NY chicken lover!!!!

[vmdanielsen]

Haha unfortunately, I don't think there are too many people out around us

Look at this...I hate people sometimes http://albany.craigslist.org/grd/3800489329.html I wish I could take them.

I am close by!!! and Stoney!


OOPPSS! shoulda' finished reading the posts first.

What a shame on the craigs list post.

 

[AQHAchick22]

I hadn't realized there was competition to having a picnic. Or am I misunderstanding something?

I don't think it's a competition haha I personally would rather not host, but if it came down to it and people were concerned about biosecurity I was just saying that I have a piece of property with a lot of room that doesn't have animals on it. That is all

 

[AQHAchick22]

I am close by!!! and Stoney!


OOPPSS! shoulda' finished reading the posts first.

Haha I guess I underestimated those of us out this way!

 

[rancher hicks]

Well I just like the name Averill Park.

 

[rancher hicks]

I just posted this because she was an active poster here and I saw she was hosting one June 1st. Just putting the info out there. I'm not connected to her or anyone else's picnic..

The key word is "was". I don't think she loves us anymore.

 

[Lynzi777]

Well that weekend flew right by even with an extra day off! Parents left around noon and I'm cleaning up the house. Feel like I missed a bunch on here over the weekend.

Wanted to say Happy Mother's Day to all the MOMS here! Hope you all had a great day so far.

Cleaned out the duck's brooder this morning already, that was what 2 days?!? LOL I now see how much messier they are than chicks. That was partially my fault tho, I put a water dish in there instead of one that was covered and they were jumping in and out of it every chance they got. I must have refilled that water 6 times yesterday! So I made a new out of a plastic container with a lid and cut holes in it large enough for them to dunk their heads/beaks in and it's staying full longer. I'm wondering if I'm making the food right for them though. Someone mentioned to me that they like their food wet. So I pretty much soaked it but not to the point where its drowning in water. I notice that when they eat it, they go back and forth from the food to the water, then back to the food and back over to the water. Is that normal? Should I make the food more liquidy?

 

[Henicillin]

Cleaned out the duck's brooder this morning already, that was what 2 days?!? LOL I now see how much messier they are than chicks. That was partially my fault tho, I put a water dish in there instead of one that was covered and they were jumping in and out of it every chance they got. I must have refilled that water 6 times yesterday! So I made a new out of a plastic container with a lid and cut holes in it large enough for them to dunk their heads/beaks in and it's staying full longer. I'm wondering if I'm making the food right for them though. Someone mentioned to me that they like their food wet. So I pretty much soaked it but not to the point where its drowning in water. I notice that when they eat it, they go back and forth from the food to the water, then back to the food and back over to the water. Is that normal? Should I make the food more liquidy?

That's normal - my adults do it as well. I never bothered with wetting the food - I just give them the dry food and plenty of water, and they're fine. I adore duckehs - that said, they can be nasty, filthy little monsters.

The troops are out running around today. The duckehs like their makeshift pond a lot (crummy cell phone photo - I was too lazy to get the big camera out). The Khaki Campbells are enormous already - they're not even four months old, and are fully as large as my Production Rouens (which are admittedly pretty dinky birds). Judging by their calls when I moved them, I have five KC hens and a drake (hens quack, drakes sort of hiss and whisper).

 

[chicken stalker]

An FYI if anyone is interested https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-saturday-june-1-2013-10-3pm/80#post_11175105

 

[Cass]

An FYI if anyone is interested https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-saturday-june-1-2013-10-3pm/80#post_11175105

Now I remember Sonew saying she was going to host an event this year. Thanks for the link. Don't know how many can make it, but I'm sure some will be interested.

Chicken stalker...the hawk ate the roo that I got from you. I tried to cry, but he was a jerk to the other roos, so I couldn't find a tear. What I need is a larger chicken coop so I can keep them cooped up while I work, then the hawks would have to get past me to eat my birds.

 

[Henicillin]

The upper part of my run was a quagmire this morning thanks to all the rain (we're going to have concrete poured, but that hasn't happened yet), and was a bit fragrant. Out of annoyance I went and bought a couple of 40-lb. bags of pelleted pine horse bedding and poured it all over the stinky, wet spots. The stuff worked like a charm - now it just smells like sawdust out there, and the puddles are all dried up. Hooray for compressed wood byproducts!