NY chicken lover!!!!

[Aria]

a date is selected usually in May. One of the members hosts it at their house. Everyone brings what they want to sell and a covered dish or something to contribute to the Day outing. I am sure
Gramma Chick will have more details to share. Aria

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Yeah I have my internet back finally!!! It is the new year and I hope all is well with everyone and not to many loses. All of our birds are doing great, but we've had some struggles with our 4 legged family. We had to put to sleep our old lady dog in December. She was 14. Then in the last 2 weeks we adopted 2 more. The older one doesn't care about the birds at all, but the younger one wants chicken dinner so we have our work cut out for us with trying to train her that they aren't live food.

Hope everyone is ready for the snow coming this weekend! Conflicting reports say we could get anywhere from 10-24 inches... Looks like there is a lot of shoveling of chicken coop doors and runs in my very near future..

Stay warm everyone!

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Talking about the picnic.... I have offered to host it at my place this year. If anyone else really wants to host speak up now, if not.....
Time to start thinking about it!!.... I was thinking about either the 4th or the 18th. (The 11th is Mother's day weekend and the 25th is Memorial day weekend) Let me know what weekend works best and we can pick the one that most are available for.

 

[Aria]

Yeah I have my internet back finally!!! It is the new year and I hope all is well with everyone and not to many loses. All of our birds are doing great, but we've had some struggles with our 4 legged family. We had to put to sleep our old lady dog in December. She was 14. Then in the last 2 weeks we adopted 2 more. The older one doesn't care about the birds at all, but the younger one wants chicken dinner so we have our work cut out for us with trying to train her that they aren't live food.

Hope everyone is ready for the snow coming this weekend! Conflicting reports say we could get anywhere from 10-24 inches... Looks like there is a lot of shoveling of chicken coop doors and runs in my very near future..

Stay warm everyone!

Thanks. No good to be without internet. Like you have lost
contact with the Chicken World. We have have 3 mixed breeds
NOT LAYING and one Rhode Island Red...laying one egg a day.
I will be looking for Rhode Island Red Young Hens this Spring.
She is such a super chicken.....good personality, friendly and lays one egg a day. She is a perfect pet chicken. Aria

 

[Lapeerian]

Talking about the picnic.... I have offered to host it at my place this year. If anyone else really wants to host speak up now, if not.....
Time to start thinking about it!!.... I was thinking about either the 4th or the 18th. (The 11th is Mother's day weekend and the 25th is Memorial day weekend) Let me know what weekend works best and we can pick the one that most are available for.

I vote the 4th, will be out of town the 18th. I’m ok with Mother’s Day weekend as well, like a gift to myself
I could let our Broome County 4-H club, Eggcelent Peeps, know about it too. Some kids may be looking for show birds. My daughter still has Lemony Snicket, the lemon cuckoo Orp hen, that I got as a chick from Chickenstock 2 years ago. Still plan on using her, but will be looking for a backup chicken, either Orp or Wyandotte hen of good quality. No more cloverbud, into regular 4-H competition this year.

 

[Aria]

I vote the 4th, will be out of town the 18th. I’m ok with Mother’s Day weekend as well, like a gift to myself
I could let our Broome County 4-H club, Eggcelent Peeps, know about it too. Some kids may be looking for show birds. My daughter still has Lemony Snicket, the lemon cuckoo Orp hen, that I got as a chick from Chickenstock 2 years ago. Still plan on using her, but will be looking for a backup chicken, either Orp or Wyandotte hen of good quality. No more cloverbud, into regular 4-H competition this year.

Any date would be fine for us. We are looking for Rhode Island Reds young hens. Aria

 

[NNYchick]

This sums it up for me and my Silkies especially after this weekend

 

[Aria]

This sums it up for me and my Silkies especially after this weekend
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Sorry...I do not understand? Beautiful Silkies in a row...I must have missed something? What is Kiss Out? Aria

 

[NNYchick]

Sorry...I do not understand? Beautiful Silkies in a row...I must have missed something? What is Kiss Out? Aria

Fluffy Bums. LOL

 

[Purple Iris]

Hope everyone is surviving the weather, here nr Buffalo we coped OK in the big storm last weekend, 13 inches of snow, and very cold temps below 0, overnight we are heading into an ice storm, and a big warm up to around 28 and freezing rain.

My 6 girls also did a 'bottoms up' one warm day a few weeks ago - probably related to the sunflower seeds I threw down on the porch to tempt them out of the coop. They have chosen to stay inside the coop since then, even though they have a covered run, free from snow, they just prefer to snooze on the roost unless temps are above freezing.

We had a very 'eggciting' time last week, our Red Sexlinks started laying, one of them the usual golf ball sized eggs you often see for the first few weeks of laying. Her sister laid the biggest egg I have ever seen - I assumed it would be a double yolker.....

Well this was what we found when we opened it - another whole egg, as well as the yolk (which broke) and white to go with the big shell!!!

Of course this lead to some Google research, and this 1 minute vid was the best explanation I found of how that happens

The 2 Catskill Homesteader hens we added to the flock last June have recently had their first molt, Bronwen went from a scruffly looking thing to a rather gorgeous looking lady

That's all the updates from me, thought you'd all get a kick out of the supersize egg, poor girl, what an introduction to laying, every egg since then has been normal size.