NY chicken lover!!!!

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Welcome Peggy! and good luck with your chicks, may they grow and multiply.

 

[JLaw]

Yeah i'm from cincinnati ohio meet wife while we was in marines and then ended back here in her home town area. I dont know if you have desided what breeds you want but you may look into other places besides TSC for chicks. They generally dont carry too much from what i've seen. I started with TSC chicks last year and have since desided on a differnt breeds. Nothing wrong with the tsc chicks but there is alot more out there. i'm going for colored eggs / sexlinks. Dont know if your in it for eggs or pets or looks or showing. natureberry farm aint too far from you and they get differnt breeds all year long it seems. here is a link to them and you can google the breeds to find out how well laying or what they look like. At least you know it will be what they say it is. At tsc in hamburg they had leghorns marked as silkies wasnt too happy because i didnt know much when i got them and had wrong breed for my daughter. Also alot of us on here breed different stuff so if you are looking for anyone one breed just ask and someone may have it.

http://www.natureberryfarm.com/schedule4Chicks.html

 

[Peggy O]

Oh that sounds really good. I just checked and this is one hour away. Is that too far to transport chicks? Would they be stressed?

 

[JWEBB]

Forgot to mention I got my pellet stove in and finished installing it yesterday. Man this thing cranks the heat but I don't have it in the best location to heat the whole downstairs. The layout of my house is "U" shaped with my kitchen off the bottom of corner of the U. My living room is in one tip and my sons room in the other well the stove is in the living room roasting 85ish in here on low. By kitchen it's only 70 and my sons room is cooler. This summer we will move it to the bottom of the U part of house and have angled to go all areas just didn't want to order more pipe to do it this year with this cold snap we have now.

Heres a picture of the beast. Not pretty i think it's more of a basement/workspace type of one but it works good and thats all i care about. Used about 2 bags so far i think. cheaper than propane so far.

very nice! bet it does crank! we use wood heat as well for the entire 1st floor it helps alot.

 

[JWEBB]

Yeah i'm from cincinnati ohio meet wife while we was in marines and then ended back here in her home town area. I dont know if you have desided what breeds you want but you may look into other places besides TSC for chicks. They generally dont carry too much from what i've seen. I started with TSC chicks last year and have since desided on a differnt breeds. Nothing wrong with the tsc chicks but there is alot more out there. i'm going for colored eggs / sexlinks. Dont know if your in it for eggs or pets or looks or showing. natureberry farm aint too far from you and they get differnt breeds all year long it seems. here is a link to them and you can google the breeds to find out how well laying or what they look like. At least you know it will be what they say it is. At tsc in hamburg they had leghorns marked as silkies wasnt too happy because i didnt know much when i got them and had wrong breed for my daughter. Also alot of us on here breed different stuff so if you are looking for anyone one breed just ask and someone may have it.

http://www.natureberryfarm.com/schedule4Chicks.html

I'm so freaking excited to get to Natureberry Farms!! Looks like they have their ducks in a row over there

yes as I grow and my poultry grows I will prob do better to buy right from the grain mill. Its Pine Creek in Lyons.. they will even mix up for you I think special things.

 

[JWEBB]

Oh that sounds really good. I just checked and this is one hour away. Is that too far to transport chicks? Would they be stressed?

Hi Peggy!! No a hour transport in the comfort of your own car is not hard on them

 

[JWEBB]

Yeah i'm from cincinnati ohio meet wife while we was in marines and then ended back here in her home town area. I dont know if you have desided what breeds you want but you may look into other places besides TSC for chicks. They generally dont carry too much from what i've seen. I started with TSC chicks last year and have since desided on a differnt breeds. Nothing wrong with the tsc chicks but there is alot more out there. i'm going for colored eggs / sexlinks. Dont know if your in it for eggs or pets or looks or showing. natureberry farm aint too far from you and they get differnt breeds all year long it seems. here is a link to them and you can google the breeds to find out how well laying or what they look like. At least you know it will be what they say it is. At tsc in hamburg they had leghorns marked as silkies wasnt too happy because i didnt know much when i got them and had wrong breed for my daughter. Also alot of us on here breed different stuff so if you are looking for anyone one breed just ask and someone may have it.

http://www.natureberryfarm.com/schedule4Chicks.html

Ya I'll skip the TSC chickdays nightmare too tyvm

Nature Berry has some hatching eggs too sweet!

GOOOD GOD!! THEY HAVE THE LITTLE DWARF DUCKS... Black East Indies Dwarf ducks... these are so pretty.

 

[marquisella]

Forgot to mention I got my pellet stove in and finished installing it yesterday. Man this thing cranks the heat but I don't have it in the best location to heat the whole downstairs. The layout of my house is "U" shaped with my kitchen off the bottom of corner of the U. My living room is in one tip and my sons room in the other well the stove is in the living room roasting 85ish in here on low. By kitchen it's only 70 and my sons room is cooler. This summer we will move it to the bottom of the U part of house and have angled to go all areas just didn't want to order more pipe to do it this year with this cold snap we have now.

Heres a picture of the beast. Not pretty i think it's more of a basement/workspace type of one but it works good and thats all i care about. Used about 2 bags so far i think. cheaper than propane so far.

I have seen houses with their pellet stove in one end, and they installed small fans in ceilings of hallways blowing the air to other parts of the house to distribute the heat. You might try that & see if it works. Easier than movinng the whole thing. Today in the Utica OD, they had an article about a company that now delivers bulk pellets just like they do oil. You need a special containner for them to blow them into, but a lot easier than emptying bags & also no plastic bags to recycle. I noticed you have a window near the stove, we had to direct the exhaust away from the window near our stove, I believe 4 feet from it & up higher than the top of the window so the carbon dioxide doesn't blow back to the window.

 

[Peggy O]

Your stove is lovely. We have no heat in our kitchen addition (20 x 30 space, and chilly) something like this would work well here I think. Someday. Our next door neighbor has one. I thought I was losing my mind one night seeing "fireflies" in the middle of winter. It was small embers coming out the pipe from the stove (well away from the house, pipe sticks WAY out).

I am getting really excited about the idea of getting chickens from Natureberry. I think my mom would come out here and watch Lily (our daughter) and Scott and I could go on a chicken date some weekend

She is too little to really care about chick selection and going anywhere alone as a couple is a huge treat for us.

 

[JLaw]

Yeah that window is sealed in winter says 4 ft away unless you have fresh air intake then its 18 inches. Its also windy side of house. I dont have any place that would be 4 ft from a window except up stairs. If i move it in summer it will at least be around a corner from a window that opens not right next to a window