NY chicken lover!!!!

[minichic]

I know. When I went to TSC and saw the bargains I had to call him. I knew he couldn't refuse. Did he tell you he might end up with ours anyway. Good guy! I do like the size that the Campbell's will grow to. Smaller duck and not much bigger than the leghorns. Maybe we will keep them. Hope so. I just don't like too much mess. Everything I have read about them says that they can lay up to 340 eggs a year. Now that's production!!

I have a pair of Welsh Harlequins. The duck has given me an egg a day since Christmas. She hasn't missed a day. Eggs are fab for baking! The rest I sell to someone I work with. She feeds them to her show dog who has trouble maintaining weight and is a fussy eater; but she loves duck eggs! The ducks are worth having around just for the entertainment factor!

 

[happyhensny]

I have a pair of Welsh Harlequins. The duck has given me an egg a day since Christmas. She hasn't missed a day. Eggs are fab for baking! The rest I sell to someone I work with. She feeds them to her show dog who has trouble maintaining weight and is a fussy eater; but she loves duck eggs! The ducks are worth having around just for the entertainment factor!

 

[Lynzi777]

Talked to my husband last night about duck eggs. Sounded really enthusiastic about them so I'm thinking, Wow, maybe he's changed his mind about me getting a few...at the end of the our convo I added - So I can get 2-3?? And he responds with No way LOL Not that he really has the final say in anything, (if I want them bad enough I will just bring them home) but I like to let him think he does sometimes.

My cheeps are itching to get out. Now I truly understand when you all say yours were "mad they weren't let out" certain days, what you mean! I went to refill water in the silkie coop yesterday and they all came flocking to the door trying to escape. That was a battle trying to get that water in there! it was rainy and dreary out yesterday, they'll go out today at some point since everyone is home. I'm sure my kids will be out there to play later since it's nice out. That'll keep the hawks away.

 

[Glasshen]

I am ready for spring, but today I was glad it was a little colder and firmer. Yesterday I was ready to get rid of the chickens since they were wandering around in the eternal rain looking bedraggled and muddy. Someone was pecking on Mamas back which is showing skin, so I brought her in and blue coted her. Only got a little on my hands..lucky .
There was so much standing water that I thought I should just go get ducks and be done with it. How can there be standing water on a hill side????

 

[rancher hicks]

Going to put this up again and hope it doesn't irritate anyone to see it twice. Just disregard if you've already seen it and are not interested.

My friend has a RIR rooster, hatched May 2012, that she would like to find a good home for.
She has only 1 hen and still has a few roos left from that hatch; the hen gets far too much "attention".

I think mderby is going to take her white leghorn, and my friend wants to keep the low-ranking roo who was the last to hatch from this group. So.... this leaves 1 more roo to go!

He's free, as you'd expect.

Thanks for considering &/or spreading the word.

TOB

While I do have a RIR hen sitting on eggs and I have no room for another breed or rooster. Your friend may want to keep this RIR rooster and get some Delaware hens.

By crossing a RIR or New Hampshire rooster to a Delaware hen she would get sex linked chicks. The boys looking like Dels and the girls looking like RIR.

This would certainly give her a reason to keep the guy. Now more guessing and waiting.

 

[rancher hicks]

here in albany this fight has been fought by many from every angle and jerry jennings just will not seem to budge, its sad, i don't live in albany but nearbye and i catch the news......i sympathize with those who would love chickens and live there.

Have you considered a bribe? Or hiring a PI to find a leverage. This is NYS after all.

 

[rancher hicks]

I am ready for spring, but today I was glad it was a little colder and firmer. Yesterday I was ready to get rid of the chickens since they were wandering around in the eternal rain looking bedraggled and muddy. Someone was pecking on Mamas back which is showing skin, so I brought her in and blue coted her. Only got a little on my hands..lucky .
There was so much standing water that I thought I should just go get ducks and be done with it. How can there be standing water on a hill side????

You know what I don't get? Why can't they do a green kote? Or something that will at least offer some type of camouflage. I mean those big dummies would make a mint. I would buy it by the case just to hide my white dels from the air.

I suspect this is why someone developed Brown Leghorns. Which by the way are at the TSC and I was tempted, believe me. My BR's are not so easy to see in the woods, brown leghorns would be even harder.

 

[Tough Old Bird]

While I do have a RIR hen sitting on eggs and I have no room for another breed or rooster. Your friend may want to keep this RIR rooster and get some Delaware hens.

By crossing a RIR or New Hampshire rooster to a Delaware hen she would get sex linked chicks. The boys looking like Dels and the girls looking like RIR.

This would certainly give her a reason to keep the guy. Now more guessing and waiting.

I'll suggest this to her, Rancher, thanks. I do know she was thinking about getting more hens at some future date, but is likely to just want to keep the one rooster she and her family is attached to. It's worth bringing up, though. And I know someone who has Del's that I can recommend....

TOB

 

[Tough Old Bird]

Rancher got me thinking with his comment on Brown Leghorns.....

Here's a random curiosity question for you guys and girls:

If you could just snap your fingers and have any new breed of chicken or duck today, (regardless of cost, practicality, disagreeable husbands and wives, etc...) what would it be?

I'm just dying to get my new girls, but if I could add another to the mix I've arranged, I suppose I'm pretty intrigued and impressed by Buckeyes.

TOB

 

[blzzrdqueen]

Have you considered a bribe? Or hiring a PI to find a leverage. This is NYS after all.

We all could offer to pay for his tanning for a year