NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

Well I have been noticing some of my white Rock Teens have red combs ...
One of the Young Ladies laid her 1st Egg Today !

A cute little one


She was so Hot ...she was panting ..I think I will get out the water mister for this week ..we should be able to fry a egg on the sidewalk Monday or Tuesday
I figured they are 3 1/2 months - 4 months ..Pretty early to start ...laying

 

[Kinmera]

So. Fridays went to the TSC in Olean (1hpur away b/c my kids won $130 in gift cards for selling clovers during 4H clover sale. Nice surprise!
Then I went to NYP, the local grain mill and bought 600lbs of egg producer pellet feed.
Today the Asst. Manager calls and says that the have 21 bags (50 lbers) of blue seal egg layer that they need to unload and would sell to me for $5 each bag. So I do the math and some up with $105 for 1050 lbs of feed! I hauled my butt into DFIL's truck and went and got it. They had someone special order this stuff 6 months ago and only took 1/2 of it.
I bought some vitamin/ electrolyte supplement to help in the heat. And I figure that with the birds all being outside right now that what's been lost in the feed will be negligible. I just wish they'd found it before I special ordered the stuff from NYP!

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Rancher--I do have the orps in with a roo. I've tried hatching some all spring without much luck. Has the doctor given your DW anything for the pain? My brother used to put a heating pad on the spots that hurt most. It helped ease the pain some. Maybe a combo of that and medicine will help her to sleep. Chamomile tea is helpful too.


I like to use surejell powder pectin, but when I was at walmart they didn't have any this last time. All they had was certo liquid pectin. I'm going to try it this time. I don't get the time to stop at more than one store usually. I measure the mashed berries to use in the recipe and I make the freezer kind.

 

[Lapeerian]

I played musical chickens last week. Put the wire pen from the extra Eglu in the coop and moved the March TSC chicks in. Then put broody maran in the separate Eglu, she stayed in there 3 days and broke thankfully. She only wanted to set in the metal nest box, which is not suitable for chicks. Now that the Eglu is freed up and the weather is warm, will be moving the June chicks out to the Eglu in the barn this week. Have a heat lamp available if needed as they are from June 13-14. The TSC chicks are with the flock as of yesterday, couldn't catch 2 to put back in the coop last night.
Hubby now has favorite, she allows us to pick her up to pet. Even little girl was able to pick her up and carry her into the coop. Of course now that she is a favorite, she will probably die. TSC tetra tint, with a few grey speckles.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Morning all. After drying off and rubbing off the stuff that was stuck to it, the one little silkie chick I hatched out turns out to be a partridge! I thought it was just my eyes playing tricks on me until I got a good look at it last night. Chipmunk markings. Cute little thing and I will grow it out but will be finding it a new home as I am working on light blues. And so my saga continues!

Another beautiful day and the heat is coming so I will have to put the ac's in the windows in preparation for it. I can take heat but humidity kills me. My body shuts down, literally. I am also going to finish this sweater today if it kills me. I am itchy to start another project. I will remake my jam on tuesday, hopefully with better results.

Lap--adorable picture of little girl holding the favorite! Kids and chickens just go together!

Lynzi--hows your hatch going?

Rancher--you are a tease! Share whats in those papers!

Okay--gotta get busy. Back later.

 

[ke5hde]

Who is Chris and I too hope they have a happy birthday and year. 

Well there are three broodies sitting on eggs still.  A B. Marans has two and I can't get near her at all!   I've not checked the EE and hers to see how it's doing.  I've got to set drinkers and feed dishes out for the new chicks.  I've like to move them to the coop with the other broody but those hens have other ideas.     I just don't want them to lose their chicks and it would be easier on me to have all the broodies with chicks in the same coop. 

Well everyone have a good Saturday. I'm off to get feed and perhaps clean a coop or two.  

ta, ta for now, 

Rancher

That would be me

 

[Cass]

Mean Marge has been broody for a while....she was part of the pile on mothering of the duck eggs. I gave her 3 chicken eggs after I had snatched up all the ducklings from the nest she (and 2 others) was on. The eggs weren't fertile. She got off them in less than a week and isn't broody any more.

Have I discovered a way to break a broody hen in less than 10 days? With no effort on my part? Wouldn't THAT be wonderful?

Anyone got a broody they want to break and 2 - 3 eggs they don't care about? Shake the eggs well, so it can't develop, even if it is fertile and stuff them under that broody. See if she gets up and walks away in a week to 10 days. I would love to know if it works, cuz last year I had broodies out my ears and wound up GIVING chicks away.

 

[rancher hicks]

Rancher--I do have the orps in with a roo. I've tried hatching some all spring without much luck. Has the doctor given your DW anything for the pain? My brother used to put a heating pad on the spots that hurt most. It helped ease the pain some. Maybe a combo of that and medicine will help her to sleep. Chamomile tea is helpful too.


I like to use surejell powder pectin, but when I was at walmart they didn't have any this last time. All they had was certo liquid pectin. I'm going to try it this time. I don't get the time to stop at more than one store usually. I measure the mashed berries to use in the recipe and I make the freezer kind.

She is using a heat pad and has meds but Lord have mercy she sleeps alot. When she's awake she's just hurting in the right leg and hip.

We won't know what the MRI shows til Monday. This is not what they told us would happen. In fact the doc made it sound like she would be able to work during the treatments. I will get some Camomile tea.

 

[rancher hicks]

I had stopped in to say that I've been sharing from some old newspapers I scored at Hooches, an junk/antique store. Copies of "Farm and Home" and "Orange Judd American Agriculturist" The dates are in the early 1909 and later dates. Very cool information on Poultry and other animals.

I had hoped you could read the caption but maybe not so here is what it says.

Good Type and a Poor Type of laying hen.

"The hen pictured on the left laid 239 egg, while the other one laid seven during the same period of time. Not the ddp, full breast and the crop, the straight back and correct slope of the tail. Then note the same points of the other bird. The good type means eggs. Which kind of hen are you raising?"

 

[ke5hde]

Mean Marge has been broody for a while....she was part of the pile on mothering of the duck eggs.   I gave her 3 chicken eggs after I had snatched up all the ducklings from the nest she (and 2 others) was on.   The eggs weren't fertile.  She got off them in less than a week and isn't broody any more.

Have I discovered a way to break a broody hen in less than 10 days? With no effort on my part?  Wouldn't THAT be wonderful?

Anyone got a broody they want to break and 2 - 3 eggs they don't care about?  Shake the eggs well, so it can't develop, even if it is fertile and stuff them under that broody.   See if she gets up and walks away in a week to 10 days.  I would love to know if it works, cuz last year I had broodies out my ears and wound up GIVING chicks away.

I toss them in a wire cage for a few days with just food and water. No shavings or anything else that might be comfortable. I have a cochin that is notoriously broody, 3 days in the cage and she was back with the rest of them.