NY chicken lover!!!!

[AQHAchick22]

Onions and asparagus is in the garden. Let it rain. Fresh compost from the town is very very dry and my shoulder hurts to much to drag the hose that far.

Went to Lowes twice today. The second trip I slipped off the curb and fell under the truck. Ray started the truck and man, was I scared he was going to run over me with the front tire. So, now, not only do I have a bruise from impact with the curb but scrapes from scrambling to get out from under the side of the truck.

My chickens have been out parading in the rain. Silly birds.

The new chicks are half the size of the week old chicks. I knew they grew fast, but wow, doubling in size in one week?

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.

Ouch I'm glad you're okay! That sounds painful...
My chickens have been out in the rain wandering as well, my silly white leghorn is now brownish black...she's a muddy mess.

 

[Lapeerian]

Onions and asparagus is in the garden. Let it rain. Fresh compost from the town is very very dry and my shoulder hurts to much to drag the hose that far.

Went to Lowes twice today. The second trip I slipped off the curb and fell under the truck. Ray started the truck and man, was I scared he was going to run over me with the front tire. So, now, not only do I have a bruise from impact with the curb but scrapes from scrambling to get out from under the side of the truck.

My chickens have been out parading in the rain. Silly birds.

The new chicks are half the size of the week old chicks. I knew they grew fast, but wow, doubling in size in one week?

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.

Ouch! Hope you heal quick. I think you need to spend some time in a nicely padded room....

We planted flowers in the barrels near the house last weekend, but I'm holding off on planting my started veggies. Calling for frost Monday-Tuesday. Need to get the scallions, carrots and swiss chard planted, maybe tomorrow. My started tomatoes are huge, can't wait to get the stuff out into the ground. Still got lots more yard work I want to accomplish, today's rain screwed up those plans.

 

[KateBean]

We have silver ameraucana and project blue silver ameraucana (blue ameraucana X silver ameraucana). We have a roo hatched from when we had them penned together about 3 months old. If you want him he's free. He's in center, not barred. He's at that gangly juvenile stage. My DH has also decided to get rid of the blue silver project because we don't have the time to put into it and he wants to downsize. We have 3 hens and 1 roo he would sell for $50 for the group. They are 1yr old. Our original silver parents were out of stock from pips&peeps in washington. Our original blue parent from rockin paints in ohio.

Did he hatch from a blue egg, if you can recall? Thanks!

 

[rancher hicks]

Rancher, another possibility for some of the tires, not for the use you mentioned tho, is a trick my husband wants to try. I guess they stack up a tire and put soil, and plant potatoes in it. as the plant grows place another tire and more soil and continue. He said the one he saw was at least 6 tires high. To harvest I guess they knock the stack over and the plant will have grown potatoes all the way up the stack. Seems like you would get quite a yield per plant that way.

*edit* oh I see you said you don't want to use them for planting. Oops.

I have considered the potato thing, but believe that lead can leach into the soil. or some other toxic thing. I've not researched it though. I'm sure many of these tires are old. Lord only knows what other bad things are in the dump. There is a lot of broke jars and rusted stuff in there too. The house was built in 1959. The best I can hope for is to just cover it over and plant non edible plants.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Katebean---We just went through our young stock. We have 2 blue silver roos 2 months old and 1 silver roo 2 months old judging by coloration. They were hatched from when the two color variations were penned together. Hopefully you'll let me know if your interested because DH is taking all unwanted young stock to auction tomorrow morning.

 

[rancher hicks]

Afternoon all! Busy day at work and not very nice people. I was very glad to come home and play with the tots. I sold two of the silkie babies today to a very nice family who lives south of me. The boys were thrilled to each get one and the parents were very happy with the quality of my babies. They were the ones who bought a sick silkie chick at the tailgate and it died. Anyways, we had a wonderful conversation about chickens and they got to see all of mine, both silkies and terrorists. They have some marans and she had just made coq au vin the night before with a particularily mean rooster. It was her first time doing so and they loved it. I told her its always tastier when you eat the really mean ones.

She does go on byc and I told her she should look up the ny thread. Very nice people they were and it was so nice talking to a fellow chicken enthusiast. She took pics of Little Man and his women to put in the boys scrap book as the parents.

She really liked my heritage rir tots as well. I told her I would be hatching them out next year. Anything worth while takes time and effort and that is finally paying off with my birds. Its a great hobby.

So Rancher---whatever happened to Fonzie? Did he have a pal named Ritchie?

Lots of rain today but thats good because we needed it. Now I can plant my free bushes I got without breaking my foot trying to dig a hole. Terrorists and divas are mad that they are locked up but until the grass has greened on the neighbors newly planted lawn, they stay that way.

Going to go eat some delicious egg salad now. Maybe bake again. Blackberry crumble coffee cake sounds really good.

Your post reminded me. I could not understand why the pound cakes I was making with the recipe here were getting slightly over cooked. So I remembered something I'd seen on Cooks Country and bought a thermometer to measure the oven temp. DW said it was 25* warmer, but it turns out it's 50* warmer. I set the oven for 200* and the thermometer read 250*. I will try again.

Now lets have that Blackberry coffee cake recipe.

Fonzie got sold. He and his girl Ginny Piccolo were from Alabama. I just could not deal with prissy birds.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Did he hatch from a blue egg, if you can recall? Thanks!

Yes. These are ameraucana, but the blue silver are not yet accepted by the ameraucana breeders club. The egg color was a light blue.

 

[rancher hicks]

ok, this broody thing is getting ridiculous. I get home from the auction to collect my eggs and what do I see? (lousy cell pic alert):



There were two before and now I have three in that box and one in the box next to it.. all in a coop badly suited for babies.. then there's two in my middle coop and two in my back coop (rehomed two of the other broodies). Gack! I try to tell them I don't need any more chicks but they don't listen.

At the book store , looking at magazines there was a picture of a hen with kittens. Don't know how she nursed 'em but it was the cutest thing. Her in the nest and kittens snuggled in next to her. Wish I could share it but didn't buy the magazine.

Lots of articles these days on keeping hens.

 

[miquwid]

Onions and asparagus is in the garden. Let it rain. Fresh compost from the town is very very dry and my shoulder hurts to much to drag the hose that far.

Went to Lowes twice today. The second trip I slipped off the curb and fell under the truck. Ray started the truck and man, was I scared he was going to run over me with the front tire. So, now, not only do I have a bruise from impact with the curb but scrapes from scrambling to get out from under the side of the truck.

My chickens have been out parading in the rain. Silly birds.

The new chicks are half the size of the week old chicks. I knew they grew fast, but wow, doubling in size in one week?

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.

Awesome garden, right now I will take whatever grows LOL

I'm glad your okay omg that is crazy.

Well I'm glad your chickens are not stopped by the weather now they got a bath!

Yeah the chicks amaze me with how fast they grow.

Thanks and happy Mother's Day to you as well!

 

[JLaw]

Well took the 4 week olds out into the coop with the 6/7 week olds and it went great! No major pecking going on the 4 week olds didn't back down right away from the older birds though. It might have helped that I had wife and kids in there and it was pretty late. Oh and we was handing grapes out like candy thing the girls got like 13 grapes tonight more than I normaly like to let them have. Some birds didn't even come off the roost for grapes. When we leff the older girls was fighting for spot by window on top roost. Brought the 4 week olds in though still cold and didn't trust older girls.

jlaw