NY chicken lover!!!!

[Tab's chicken obsession]

thanks. Feeding us, my parents, the chickens and some to a local farm store. They are huge gardens

I can't imagine keeping up on those gardens. I have enough just keeping a one family size garden cared for and this year I'm due at harvest time. Weeds like thistle and burdock to name a couple seem to be the main crops here. We have a lot of nettles too.

 

[Breella]

So much to do and so little free time... I still need to get my greenhouse up, and my garden in.

Also, Roo or mature hen? 8 weeks old.

 

[stonykill]

Stony, my back aches just looking at the machine, much less walking behind it for hours.

I have a really crappy back and this machine can be used all day long without bothering my back. It weights around 600 lbs. Let the machine do the work and just walk behind it and steer. Easy peasy

 

[stonykill]

I can't imagine keeping up on those gardens. I have enough just keeping a one family size garden cared for and this year I'm due at harvest time. Weeds like thistle and burdock to name a couple seem to be the main crops here. We have a lot of nettles too.

wide rows and this attachment makes short work of weeds

 

[cracrzy4chicks]

wide rows and this attachment makes short work of weeds

It looks like a BEAST !!

 

[Lynzi777]

Evening all!
Got our new John Deer this morning. Since my DH had to work all day I went out with the kids and ran errands to Lowes to get ramps to get it into the shed, went to Target to get snacks, lunch stuff for the week and a kiddie pool for the ducks, and then stopped at the nursery on the way home for this tree I wanted since seeing it last week. Here's a pic....

It's a James Walker Bougainvillea. I love it! Never seen one of these. I hope I don't kill it LOL

Tried moving the Silkie chicks in with the two Silkie hens but they're still being pretty rough with them so I took them out and put them back in their grow out pen. Ducklings are doing good outside with the heat lamp on just at night (as long as its warm enough during the day to turn it off).

Heading out to mini golf with the kids tomorrow morning, then venturing out to a larger nursery in N. Syracuse-Chuck Hafners?? Anyone up here been there yet this season? Anything good there?? I need some pavers to make some retaining walls as well for all the plants I have planted. The chickens keep digging in all my mulch and it's starting to tick me off. Why bother mulching if its going to end up all over the yard and driveway!?! I'll probably end up back at lowes tomorrow. I'm just anxious to finish up my yard.

Hope everyone enjoyed their day today!

 

[brahmapapa]

I so wish I lived closer and didn't work crazy hours. Your birds are beautiful!

edited to add: I love my BLRW the best and I really like the idea of the laced brahma's. Big poofy butts and full feathered feet--gorgeous!

If you are really interested in some of my hatching eggs and you can't get to me because of distance, i am willing to send them to you USPS if you will pay shipping and handling charge of $15.00 for a dozen plus whatever extras the hens provide that are fresh. My hatch rate when i do incubate is over 90%. If interested PM me. thanks Tom

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

I see their are quite a few NY Chicken Lovers and some close to me I am in Ava NY just outside of Boonville NY home and am about 15 miles North or Rome NY. If anyone near me has any laying hens they would like to part with I am looking for some right now I have babies who aren't laying and would really like some eggs now. Chicks I have are Buff Orpingtons, Black Cochin, White Cochin, Aracauna, Red Star, Black Star, Blue Andalusian, Partridge Rock, Dark Cornish, Speckled Sussex, Black Australorp, and Columbian Wyandotte ended up with a mixture. I have 50 acres so lots of land to build coops on.

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

The past couple months I've been concerned over my buckeye hens because they are naked. I couldn't figure out why. I increased protein (scrambled eggs and cat food) and saw new feather growth but it didn't last. Well I've been watching closer spending more time down to the barn. That darn rooster besides riding them is plucking them too. I've seen him now on quite a few occasions just reach over and yank feathers.

DH has been saying that we need to downsize and reduce projects. He's decided to sell his blue silver ameraucana and now I'm deciding to sell the buckeyes after watching the roo misbehave. I think DH is looking to sell the 2 splash maran hens after the first weekend in June also and just stick with the normal golden cuckoo marans.

Is the blue silver ameraucana a hen or a roo? If it is a hen I would love it along with the 2 splash Maran hens if he does decide to sell them

 

[AQHAchick22]

If you are really interested in some of my hatching eggs and you can't get to me because of distance, i am willing to send them to you USPS if you will pay shipping and handling charge of $15.00 for a dozen plus whatever extras the hens provide  that are fresh. My hatch rate when i do incubate is over 90%.    If interested PM me. thanks Tom

I may want some from you this week...I think I have a broody silkie on my hands. I want to give her another few days to be sure but if that's the case I'd like to give her some eggs.