NY chicken lover!!!!

[bakingintherain]

Scoff if you like ....

I just placed my order for some Super Bowl pizza and wings ....

While I don't think the players should be celebs or getting such large paychecks ... I do like pro football.   

Sports have a decent place in life - mostly with younger ones !  ha ha  I feel a little too stiff to do what I used to.  I never played on a team in high school or college - so not speaking from that experience ... but it does sharpen the mind and body.   Sure - there are other ways too - but sports are not without benefit.   Things have just gotten out of hand in the US ...  

I'm off to enjoy the hoopla and commercials and the big game ...

I dislike football but love the hoopla and food I also agree that sports are important growing up (I played soccer, softball, tennis, and loved floor hockey, as well as no rules outdoor court basketball)

 

[rancher hicks]

I hear you Rancher and do not disagree.

This seems to me to come down to civics and long term societal outlooks.....

Meaning - if a person's credit is already tanked, they PERSONALLY may do better to pocket all mortgage money and start to save .... it can take 4 months to literally years before a foreclosures and the person can be keeping all the money in a safe spot - ready to buy again or rent or whatever .... so keep saving until you are forced off the property - just paying utility bills. If a person's credit is NOT tanked - then this is a terrible thing to do - as once your credit is tanked - everything will cost more unless you pay in cash - meaning you pay more interest, insurance and all sorts of things if you have bad credit.

HOWEVER - the connecting issue is that all property values are affected, words like honor and promise are weakened .... (but are companies keeping them with us?) it makes thing more complicated for other people when they go to buy homes ... there is a rat's nest of ills that walking off contributes to.

Things are not set up like they were 40 years ago - the whole process is set up to keep people in debt. I wish things were set up like they used to be ....

We were once given this advice and I thank God we didn't take it. I'm sorry but this is bad advice. One it is unethical and two it's not good financial advice. Which is why I keep saying talk to a Realtor.

You could of course talk to your mortgage lender for other options, BUT the roof over your heads comes first of things to be paid.

Talking to your bank can help you get your priorities in order.

The same goes with buying a house. We got advice from friends and a Realtor. FYI, the Realtor who is selling the house is not your friend nor working for you they are working for the seller. You need your own Realtor AND lawyer. It's worth the money to have a house inspected , BEFORE you buy.

Be that as it may, JLaw, DO NOT stop paying your mortgage. Get some advice from your bank, a Realtor, a lawyer if need be. Do not in anyway shape or form take on more credit.

I just got through helping my sister file for bankruptcy and there was no one twisting her arm to take on more credit. If you don't understand how credit works then talk to the bank and have them explain it to you.

 

[why do birds]

I did something I've never done beffore...not the brightes thing either.

I have been having bad fertility so far. Probably out of the eggs I put in the incubator, only 20% were fertile.

So a week & a half ago, they picked up laying and I did't put any eggs in the inncubator for 10 days. I had 75 eggs so I put them all in the incubator thinking that if I ended up wtih 30 that would be good. So today I candled them, and much to my dismay, 60 of them are fertile!

Whats my problem you ask. My hatcher only holds 40 eggs. I have a LG that I hate, I supposed I could use, but its not dependable and I would hate for those eggs to not hatch because of that inncubator....

I could leave some in the inncubator, but I can never get the humidity up high enough in it, and it makes a mess that I hate to clean....

Don't know what I will do, but am kicking myself for putting so many in at once...

Sue

I'm not sure how far you are from me, we are in the Utica area. We may be able to try to hatch some for you in our incubator. It's a Farm Innovator 4400. Our 3 chickens live in the kitchen now, but we have their home positioned so that they can still watch TV with us. Very good birds, they love us. We may build an outdoor coop for them but we really like them inside. Our incubator is empty right now.

About football. I'm a college football fanatic. I yell and scream at the tv and throw stuff. I like Michigan, loved it when it was Lloyd Carr's team. Was nice to see him at the Rose Parade! My guy hates sports. So he shut off cable. So now I catch what I can on the internet, and attend a lot of high school sports! Played basketball in college but it's not my favorite, but that's all they let girls do anyhow.

