NY chicken lover!!!!

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Our house is circa 1850. Everything turns into a big project.

If we had run into a deal like yours Beercan we would have done that too!

You should have seen the number of layers of wallpaper over the lathe and plaster and the layers of flooring we removed.

 

[Beer can]

Our house is circa 1850. Everything turns into a big project.

If we had run into a deal like yours Beercan We would have done that too!

Ours is supposed to be 1910, I think it's older, half of it is plank construction. We gutted the bathroom too. Didn't people know about squares and levels back then? Lol. It was not easy or fun.

 

[Beer can]

I found old newspapers in one wall, and in between the floor. 1930s, war yrs. One had my grandmother's wedding annoucment in it!
I had pic on my other phone of a ad I framed. It was a canon with a frying pan over it pouring oil into it, said 'save all your waste fats for the war effort'.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Ours is supposed to be 1910, I think it's older, half of it is plank construction. We gutted the bathroom too. Didn't people know about squares and levels back then? Lol. It was not easy or fun.

No i don't think they did.

We feel like the little crooked man in the little crooked house a lot of the time. It really is neat what you find in the walls. This time we found a window we think was for bringing wood inside for the old style kitchen stoves. My grandmother had a Kalamazoo.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Soooooo, as of last week, I was looking at 7 RIR's and 1 BO to start my mini-flock...that has changed even before I picked up my little ladies.....the BO is out and 3 Rainbows are in.  Dad wasn't onboard with the chicken idea until a stop at Runnings yesterday, he saw a photo of adult Rainbows and fell in love with the colors.  I know I asked a few days back about the whole RIR+1BO flock, the general feeling was that it might be okay but there should be more than 1 oddball.  I am thinking that the 3 Rainbows should be just fine with the RIR group...all the ladies will be the same age and (from what I have read) the same size.

God help me, I've only started the base frame of the coop and I've already got to expand it.  

don't feel bad. We started with 10 and before we made it home with them hubby had already stopped at the feed store and ordered 10 more. Then I bought 2 cockerels, then oh no "I just gotta have one more cockerel he's so handsome". Now my 10 is 21, with the loss of 2 pullets very early on. Now I need 3 more coops just for the chickenstock order and my meaties. I'm telling you, chickens are like crack, try it once and your hooked.

 

[rancher hicks]

Ours is supposed to be 1910, I think it's older, half of it is plank construction. We gutted the bathroom too. Didn't people know about squares and levels back then? Lol. It was not easy or fun.

Yes they did, but you have to understand that a house "settles" and things get crooked. Our house had floors that weren't level because the foundation was poured concrete and crumbling.

When buying a house check the foundations first.

We found newspapers on the shelf that had ads for the new houses being built by Oot. Those houses started at $15,000. Keep in mind wages weren't real high then. In 1971 or so minimum wage was $1.75 hr.

My mother in laws four room house in Galeville, NY was $8,500. We looked at houses in the area before we bought this house and they wanted $82,000 for some of them. Not worth it for sure.

Take your time and hire folks to do what you can't. The electrical at our old house was a mess. This house is not so great either. When I run new wire it gets it's on circuit breaker. We have a big box.

 

[Beer can]

don't feel bad. We started with 10 and before we made it home with them hubby had already stopped at the feed store and ordered 10 more. Then I bought 2 cockerels, then oh no "I just gotta have one more cockerel he's so handsome". Now my 10 is 21, with the loss of 2 pullets very early on. Now I need 3 more coops just for the chickenstock order and my meaties. I'm telling you, chickens are like crack, try it once and your hooked.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

That's about right. Blasted little fuzzy butt critters!!!! We have a lot of space for now. By summers end there might only be an acre for the humans.

 

[akaruby]

One of my silkies has been sitting for a week now and I'm wondering if that's long enough to trust giving eggs to her? I've never given her eggs before, she's still young. I take eggs from her daily and take her off the nest, but she's persistent so I figured I could give her some eggs I have in the bator?

 

[nposluszny]

Tab's chicken obsession sounds like us. Two yrs ago we were in Home Depot buying new outside doors, the ones on our house were over a hundred yrs old and cold. I was checking out a kitchen cabinet display, manager walks by and says 'you want it $500, today only, have to get it out of here to make room for more refrigerators'. Mentioned it to the wife, our kitchen was really crappy. She said no, not now. We left. Then she says even if we bought cheap cabinets, two cost $500, I told her the guy said the counter alone with built-in sink was $500. Drove back and bought it. It was one of the high grade setups, crown molding and everything, $6,000 setup complete for $500.
Ruined my summer though, we completely gutted the kitchen, walls floor everything.

My Parent's house is from 1804, with at least 4 additions...used to be a field hospital in the French-Indian War, now is just a nice big home for our 4 dogs,the roaming tortoise and us 3....we are starting the summer kitchen renovation next month. All of us are terrified of what we'll find, as not a single addition was built up to code of any kind (I bet toddlers with Legos are more competent) but we bought a "new" used gas range and everyone decided that a new stove deserves a new kitchen. I'll post pics of the madness once we start.