NY chicken lover!!!!

[Beer can]

e just started using my laptop for this site.  the first thing i looked for was the moving icons :yiipchick

In case you want them in mobile, you can get them by switching to desktop or
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/734386/chick-emoticons#post_11984800
:-D

 

[Gramma Chick]

I almost culled the only two giant/silkie crosses I have left but didn't cause they are the only two right now that are consistently laying and one went broody for over a month and I knew would keep the eggs from freezing. Got a little annoying though taking her off the nest acting like a monster everyday. She finally quit a few days ago. Yeah, wrong time of the yr to go broody.

My Ti Ti is Broody again ...Last year she was broody 3 times ...Im not giving her eggs to set on just eggnoring her .
She isnt crazy with me when she is nesting so I can take what ever eggs she trys to keep warm ...she has dummy eggs to set on too


this is one of her broods

 

[Gramma Chick]

I planted carrots last year, and I pulled them out yesterday. The biggest one was the length of my middle finger. The others varied in size, the smallest was less than half of my pinkie. Same thing happened last year. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I didnt grow carrots this year ...too much work and they never amount to much .
I just buy them from wegmans - they only sell organic - at a good price -5 pounds for less than 5.00

 

[Devona]

so jealous right now. i will look for danvers half longs in the spring. i tried growing broccoli and cabbage last spring from a couple of six pack plants i bought on a whim. it didnt work out well either. the broccoli heads got to half the size of my fist, and while i was waiting for them to get bigger, they got flowers.......

so the rabbits got a treat. the leaves of the young cabbage plants acquired quite a number of holes overnight, and never grew.

maybe i should just stick to what i know. which isnt much, anyway. My vining veggies did great. i had a decent harvest from a few plants.

 

[dcba flock]

I never did good with carrots either until two yrs ago, forgot to buy seeds and start some last yr, definitely going to this coming season.. I loosened up and hilled a 2'x6' maybe? hill and planted just one package of danvers half longs, highly recommend them, shorter blockier roots than other carrots, some were huge! I didn't thin them at all so there was some that were too close and spindly but overall a excellent harvest from a couple dollar packet. Shared this back then when me and the kids harvested, wasn't all of them had been picking and eating many fresh and cooked for a month or two before. As you can see picked late, tops had already died off.

Holy moly that's an awesome carrot harvest jealous 2!!!!!

 

[boskelli1571]

@Beer can I'll have to look up about duck burgers - sounds yummy!
I saw that c'list ad for hatching eggs & did contact them about turkey eggs; sounded interested, but I don't know what she pays or she also mentioned "splitting the poults".
@Chicken girl 15 glad you have enough Roos for now. I was looking at mine today, and at the moment I don't have any that would fit the bill.
Decisions ... Elly May (Silkie/Cochin) who I got at Chickenstock in 2015 has gone broody again. I know she won't stop & successfully raised chicks last year at this time (tho it was a mild winter). Plus, another hen went broody. Why this time of year? I've been getting lots of eggs (everyone molted back in Sept -Nov) so there's been piles of 6-12 eggs in one nesting box! My only issue is the "brooder coop" is currently housing two turkeys - my aggressive tom (waiting for a break in the weather to process him ) & his replacement jake in "quarantine". And I started to do an "upgrade" to that coop, but can't now with the "bad boy" tom in there! So, I hate to give the hens eggs to hatch, only to have the 21 days go too fast & not be ready for the chicks!
The only other option, which I don't like to do often, is try to break them by moving them to one of the young pullet coops where they can't get to those nesting boxes.

I hear you on waiting for the weather. I have 6-8 rabbits to cull and it's too **** cold right now -5F brrrr. I'm getting around 12 eggs/day from 34 ladies, so no complaints here.
In other news - the AI outbreak in UK is getting bad, several flocks culled and everyone now has to keep their flocks confined indoors

 

[Devona]

I hear   you on waiting for the weather. I have 6-8 rabbits to cull and it's too **** cold right now -5F brrrr. I'm getting around 12 eggs/day from 34 ladies, so no complaints here.
In other news - the AI outbreak in UK is getting bad, several flocks culled and everyone now has to keep their flocks confined indoors

That's just terrible about the outbreak. And all those cooped up chickens! I'm sure not everyone has the kind of coops that you can lock your chickens up 24/7 and they'd be comfortable indefinitely.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I would process my flock before I made them live in a cage. I free range for many reasons, 1 of which is to ease my mind about animal cruelty to animals I eat.

Before yall yell at me for saying "your cruel" I'm not. I just don't like caging my birds.

 

[Devona]

Lol, no yelling here

. It would be crueler to confine them indefinitely in a tiny space

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Help!! I need roosters..

I have a bunch! There are some big boys and a few little boys that think that they are big boys...especially "Big Boy"...He is a tiny frizzled rooster that thinks he is Jersey Giant. Some of the boys are from blue green eggs...OR if you want them to eat that would be fine too. I have been meaning to process them, but just can't find the time..

Let me know if you are still looking...or if you were joking.... I was skimming and just happened to find your post.