NY chicken lover!!!!

[ChickPrincess]

SunnySideUp, I have Raspberry Lemonade, Spearmint/Eucalyptus and a new men's scent called Heat (kind of an "Axe" type scent).

 

[Aria]

miqwid, thanks for your kind words. Our Rooster was one of the losses.

This Spring we are going to get a Rooster and more chicks. Well,

when you get chicks....one will definitely be a Rooster.


Sorry Rancher....MORE SILKIES TO COME. Regards, Aria

                       Stupid birds don't even lay an decent sized egg.  Then they're so arrogant they want to hatch every  one they lay!    The Sheldon Coopers of the chicken world. 

miquid, I love all Silkies. The large puffs on their head and their butt,
and their feet. All colors are fine.

Rancher, the eggs are a perfect size...and we have enough for our family and friends.
SILKIES ARE BEAUTIFUL. HA HA. Regards, Aria

 

[AQHAchick22]

Ugh I know with the dog thing. It's the irresponsible people that annoy me the most. I had a dog at the end of my driveway the other day and called the owner since I had never seen it before and the people had the nerve to ask me to drive their dog back up the road to them! They said "well I hollered for him and he wouldn't come." I wish people would just take responsibility for their animals. I also took my other "neighbors" dog back to their house the other day and warned them if I caught it on my property again it would be promptly shot. They don't have to know that I'm lying.

 

[Glasshen]

TOB, I sometimes get eggs that have a hole or crack, usually in the small end that clunks down on the nesting box surface. I have started to give them more oyster shell in their dedicated bowl, cause they sometimes don't want the last inch or so...guess they want fresh??? I haven't been able to figure it out. And my most luxurious accommodation to this problem is carpet for the nest boxes. I get a couple of feet from the carpet on a roll at Home Depot or Lowes and cut them to fit in the nest boxes. When they get dirty I take them out and wash them in the laundry sink.

I can just imagine Stony's face as he reads this.

Anyhow, these measures help.

 

[Tough Old Bird]

TOB, I sometimes get eggs that have a hole or crack, usually in the small end that clunks down on the nesting box surface. I have started to give them more oyster shell in their dedicated bowl, cause they sometimes don't want the last inch or so...guess they want fresh??? I haven't been able to figure it out. And my most luxurious accommodation to this problem is carpet for the nest boxes. I get a couple of feet from the carpet on a roll at Home Depot or Lowes and cut them to fit in the nest boxes. When they get dirty I take them out and wash them in the laundry sink.

I can just imagine Stony's face as he reads this.

Anyhow, these measures help.

Hiya Glass,

The hole in the egg this morning was on the small end of the egg. So I'm hopeful that Pringles is not pecking her own eggs now. Thanks. The carpet is a great idea. I still don't get why she is kicking out so much of the shavings. Helen the Marans likes to move around a little to make herself a well of sorts, but she does not kick the shavings all over creation like the Delaware hen. Sheesh!

Thanks for the input!

TOB

 

[armorfirelady]

Just had a scare. I had just taken a few left over French fries to the girls and walked to the end of the run to toss them out. Came back in the house to finish making cookies. My mom and I were standing watching the girls play keep away with the food when all of a sudden I saw white and a hawk coming in low with talons out trying to land on a hen. Those girls ran for their lives. Stupid hawk landed in the electric netting. Guessing he can't see the netting since it blends in with the grass. I ran out yelling at him (my poor neighbor got out of her car to start heading my way she didn't know what I was swearing at ) and he took off to a neighbors tree. Hope he liked his shocking experience. He was then escorted away by a half dozen crows who live in the pine trees. I am hopeful the shock was enough to keep him away for awhile. The girls are all in the coop quiet as church mice, I doubt they will be out again. No one was injured since he landed in the netting. To bad he didn't get stuck cuz the dogs took off after him when they followed me out the door & they would of killed him. I knew I had hawks around and I'm yes sure it's not his first attempt to get a hen. Up to a week ago they spent a lot of time in the coop. Their choice. I'm certain that's what took off a couple mornings ago as well. Going to have me some hawk stew.........dogs are out for the evening. I've never seen him near yard when they are out.

 

[stonykill]

home grown drake stew cooking over a wood fire for dinner! Charcoal and propane are for cheaters!

