NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

just have to weigh out the options. Dead chickens, $$$ in electric netting or a leg traps.

When I hear the chicken alarm like you heard is when I grab the gun. Stays near me while I work.

I have to say a dead fox doesn't come back or make more little foxes. I'm with Stony shoot to kill any age any size.

 

[rancher hicks]

Now I don't have time to keep going back to read but wanted to offer todays available events near Syracuse.

Perennial sale by the Baldwinsville garden club.

Spring seedling sale at Beaver Lake Nature center and the one we plan to go to

Shearing Festival in Fabius 1940 Jerome Rd,


Also wanted to ask if anyone has hogs? I saw the ALBC has a thing on Choctaw Hogs and that there are only 150 left. I might consider adding them but it would mean lots of time and money to set up for them. Not to mention research. We shall see.

Anyone else here into preservation of the heritage livestock? And no Silky chickens are NOT heritage. They are an invasive species and should be irradicated. ( i don't have time to look up the spelling)

 

[Cass]

Hello every one i'am new to this site and live in stafford ny i'am building my coop and run and was wondering if any one had any ideas on how to set it up thanks

(I don't think anyone did that yet, if they did, I second their welcome)

I, also, second the clicking of the "coops" tab at the top. Take a look then come back here and ask questions. We don't bite, we don't even crow loud and some of them have great coop ideas and justifications for why they did what they did. Me? My coop has vinyl siding, but I think my SO did that so he could complain about a $1200 coop for the rest of my life.

MY best advice is to build big. If it turns out you love chickens they will find ways to creep into your life, increasing your flock size without your prior knowledge or consent. If it turns out you don't love keeping chickens (OMG that can't happen really, can it?) then you will have a nice size building to use as storage for your next hobby. PS, building big doesn't mean high, floor space is what counts for chickens. If I had it to do all over again I would build mine with roof trusses just 2 inches higher than the builders head, instead of normal 7' for a ceiling. Chickens roost up there now and there is no way my 5 foot body can reach them when I want to inspect them for mites, lice, ticks, cholera or physical wounds. (Just kidding on the cholera, trying to see if you are paying attention)

Enjoy and come back often.

 

[Glasshen]

I had never seen a duck like that! Where is it now? Is it part of your flock?

Lynzi, we have those purple things around us, and my ash trees are not doing too well. We n
Have been cutting them down if they look at all sickly, but I've heard that there are recommendations to cut them all down so those EABs can't linger. We also have that black knot, so pretty soon I'll just have fields, rocks and buckthorn. And that gray dogwood that I brush hog whenever possible.

 

[Lynzi777]

Do any of you have this incubator??

http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/little-giantreg;-still-air-incubator

I have to make a trip out to TS this weekend and was thinking of picking it up since it's only $50. I don't want to be discouraged with nothing hatching if we were to make our own and that is bound to happen.

Glass - Happy 40th Anniversary!! If you have any extra large rocks laying around your property I would always take them!

Anything I dig up in my yard while planting goes straight to the border of my flower beds. I'd much rather a natural look than store bought pavers.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

 

[Cass]

Do any of you have this incubator??

http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/little-giantreg;-still-air-incubator

I have to make a trip out to TS this weekend and was thinking of picking it up since it's only $50. I don't want to be discouraged with nothing hatching if we were to make our own and that is bound to happen.

Glass - Happy 40th Anniversary!! If you have any extra large rocks laying around your property I would always take them!

Anything I dig up in my yard while planting goes straight to the border of my flower beds. I'd much rather a natural look than store bought pavers.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

That's the exact 'bator I used with my classroom of 4 year olds. I hatched 11 of 12 and I knew NOTHING about chickens except what the incubator owner told me. "Put a wet sponge in the bottom, mark the eggs with an X and an O and turn them over twice a day" That's it. Oh and don't open it much cuz it needs to keep temperature. Now she never mentioned WHAT temp, but I researched and found out 100 degrees was the "right" temp.

If I were nuts enough to buy a 'bator I would start with that one. And 2 thermometers to monitor temp in air and at the level of the eggs. Once I was totally hooked on hatching I might consider a more expensive one, but I don't have any children at home and Chickens are my only hobby.

 

[Lynzi777]

That's the exact 'bator I used with my classroom of 4 year olds. I hatched 11 of 12 and I knew NOTHING about chickens except what the incubator owner told me. "Put a wet sponge in the bottom, mark the eggs with an X and an O and turn them over twice a day" That's it. Oh and don't open it much cuz it needs to keep temperature. Now she never mentioned WHAT temp, but I researched and found out 100 degrees was the "right" temp.

If I were nuts enough to buy a 'bator I would start with that one. And 2 thermometers to monitor temp in air and at the level of the eggs. Once I was totally hooked on hatching I might consider a more expensive one, but I don't have any children at home and Chickens are my only hobby.

I read a lot of the reviews and some complained about the temp read of thermometer it comes with, so I would definitely by a separate one to compare. Maybe I'll pick it up today. I'd like to try to hatch these silkie eggs and no has any interest in sitting on the ones I put in there yesterday. I just think it'd be neat for the kids to do with me and involve them with the turning of the eggs, etc. As much as I would like one of the hens to hatch for me, I don't want to to deal with another broody who won't let us anywhere near the eggs, especially when it comes time to candling. My kids loved doing that when Pearl was sitting on eggs but we had to risk getting pecked when it came time to doing that. My son has hatched eggs three times in school now, but I daughter has never seen the whole process. And I think she would enjoy it.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

I personally have not had luck with our little giant. I like our hovabator much better, for us the hatch rates were much better in it.

 

[Lapeerian]

What's the rest of the story.  I can't find the original post. 

We heard a noise in the woodstove, thought a bird got down in. The chimney cap flew off this winter and we can't reach to put it back on. Well we took the stovepipe off to pull out the bird and this is what came out.
Glass- it is a wild duck, so we released it as soon as we got it out (and took a couple pics). After we let it go, it couldn't fly due to being cramped up so long, so then I felt bad that I didn't keep it at least till it recovered a bit. But wild animals don't do well in captive. My mom tried to keep an injured pheasant, it died within the week. And the only thing I could have fed it was chicken feed or scratch. This one eats fish.
We never do anything half-way around here.

 

[rancher hicks]

Hello every one i'am new to this site and live in stafford ny i'am building my coop and run and was wondering if any one had any ideas on how to set it up thanks

Welcome to my presence.