NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

Hen -

 

[Lapeerian]

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The Bee Tree.

Poor little bees! It's decided, we are staying HOME. Got a call from my mom, dad just put her truck in the ditch. With 4 wheel drive. It's a really nice truck too - 2008 Ford 150 Super Crew cab. Our little Corolla would shatter into a million pieces of plastic if it bumps a snow bank. Brother has to leave his longtime girlfriends family party to take the tractor and chains to haul it out. This is supposed to let up later, play it by ear Rancher, but I know Syracuse gets pretty good snow bands. Stay safe!

 

[Lynzi777]

Here is our little chick-a-dee

 

[Cass]

Here is our little chick-a-dee

Chicks don' t need to eat for 2 - 3 days, so please don't put yourself in danger to get food for this chick. The momma will take it out of the nest and show it how to eat when it is time for it to eat. IF the weather keeps you indoors longer than 3 days, crush up some layer feed. While a chick shouldn't eat layer feed until it is laying, it won't hurt the chick to eat it for a couple of days and it will keep it from starving to death. Some people crush up hard boiled egg's yolk as a substitute for chick feed, in a pinch. Others serve it as their chick's first "treat".

 

[Glasshen]

The poor bees. Hope you can salvage your wooden hive for them. Will the one hive have enough honey to get them all through the winter?

Lynzi, your Pearl is so smart to hatch that beautiful chick! What a good girl!

Rancher, I think this is a good excuse to stay home. I haven't seen a plow all day. My husband just called, he's been out shopping all day and is on his way home. Route 81 is crawling in one direction and stopped in the other. He is on 11going south at 4 mph. No update on 20. Stay home.

Just went to take care of the chickens. They are cozy in the coop, no begging to go out. I had to shovel to get there, and I don't think I shoveled at all last year. The compost pile is very far to walk every day to empty my bucket of pooh. No more light hearted early morning pajama clad chores for a while.

 

[Lynzi777]

Chicks don' t need to eat for 2 - 3 days, so please don't put yourself in danger to get food for this chick. The momma will take it out of the nest and show it how to eat when it is time for it to eat. IF the weather keeps you indoors longer than 3 days, crush up some layer feed. While a chick shouldn't eat layer feed until it is laying, it won't hurt the chick to eat it for a couple of days and it will keep it from starving to death. Some people crush up hard boiled egg's yolk as a substitute for chick feed, in a pinch. Others serve it as their chick's first "treat".

Well that was going to be my next question...Is it terribly bad for the chicks to eat layer feed? Because the kind I buy for my chickens is already crushed up and is practically a powder. So thats good to know. Thanks!

Looks like it is finally stopping out there, roads are getting cleared up but I think I'll still have my husband pick up the chick starter for me. I'm now trapped at home anyway waiting during this "3 hour" window for my new furniture arrive! UGH I'll tell ya, as much as I love Ashley Furniture's stuff, I don't think I will ever order from them again - 4wk delivery!?! No thank you!

 

[Pyxis]

It's snowing like crazy here! And something keeps eating my ducks. Whatever iit is was kind enough to drag the carcass of the last duckling it took to the foot of my steps so that's the first thing I saw when I went outside today. Anyway that means all the birds are on coop arrest so here I am outside in a snowstorm building them a bigger run.

Also, is anyone selling any young layers? I'm not picky about the breed. We have mutts here And, anyone interested in a young silkie cockerel? Still a chick, really. He just can't stay around because I can't have him breeding his sisters. He's from quality birds sp I'm sure he'll be a pretty boy.

 

[featherz]

It's snowing like crazy here! And something keeps eating my ducks. Whatever iit is was kind enough to drag the carcass of the last duckling it took to the foot of my steps so that's the first thing I saw when I went outside today. Anyway that means all the birds are on coop arrest so here I am outside in a snowstorm building them a bigger run.
Also, is anyone selling any young layers? I'm not picky about the breed. We have mutts here

And, anyone interested in a young silkie cockerel? Still a chick, really. He just can't stay around because I can't have him breeding his sisters. He's from quality birds sp I'm sure he'll be a pretty boy.

No snow here! we just had a few flurries so far.

I do have two younger birds I'd part with that I believe will be a pair - mutt 'black chickens' (EE heritage, they have beards). One is almost certainly a roo, the other so far looks hennish. I think they are hmm.. almost 12 weeks old. They were princess's 'broody buster' chicks. A lot of my other hens, even the younger ones, are molting right now. Pretty funny to look at. =)

I should have NN chicks on Jan 1 if luck is with me!

 

[rancher hicks]

Went to wedding but was to late for the ceremony. Traffic at a snails place. DD drove. What is it about getting old that makes you so nervous when driving? Had a good time though.

Py - I have three young ones. A friend is supposed to come and get them but we shall see. Second chance. She don't come you can have them. One Del def roo, one BR looks to be a pullet and one Birchen Maran also looks to be a pullet.

But you really should get that pred dealt with first. I suggest a Rat trap if you suspect a weasel. Make sure you nail it to a heavier board. Set it with a peice of chicken and set what happens. If a larger pred get a bigger trap. By all means kill it or it will just come back. I once had a squirrel get snapped in a rat trap but not get "caught". It got wounded and went off and died.

Remember folks a "hoop run" is just about the easiet there is to build.

 

[marquisella]

This is what a Brabanter looks like...

V comb, Mohawk like feathers on head & a beard like Ameraucanas.
Dutch breed that was brought back from being extinct. Only this gold & also cream colors in the US.
Lays large white egg.