interior everything like new, oldest kid hated it, called it the brown turd...told her I was going to give it to her for her first car and paint it yellow Lol! Remembering a old 'Who's the Boss' episode. I still have a truck I used in the quarry for hauling water, '73 GMC Jimmy convertible, super rare, made into a truck. Top comes off to the windshield, no door pillars, like a full size jeep. Has double stacked leafs in it, I would haul a 375 gallon fuel tank full of water with it up an down the hill, stack 6,000 pounds of bluestone on it and it didn't even bother the springs. Still solid, and I debate restoring it, just know it takes a lot of $ and I still want something older...

 

[Gramma Chick]

Hi everyone. We are bracing for a snow storm with high winds down here

We got a bit of snow here too ..
I wouldnt let new chickens out for at least a week ..they need to get used to their new home .
Brown dirt or mulch is like a chicken magnet ..
Can you put something up to block her view of it
Or a place in your yard you can make look more inviting ?

 

[rancher hicks]

Some hatcheries are just puppy mills for chickens. Keep that in mind.

Man it's cold. I think the reason most of my chickens aren't laying is it's just too cold.

It's so cold my wife and I slept in the same bed.

I'm so cold, I thought if life were fair, old men would have hot flashes too.

It's so cold my teeth were chattering and they were in a glass on the night stand.

 

[rancher hicks]

I found poor Shorty dead this morning in the run. I think he might have died yesterday since he would have gone in last night. I did quarantine him a while ago but when he seemed okay I put him back in the coop. He was just laying there on his back with his legs in the air. This cold weather is getting to be to much.

 

[Glasshen]

Sorry for your loss. He had a good life, and stayed as long as he could.

 

[lisa523]

I'm so sorry rancher

 

[boskelli1571]

@BakerzDozen glad to hear your husband is recovering well! That kind of surgery is rough I hear. I also got a heated waterer at TSC, very happy with it.

Do you guys know anything about The Poultry Hatchery in Clifton Springs? I found their website and was curious about them

It's a 'reincarnation' of AJ Domani ranch I believe. I have heard several not so good reviews, nothing positive as yet...

 

[Devona]

We got a bit of snow here too ..
I wouldnt let new chickens out for at least a week ..they need to get used to their new home .
Brown dirt or mulch is like a chicken magnet ..
Can you put something up to block her view of it
Or a place in your yard you can make look more inviting ?

It's a cinder block wall, gramma. You can't see through it or over it unless you're super tall. The upper half of the wall where the cinder block ends has chain link, backed on the other side with that green plastic corrugated roofing material. That's the old fence. Last year, without removing the old, they put up a brand spanking new white pvc solid fence on their side that's taller than the previous one. The whole shebang must be at least seven feet tall. I'll open up the fence to the raised garden bed. Maybe that'll be enough to keep her from wandering. But that's also where ive been dumping soiled bedding and poop from rabbits and chicks. So I'm not sure how healthy it would be. Today they remain locked up in the shed. I can't imagine what state it would be in when we let them out after the storm. Only the rabbits were let out. Maybe I should open the shed door a smidge so they would have a choice. But it's really blowing out there.

 

[Devona]

Sorry to hear about shorty, rancher.