NY chicken lover!!!!

[Chicken girl 15]

I think I'll have to buy the lot next to me if I end up going nuts. Where do you get enough food to feed them all?

we have 9 acres so our only limit is feed cost.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Hello, I'm JK from the Hudson Valley area near west point. I have a flock of 10 hens 2 roosters and 8 chicks growing out in the brooder. I mainly have cochin bantams but just got buff orpington bantam chicks and porcelain d'uccle bantams. Glad to see a lot of New Yorkers on the site

Hi all, here from Lewiston/Youngstown area. Now I find myself looking how to build incubators and looking at different breeds.
My wife even asked me the other day if I was going to build a bigger coop.

 

[Gramma Chick]

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I buy from J J Feeds in Central Square ...one in Tully Too ?

 

[AmsoilJim]

BUY IT!!!  You can never have too much land. Land is the only thing that lasts.  You can always NOT use it if things go that way, but you can't USE it if you don't have it. I tell all the young folks, buy as much land and as far away from the city as you can afford.  Wish I had done that years ago.   

At some point I would like to buy it, but the one lot is 1.5 acres and and the town has it assessed at $14k I think.

Not sure if the guy would sell it to me or not, he's not around much. I mow part of it and use it like it mine and the guy doesn't seem to mind.

 

[Beer can]

What does everyone do as far as protection from predators? Last summer I lost a duck to a fisher and another duck to an owl. My ducks were very stubborn and refused to go inside the coop at night. Some nights I was successful in catching them, others not so much, the entire property is clay and a hill so I'm sure you can imagine how slippery and difficult it was. When they allowed me, I at least got them to go into their run. From dawn to dusk they had free roam of property. In the morning they would enjoy scavenging the front lawn with the wild turkeys and then enjoyed their afternoon playing with the daycare kids.

We've been researching electric fencing, just concerned with the daycare. We will also be purchasing smaller wire fencing for bottom half of run, current openings are pretty big. Not sure if I'm comfortable free ranging these babies, a chicken tractor of course keeps me at ease. I didn't allow the ducks to free range until they were much larger in fear of all the hawks.

Our property is loaded with wildlife, but we expect it with our wooded rural location. Raccoons, possums, fishers, coyotes, hawks, vultures, owls, stray cats...

A good outside dog.

 

[FishMtFarm]

We are getting a Maremma LGD. He is trained to protect goats, sheep, alpacas, and chickens....

 

[rancher hicks]

We've tried several times to buy the land around us - the guy doesn't want to sell.

Buy whatever land you can! They aren't making any more of it!!

Perhaps it's time to relocate?

 

[AmberKnits]

Perhaps it's time to relocate?  

We have 5 acres, so plenty for us. We'd just like to buy so that no one else will ever buy it. We like not being able to see any neighbors. The guy doesn't live on the land - but he has 100 acres or so. He has a U shape around us, and some across the road. They have 4 wheelers and snow mobile trails.

We've got 5 kids, and we are really active in our town and at the schools. Houses in our town are hard to come-by and we wouldn't want to leave the school/town. We found two that we considered about a year ago....but one had no out buildings at all and was on a hill - lots of land....but none flat. The other house was over 5000 sq ft and needed a lot of updates. I couldn't imagine the heating bills. It's all oil out here, or propane. No natural gas. So it gets pricey to have a giant house.

 

[AmberKnits]

We are getting a Maremma LGD. He is trained to protect goats, sheep, alpacas, and chickens....

He's very cute! I love giant dogs!!

 

[rancher hicks]

We have 5 acres, so plenty for us. We'd just like to buy so that no one else will ever buy it. We like not being able to see any neighbors. The guy doesn't live on the land - but he has 100 acres or so. He has a U shape around us, and some across the road. They have 4 wheelers and snow mobile trails.

We've got 5 kids, and we are really active in our town and at the schools. Houses in our town are hard to come-by and we wouldn't want to leave the school/town. We found two that we considered about a year ago....but one had no out buildings at all and was on a hill - lots of land....but none flat. The other house was over 5000 sq ft and needed a lot of updates. I couldn't imagine the heating bills. It's all oil out here, or propane. No natural gas. So it gets pricey to have a giant house.

I hear that. Our neighbors have taken to playing the drums and it's so loud you can hear it in the house. I pray they will move, go away or their drum sticks will break. I'd appreciate anyone else praying this prayer too. There was a fence that ran the length of their back yards but they torn it down and burned it so now I can see their houses through the woods. They say "good fences make good neighbors", but no fences don't make no neighbors. I wonder if everygreens will grow fast enough. I've seen saplings on CL.

I hope that things progress for the better in your situation.