NY chicken lover!!!!

[greymane]

Appears to be "The Year of the Duck". We had Call Show Ducks for many years.
Two years ago we came home to find our Barn empty.

We got Silkie Chickens. The Ducks are MORE care. We are so much happier with
our Chickens.

Empty? That is terrible. Animal or human predator?

On a positive note (to start the weekend), here is a pic of my son with the neighbors twin baby goats!!

 

[Aria]

Firstr the Boy and then the Goats....Handsome.

Nothing was left....not a feather. We NEVER found out what happened.

 

[greymane]

That is just bizarre.

 

[Cass]

Just rec'd a call from local hardware store our plucker has arrived

... Well I guess I know what I am doing tomorrow.

I have too many roos. The silver laced cochin is climbing into the nest boxes to mess with the broody silkies. So he might be first!

I have to figure out what I am going to use as a scalder first, and get some heavy duty gloves!

I use my canner. And latex gloves. Now my experience is with roos that were already contained in a box. Personally I think this is the only way to go....go in the coop after dark and box up the "next candidates".....then you can just reach in and grab them .....and hold tight to their feet....(that's always my job, holding the feet while they expire and maaan....it takes longer than you think)

 

[Cass]

Do you know where I can get one of those burners? and do you use special gloves so you don't get burnt? I looked at TSC and CountryMax today and couldn't find any that went past my wrists.

you don't actually put your hands into the water.....hold them by the feet, dunk them for the recommended time (I use 30 seconds), turn them over and dunk them again so you get both sides. Now I totally remove the head before dunking them. Once we had to redunk the side that I hadn't held in the water quite long enough and my arms were tired of plucking. You have a plucker, so I don't see you needing gloves at all. Or just regular work gloves

 

[featherz]

you don't actually put your hands into the water.....hold them by the feet, dunk them for the recommended time (I use 30 seconds), turn them over and dunk them again so you get both sides. Now I totally remove the head before dunking them. Once we had to redunk the side that I hadn't held in the water quite long enough and my arms were tired of plucking. You have a plucker, so I don't see you needing gloves at all. Or just regular work gloves

Don't suppose you want a box of baby roos? I gotta drive out to albany again tonight.. muahahaha.

 

[Cass]

Don't suppose you want a box of baby roos? I gotta drive out to albany again tonight.. muahahaha.

Not really....I don't have any room to grow them out....sigh....otherwise i would take them.

Your girls are outside with the flock right now....they are loving it.

 

[featherz]

Not really....I don't have any room to grow them out....sigh....otherwise i would take them.

Your girls are outside with the flock right now....they are loving it.

They are 6 weeks old! Fully feathered! and cute! you know you want them. LOL. I gotta take them to schuylerville tomorrow and I don't wanna. Plus I usually screw up and leave a few hens in there.

I am glad the ladies are better now. They are big girls so hopefully they can hold their own. I think I overfeed my chickens LOL.

 

[stonykill]

Do you know where I can get one of those burners? and do you use special gloves so you don't get burnt? I looked at TSC and CountryMax today and couldn't find any that went past my wrists.

I use a turkey deep fryer I was given. It's perfect. I'll NEVER deep fry an entire turkey, but I will scald a lot of roo's!

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

We bought a GMC envoy to downsize from a Ford 250 (gas prices) because we had a buyer for the truck. Finally got the paper work done on the envoy and called the kid buying the truck so we could deliver it to him. He said he didn't want it anymore because it took too long (he had to ride the school bus for a week). It has only been a week since he looked at it. Now we have an additional vehicle payment.