NY chicken lover!!!!

[tjbaker70]

Thanks for the Welcome Gramma Chick!

 

[Gramma Chick]

intervene

Hey guys what's your opinion on if a mama hen will adopt more newly hatched chicks after hers are already a week old?

Depends on the hen . I have one that will ( a Aussie ) ...one that wont .( My Sumatra ) .Are they all the same color ?

The best time is put them under her at night ..so she wakes up with them ...
If Momma and babies all ready in a separate pen cover them up so they wake up when you are there ..
Then you can see if she will accept them and intervene if she doesnt

 

[horsekeeper]

Hi fellow New Yorkers! I'm new to BYC and to chickens. My first chicks will arrive next week (mixed flock of 25: Andalusians, Polish, Delawares, Dominiques, RIR, Wyandottes, Orpingtons, Faverolles). This site has been fantastic for getting prepared. I'm in Uster County.

Welcome!

 

[Gramma Chick]

Thanks for the Welcome Gramma Chick!

Your Welcome ..chickens are fun ...that is a lot to start out with at 1st .
All Pullets ?

 

[tjbaker70]

Welcome!

Thanks!!

 

[tjbaker70]

Your Welcome ..chickens are fun ...that is a lot to start out with at 1st .
All Pullets ?

All day old chicks we're starting with. At first it was going to just 8 or so for our yard and for our son's 4H poultry project and well ... now we have 25 chicks coming. We have a couple people interested in taking some though and we figured there would be a couple potential losses.

 

[wcfinklized]

Hello and welcome. I drive right up 81 everyday for work. I live in Oswego so only about an hour away from you. I know a guy that has chickens that is in Watertown.

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Only time I ever spent time in Oswego was for family court lol... No I wasn't in trouble.... I'm from Pulaski/ Clay/ and Pennellville....so I know Oswego and Onondaga counties well enough.... Learning the ropes of Jefferson now... Hard to find places I'm use to in Oswego and Onondaga counties up here.

 

[baunlee]

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte people,
does anyone have a BLRW roo? or expect to have one as the result of any hatches? I think horsekeeper, Tab, and BeauGarden
mentioned them but it was awhile ago and I'm not certain!

• BLRW people getting eggs or chicks - do you have a website of where you are getting them from, so we can check it out?
• Chicks = would they be straight run?

 

[featherz]

Just a heads up, the saratoga TSC has a bin full of white leghorn pullets.. Had to take home a few and hear one cheeping now

 

[cutipatooti]

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte people,
does anyone have a BLRW roo? or expect to have one as the result of any hatches? I think horsekeeper, Tab, and BeauGarden
mentioned them but it was awhile ago and I'm not certain!

• BLRW people getting eggs or chicks - do you have a website of where you are getting them from, so we can check it out?
• Chicks = would they be straight run?

I have an order in for BLRW from chickenhill poultry. They should be here end of this month or early next. I'm sure I will end up with extra Roos since they are straight run. I plan to grow them all out before I make any decisions on who's a keeper.