NY chicken lover!!!!

[County Boy]

They are and I have some of those eggs in the bator now! Woot!! =) Thanks county boy!!

Your Welcome. Let me know how they hatch and if you don't get at least 8 chicks I will give you another dozen for free.

 

[vmdanielsen]

I had posted last week but it might have got lost in the other posts. I am in Waterloo between the northern ends of Cayuga and Seneca lakes. I will keep everyone posted on how things go. Depressing part is TSC called today to tell me the chicks I was looking for were in. I had to tell them I couldn't get them.

A double whammie stinks. I hope a job comes along soon and chicks after that.

 

[rancher hicks]

I had posted last week but it might have got lost in the other posts. I am in Waterloo between the northern ends of Cayuga and Seneca lakes. I will keep everyone posted on how things go. Depressing part is TSC called today to tell me the chicks I was looking for were in. I had to tell them I couldn't get them.

Well now chin up. From me the chicks are free so lets hope you find a new job real soon.

To bad there isn't a praying emoticon.

Rancher

I was in TSC today too. Saw they had Campbells. My plan was to get some but I really need to build a coop for them. And give it more thought.

 

[featherz]

Your Welcome. Let me know how they hatch and if you don't get at least 8 chicks I will give you another dozen for free.

Wow thanks! I am candling this weekend so will have a progress report soon.

 

[McBride55]

Thanks for all the support. All efforts are going into job hunting. Hopefully if I find one soon I can get a few chicks this time.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Punt

 

[rancher hicks]

touch down!

 

[stonykill]

Tomorrow's menu.
Breakfast : fried egg sandwich's
lunch: egg salad sandwich's with home made whole egg mayonnaise
dinner: crock pot rooster

Got chicken

 

[ChickPrincess]

Well he is a guy and she is a blond, what can you expect. Blonds have more fun.

I knew Rancher would come up with something of the sort! lol!

Gramma (re: Blondie's pecking order) She's somewhere in the middle. 17 Australorps came after her, but she was bottom of the totem pole before that. I also realized today, after cleaning her poopy butt in my bathtub (eeeeeeewwwwwww) that she has many missing feathers on her butt. Gave her a bath and blew her dry (she crawled onto my lap and closed her eyes... awwww!) and smeared her with NuStock. Maybe she is getting picked on. I'll spend some good time out there Saturday and check things out. No sign of mites and no one else has missing bum feathers.

 

[Gramma Chick]

I got bad news the otherh day. My company downsized a bunch of people and I was one. So I will have to put off getting my flock started until next year. I won't have the $ to do it right now.

Sorry to hear that ..I hope you can a replacement job soon .
My husband is retired ..so we downsized some what also .
We got chickens for survival reasons ..If the economy changes we have eggs & we would have chicken if we had to ....
Chickens dont have to be expensive ..They will eat just about anything ..Leftovers ...They eat all our vegetable scraps ..bread , oatmeal
For extra calcuim we grind up the shells & feed it back to them
We went from 3 bags of garbage a week to 1 bag ..
There is a big start up cost ..Building... Protected Run ESP ..
They pay for their feed now ..( Purina Layer ) from the eggs we sell ...
we only have 8 hens ..however if you start with chicks you have to feed them for 5 months before they produce .
But you have that time to get to know them ...they will be tamer if you raise them from chicks ..