Hope to at least catch the superbowl commercials on the web! I don't follow pro though, although I did follow Peyton Manning from when he played for TN Volunteers and thought he was going to go far back then!

Still, I only follow college FB, and now it's hard with no ESPN! or ESPN2.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Okay...whats wrong with this picture? If the evil white stuff falls, I am yelled at by the cheeps. They absolutely refuse to leave the coop unless I have shoveled and scraped all the evil white stuff off the ramp and out of their run. If I didnt do a good enough job, they yell at me...from inside the coop. They are out now wandering the paths that we had shoveled and are now grassy because the snow melted. I find a couple of old cooked chicken legs in the fridge so I step out on the kitchen porch and toss them into the side yard, which is still quite snowy. The rotten terrorists bail out from under the steps, under their coop and off the paths into the snow to fight over the chicken legs. I'm like "really? You wont step out of the coop unless its a pristine scrape/shovel job but you will run across the snowy yard to get a chicken leg?" If we get the heavy snow we are forcasted for on wednesday, I am throwing out some goody in their run, which will be unshoveled, and they can just go for it! Slackers only gave me two eggs today too, after I performed major housekeeping and made their nest boxes really nice and cozy. Oh...and Bill and I have a date for discussion again. He took a shot at me. I will win. He cant escape me in the coop!

 

[rancher hicks]

Okay...whats wrong with this picture? If the evil white stuff falls, I am yelled at by the cheeps. They absolutely refuse to leave the coop unless I have shoveled and scraped all the evil white stuff off the ramp and out of their run. If I didnt do a good enough job, they yell at me...from inside the coop. They are out now wandering the paths that we had shoveled and are now grassy because the snow melted. I find a couple of old cooked chicken legs in the fridge so I step out on the kitchen porch and toss them into the side yard, which is still quite snowy. The rotten terrorists bail out from under the steps, under their coop and off the paths into the snow to fight over the chicken legs. I'm like "really? You wont step out of the coop unless its a pristine scrape/shovel job but you will run across the snowy yard to get a chicken leg?" If we get the heavy snow we are forcasted for on wednesday, I am throwing out some goody in their run, which will be unshoveled, and they can just go for it! Slackers only gave me two eggs today too, after I performed major housekeeping and made their nest boxes really nice and cozy. Oh...and Bill and I have a date for discussion again. He took a shot at me. I will win. He cant escape me in the coop!

Is this a rhetorical question? If not, mine only go out on the paths. Well not all, the BM's wade through the snow some. If it's not to deep. Others of course have the covered runs, but though's that don't have a sheltered area with straw/hay put down. It doesn't get too covered in snow.

I don't feed the meat, which is your prerogative, but it may also be why they're not laying. If I skip the goodies and scratch then tend to lay more. I don't always skip it cuz if I get 12 eggs a day that's a good thing for me right now.

If it is a rhetorical question? Never mind.

 

[stonykill]

Okay...whats wrong with this picture? If the evil white stuff falls, I am yelled at by the cheeps. They absolutely refuse to leave the coop unless I have shoveled and scraped all the evil white stuff off the ramp and out of their run. If I didnt do a good enough job, they yell at me...from inside the coop. They are out now wandering the paths that we had shoveled and are now grassy because the snow melted. I find a couple of old cooked chicken legs in the fridge so I step out on the kitchen porch and toss them into the side yard, which is still quite snowy. The rotten terrorists bail out from under the steps, under their coop and off the paths into the snow to fight over the chicken legs. I'm like "really? You wont step out of the coop unless its a pristine scrape/shovel job but you will run across the snowy yard to get a chicken leg?" If we get the heavy snow we are forcasted for on wednesday, I am throwing out some goody in their run, which will be unshoveled, and they can just go for it! Slackers only gave me two eggs today too, after I performed major housekeeping and made their nest boxes really nice and cozy. Oh...and Bill and I have a date for discussion again. He took a shot at me. I will win. He cant escape me in the coop!

well of course your feathered dinosaurs are crazy about fresh meat! Chickens are omnivores and NEED their meat in their diet! Those Perdue chicken adverts make me laugh!

