NY chicken lover!!!!

[cracrzy4chicks]

Yeah, the Marans are high protein birds. I am feeding an 18% to everyone now, but I have fish meal free choice in the Marans coops to increase the protein. I dunno, this cold weather is messin with everyone. 2 eggs 8 eggs today...aarrgghhh.

Where do you get the fish meal ??

 

[miquwid]

LYNZI hahaha anticipation is a killer! What day ate u on?

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Thanks i will put that on my amazon wish list!

Don't mention the mess and I sure won't.  

I can't say about being a Pod person but I am a member of  the SDWD.  The Society for Delaware World Domination.  

LOL omg you are a trip i cant wait to talk to u n ur wife at the picnic!

Very windy and cold today. Spent the better part of an hour shoveling. I don't mind the chicken run, that I do out of love, but the driveway is a whole other story! We spent a bunch of money on a plow truck after our old one kicked the bucket. We put an engine in it and it is still is having issues. Now there is a gas leak and DH couldn't fix it before he left for the week so guess who has to shovel..yup me. I hate snow it sucks!

On a good note when I went out to shovel the chicken run all the chickens were in their coop instead of the duck hut. I have been leaving them in there for an extra hour in the morning. I guess that it worked. That and I put up some fleece on the small windows so that the wind doesn't blow through so bad. Perhaps I'll get a bunch of guys to help me spin the coop around so the wind doesn't go through it so bad. (It weights a ton).

My Roo still looks bad . I have to check him out tonight up close. His waddles are starting to shrivel up. His comb still looks bad. If it is half it's size come spring I'll be happy. I don't think that I will ever have a straight comb rooster again. He was supposed to be a pullet, but he is a great first roo. The sad thing is there are some times that I look at him and I think...Yum I bet he would be tasty!.

That is what i did and ran in it with two of the dogs. I feel ya im cold tired n sore.

 

[miquwid]

Ps my roo is lookin rough too! I want a smaller comb roo myself but like urs he is a good boy.

 

[Breella]

Thanks I did not know that.

They've been laying well but the Dels. 4 today. The CR ( which having laid in months) and EE's too. No eggs today. The BR's hens are soup they've never been good layers and having laid in a while either.

My BRs havent laid since the first polar vortex. Lazy Hens. The Leghorns and the Sex Links lay almost every day!

I should write to Nobles about wet chips.

when we had them delivered to the barn they would replace wet bags with the next shipment, however we were ordering 150 bags of shavings at a time.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Luv--if your roo is a good roo, dont give up on him. He may not be pretty any more but if he is good with the girls and with you, he is a keeper. Trust me, I ate all my stupid, jerk, mean roosters. Bill is a good boy and the only one who made it this far.

Even though I have those thoughts once in a while.I don't think that I could ever do it unless I had to. He is such a good boy. He is great with the big girls and has even defended my little bantam Peepers. I didn't want a rooster when I got him. I was told that he was a pullet. I only had the intentions of getting 3 hens, but when my friend came with him in there, he was so pretty. I feel like I have an obligation to keep him. He was one of the last hatches from my friends rooster that he has sold the person that we got them from. So I would feel bad if anything happened even though our friend has given me permission to do what ever I want to do with him (not like I really needed it, but I'm like that). Even with his nasty looking comb and waddles I still think that he is super handsome. He does his job and with all the eggs we have eaten I can only count a handful of times that they were not fertile. I can't wait to try to hatch out some of his chicks some day.


I have a related question...When you mixed breeds of chickens what do they look like? Do they take the traits of one of their parents over the other? Example my roo is a speckled sussex. If I hatch out chicks from him and one of my hens what would the chicks end up like? I have some red sexlinks and 3 marans. Are there specific breeds that will only give the sexlinked chicks? I know that my girls are supposed to be RIR and NHR? What other combinations give you the sexlink trait? ...Just wondering

 

[armorfirelady]

Quote: Weird my BR has been laying between 5-6 eggs a week with no interruptions since she started laying late summer. She is one of my favorite hens with her personality & her egg laying

 

[horsekeeper]

Marquisella, I put down patches of mulch hay or straw for the ducks and geese to squat on and they have been out all day for the past weeks in the frigid temps with no problem. I keep worrying that they will step out of the water tub and freeze to the ground with all the ice they generate slopping around, but no problems.

I have muscovies, pekin, and embden, and even the muscovies are doing fine. The entire mixed flock, including silkies, circulate around between the two coops and the "clubhouse" (unfinished coop section where I store hay, straw, and feed) all day. Their water is outside because the ducks make such a mess. So far no one has been dumb enough to get frozen into a water tub or stuck to the ground.

Ducks and geese have a different circulatory system in their feet to keep them from freezing when they are swimming in ice water or huddling onshore in the winter. Mine stand on one foot a lot while they warm the other foot up in their belly down.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Very windy and cold today. Spent the better part of an hour shoveling. I don't mind the chicken run, that I do out of love, but the driveway is a whole other story! We spent a bunch of money on a plow truck after our old one kicked the bucket. We put an engine in it and it is still is having issues. Now there is a gas leak and DH couldn't fix it before he left for the week so guess who has to shovel..yup me. I hate snow it sucks!

On a good note when I went out to shovel the chicken run all the chickens were in their coop instead of the duck hut.

I have been leaving them in there for an extra hour in the morning. I guess that it worked. That and I put up some fleece on the small windows so that the wind doesn't blow through so bad. Perhaps I'll get a bunch of guys to help me spin the coop around so the wind doesn't go through it so bad. (It weights a ton).

My Roo still looks bad

. I have to check him out tonight up close. His waddles are starting to shrivel up. His comb still looks bad. If it is half it's size come spring I'll be happy. I don't think that I will ever have a straight comb rooster again. He was supposed to be a pullet, but he is a great first roo. The sad thing is there are some times that I look at him and I think...Yum I bet he would be tasty!.

Originally Posted by pharmchickrnmom
Luv--if your roo is a good roo, dont give up on him. He may not be pretty any more but if he is good with the girls and with you, he is a keeper. Trust me, I ate all my stupid, jerk, mean roosters. Bill is a good boy and the only one who made it this far.


Yes, Love the older ones & keep them eat the babies !

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: Is she the 1st to the dish ? Fat hens dont lay ...the fat blocks the exit ->

 

[Gramma Chick]

TT is being very faithful ..to her nest ...Ive been giving her little nibbles to eat .
We are going to give her a couple eggs . When I go out to get eggs they are always cold .
Is it okay to let her have some of these cold ones ? or should I wait for some warm ones ?