NY chicken lover!!!!

[vmdanielsen]

Hello from Interlaken NY! I have a small flock (8 mixed girls and 2 Peking ducks). I use savings and straw and the straw does get matted a bit by the end of the week , but only where they sleep. I pick through the coop weekly and it stays wonderfully dry and my girls are happy, fat ( very spoiled on mini muffins and oatmeal) and still laying every other day or so.

Welcome Ellie!!!!

 

[Henicillin]

Hello from Interlaken NY! I have a small flock (8 mixed girls and 2 Peking ducks). I use savings and straw and the straw does get matted a bit by the end of the week , but only where they sleep. I pick through the coop weekly and it stays wonderfully dry and my girls are happy, fat ( very spoiled on mini muffins and oatmeal) and still laying every other day or so.

Welcome aboard!

 

[ChickPrincess]

I use straw in the runs, but this last bale I got from a private person. What I buy at CM is a larger bale and cleaner I think. I've used it before and it didn't smell. I don't use it in the coop since it holds the moisture.

I like Nobles wood shaving since they are large flakes and not saw dust. You can use them and rake them up to keep things mixed. I also like to toss in some scratch so the birds "work" things and keep thing aerated.

The straw I got seemed good (from a farmer up the road), but YEAH, it held the moisture alright! My body is broken from all the shoveling I did today.

Hello from Interlaken NY! I have a small flock (8 mixed girls and 2 Peking ducks). I use savings and straw and the straw does get matted a bit by the end of the week , but only where they sleep. I pick through the coop weekly and it stays wonderfully dry and my girls are happy, fat ( very spoiled on mini muffins and oatmeal) and still laying every other day or so.

Welcome, Ellie! I think I've been through your town... maybe on the way to Mexico? If I'm remembering right.

You know you're a chicken addict when...
I went outside this morning and there was a half-alive caterpillar in the driveway and my first thought was, "Oh, wow! A trophy!".
Good Lord, help me.

 

[rancher hicks]

Hello from Interlaken NY! I have a small flock (8 mixed girls and 2 Peking ducks). I use savings and straw and the straw does get matted a bit by the end of the week , but only where they sleep. I pick through the coop weekly and it stays wonderfully dry and my girls are happy, fat ( very spoiled on mini muffins and oatmeal) and still laying every other day or so.

 

[stonykill]

I hadn't thought of a clamp on light. I was thinking of one of those lights that mechanics use...you know the one that comes with an extention cord and hangs on something...they must have a name, I just can't remember.......

extension light

 

[Lapeerian]

We have Mennonites near us and I've always thought they were very clean people. Maybe I'm wrong? I can't picture them leaving a bunch of chicken heads around. Treating their livestock like tools, yes, but their farms always look picture perfect and tidy.

Amish and Mennonites have very different 'rules' and each group is different too. Like us English, each family behaves different. I end up talking to my dad last night about the chicken head incident and some other small ongoing issues we have had. Guess many of the amish families around here are none too giving or thankful for any help the English offer. One lady took an Amish family back to PA to visit. 17 hour round trip, she was only reimbursed for gas and was never offered a thank you or invited in the house.
Much of the snow has melted off here, chickens were happily running around outside doing chicken things. Thier favorite dust bath spot under the pine tree was visited and scratched through the leaves. I hope they don't find the chicken heads, I do NOT want them eating that nasty crap. I went up to see, it was disgusting. Hubby kicked them off the lawn, but still

lapeerian - that sounds nasty about the chicken heads left behind, but comical about the mini stud. Once in a while, my gelding (and my neighbor's two) manage to escape Alcatraz where the deer might have gotten the hot wire pulled down without us noticing. They have a grand adventure and the expense of more gray hairs for me.

TOB

The mini has been an ongoing problem this year. He wanders through wherever he likes. Can't be caught or contained. I have 2 geldings and a mare. She is a 14 hand Arab, but I've watched the mini stud try to breed the draft mares in the neighbor pasture. Obviously there are some height differences, but don't want to chance that. The young paint gelding has been a good herd protector, he plays wild stallion with the mini.

 

[vmdanielsen]

extension light

I love getting old

 

[vmdanielsen]

Amish and Mennonites have very different 'rules' and each group is different too. Like us English, each family behaves different. I end up talking to my dad last night about the chicken head incident and some other small ongoing issues we have had. Guess many of the amish families around here are none too giving or thankful for any help the English offer. One lady took an Amish family back to PA to visit. 17 hour round trip, she was only reimbursed for gas and was never offered a thank you or invited in the house.

It would be the last time I brought them anywhere!! One can find inconsiderate people anywhere......

 

[SHRIVERFARMGIRL]

We installed a cheap floresant light that can be turned on by way of switch in the summer and in the winter we put the timer on it.

 

[Tough Old Bird]

I love getting old

LOL at that, as I can definitely relate to frustrating memory issues! Misery loves company!


TOB