. Pretending that a vegetarian diet is what a chicken wants to appease the masses

. Given the option chickens will go for meat protein EVERY TIME!


The more meat my birds get and the LESS commercial feed they get the better they lay!

If we get snow throw the remains of one of their own to them after you enjoy the rooster meal! They will go through mountains to get to it!

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Hehe..it was a rhetorical question! Just had to put that out there. My cheeps dont get scratch and only boss once in a while. Mostly just layer feed and veges and fruits. They get meat when no one wants to eat it or I have a carcass. I complain about their laying but they need their down time as well. I see lots of new feather growth so I know they are busy refilling their feathers. Hopefully they will pick up soon. Yes, Stony, I sometimes fear for my life when I take meat out to the mini raptors!

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

There's that little teeny tiny black and white one that I love and can never remember the name of! LOL

Mottled d'uccle... Peepers..She is very cute if I don't say so myself. I just wish that she would start laying instead of just sleeping in the next boxes. I just took this when I went to close up for the night. She wasn't happy that I put her back up on the roost.

well of course your feathered dinosaurs are crazy about fresh meat! Chickens are omnivores and NEED their meat in their diet! Those Perdue chicken adverts make me laugh!

. Pretending that a vegetarian diet is what a chicken wants to appease the masses

. Given the option chickens will go for meat protein EVERY TIME!


The more meat my birds get and the LESS commercial feed they get the better they lay!

If we get snow throw the remains of one of their own to them after you enjoy the rooster meal! They will go through mountains to get to it!

Oh man our ducks are going to have a field day with the toads and frogs that we have. If it is anything like last year they are going to get nice and fat!

 

[armorfirelady]

Okay...whats wrong with this picture?  If the evil white stuff falls, I am yelled at by the cheeps.  They absolutely refuse to leave the coop unless I have shoveled and scraped all the evil white stuff off the ramp and out of their run.  If I didnt do a good enough job, they yell at me...from inside the coop.  They are out now wandering the paths that we had shoveled and are now grassy because the snow melted.  I find a couple of old cooked chicken legs in the fridge so I step out on the kitchen porch and toss them into the side yard, which is still quite snowy.  The rotten terrorists bail out from under the steps, under their coop and off the paths into the snow to fight over the chicken legs.  I'm like "really? You wont step out of the coop unless its a pristine scrape/shovel job but you will run across the snowy yard to get a chicken leg?"  If we get the heavy snow we are forcasted for on wednesday, I am throwing out some goody in their run, which will be unshoveled, and they can just go for it!  Slackers only gave me two eggs today too, after I performed major housekeeping and made their nest boxes really nice and cozy.  Oh...and Bill and I have a date for discussion again.  He took a shot at me.  I will win.  He cant escape me in the coop! 

Mine were the same way. But on days I work days I was not shoveling before I left for work. They realized if they wanted to get to their old run they were going to have to walk in the white stuff. Once one journeyed out the rest followed & miracously the lived I also moved their food & water outside into an old plastic dog crate. If they are hungry they have to walk thru snow. Now they are out in it all the time. Guess they realized they wouldn't doe from it lol

And mine have dug up old chicken wing bones that were buried in the snow, mine also lay better the more meat they get. That's proof enough for me.

I did shovel out an area of the veggie garden for them. They happily spent the day out there

 

[rancher hicks]

Now that I think of it. I have a set up of bales of hay with a piece of plywood over it. It's in such a position that there is no snow underneath. I hadn't planned it that way it just happened. They will venture through the snow to get to the bare spot.

I have another set up of 6 bales but the opening faces east I think so they snow is underneath. Next year I'll set it up different.

This is it. One side has shrunk but there is enough dry/bare space for them to scratch up some dust.