 

[Lynzi777]

Evening Everyone,
Well it turns out people are really skeptical about people coming to take pumpkin stems off their rotten pumpkins! Man oh man, I went to "Theresa's Pumpkin Patch" today with the kids to pick pumpkins and hopefully find some stems. When I asked her if she would mind me doing so she gave me such a stink eye and said Fine, as long as they're in really bad condition. So we found a good handful or two off pumpkins that were clearly rotting, had mold growing on them, were smushed open, almost completely black, etc. I had my kids hold them for me while I carried two giant pumpkins under my arms back to the table to pay. My son says "We found some stems!" and her response was "How bad were those pumpkins those stems were on" like in this sarcastic manner. I said well look at how black the bottoms of these stems are! I guess thats the last time I try to be nice and help someone, even though she's not the one giving me lip but still. This always happens to me. She made me feel like I was robbing her when in reality it's like what are you going to do with these anyway? Let them sit there and rot back into the earth so what difference does it make. I wonder if my friend gets as much lip from people as I have.

 

[miquwid]

Is anyone going to the show at the fair this weekend?http://www.nysfair.org/events/yankee-fall-classic-poultry-show

I'm pretty sure we are going. Want to me up?

I am slowly checking BYC out. Trying to figure out how to navigate and post. Chickens are the best therapy ever. I started out eith the 4 BOs and then let one broody girl raise 2, but as teens they somehow met their demise. One I think got stung by a hornet she was pestering and the other was killed by a rat snake. I got him when he came back for eggs. My next broody hen raised 2 lacewinged Wydnottes. They are 16 months old now and add to the circus act that is ever going. Then last July my husband built a new coop so my favorite hen could play Momma to 3 new chicks. I got 3 different breeds this time. She didn't care. One didn't make tge first week because I was stupid and left out a basin of water and she drown. That broke my heart. She was a little Plymouth Rock. The other teo are doing great. Princess is a Rhode Island White and Whatnot is a Barred Rock. The girls all get along. I think I am up to my limit. I like things really clean, so 8 is enough to clean up after. I am over protective. Trying to be less so, but it doesn't come easy.
Good day all.

You will get the hang of BYC. Yeah I thought my limit was 9 then I got more hens disease, now I'm up to 17 hoping to get a frizzle or three from Country boy. It's crazy but I've learned how was to keep my cost down and and happy hens with full tummies.

Pics.

You can see the sussex has not lost her attitude. Got right in my face.



Not a mark on her the big fatso. Perhaps the fox had to stop for breath and saw me coming. I wish I had more like her.



Even molting Mario is a lardo.



Buckwheat my frizzled hen. Her son is in the back ground.



This is Buckwheat's son. Traded away. I do have a white del patterned pullet but she would not cooperate. Nor would he for that matter.

Glad your sussex is well and still as her attitude. LOL Your barred frizzle is pretty cool.

miquid, I love all Silkies. The large puffs on their head and their butt,
and their feet. All colors are fine.

Rancher, the eggs are a perfect size...and we have enough for our family and friends.
SILKIES ARE BEAUTIFUL. HA HA. Regards, Aria

Okay I thought I was the only one thinking their egg size was ok. I make myself the best breakfast sandwhich with them. I only have two now and a brabanter yet to lay in that coop and those two eggs are always mine so yummy and with such large yolks. Question do your girls burry their eggs? We keep finding buried eggs. There will be some in the regular next box then all of the sudden their hidden underground. in the run. We found 5 buried eggs back in July and we found 2 two tonight after lock up but it was too dark to really look for more.

home grown drake stew cooking over a wood fire for dinner! Charcoal and propane are for cheaters!

MMMMMM delicious!!!

Evening Everyone,
Well it turns out people are really skeptical about people coming to take pumpkin stems off their rotten pumpkins! Man oh man, I went to "Theresa's Pumpkin Patch" today with the kids to pick pumpkins and hopefully find some stems. When I asked her if she would mind me doing so she gave me such a stink eye and said Fine, as long as they're in really bad condition. So we found a good handful or two off pumpkins that were clearly rotting, had mold growing on them, were smushed open, almost completely black, etc. I had my kids hold them for me while I carried two giant pumpkins under my arms back to the table to pay. My son says "We found some stems!" and her response was "How bad were those pumpkins those stems were on" like in this sarcastic manner. I said well look at how black the bottoms of these stems are! I guess thats the last time I try to be nice and help someone, even though she's not the one giving me lip but still. This always happens to me. She made me feel like I was robbing her when in reality it's like what are you going to do with these anyway? Let them sit there and rot back into the earth so what difference does it make. I wonder if my friend gets as much lip from people as I have.

I'm sorry about that if my pumpkin crop did well I would have let you have mine.

 

[featherz]

Rancher...

I had a fox last year try to take a big hefty brahma and she actually managed to get away too - fox couldn't get a good grip! (came back later for one of the skinnier chickens, but that's another story and the reason I now have electric netting everywhere)..