NY chicken lover!!!!

[Tough Old Bird]

You'll learn a lot with your first chickens....sometimes I think my brain can't hold anymore, and then...bang...something else gets tucked away. Now if I can only remember why I sat down to the computer........

Oh, believe me, I can relate!

Thx, Marq!


TOB

 

[Lynzi777]

Lynzi,

Too funny!!!!!!!!!!

Cute pics!!!



TOB

Thanks LOL I'm not sure Rancher appreciated them, he hasn't commented.

Don't worry Rancher, I sent them back to the mothership.

 

[Lynzi777]

I'm a little aggravated, was just browsing thru the Farm & Garden section of CL and came across this ad from the Amish Structures up the road from me.


http://syracuse.craigslist.org/grq/3839044026.html

I emailed them last year asking if they build coops and they're response was "Something that small isn't really worth our time building". I guess they're hurting for business if they have time to build them now!

 

[featherz]

I have some of the worst broodies in the universe. My two cobroodies are still parenting one chick, so that's good - but I went and checked on the four broodies I have in one coop and there's a bloody egg, with ants on it, tossed out of the nest. I figure it's dead - so I check. Nope! It's still alive.. barely. Thankfully it was hot today. It's a naked neck too /sob. Maybe she didn't like naked necks? I have little or no hope that it will survive and I don't have an empty incubator, so I tossed it under my best stable broody just to see if it can be warmed up and make it. I think it's hopeless, but I couldn't throw a live baby in the woods so that's the only chance it has. Princess is the one broody I can trust so she gets the egg. after the two squashed chicks last week I think princess is the ONLY one getting chicks this year. grr.

It's my fault, I gave away my best broodies since they love to brood too much, with the exception of Princess. Ah well.

 

[Tough Old Bird]

I have some of the worst broodies in the universe. My two cobroodies are still parenting one chick, so that's good - but I went and checked on the four broodies I have in one coop and there's a bloody egg, with ants on it, tossed out of the nest. I figure it's dead - so I check. Nope! It's still alive.. barely. Thankfully it was hot today. It's a naked neck too /sob. Maybe she didn't like naked necks? I have little or no hope that it will survive and I don't have an empty incubator, so I tossed it under my best stable broody just to see if it can be warmed up and make it. I think it's hopeless, but I couldn't throw a live baby in the woods so that's the only chance it has. Princess is the one broody I can trust so she gets the egg. after the two squashed chicks last week I think princess is the ONLY one getting chicks this year. grr.

It's my fault, I gave away my best broodies since they love to brood too much, with the exception of Princess. Ah well.

Oh, that's a very sad situation -- I'm really sorry, featherz!

TOB

 

[Desiree Brown]

Did anyone hear about the Mohawk Valley Poultry Swap? Or have ever been to it? Was considering going to it.

 

[Cass]

Sigh. No chicks for me. Or no MORE chicks for me. No ducks either. Day 30 on the Duck eggs and not a single pip.

My D'uccle abandoned her nest on Day 16 or so. Of course I had to open the eggs. 2 were not fertile/not developing in any way. 1 was an early quitter. Today I found a cracked egg in the nest with a late quitter in it. And I took an egg that the hen kept pushing out. No development. (It actually rotted...eww... if I had left it there it would have exploded in this heat)

I wonder if it is too late to call Annie and get some chicks for this broody.

 

[Lynzi777]

Well Stella is now on two eggs! Finally for another egg from the black Silkie hen today. She lays late in the day. At least at this point, even if I get one egg to hatch in the bator and one to hatch under Stella, I'll have at least two to keep each other company!

If these hatches are successful I should end up with either black or blue or both Silkie chicks. So if anyone is interested in them if/when the time comes, feel free to PM me!

 

[featherz]

Sigh. No chicks for me. Or no MORE chicks for me. No ducks either. Day 30 on the Duck eggs and not a single pip.

My D'uccle abandoned her nest on Day 16 or so. Of course I had to open the eggs. 2 were not fertile/not developing in any way. 1 was an early quitter. Today I found a cracked egg in the nest with a late quitter in it. And I took an egg that the hen kept pushing out. No development. (It actually rotted...eww... if I had left it there it would have exploded in this heat)

I wonder if it is too late to call Annie and get some chicks for this broody.

I may have chicks on Sunday. Was planning to give a few to broodies, but now it seems only a few deserve them.

 

[stonykill]

Sigh. No chicks for me. Or no MORE chicks for me. No ducks either. Day 30 on the Duck eggs and not a single pip.

My D'uccle abandoned her nest on Day 16 or so. Of course I had to open the eggs. 2 were not fertile/not developing in any way. 1 was an early quitter. Today I found a cracked egg in the nest with a late quitter in it. And I took an egg that the hen kept pushing out. No development. (It actually rotted...eww... if I had left it there it would have exploded in this heat)

I wonder if it is too late to call Annie and get some chicks for this broody.

what kind of duck eggs Cass? Musqovies take 35 days